Posts by CarltonR

Incorrect Article Grouping Designation

Incorrect Article Grouping Designation

It would appears that articles are not being given the correct and relevant topic group designations, and the default being given is either 'Cloud' or 'Data Network' when clearly the article topics and content are nothing of the kind.

In short the characterisation/grouping cannot be trusted and therefore have to be ignored. The only way of telling whether an article is of interest is to read the headings.

Its all a bit of mess and extremely irritating, frustrating and above all very time consuming.

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

Thank you, O thank you

Have just noticed that the 'have read' is now red . . . black is for unread, and grey for mouse hovering (although, I don't really think that this is actually required).

Just one minor thing, the 'The Channel' links do not change colour, which I always noticed was the case with the previous design also.

Re: El Reg's Rose-Tinted [Google] Glasses

I've just discovered my confusion over the 'Sort comments by' . . . to get to get this menu you have to be logged-in. If you are not, then the menu does not appear and the default setting is 'Thread'.

Re: El Reg's Rose-Tinted [Google] Glasses

Drewc

Many thanks for the information on both the 'forum order' and 'five comments accepted' issues I was having. Understood.

Is there any news on the 'have read' colour ?

Re: El Reg's Rose-Tinted [Google] Glasses

Joseph Eoff

Many thanks for this info. The issues is not with any refresh, but the time it take to go through their release process . . . I submitted my comments just after 2pm, however checking it a few minutes ago it said 30min, which means it took over one and a half hours to appear !

With regards to the colours, thank you for this information, but as this would be quick win for an embattled El Reg I just though that they might like to implement it. Good will on their part.

El Reg's Rose-Tinted [Google] Glasses

Would it be at all possible, before you close down for the hols, and whilst you ponder other changes that you might consider making, to change the ‘have read’ colour. Its driving me crazy at the moment. Might I suggest that you use the Black/Grey for the mouse cursor location (as if I didn’t know where it was already) and then use ‘red’ to indicated that the article has been accessed. It can’t be rocket science, just a cut and paste should do the trick.

Many thanks

P.S. Also whilst on the subject of UI, I’m finding this forum very odd, in that 'reply' entireties are not in date/time order but are grouped together with the original post, which could be many pages earlier. This might be useful if I where to read everything from the start of the comment thread, but makes no sense when keeping up with the flow of conversation. The other thing is the time it seems that it takes from submission of a comment to when it appears on the forum, I’m talking hours rather than minutes.

Know your Readership

This redesign is exceedingly irritating and completely detracts from the primary reason for your existence, namely its [uniquely quirky] informative editorial content.

It used to be straightforward to use at a glance, with stories of interest easy identified, and those that were read clearly indicated, but this design fails miserably on all aspects of common sense or for that matter design best practice.

Believe it, or not, I really don’t have the time to spend avoiding completely superfluous and unnecessary content. This design is totally ill-conceived and may well alienate your core readership.

You really need a rethink on this one.