Moderators: richierich, ua900, PanAm_DC10, hOMSaR
BuildingMyBento wrote:One question...why not revert to the previous airliners.net format? That was heaps more agreeable from a UX perspective.
anshabhi wrote:yeah a.net UI needs a massive upgrade. It's actually old fashioned. There could be much better use of CSS3.. I would suggest a lighter theme based on White colour, that's the most widely used background, and black on white is the easiest to read.
Some other suggestions:
1. Better editing box. Specially for adding URLs.
2. Ability to delete own posts atleast until no one makes a new post.
3. Better quote box. The current simple grey box looks very outdated.
VetteDude wrote:Actually, the old one was much, much worse. Very early-2000s, and awful on mobile. That is bad because (1) mobile is the only area where growth is, and (2) Google now penalizes sites that aren't mobile optimized. Additionally, switching from a custom, ancient, slow code to a widely-used 3rd party forum software is much better from a long-term management standpoint. The new forum doesn't clog up when there are over 100 responses to a tread, so no need for the stupid "Part 36" nonsense (although some mods still seem to be stuck in the old habit). Can't believe people actually miss the terrible old A.net.
anshabhi wrote:yeah a.net UI needs a massive upgrade. It's actually old fashioned. There could be much better use of CSS3.. I would suggest a lighter theme based on White colour, that's the most widely used background, and black on white is the easiest to read.
anshabhi wrote:
N202PA wrote:anshabhi wrote:yeah a.net UI needs a massive upgrade. It's actually old fashioned. There could be much better use of CSS3.. I would suggest a lighter theme based on White colour, that's the most widely used background, and black on white is the easiest to read.
Disagree completely, the blue is what makes A.net what it is - and judging by the way the previous administration had to ditch the white design that just about everyone HATED to bring back the familiar blue last year, such a move would be incredibly unwise.
Rdh3e wrote:anshabhi wrote:
No thanks. The white was terrible.
Primary things that were good about the old site that suck about this one:
1. Ability to selectively quote posts without moving on to a new screen. This way you could grab snippets of many different posts without having to scroll the tiny little box and sifting through and deleting the irrelevant content.
2. Hover over airport codes to show text of what city it was in
Utah744 wrote:We welcome and bow down to our new masters. (We need emoticons.)
Rdh3e wrote:anshabhi wrote:
No thanks. The white was terrible.
Primary things that were good about the old site that suck about this one:
1. Ability to selectively quote posts without moving on to a new screen. This way you could grab snippets of many different posts without having to scroll the tiny little box and sifting through and deleting the irrelevant content.
2. Hover over airport codes to show text of what city it was in
anshabhi wrote:take a look at Aviation.SE: http://aviation.stackexchange.com
it has everything that I would say is minimalistic and modern yet powerful.
reading there is such a pleasant experience. Open a.net & aviation.se in 2 adjacent tabs and notice the difference.
anshabhi wrote:take a look at Aviation.SE: http://aviation.stackexchange.com
it has everything that I would say is minimalistic and modern yet powerful.
reading there is such a pleasant experience. Open a.net & aviation.se in 2 adjacent tabs and notice the difference.
anshabhi wrote:take a look at Aviation.SE: http://aviation.stackexchange.com
it has everything that I would say is minimalistic and modern yet powerful.
reading there is such a pleasant experience.
ckfred wrote:Here are some issues I have with the new version of the site. On the old site, I could quote portions of several different posts and respond to them in the same post. Now, if you hit the quote icon, it opens a new post, with the entire post that is quote. It's easy enough to delete part of the quote, but that leaves the person posting multiple times, in order to respond to multiple quotes.
EA CO AS wrote:Then you're welcome to stay there; leave A.net alone, though. The most frequent users here have collectively spoken, and the blue was our preference.
gzm wrote:Please bring back the flags. It was a small but significant attraction! Thank you from all of us....
PatrickZ80 wrote:First of all I got to say welcome VerticalScope.
Actually it bothers me that some people immediately hijack this threat to fight over each other what this site should be like. Sure there's room for that discussion, but please let's not hold it here. There's a place for everything.
One question though. With an American owner, won't this site become too "americanized"? I mean, there are people on Airliners.net from all over the world and that's a lot bigger than America. I myself for example am from the Netherlands, that's in Europe. It doesn't bother me that there are Americans on this site, I think with an international site like Airliners.net that's only logical, as long as there's a place for other nationalities as well.
moderators wrote:gzm wrote:Please bring back the flags. It was a small but significant attraction! Thank you from all of us....
Can you give me some more info on this so we can see what we can do?
I will add it to the punch list of items.
Jeff M
PatrickZ80 wrote:First of all I got to say welcome VerticalScope.
Actually it bothers me that some people immediately hijack this threat to fight over each other what this site should be like. Sure there's room for that discussion, but please let's not hold it here. There's a place for everything.
One question though. With an American owner, won't this site become too "americanized"? I mean, there are people on Airliners.net from all over the world and that's a lot bigger than America. I myself for example am from the Netherlands, that's in Europe. It doesn't bother me that there are Americans on this site, I think with an international site like Airliners.net that's only logical, as long as there's a place for other nationalities as well.
JohnKrist wrote:Utah744 wrote:We welcome and bow down to our new masters. (We need emoticons.)
There are tons of them
bomber996 wrote:Things I really miss about the old site and would like to see brought back:
Ability to quote multiple replies easily at the same time.
Scroll over function for airport codes and airlines.
Markers on replies you have already read when signed in. This was marked in yellow for new posts.
Country Flags.
Membership to post on the forum.
These in my opinion were functionality that made A.net so great that have been lost with the new format.
That being said, I am now a fan of the new forum being used. It is significantly faster and much easier for use on my phone. DO NOT get rid of the blue background. The experiment to the white background was painful. Personally, I do much of my searching on the forum at night before bed and I found myself tuning out of the site because it hurt my eyes.
Thanks for the opportunity to offer input! Welcome!
Peace
Rdh3e wrote:2. Hover over airport codes to show text of what city it was in
moderators wrote:I will add it to the punch list of items.
Jeff M
GSPSPOT wrote:Rdh3e wrote:2. Hover over airport codes to show text of what city it was in
<<THIS>>
moderators wrote:Hello all, this is to let you know that airliners.net has been acquired by Verticalscope inc from Leaf Group.
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If you have questions please let me know, I will do my best to answer you all as quickly and thoroughly as I can.
Onward and Upward!
Jeff M
jetmatt777 wrote:An example: I flew OKC-DEN on UA last week. Mouse hover over OKC would display "Will Rogers World Airport - Oklahoma City, OK USA" and hovering over DEN would display "Denver International - Denver, CO USA". While hovering over UA would display "United Airlines, USA".
Finn350 wrote:Hello Jeff, welcome to the site!
Rdh3e wrote:anshabhi wrote:
No thanks. The white was terrible.
Primary things that were good about the old site that suck about this one:
1. Ability to selectively quote posts without moving on to a new screen. This way you could grab snippets of many different posts without having to scroll the tiny little box and sifting through and deleting the irrelevant content.
2. Hover over airport codes to show text of what city it was in
lesfalls wrote:Dear Jeff
Is there any posibility to bring back the flags to show where each member comes from? Other then that I am very happy with the website and hope that you keep it this way!
Regards, Lesfalls
Alsatian wrote:Hello,
Many improvement requests are coming out here right now. Johnkrist and airkas1, what about all the proposals "added to the list" in the Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion ? Should we suggest here again or could a main summary be forwarded to the new owner ?
Alsatian wrote:Hello,
Many improvement requests are coming out here right now. Johnkrist and airkas1, what about all the proposals "added to the list" in the Airliners.net Site Upgrade Announcement & Discussion ? Should we suggest here again or could a main summary be forwarded to the new owner ?
Finn350 wrote:moderators wrote:Hello all, this is to let you know that airliners.net has been acquired by Verticalscope inc from Leaf Group.
...
If you have questions please let me know, I will do my best to answer you all as quickly and thoroughly as I can.
Onward and Upward!
Jeff M
Hello Jeff, welcome to the site!
Could you tell a little bit background of Leaf Group and its mission, as well as reasoning behind acquiring the site?
salttee wrote:Please fix the time stamps for posts: "moments ago" doesn't get it even if it was actually "moments ago.".
Many web sites include a link back to the post being quoted when quoting from another post, which makes it easy to get the context behind a quote; that would be a nice feature here.