Welcome to the new whathifi.com!

[chrisr1718]

Just gone to update my settings and can't find my 'Country of Origin'?

Obviously England is no longer a country. *sad*

Clearly it's going to be the United Kingdom *fool*

The United Kindom is a sovereign state made up of 3 (and a bit) countries. England is my COUNTRY of origin.

 

[Sliced Bread]

I think people are maybe over reacting a little.

A lot of work must have gone into the site, and while it’s not (yet) perfect, at least half of the issues with the site are quick and easy fixes:

· Change of font, font colour & font size

· Reduction of line spacing between lines (I think, probably just as big an issue as font size)

· Reduction of the size of some of the icons.

 

[Alec]

I think people are maybe over reacting a little.

A lot of work must have gone into the site, and while it’s not (yet) perfect, at least half of the issues with the site are quick and easy fixes:

· Change of font, font colour & font size

· Reduction of line spacing between lines (I think, probably just as big an issue as font size)

· Reduction of the size of some of the icons.

The same is true in the opposite direction - a wholesale change of website wasn't necessary. It also obviously wasn't expected by at least a few of us. Maybe that particular post should have been put in the wrong section/s.

 

[relocated]

When I posted[ via Mac Air and Chrome] I didn't have any authentication thing to do, it just posted.

Re Windows Phone, it would appear that the only thing I can get is the 'Beta' version. Is that correct?

 

[professorhat]

Just gone to update my settings and can't find my 'Country of Origin'?

Obviously England is no longer a country. *sad*

Clearly it's going to be the United Kingdom *fool*

The United Kindom is a sovereign state made up of 3 (and a bit) countries. England is my COUNTRY of origin.

Oh lord...

 

[Alec]

refers to it as a sovereign state and a country...

 

[chrisr1718]

Just gone to update my settings and can't find my 'Country of Origin'?

Obviously England is no longer a country. *sad*

Clearly it's going to be the United Kingdom *fool*

The United Kindom is a sovereign state made up of 3 (and a bit) countries. England is my COUNTRY of origin.

Oh lord...

although it may only be 2 (and a bit) countries soon, if people north of the border have their way.*scratch_one-s_head*

(just trying to get away from all the bitching about the web site, seems a may be working.*good* )

 

[chrisr1718]

refers to it as a sovereign state and a country...

Looks as though even Wiki is confused, now why doesn't that surprise me.

 

[Alec]

lost the ability to see the date of the last post in a thread, haven't we? That's not great.

I'm not that bothered about the return to dialogue box thing, as you used to be taken to it even when you didn't want to be in the old site, so it would irritate someone either way. The forum layout still looks very familiar on my desktop, which is a good thing.

 

[Waxy]

Makes the page organisation much better *biggrin*

 

[scene]

Can you please have an 'old site' tab for a while so we can go in and get our signatures back?

I have so many components listed on mine I use it as a reference to know what I've got....serious!

+1 on that - some way of finding what was in our "old" signatures would be good...

 

[Marsbardark]

What a mess! Change it back.

 

[Roger Tend]

Absolutely hate the new site.

 

[chrisr1718]

Makes the page organisation much better *biggrin*

Yep, definitely an improvement.

 

[Andy Clough]

I think people are maybe over reacting a little.

A lot of work must have gone into the site, and while it’s not (yet) perfect, at least half of the issues with the site are quick and easy fixes:

· Change of font, font colour & font size

· Reduction of line spacing between lines (I think, probably just as big an issue as font size)

· Reduction of the size of some of the icons.

All sensible suggestions sliced bread, and as you say not too difficult to implement. Have already made the request to the people with the spanners.

 

[Covenanter]

Just a reminder for our regular Forum users that your signatures from the old site have not been migrated across to the new one, so you will have to go into your settings (click on your username at the top of the page) and add a new signature.

I did that and I can't see anywhere to put a signature.

Chris

Go to settings, click on that and then scroll about half way down the page – then you'll see a box called 'Signature settings'. Add the text in there and save.

It's not there yet. (And I cleared cache, history, cookies, temp files etc.)

Yep no such box!

Chris

 

[Andy Clough]

Known bug, we're working on it.

 

[timanderson]

Tried to log in, username not recognised (maybe because I have not posted here for a while?)

Re-registered, got "You are not authorised to view this page".

Thinking that the registration was unsucccessful, I retried registration with a different browser and got, "Username already taken".

I then when back to 1st browser and found that actually I had successfully re-registered.

On Windows Phone 8 site is unusable.

Links are broken or content is missing? Searched for a review, no results, found it via Google but I have to view the cached page, URL just takes me to random search results.

Tim

 

[BigH]

Still can't access site from ipad. It was OK from google on my pc just now.

 

[Vladimir]

Not that anyone cares but the site works great on Nokia N9 (MeeGo). *ROFL*

The redirecting script after logging in doesn't seem to work for me.

 

[Broner]

I notice that I automatically keep going to the Whathifi website, just to leave it again without reading its content. I think I will pretty soon skip the first step. There are loads of other tech websites out there for me to discover.

On how a technology website should look like, this is a link to a Dutch technology website that is consistently seen as one of the best websites in the Netherlands which also does a lot with user feedback: http://tweakers.net/

Also check their forum http://gathering.tweakers.net/ which, despite it being only Dutch, is several times more active than the one of Whathifi. Just compare the easy of use of Tweakers and Whathifi on the PC and the smartphone. The differences in usability are enormous. When I just look at the load speeds on my smartphone of the two respective front pages, the whathifi website loads about 5 times slower. It's the same for the fora of the two websites.

It's beyond me how Whathifi could possibly think this abomination represents an improvement.

 

[hifikrazy]

Absolutely hate the new site.

Well at least it spurred you to join and make your first 2 posts *good*

 

[scene]

I notice that I automatically keep going to the Whathifi website, just to leave it again without reading its content. I think I will pretty soon skip the first step. There are loads of other tech websites out there for me to discover.

On how a technology website should look like, this is a link to a Dutch technology website that is consistently seen as one of the best websites in the Netherlands which also does a lot with user feedback: http://tweakers.net/

Also check their forum http://gathering.tweakers.net/ which, despite it being only Dutch, is several times more active than the one of Whathifi. Just compare the easy of use of Tweakers and Whathifi on the PC and the smartphone. The differences in usability are enormous. When I just look at the load speeds on my smartphone of the two respective front pages, the whathifi website loads about 5 times slower. It's the same for the fora of the two websites.

It's beyond me how Whathifi could possibly think this abomination represents an improvement.

Despite my limited dutch - that's a damn fine looking website. If only WHF looked like this... *yes3*

 

[Broner]

One other specific comment: on my smartphone there is a lot of unused space when I go the Whathifi frontpage or forum. On each side of the screen there is a about 6-7 mm of space left blank. It would be good to reduce it to about 2 mm on each side.

 

[Vladimir]

Tweakers.net

*ok*