New site feedback thread.

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OMG what's happened?  really not liking this.  didn't see any warning this was coming either

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I have to say I'm not too keen...

Forgot my username, and the password reminder facility doesn't seem to provide a reminder for that (so it took me ages to work out what it was).

Then the change password facility doesn't seem to work - entering your password to unlock the email/password part doesn't do anything. Tried IE and Chrome, and it didn't work in either, or create an error.

...and what about that huuuuge banner? Could you have made it any bigger?

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The look is better, however ther is no way of seeing what threads you have read or not, and in IE8 it needs to be run in compatability mode to display properly.

Edit: Also cannot upload an avatar image

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its too darned slow, too few threads per page, each topic band is too wide, it takes an eternity to browse, the banner takes up a third of my small screen, the colums are too narow, wy do you have to waste time returning to the beginning of a thread to reply?the text is just weird to read and I dont know why maybe its the  grey against white.

and its slow, slow slow

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There is far too much wasted space on the page, the banners are enormous, the topic lines too big, text not clear and too few topics on a page with no way to see which ones you have visited, all in all not a happy experience.

Oh, and it's so slow I thought it had passed out

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It's a same so much time and money was spent for this result. Still, let's make the most of what we have got.

Please make the top banner smaller. It takes up far too much screen space. Sure, it might be what the designers want but can you point me to any successful website that has such a large top banner? No? Well, there is a reason for that.And lose the WE LOVE MX-5 section. What does it add to the forum? It's fine for a front page but not for individual forum pages.

What is the point of the showroom/dealer/brochure graphics and links at the bottom of every page? Do you not realise that almost 100% of visitors own an MX-5, know where their dealers and showrooms are and do not need a brochure? If we did, we'd be smart enough to find that information for ourselves via google or by typing http://www.mazda.co.uk

There are too few threads per page. I really enjoyed the fact that almost all the active threads for one day would be covered in one page. It make my life a heck of a lot easier to keep up with happenings here. Now my life has just gotten a little more difficult.

The reply box is far too small. Is there any reason for this? Making it at lease 4 times taller would be good.

I'm not keen on the layout of POST followed by REPLIES. This is a forum. We have THREADS. One person kicks it off and the thread extends from there. Not every posting to a given thread is a reply to the original post. Why structure the layout in that way?

Minor point, but 'Report a Reply' is overly eye-catching compared with the thread text. It should be there in the background rather than the main event.

Where have the QUOTE and REPLY options gone fro each thread post? That's a loss of useful functionality. Is there a reason to remove it?

I look forward to reading your responses,

Many thanks,

Dave

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if you don't want negative comments don't ask for feedback! don't dismiss peoples views as moaning just cos it's not what you want to hear, it is patronising.

echo the others, header grossley oversized, too few threads per page and it keeps logging me out :banghead:

if you are not going to listen to your unhappy members, expect them to vote with their feet.

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"if you are not going to listen to your unhappy members, expect them to vote with their feet" Anonimouse.

But we ARE listening. The site regrettably launched with a bug in the synchronisation protocol which needed the all the  efforts of the web design team to track down and cure. This was done by Friday afternoon.

It is now the weekend.

Full resources will be available again Monday to address the remaining issues. You may have noticed that Admin (who does not work weekends!) has been around responding to members over the last 2 days. The issues here are being taken very seriously indeed and there have alrady been significant improvements.

There is a "wish list" in the Lounge and other posts in this thread and forum of niggles and requested features. These will be addressed so please add any requests you have there.

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Hi all

It's true, we do appreciate all comments, negative and positive. I can't guarantee we'll be able to change all the bits you guys talk about it but in the past five days we've built up a really good list of gripes, niggles and recommendations. What we're planning to do is prioritise them, see what's easy/hard to do and then get tot work. Of course, one person's preferred colour is another's misery so we need to balance this stuff out.

Hope this helps.

Admin

RE: New site feedback thread.

Thanks to MuppetNumpty who pointed out the following:

GlasgowDave:

'What is the point of the showroom/dealer/brochure graphics and links at the bottom of every page? Do you not realise that almost 100% of visitors own an MX-5, know where their dealers and showrooms are and do not need a brochure? If we did, we'd be smart enough to find that information for ourselves via google or by typing http://www.mazda.co.uk'

MuppetNumpty:

Completley and utterly untrue. A huge amount of people use this forum BEFORE making an MX5 purchase as resource and point of research. DO NOT take the bottom banner away

Well, what I should have said it that almost 100% of visits are from MX5 owners. My mistake. No doubt, links to brochures and the like are useful. I'm more questioning the need for them to be on every page of the site. Perhaps the front page would be a more appropriate place. But, hey, it's just my opinion. If the web admins log a large number of click throughs from the banners then great.

And just another quick quick question, what is the new favicon?

Keep up the good work,

Dave