New Look for BroadwayWorld!- Page 2

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 9:46am

Don’t like it. Very messy and hard to read anything with the coloring.

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 9:48am

Still no automatic push to the new page when someone adds the 26th post. Still have to wait until #27.  Annoying.

Updated On: 5/4/23 at 09:48 AM

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 9:48am

To me, it's a big visual mess, like when a page loads incorrectly and everything is piled on top of one another. Because there's no differentiation between text on the drop down links on the right, the actual message board content, and then the OTHER drop down links on the left, my eye doesn't know where to go. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 9:50am

Why is Spain one of the 4 message board options? It appears to have had one active thread in the past 24 hours. 

[Ricey2]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 10:03am

Mobile is a bit… bloated and white. It just feels like it hasn’t really been formatted correctly yet. I do always love a change of pace though. :) 

[YvanEhtNioj]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 10:11am

Ion like this. 

It's giving "MySpace". 

Updated On: 5/4/23 at 10:11 AM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 10:16am

TaffyDavenport said: "Still no automatic push to the new page when someone adds the 26th post. Still have to wait until #27. Annoying."

YES PLEASE FIX BEFORE ALL ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thedrybandit]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 10:30am

ElephantLoveMedley said: "Really not loving how message board posts are now shoved in between two dense columns (articles and videos). It's so much text all at once. I wish posts had more horizontal real estate instead of 1/3 of the page (when they're 100% of the reason I'm even on that page to begin with)."

Yeah this is incredibly messy, and I find it incredibly hard to read the message board. There's just too much stuff happening around it. This feels like something a late 2000's teenager with a passing interest in graphic design would have created.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 10:35am

This looks fine on my laptop. 

However, it's messy on my chromebook (the crowded and overlapped comments) - it feel incredibly overwhelming and AWFUL on my phone (android).  

 

Does your team TEST the different applications?

 

[JasonC3]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:05am

Mixed feelings about the font and leading, but that may be something that you get used to over time.  The site may look much better on a desktop if you grab a Chrome or Firefox extension and zap some of the sections that are overlaying what you want to read.  I use uBlock.

[Moderator]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:09am

Hi All, just chiming in here to share that if you see anything that is definitely a bug (like overlapping text), that is definitely not the intended function. Our developers do tests on tons of different device types, but of course it's not possible to test every single possible real-world scenario.

The best way to help our developer team solve those is to open a support ticket on this page under 'General Inquiry' - along with the URL of the page you saw the error and a clear description and details like your device type, OS, and browser. (I also suggest saving a screenshot, that is certainly something they will ask for, or send one directly to [e-mail], we'll pass it along.)

We appreciate all the feedback, and thanks those of you who already have sent in bug reports which we've been told have already resulted in a few dozen bug fixes (and I'm told the next batch is rolling out soon.)

Updated On: 5/4/23 at 11:09 AM

[chrishuyen]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:11am

I think overall I like the redesign, it looks sleeker and a bit easier to navigate, and I'm actually a big fan of the new font.  I'd also echo the desire for stronger borders in the message board posts, and I think that would help the "claustrophobic" feel of having two columns of ads (I think it would be nicer if one column was actual ads and the other column would be internal ads/links to other BWW content).

Another bug I noticed on desktop: when filtering grosses by type, it makes the title column pretty large and then squishes the other columns on the right, so that we can't even see all the other data.

Thanks to the web team for the work you've been doing!

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:13am

Moderator said: "Hi All, just chiming in here to share that if you see anything that is definitely a bug (like overlapping text), that is definitely not the intended function. Our developers do tests on tons of different device types, but of course it's not possible to test every single possible real-world scenario.

The best way to help our developer team solve those is to open a support ticket on this page under 'General Inquiry' - along with the URL of the page you saw the error and a clear description and details like your device type, OS, and browser. (I also suggest saving a screenshot, that is certainly something they will ask for, or send one directly to [e-mail], we'll pass it along.)

We appreciate all the feedback, and thanks those of you who already have sent in bug reports which we've been told have already resulted in a few dozen bug fixes (and I'm told the next batch is rolling out soon.)"

Please address the complaint from Post #27 here; it's been an ongoing problem for years that seems to be ignored.

also, for people with a "signature" below each post, that's just showing up as part of their normal post.

[kdogg36]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:14am

dramamama611 said: "However, it's messy on my chromebook (the crowded and overlapped comments)"

Yes, on my Chromebook the content in the right-hand column overlaps the "last post" information from the message list. And on the page I'm typing on right now, an ad on the left overlaps the left part of the middle section so that for instance the "S" at the start of "Subject:" is partially cut off.

I know you're probably still working on this. Happy 20th Anniversary!

[ETA: I saw the message about reporting bugs right after I posted this. I'll do that, too.]

Updated On: 5/4/23 at 11:14 AM

[Hairspray0901]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:51am

How do you view more than the first four topics on each section on the app? I can’t figure that out.

Updated On: 5/4/23 at 11:51 AM

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:58am

I remember outlining a look exactly like this several years ago and being told it couldn't be done by a moderator at the time. Is someone gonna compensate me now that centering the message board with columns of info and things to look at on either side has been achieved? I could use the money.

[Valentina3]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 11:59am

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "I remember outlining a look exactly like this several years ago and being told it couldn't be done by a moderator at the time. Is someone gonna compensate me now that centering the message board with columns of info and things to look at on either side has been achieved? I could use the money."

Oh sweety... Give up will you.

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 12:21pm

I'm kind of digging it. I do think the grey behind the chat board text was useful only because it helped the eye differentiate between the board and the ads, and now they kind of live in the same space and it makes for somewhat uncomfortable viewing. Suggest maybe put a stronger border or darken the area behind the ad space.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 12:24pm

There's a similar search in the Off Topic Chat, but it only gives results from the Broadway Chat.

[Danny1984]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 12:30pm

Hairspray0901 said: "How do you view more than the first four topics on each section on the app? I can’t figure that out."

Me neither - I would also like to know this.

I normally pick the musical I am interested in first and get into the threads that way. Doesn't seem possible anymore?

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 12:30pm

everythingtaboo said: "I'm kind of digging it. I do think the grey behind the chat board text was useful only because it helped the eye differentiate between the board and the ads, and now they kind of live in the same space and it makes for somewhat uncomfortable viewing. Suggest maybe put a stronger border or darken the area behind the ad space."

Totally. It's grating and horrible on the eyes. 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 1:06pm

Valentina3 said: "Oh sweety... Give up will you."

Some people have no sense of humor.

[Alexander Lamar]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 1:17pm

Can you enable night mode?

[RunnyBabbit]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 1:40pm

There's SOOO much white space.  It feels like BWW is following design choices from 2010.  Plus the top of the page feels so cluttered with content on both sides.

And on mobile everything feels awkwardly spaced.  There's so much room taken up by the user icon and profile info for every single post within a thread.  Same feeling for the thread list.  The black category tag and then 3 separate rows for the replies and the time/user require an unnecessarily large amount of scrolling.  A more compact look would be much better on mobile.

Also on mobile, the Broadway World banner is constantly popping up and hiding when scrolling, and it makes the text jump.  It's hard to follow where you are within a paragraph because the text is moving up and down every time you scroll.  If the banner is going to pop up (which it shouldn't), it should be an overlay and not move the text within a post.

[Ceej]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 1:43pm

On desktop (safari) the top menu disappears when scrolling down and you have to scroll back up to get it back. I'd suggest that it stays regardless of direction.