New Look for BroadwayWorld!- Page 4

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Posted: 5/5/23 at 11:55am

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

[ElephantLoveMedley]

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.

[CarlosAlberto]

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. 

[Rob]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 12:41pm

Popping in to report that mobile topic headers are now gone. 

[Hairspray0901]

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.

[binau]

Posted: 5/5/23 at 1:09pm

Yay mobile back. Ok back to obsessing over Bernadette and Sondheim, thanks Rob! 

[Rob]

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re: issues on our App, that's a known issue on our (admittedly out of date, maybe not needed) old app, but that developer is working on it, and hoping we can get an update out there asap as well.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]

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.

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

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.

[chrishuyen]

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]

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.

[Rob]

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]

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 

[Poconopanther]

Posted: 5/7/23 at 9:48am

Fantastic! I use an iPad to read the Message Board. Looks fantastic! 

[Kad]

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. 

[Seb28]

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.

 

[denali.fire]

Posted: 5/7/23 at 12:02pm

AdsRUs

[Rob]

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 [e-mail], we'll take a look there at what you're seeing. 

[QueenTwinnied]

Posted: 5/8/23 at 1:38pm

Hideous new layout. Shame shame shame

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/8/23 at 2:31pm

I love that they think the only colors that exist are white, grey and slightly darker grey

[chrishuyen]

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]

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?

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 5/14/23 at 9:38am

Please fix the size of the embedded videos. They look fine when creating, but post tiny.

[Rob]

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. 

[uncageg]

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!