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I love that these stats are back on the home page *.*

(Wondered what was going on 1st December 2019 for that many users online, but after checking threads from that day it was mostly guests/spambots )

I personally feel like the "View new posts" link in the taskbar should be more prominent? As we are going blue with the new graphics, would it be possible to have a blue icon simply with the word "NEW” that would help it to stand out a bit? :thinking:

 

I know this is a terrible mock-up, but this is the sort of thing I mean, maybe positioned differently;

 

I personally feel like the "View new posts" link in the taskbar should be more prominent? As we are going blue with the new graphics, would it be possible to have a blue icon simply with the word "NEW” that would help it to stand out a bit? :thinking:

 

I know this is a terrible mock-up, but this is the sort of thing I mean, maybe positioned differently;

 

I was going to suggest either making it bold and/or putting it to the left of Help and Assistant. It's definitely the link I click on the most.

 

I would suggest putting it first in the order too if possible which also implies prominence instead of the implication that the first thing you'd need is help.

Would it be possible to swap around the “News from the Artist Forums” and “The Official Chart” sections? Then the singles artwork images would be in the middle!

Would it be possible to swap around the “News from the Artist Forums” and “The Official Chart” sections? Then the singles artwork images would be in the middle!

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought this! :lol: I feel I get tooo cheeky with all my requests so I try to keep quiet. :kink:

Made both of those changes! Would rather not make anything bold in the member bar as the inconsistency was annoying me before :kink: but "view new posts" being first should make it more prominent (and remember it's on the index panel now too!)

Thank you Joseph! :wub:

Me lines!! They're gone!

+1 at bringing the underline for links back ^_^ I think they make distinguishing links a lot easier. (Colours would be an alternative but I fear there may be too much clash with coloured roles x)

Am looking at colours atm so don't worry

 

Underlines are part of what makes the forum look dated - other forums with more contemporary layouts don't have underlined links (except on hover - which we have too atm). Give it a moment to adjust - I can bring the old style back easily but I think it's worth giving this a shot!

 

edit: seems not, links are back x

For what it's worth, I liked it a lot without the lines! In fact, having under lines is quite an uncommon feature on a forum.

 

Look at...

 

Popjustice: https://forum.popjustice.com/

Atrl: https://atrl.net/forums/

UKMix: https://www.ukmix.org/

Haven: https://fatherandy2.proboards.com/

 

Nary a line to be seen x

if we remove the lines would it give scope to remove some other clutter and then make the index font a bit bigger? Would be a dream for mobile!

We need a greater contrast for the lack of underlines to stand out, those other forums have clearer contrast between link text and background colour, I just found it difficult to read (and yeah definitely need less of the text descriptions)

Blue seems to be a common colour for links but yes I think contrast should come first x

Was going to play with colours but didn't get the chance unfortunately.

Was going to play with colours but didn't get the chance unfortunately.

As a famous Stereophonics song goes... Maybe Tomorrow...

I've just uncovered a pop justice account I made in 2015 that I've never used, I've replied to two topics and I'm very confused, I don't like that their links aren't underlined actually but it does look very slick and is mobile friendly. I can't bloody find anything on it though so I don't think I'll be making regular appearances :lol:

I guess the thing with making links a colour is that on Buzzjack we also have text colours that a lot of forums don't have.

#leaveourunderlinesalone

 

(in all seriousness, it could probably look ok if changed to have links contrast more with regular text in some other way, but I don't think the underlines are really a problem in the first place x)