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3.0 A Graphics/Format/'Look' Downgrade
I appreciate all the work put in and that some features like search may have been enhanced.
But the readability/The overall 'look' of 3.0 is a Graphics downgrade.
Like a newspaper front page that you no longer want to buy from just looking at it even though they now have a TV section.
Here was the old 'Cached' version of the Middle East Section:
Middle East
CLEAR Thread titles and string spacing/differentiation. Just OP name underneath. All the String titles ergo easily discernible by that spacing, and by font boldness.
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Here the New version:
Middle East
A Muddle!
The strings are right Atop one another and tend Merge into a Less readable large Block of fonts.
With "Started by poster name", (Time) "03-23-10 11:44 AM" .... Just as Prominent font-wise as the title... and often Longer.
The [good] 'old version Just the OP name without needless info/type face of the new which is Overlapping the string title underneath.
All that Extraneuos info- in same size fonts makes the string Titles all the individual strings Less easily differentiated and Run together.
Far Inferior in clarity to the old version.
'Upgrades' are almost always downgrades because they are made by people with Less graphic talent than the original designer.
Consistent with the other Board-wide, Faint-font problems in the ID box to my left and the new Graphics in General... the online Lights (Green, etc) are now too Small and pale/Much LESS clear.
Features may have been enhanced, but it's been a Graphics failure and likely to attract less posters.
For message boards....
"It's the Format/Look Stupid!"
Please be Specific in reply.
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I appreciate all the work put in and that some features like search may have been enhanced.
But the readability/The overall 'look' of 3.0 is a Graphics downgrade.
Like a newspaper front page that you no longer want to buy from just looking at it even though they now have a TV section.
Here was the old 'Cached' version of the Middle East Section:
Middle East
CLEAR Thread titles and string spacing/differentiation. Just OP name underneath. All the String titles ergo easily discernible by that spacing, and by font boldness.
---
Here the New version:
Middle East
A Muddle!
The strings are right Atop one another and tend Merge into a Less readable large Block of fonts.
With "Started by poster name", (Time) "03-23-10 11:44 AM" .... Just as Prominent font-wise as the title... and often Longer.
The [good] 'old version Just the OP name without needless info/type face of the new which is Overlapping the string title underneath.
All that Extraneuos info- in same size fonts makes the string Titles all the individual strings Less easily differentiated and Run together.
Far Inferior in clarity to the old version.
'Upgrades' are almost always downgrades because they are made by people with Less graphic talent than the original designer.
Consistent with the other Board-wide, Faint-font problems in the ID box to my left and the new Graphics in General... the online Lights (Green, etc) are now too Small and pale/Much LESS clear.
Features may have been enhanced, but it's been a Graphics failure and likely to attract less posters.
For message boards....
"It's the Format/Look Stupid!"
Please be Specific in reply.
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