Updates to Forum Designs

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Who quoted me widget – the read icon is hard to spot because it’s not light enough. This is being addressed right now.

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Rep icons – need adjusting so faded when no rep clicked otherwise it looks like all posts have been neg repped. This has been fixed on our test server and should be live soon.

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Orange reply / quote buttons – these need to be revisited because the colour contrast with the blue is too strong making them stand out too much, also there are comments about the size and design. This is being worked on by our design team right now, I'll let you know once an updated solution is ready and what is being done to them.

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The link at the top of quotes – where it says “Original post by ...” has been swapped. We are going to swap it back so the link is on ‘Original post’. This is being fixed right now.

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Arial font – to explain, the decision to move to Arial was made last year when we went through a lengthy process to create TSR’s distinctive design and look, it’s just taken a while to implement on the live site. The reason for choosing it was for i) its friendlier style compared to verdana (this is obviously subjective and everyone has their own preferences) ii) its common use across the web and elsewhere iii) accessibility. Throughout the testing process, there was no major objection to the font. However, in the original designs, the font was slightly bigger than what is live, so this will be contributing to it being harder to read. Many of the complaints definitely seem to focus on size, so we'd like to see how you all feel once the slightly larger size goes live.

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Indentation of posts – there has been both positive and negative feedback on this. The decision to do this was to help people read the posts themselves as there is more space around the text and each post's content all lines up in a thread, so you can skim down reading the conversation without the other stuff on the page getting in the way. Because of the positive reaction to this, we'd like to give it a bit more time to see how everyone feels once they have adjusted to it, so please keep us updated over the coming week.

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Add an icon explanation in About TSR pages -some people have requested a key somewhere on the site, which we will create soon

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Design feeling too young – this is something we are aware of, although we have had lots and lots of positive comments about the new style and blob characters in particular. There are actually other elements of the brand that are more grown up and balance out the more stylised graphics. For instance, hand drawn illustrations and photographs (not really used on the site yet). These will gradually be added to help balance it out. We do have a lot of feedback everyday asking us to make the site more colourful and to add pictures, so that’s what we are working towards. I'd definitely like to continue talking about the design with you to help us get it right.

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Star for watched stuff – this is actually to replace the ‘eye’ icon which a large number of people did not like when we added it, so this is actually addressing people’s feedback from the last changes.

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i's in tltles looking like l's - yes, this is a problem and something we're trying to fix, it's a bit of a problem with the font itself though - I'll keep you updated

1.

Arial font – to explain, the decision to move to Arial was made last year when we went through a lengthy process to create TSR’s distinctive design and look, it’s just taken a while to implement on the live site. The reason for choosing it was for i) its friendlier style compared to verdana (this is obviously subjective and everyone has their own preferences) ii) its common use across the web and elsewhere iii) accessibility. Throughout the testing process, there was no major objection to the font. However, in the original designs, the font was slightly bigger than what is live, so this will be contributing to it being harder to read. Many of the complaints definitely seem to focus on size, so we'd like to see how you all feel once the slightly larger size goes live.

1.

Arial font – to explain, the decision to move to Arial was made last year when we went through a lengthy process to create TSR’s distinctive design and look, it’s just taken a while to implement on the live site. The reason for choosing it was for i) its friendlier style compared to verdana (this is obviously subjective and everyone has their own preferences) ii) its common use across the web and elsewhere iii) accessibility. Throughout the testing process, there was no major objection to the font. However, in the original designs, the font was slightly bigger than what is live, so this will be contributing to it being harder to read. Many of the complaints definitely seem to focus on size, so we'd like to see how you all feel once the slightly larger size goes live.

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Star for watched stuff – this is actually to replace the ‘eye’ icon which a large number of people did not like when we added it, so this is actually addressing people’s feedback from the last changes.

•

i's in tltles looking like l's - yes, this is a problem and something we're trying to fix, it's a bit of a problem with the font itself though - I'll keep you updated