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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/19/05
#75New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 11:55am
The dear departed Barbara Bryne said it best:
Oh Georgie, how I long for the old view.
ElephantLoveMedley
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/21
#76New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 11:57am
I agree that it would be great to get rid of the big black headers, particularly on mobile. I honestly don't think anyone even cares about them to begin with. I just read the thread names.
#77New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 12:09pm
CarlosAlberto said: "I really love the new look."
I had to re-think this. The new site layout/changes look great on my desktop and laptop Macs. The real issue is how it looks on the Mobile App. The header categories are part of the problem.
#78New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 12:41pm
Popping in to report that mobile topic headers are now gone.
Hairspray0901
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#79New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 1:05pm
Rob said: "Popping in to report that mobile topic headers are now gone."
There is currently no message board on the "message board" tab on the app. Just ads, followed by "latest news", then more ads, then "videos", more ads, then "ticket central", followed by "recommended for you" and an ad to sign up for the BWW newsletter.
#80New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 1:09pm
Yay mobile back. Ok back to obsessing over Bernadette and Sondheim, thanks Rob!
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#81New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 1:40pm
re: issues on our App, that's a known issue on our (admittedly out of date, maybe not needed) old app, but that developer is working on it, and hoping we can get an update out there asap as well.
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#82New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 1:54pm
Hairspray0901 said: "Rob said: "Popping in to report that mobile topic headers are now gone."
There is currently no message board on the "message board" tab on the app. Just ads, followed by "latest news", then more ads, then "videos", more ads, then "ticket central", followed by "recommended for you" and an ad to sign up for the BWW newsletter."
Click on main board in the black header - yes, an unessesary step.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Cape Twirl of Doom
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#83New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 3:10pm
Rob said: "Popping in to report that mobile topic headers are now gone."
Thank you!! It is so much better now. 
"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"
chrishuyen
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
#84New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 4:20pm
The gray backgrounds make a world of difference! Thanks for implementing those so quickly. It would be nice to have them in the reply page too for the previous posts, but the stronger borders have helped a lot as well.
This is also more nitpicky, but I noticed when opening spoiler boxes that there's much less of a delineation for what was inside the spoiler. There's no box around it or any different shading, only a slight indentation, so it's hard to tell which part is and isn't the spoiler
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#85New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 4:56pm
I have concluded that I hate the mobile version but that using it on my computer is absolutely fine. Not much different really. Bout mobile version still sucks...cumbersome and not very intuitive.
#86New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/5/23 at 5:40pm
Last update from here for the day, we implemented the same visual improvements to the reply page as well and that was a good idea Chris for the spoiler box which should now be clearer along w/ a few other tweaks and some speed improvements. More to come!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#87New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/7/23 at 9:35am
So I added a link on my post (Audience disturbance at Akimbo) but the link isn't in a different color, so no one knows. It was when I was creating it, or if I go to edit ...but not on the thread
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Poconopanther
Understudy Joined: 3/31/16
#88New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/7/23 at 9:48am
Fantastic! I use an iPad to read the Message Board. Looks fantastic!
#89New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/7/23 at 10:18am
dramamama611 said: "So I added a link on my post (Audience disturbance at Akimbo) but the link isn't in a different color, so no one knows. It was when I was creating it, or if I go to edit ...but not on the thread"
Yes, and then the same thing happened when another poster shared a link in the same thread. It’s impossible to tell what’s a link- there’s no color or formatting change.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#90New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/7/23 at 11:11am
The gray backgrounds make it a lot better than before, thanks!
The thing that bothers me the most now is that when I visit a topic I can only see 1 reaction at a time on my desktop/laptop screen, because the users info/name box (with the line of dots) is now above every post, which takes up a lot of space.
It is only when I reply and scroll down in the reply screen, like I do right now, that the users' info is suddenly on the left of the reply, including the line of dots. Which looks much better and uses a lot less space from top top bottom. The replies on the board itself should look like this too.
#91New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/7/23 at 12:02pm
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#92New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/7/23 at 3:20pm
Good catch re: link color, a fix for that is rolling out shortly. And Seb28, if you can email us a screenshot and some more info to moderator@broadwayworld.com, we'll take a look there at what you're seeing.
QueenTwinnied
Broadway Star Joined: 6/16/17
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#94New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/8/23 at 2:31pm
I love that they think the only colors that exist are white, grey and slightly darker grey 
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chrishuyen
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
#95New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/9/23 at 4:41pm
Also not a super big issue but looks a little funky, on the grosses page, the header is sticky which makes sense to show all the columns, but because the red navigation bar only shows up when scrolling up, on the down scroll it leaves an awkward gap between the graph header and the top of the page
chrishuyen
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
#96New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/12/23 at 8:53pm
Not sure how much this was changed, but I think the search for the message boards has gotten worse. It's easier to just google "broadwayworld board" and then the search term I'm looking for rather than use the built in search. It used to at least manage to pull up the result I was looking for (though I'd sometimes have to wade through a few posts to find it), but now it seems to actually skip over a lot of results, not sure if older threads are just indexed better?
#97New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/14/23 at 9:38am
Please fix the size of the embedded videos. They look fine when creating, but post tiny.
#98New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/14/23 at 12:31pm
Good catch re: embedded videos, and that's been fixed I believe. And, Happy Mother's Day to all who celebrate.
#99New Look for BroadwayWorld!
Posted: 5/14/23 at 12:48pm
The ad thing in the videos has gotten a bit better. The video still starts but the time between it starting and the ad popping up is much shorter.
Also, this has been happening before the change. I have an android phone. If I am listening to music and pop into BWW, whatever video is running overrides my music. I have to find the video and pause it to hear my music. I don't use an adblocker on my phone.
I usually have a blocker on my Chromebook but this new layout is better and don't use it as much as I used to on this site. There just seemed to be too much going on with the ads and I never looked at them. I have actually looked at a few with the new layout!
Just give the world Love.
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