New Look for BroadwayWorld!- Page 3

[Robbie2]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 2:26pm

The main issue and problem with Broadway World is the abundance of annoying ADS! Everyone can agree with this.

Why are they everywhere? Pop ups here , there ... and when you watch a video seconds later, boom an AD! Ugh.

If I click on message board just show me that tab results not all the other crap - ADS!

I like the new clean font really sharp and easy on the eyes when on my iMac but the site lacks personality and feels generic for a Broadway site like you gave the assignment to redesign the site to an intern. Moving forward, change is good and needed so we'll live with what you give us for now and free.

Btw, Happy 20.

 

Updated On: 5/5/23 at 02:26 PM

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 2:43pm

Robbie2 said: "The main issue and problem with Broadway World is the abundance and annoying ADS!

Why are they everywhere? Pop ups here , there ...

If I click on message board just show me that tab results not all the other crap - ADS!

I like new the clean font but the site lacks a personality and feel generic."

Install an adblocker, problem solved!

The New BWW design is much more sleek & not as much of an assault on the eyes, and at least is more interesting (but also more cluttered) than the new "Broadway News."

Why is the 26th, 51st, etc. post still not showing up until someone clicks the tab to the next page?

Updated On: 5/4/23 at 02:43 PM

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 3:06pm

Will get used to the mobile version. The video that pops up at the top is slightly annoying but at least it doesn't come back after you close it out. (I use an Andriod phone) But I like the sleekness of it on my phone. The new rounded edged avatar pics is a nice touch also.

On my Chromebook, it is a big improvement. I normally turn the adblock on to stop all the distracting ads popping up and to stop scrolling from stuttering past an ad in threads. I have my adblock off now and not getting all of the crazy blinking ads, etc. It feels more streamlined. 

I haven't opened a video yet but I do hope the annoying ads that start about 5 seconds into a video have at least been moved to before the video starts.

One suggestion... it would be nice to have the "Back to message board" link/button back in red so it doesn't blend in with all of the black text. I didn't see it at first but knew where it should be and found it that way.

Updated On: 5/4/23 at 03:06 PM

[Lot666]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 3:31pm

If the site is viewed on a desktop PC and the browser is not maximized to take up the entire screen, the layout is awful and includes an absurd amount of white space because the ads on the left and all the space below them are pushed over on top of the message board. Hateful.

[macbeth]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 4:09pm

I just hopped back onto this thread to say thanks to the team making all these fixes. I liked it a lot this morning, but even more now with the 'return of the grey', bolder lines and other changes.

Big kudos to all and here's to 20 more years! 

[Rob]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 4:36pm

Yes, we're rolling out a slightly darker background on here as requested, and thanks for all the helpful emails so far which we've been jumping on w/ the team. More to come.  

[TheatreMonkey]

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

Rob said: "Yes, we're rolling out a slightly darker background on here as requested, and thanks for all the helpful emails so far which we've been jumping on w/ the team. More to come. "

Congrats on 20 years, truly an achievement! I primarily access BWW on my mobile, and must say the new layout and/or any optimization has really made the site much snappier and responsive on mobile. Thanks for that!

[perfectpenguin]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 4:47pm

Rob said: "Yes, we're rolling out a slightly darker background on here as requested, and thanks for all the helpful emails so far which we've been jumping on w/ the team. More to come. "

Darker background and darker lines are VERY HELPFUL!! Thank you!! 

[SweetLips22]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 5:32pm

I like what I see and find it easier to read. Ads are just a part of reality.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 6:02pm

I have to switch to the desktop view on my phone to make the board usable. This is really not good.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 6:51pm

I really love the new look. 

[jagman1062]

Posted: 5/4/23 at 10:01pm

Lot666 said: "If the site is viewed on a desktop PC and the browser is not maximized to take up the entire screen, the layout is awful and includes an absurd amount of white space because the ads on the left and all the space below them are pushed over on top of the message board. Hateful."

I agree; I'm having the same problem. I love the new and larger font of the message board, but there's so much white space that my eyes began to burn just trying to read all the comments already posted (I couldn't get through page 3). The message posts in the previous design were separated better so they were easier to differentiate between them; not so much with the new design. Perhaps if you provided a light gray background to alternating messages (just enough gray or other color to differentiate between messages, they'd be easier to read than trying to combat the glare from all the white space. 

Updated On: 5/5/23 at 10:01 PM

[Jarethan]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 12:05am

I am reading it on my iPhone and HATE IT.  Just seems confusing to me, and I am not a change resister.  I will get used to it, but I still think the -2 version is better than -1 or this.  In fact I would say they are getting worse with each new release.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 12:06am

Count me as note a fan. Hard to read. Hard to find what I'm looking for. Don't like the font. There's too much white space. 

[PipingHotPiccolo]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 1:19am

yes the whole thing appears so light its hard to read, but i think that might just take some getting used to?

the SIZE of the fonts tho is totally out of whack. on the main board page, the titles of the threads appear enormous; within a thread, everything seems the same size (poster, poster's info, post itself, "report, quote, reply" links) that its hard to distinguish whats what. 

[binau]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 2:17am

Thank you for listening RE: background, it does make it better. Now I just need to work out how to fix the mobile category issue because until then I find the mobile site completely unusable sadly. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 7:01am

The mobile version is not good as pointed out a few posts ago. And I still get the pop up videos on the mobile version. Desktop site is fine outside of the boring white background and terrible font.

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 8:48am

Rob, I really appreciate the darker colour. MUCH easier to read

[Rob]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 8:48am

Thanks again for all those who sent in screenshots to [e-mail] which were a BIG help. We rolled out another update this morning that hopefully addresses a lot of them (and brings back more of a contrasting background). Please keep the screenshots coming if you're still experiencing anything weird or overlapping and more to come!

[ivy3]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 9:24am

Not a fan of the desktop version. Two columns of news and ads on the sides makes the board very narrow and lost around all that clutter. 

On a cell phone, you scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll to find threads, to read posts. Honestly I just give up. 

It is also very hard to find threads that weren't active recently

[toofunktastic2]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 9:42am

The headers over every thread feel worse than useless to me.  It’s not useful information to see a thread have a header saying it’s about Shucked when the title already says it’s about Shucked.  

[Valentina3]

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

Categories on Mobile version are my biggest complain. They attract too much attention. The title of the thread should be the only important thing worth highlighting. I'd minimally change the background on category to be a light suggestion instead of dark black badge, and add focus on thread title. The desktop version treats category as an additional property of the thread, and not a container. 

PS - speaking of categories, for a chat forum, I find these to be entirely unnecessary. Discussions are hard to categorize consistently and in a way people would agree with you since they're quite objective, and they don't give the context they way they would in other use cases of it. I always have to use the headline anyway.  

[BETTY22]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 11:29am

Folks don't like change.

Give it a day or so.

I think this new updated version is great. Clear and easy to navigate. Is it true that BroadwayWorld gets more readers than Playbill.com?

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 11:40am

Rob said: "Thanks again for all those who sent in screenshots to [e-mail] which were a BIG help. We rolled out another update this morning that hopefully addresses a lot of them (and brings back more of a contrasting background). Please keep the screenshots coming if you're still experiencing anything weird or overlapping and more to come!"

So after the new update this morning, I can now see a whopping four threads on mobile. Seriously does anyone test these things? These category headers are pointless and are way too big. If you really need headers for every single thread make them minuscule! The title of a thread should be what draws your attention when reading the board.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 11:48am

I have to agree. I don’t understand the prominence given to the category headers or why we even need them. It does draw attention away from the thread titles.