Thoughts On New Update
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stinky_cheese
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13834688:Mr.Bishop said:
my two biggest problems with it are how the thumbs up thumbs down looks now, i liked it more when you had the red/green bar. i also don't like how the reply button is, i liked the old one more
13834464:JAHpow said:
AH -
Ok, so we looked into this and basically it isn't a bad design decision, its simply the fact that the space there is left for the Keyboard.
You happen to be rocking the longest phone on the market right now, so it is especially pronounced for you.
The blank space isn't the problem here once you're actually in that top space, because as soon as you click there boom the keyboard comes up.
What specifically about the space is it that you don't like - is it just that it visually feels like a waste or is it that you're actually having trouble navigating once the keyboard comes up?
13835100:cornholio said:
No we can't, we used a framework for this one which allowed us to make an app. Things will change a bit because of this, and you will have to get used to some of the changes. There was no other way to do it properly, that old layout may have been popular but it was an unmaintainable mess of front end code. It simply had to go.
13835443:stinky_pete said:
The look of thumbs up / thumbs down will be something you need to get used to. As I mentioned above, we had to make some hard decisions in order to move to a modern front end framework which allowed us to build the app.
Same with the reply button - using those icons are one part of a ton of tiny little changes to improve page speed. Give it some time, in a few months you will not even notice anymore.
JAHpow
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13834462:Mr.Bishop said:
That still doesn't make sense. Your message box is still way bigger than mine is even if I have a larger screen.
Here's the same layout that I have compared to yours above -
It doesn't go all the way down to the bottom of the screen like yours.
I sorta understand where you're coming from for the keyboard. Here's what I have -
But I feel like the box should be resetting to a larger size given the example from your phone.
Eh?
cornholio
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I listed a couple reasons i dont like unnecessary apps earlier.
1. Apps generally take up too much space on my phone. (You guys seem to have done a good job keeping this at a minimum.)
2. Apps tend to generate unwanted push notifications (which this did). Tbh I didn't check if this could be turned off until just now when I was thinking about it. these usually come in the middle of the work day and I never had time to search the settings for this when one popped up.
Most likely reason I will always prefer Web is that when I get on ns it's usually when I quickly go between whatever time wasting sites I frequent. IMO it's easier to just type the first couple letters in the address bar to bounce from site to site in a browser window rather than back out of one app and go to another app just to check a web page real quick.
1. Apps generally take up too much space on my phone. (You guys seem to have done a good job keeping this at a minimum.)
2. Apps tend to generate unwanted push notifications (which this did). Tbh I didn't check if this could be turned off until just now when I was thinking about it. these usually come in the middle of the work day and I never had time to search the settings for this when one popped up.
Most likely reason I will always prefer Web is that when I get on ns it's usually when I quickly go between whatever time wasting sites I frequent. IMO it's easier to just type the first couple letters in the address bar to bounce from site to site in a browser window rather than back out of one app and go to another app just to check a web page real quick.
13836120:Mr.Bishop said:
13836177:cornholio said:
I mean fair enough, you do you. Whatever works is whatever works.
But yes, you can turn off push notifications quite easily.
You can also multi task between apps and browsers on most mobile phones... but whatever I get it we need to make sure the mobile web experience is sweet too. 100% fair to ask.
JAHpow
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13835827:Mr.Bishop said:
Too bad it's not that simple, cuz that's all it would take (for me)
There's something new, a grey bar at the top of the screen that I didn't notice before. Is that the "ticker" for announcing new edits and stuff, but there's just nothing on it yet?
Right above "thoughts on new update"
cornholio
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You can turn them off easy, but apparently the app will still send them. I turned them off for media and news shit the other day and just now got a notification about some jossi wells thing. I'll stand by my statement that I dislike apps that send unnecessary push notifications
13836178:Mr.Bishop said:
SofaKingSick
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i totally feel people how don't like (opt out) push notifications but the other day it notified me that the jossi wells tourney was live streaming and i tuned in and enjoyed the hell out of it. I thought it was a great thing all around, i learned about and watched a free high quality live stream and without the notification i wouldnt have known about it at all
13837085:cornholio said:
13837097:cornholio said:
Yes sorry - we actually need to re-do the notification system to make it more configurable. Right now it is really all-or-nothing. The behaviour you want should be coming soon.
13837101:SofaKingSick said:
We've been trying very hard to use "trust" as our main ethics when sending the overall notifications. Since we can't yet customize it per user... we have really been trying to only send stuff which is really breaking and would be of interest to the audience.
Any others have feedback on the few other notifications we've been sending?
J_MAC
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(drunken rant*) . came here to say how deeply i miss the old newschoolers. I fully understand why changing the page format was necessary as a means to improve traffic flow/media output. However, it just doesn't feel the same anymore. Maybe life is changing and I am bad at embracing it. But i feel like the old page design made me feel like part of a community. Now it just looks like media is exploding in my face. Maybe the community has changed and that's why it's harder to relate, but that doesnt seem like it should be the case. We are all here for the same reason: because we love skiing. I guess im just not feelin the love 
13841960:J_MAC said:(drunken rant*) . came here to say how deeply i miss the old newschoolers. I fully understand why changing the page format was necessary as a means to improve traffic flow/media output. However, it just doesn't feel the same anymore. Maybe life is changing and I am bad at embracing it. But i feel like the old page design made me feel like part of a community. Now it just looks like media is exploding in my face. Maybe the community has changed and that's why it's harder to relate, but that doesnt seem like it should be the case. We are all here for the same reason: because we love skiing. I guess im just not feelin the love
What part of the old home page do you miss? More or less its all the same content, just the layout is different
J_MAC
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i miss the video of the day, it still kind of exists, but not in the same way. it's not so much of a "big thing" anymore, which i also understand why it was beneficial in many ways to change , but at the same time the vod was THE reason why i would religiously visit the site, it just doesnt have the same appeal anymore. the new page just looks like the pictures are jumping out at you too much, the advertisements are more obvious. it lacks the subtlety and zen of the oldschool.