New site design being tested!

Morning *Indinana"
No I still have no *last button" as yet.
I have scrolled through and found your post that said you also had no last button cornergran
Do you still have this issue?

Still struggling with too much whiteness making the print too glarey to read for long.

Maybe that's a good thing, MiniMouse. It means we have to go and do something else occasionally.

I'd like to know why the mobile site doesn't have the horizontal menu, underneath the Gnet banner?
'Last day, I'm on, accronyms' etc aren't there at all, have I missed them?

They're along the bottom of the screen on my mobile phone. Except the "acronyms". They aren't acronyms anyway. Don't know why people use that word.

dj That's why I want an anti-glare background Off to look for another procrastination excuse now!

I had to take my car to have its brakes fixed. Couldn't put that off.

I suppose that because this is called the new site design it does not have to be an improvement on the last one. Shame though, making it less easy to read seems to be a step backwards.

Well I ve done as you all suggested and looked at a site that compared fonts and for my eyes there really is no difference for the overall reading at all I can read them all equally well what does make a difference (for me) is not the letter shapes but the darkness of the letters the darker the more distinct and that is my problem I ve now realised GREY print on a white, all white, background is not so good
I think I read by my mind more than my eyes because when they do those silly tests on fb of phrases where the words have lots of letters left out or mirror writing or upside down stuff I can still read them perfectly easily
I m also not very observant so tiny lines added etc wouldn't be noticed by me

It's the lack of colour the white background the grey name headings and the darker grey type face that make it less attractive to me plus I would like my own posts to be in colour ( easier to find where you got up to)

And Cherry I do have a 'Last' button

PS because there's no edit button hint hint
I have a last button even if I change to desktop on my iPad Cherry

Still no 'last' button on some but not all threads on the iPhone cherrytree when it's on mobile site, but the button is present and correct using an iPad which accesses GN via the desktop site. No idea why.

I experimented a bit and noticed I am finding the site much harder to read on the phone, too grey on desktop and even harder on mobile, need my reading glasses now, didn't before. My eyes haven't changed! It's a bit glary on desktop on the iPad.

Oh well. As alima said, new doesn't mean improved for all.

Have just discovered on mobile site that there's an arrow on the right which gives a dropdown menu listing what was on the horizontal bar - last, previous, I'm on, etc and it includes
unwatch this thread .
New site, New language??

I've tried all week with the new font and can only compare it with the writings in "Janet & John" books my children had yrs ago,sorry for that GNHQ.

Thank you shysal.

I've tried and tried to like the new font - but I'm afraid I don't! It's just not 'goldengirl' friendly and I can't put my finger on why. Words like 'harsh' 'forked' 'rough' come to mind and it's leading to an uncomfortable 'jagged' read.

I can't feel comfortable with the new site. The font is one used for theses and long articles and books, so that the eye can follow the printed word for pages and pages. .

Its not necessary here. I preferred the old site
I bit of colour contrast would relieve the boring white- cum - grey.
GN is not so interesting at the moment anyhow, this site could finish it off for me.

Following on from yggdrasil s comment on Monday about the 'Active I'm on Watching Unanswered Last hour Last day FAQs Acronyms Advanced Search' buttons, I also find these very hard to see. They seem to merge into the 'Gransnet forums' heading and become invisible. The separate buttons were much easier to find and use.

I just cannot get used to the glare from the whiteness of the background. Haven't mentioned it on my previous posts as I thought I'd get used to it but I haven't, and am still screwing up my eyes trying to read posts

I HATE THE NEW DESIGN!!!!
As well as being uneasy on the eye every time I hit "active" I get "acronyms". Oh bums and bits!

So GNHQ - please tell us WHY you've changed it?

is this why I have had a headache this week? It is very bright and have tried to tone down the brightness but not succeeded.

Many of us gave asked for an edit button. It is perfectly possible as I use mine on Facebook regularly.

Please listen to us HQ. You have gone worryingly quiet. ?

Yes, please, please let us have an edit button. Many of us have been asking for this repeatedly over the years. I cannot understand your reasoning - yes, OK, it may be that people will delete/edit their posts and subsequent replies won't make sense. But so what? Other sites have this facility and yes, sometimes, posts get deleted. But it's obvious that theres a missing post, and readers just move on! And, come to that, it happens on here if a post is deleted by GNHQ for whatever reason. I have often been left wondering what comments after a deletion are on about! It doesn't particularly interfere with the readability of the thread though.

sorry, missing apostrophe - "there's"

Has anyone else found this strange layout?

Sorry that was a bad example - I see there were several duplicate posts but they were from paddyann not greyduster.
Previous examples showed a series of different posts but with the OP's name against each one.