New Look for BroadwayWorld! — Page 3

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

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.

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!!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Rob said: "Thanks again for all those who sent in screenshots to moderator@broadwayworld.com 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.

The dear departed Barbara Bryne said it best:

Oh Georgie, how I long for the old view.

Updated On: 5/5/23 at 11:55 AM