Introducing Infinite Scroll - Please Share Your Feedback!
08-02-2017, 04:08 PM
#21
Thanks for the font feedback. It is in fact a bit different than before, but we just made an adjustment that should further help with readability. Please let me know your thoughts!
We made some tweaks to our menus, but if additional changes are needed, we're happy to do so. What device are you primarily using the menus from (a desktop computer, a tablet, etc.)?
Do you find it to be slow overall, or are there a few specific threads where it's perhaps been slowing down for you? If it's the latter, can you please share links to those threads? Thanks!
If you haven't already done so, try using the pagination buttons along the right side of the bottom bar. You can either navigate page by page ("< Prev" and "Next >"), jump to the first or last page, or type in a specific page number via the text box then click 'Go' to head directly to the page of your choosing. Any of these options will start the scroll at that specific point.
I use the hover over menus (top left) to jump around to the normal forums I check daily..
It now seems these are smaller and a little harder to hover without picking the wrong or losing the menu before clicking.
Even switching to the old style doesn't change this functionality.
Just a small issue really but maybe others see it this way?
It now seems these are smaller and a little harder to hover without picking the wrong or losing the menu before clicking.
Even switching to the old style doesn't change this functionality.
Just a small issue really but maybe others see it this way?
If you haven't already done so, try using the pagination buttons along the right side of the bottom bar. You can either navigate page by page ("< Prev" and "Next >"), jump to the first or last page, or type in a specific page number via the text box then click 'Go' to head directly to the page of your choosing. Any of these options will start the scroll at that specific point.
08-02-2017, 04:08 PM
#22
Infinite scroll = whatever. I'm not a fan but can still read the site.
Waiting forever and a day for threads to load because of infinite scroll = getting angrier.
Related thread = bumping a 12 year old dead thread on accident. Make it stop. Make it ****ing stop. Just stop right ****ing now.
No quick reply box at the bottom of the thread when I'm done reading the thread = **** it, time to Facebook and bury this forum in the land of dead geocity sites.
Waiting forever and a day for threads to load because of infinite scroll = getting angrier.
Related thread = bumping a 12 year old dead thread on accident. Make it stop. Make it ****ing stop. Just stop right ****ing now.
No quick reply box at the bottom of the thread when I'm done reading the thread = **** it, time to Facebook and bury this forum in the land of dead geocity sites.
08-02-2017, 05:06 PM
#23
I am not currently a fan but might be able to get used to it. I have been used to navigating similar forum boards on ATV's, dirtbikes, etc. since my teen years over a decade ago and may just be completely used to it. Given the age of this board and the wealth of knowledge that comes along with that, I usually find myself exploring a fair number of long threads. They may be build threads, a technical question, or car setup stuff. I find it nice to be able to scroll through a vast number of posts/time quickly to attempt to find what I'd like. With infinite scroll, this takes a lot more time. If you are sticking with it, I would at least prefer a "load all posts" and/or "go to most recent post(i.e. bottom)" button on the frozen navigation pane at the top. Though I'm not sure the usability of that option would be great if there are 200+ posts (arbitrary number). I think pagination still has its place aside from fixing performance issues.
Last edited by Jub; 08-02-2017 at 05:14 PM.
08-02-2017, 08:54 PM
#25
This new system sucks.... please tell me how these two items are related, yet it said they were and took me to the second item.
It won't let me even post the joke but it was about a Hillbilly and the "Hind Lick Maneuver"......... so then it takes me to the following Related Post:
Ford Focus RS vs BMW M2 on trackI got a chance to drive a 16 Focus RS (OEM MPSS) on track this past weekend at a local track day and compare it against my 2017 M2 (OEM contis). Starting with the Focus RS...the car is fantastic and honestly made me smile a lot more while driving it on track. I was underwhelmed when I test drove the RS on the street but on the track it was incredible, I could not stop laughing at how entertaining it was. It's pretty loose on turn in and takes a lot of steering input but it will slide and then claw for grip to rocket out of the corner. It's a car you can drive with the throttle as much as the steering wheel and the thing pivots when you throw it in the corner and lift on the throttle to aim the nose. I owned a R35 GT-R and 2016 STI never honestly felt the AWD working the way it did in the Focus. You could feel the power being shifted around from wheel to wheel to help the car rotate and shove it out of the corner. The rear drive unit setup AWD is pretty cool.
The acceleration felt pretty similar to the M2 but it had a lot more corner exit grip especially on tight corners. The Focus also felt stiffer to me in track mode, you can see how much my helmet go pro mount is bouncing.
The M2 was really great to drive as well even on the sub par Continental street tires that came on it. I would say the M2 is more precise, less dramatic and sadly less entertaining overall. If ,you like a tidy driving style on track you'd love the M2, the turn in is the best I've ever felt on a stock BMW M car, no push unless you really over cooked corner entry but overall just a bit too clinical with no oh sh*t moments. The torque coming out of corners was good as well but the car did not have the raw grip of the Focus RS in the tight hairpins. The seats do not hold you in that well compared to the Focus stock Recaros but I prefer the shifter and clutch in the M2. The M2 could definitely use an exhaust on the track, it's hard to hear the engine while heel toe downshifting. The RS pops and burbles and you can hear the engine more prominently stock.
For a daily driver I'd pick the M2 (unless you need the space) but for a track car the RS was honestly more fun (but not necessarily better). I did NOT expect that at all. Two very different cars that achieve similar things in different ways.
Here's some footage of both. Enjoy
It won't let me even post the joke but it was about a Hillbilly and the "Hind Lick Maneuver"......... so then it takes me to the following Related Post:
Ford Focus RS vs BMW M2 on trackI got a chance to drive a 16 Focus RS (OEM MPSS) on track this past weekend at a local track day and compare it against my 2017 M2 (OEM contis). Starting with the Focus RS...the car is fantastic and honestly made me smile a lot more while driving it on track. I was underwhelmed when I test drove the RS on the street but on the track it was incredible, I could not stop laughing at how entertaining it was. It's pretty loose on turn in and takes a lot of steering input but it will slide and then claw for grip to rocket out of the corner. It's a car you can drive with the throttle as much as the steering wheel and the thing pivots when you throw it in the corner and lift on the throttle to aim the nose. I owned a R35 GT-R and 2016 STI never honestly felt the AWD working the way it did in the Focus. You could feel the power being shifted around from wheel to wheel to help the car rotate and shove it out of the corner. The rear drive unit setup AWD is pretty cool.
The acceleration felt pretty similar to the M2 but it had a lot more corner exit grip especially on tight corners. The Focus also felt stiffer to me in track mode, you can see how much my helmet go pro mount is bouncing.
The M2 was really great to drive as well even on the sub par Continental street tires that came on it. I would say the M2 is more precise, less dramatic and sadly less entertaining overall. If ,you like a tidy driving style on track you'd love the M2, the turn in is the best I've ever felt on a stock BMW M car, no push unless you really over cooked corner entry but overall just a bit too clinical with no oh sh*t moments. The torque coming out of corners was good as well but the car did not have the raw grip of the Focus RS in the tight hairpins. The seats do not hold you in that well compared to the Focus stock Recaros but I prefer the shifter and clutch in the M2. The M2 could definitely use an exhaust on the track, it's hard to hear the engine while heel toe downshifting. The RS pops and burbles and you can hear the engine more prominently stock.
For a daily driver I'd pick the M2 (unless you need the space) but for a track car the RS was honestly more fun (but not necessarily better). I did NOT expect that at all. Two very different cars that achieve similar things in different ways.
Here's some footage of both. Enjoy
Last edited by dlq04; 08-02-2017 at 09:00 PM.
08-03-2017, 02:30 AM
#26
Edit: site is randomly really slow now as well, I keep getting Error 502 Bad gateway messages from Cloudflare.
Last edited by flanders; 08-03-2017 at 02:37 AM.
08-03-2017, 03:32 AM
#27
Regarding the comments about the design reminding you of GeoCities, if you were to pinpoint specific elements, what would you say those are? The font size? The design of the buttons? We of course prefer the site not be reminiscent of 2002, so anything specific you can provide will be of great help. 
May I ask what you dislike about the Quick Reply box in its new form? If you weren't aware, you can still access the Quick Reply box at any time via the 
button at the bottom-right of any individual post or via the blue "Quick Reply" button on the left of the bottom bar. Both bring up the same box as before, but now it hovers over the page so you scroll around as you type without losing your place.
button at the bottom-right of any individual post or via the blue "Quick Reply" button on the left of the bottom bar. Both bring up the same box as before, but now it hovers over the page so you scroll around as you type without losing your place.The related threads that appear with the infinite scroll seem to be very random. Not really related to what I'm looking at. I'm glad this is a feature that can be turned off, as some exuberant scrolling from the slow loading suddenly brought me into a different thread.
08-03-2017, 06:19 AM
#28
I changed mine back to the old style. Why? The short answer is I hated everything about the new style.
08-03-2017, 06:53 AM
#29
08-03-2017, 09:29 AM
#30
The related threads that appear with the infinite scroll seem to be very random. Not really related to what I'm looking at. I'm glad this is a feature that can be turned off, as some exuberant scrolling from the slow loading suddenly brought me into a different thread.
