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Thread: New Design - Observations and Notes |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You can go through settings like Sek suggests, but that makes you sign in again when you don't need to. Right now the landing page for 'settings' is the my profile page. In the next website update this will change and you won't experience this anymore. Both the My Profile page and the Sign In Manager pages require that you have recently actually signed into the website (for example, not using the 'keep me logged in' feature). This is because you can fundamentally change access to your account (by changing the user name or password). This extra step reduces the chance that someone can hijack your account if you leave yourself logged in. |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I don't want to sound like Pollyanna, but it usually takes a little while to adjust to changes in a design that we've gotten so used. Let's give ourselves a little time to make the adjustment. We appreciate this statement. There are some big changes coming over the next 3 months and this is the first tiny step. We hope that as the bigger changes come over the next months they are enjoyed by the members. We will be listening as they are released and considering the feedback. |
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Former Member
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The device profiles are accessable, but it takes some finding. Click My Profiles, then in the text at the top click Device Manager, then click on the profile you want to change, or in the menu at the side where the old menu sub-tab for the device profiles now appears under the device manager menu entry. Horrible change. Either find it through an obscure text link or through settings which makes you log in again. A useful screen that you want to find quickly is now an obscure 3-4 clicks away instead of being a single-click choice in the left navigation. I guess your current design objective is to make the site harder to use, so I'll bookmark the Device Manage link until you stop hiding it down two obscure paths. |
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OldChap
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jun 5, 2009 Post Count: 978 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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In and of itself change is not an issue but to keep the longer serving members happy and to make life easier on folks joining it seems to me that any change ought to make the page more intuitive.
----------------------------------------If I have to search around to find a feature that I know is there, what hope for the new guy who does not. example: I cannot see any reason to withdraw the drop down menu for the forum nor can I see it being more intuitive to move it from the bar where home and my contribution reside, if that is to be the start point for everything else. How about an entry in the my contribution dropdown for my devices? again, my everything else is found there.... Just thinking aloud here.... EDIT: re post above...Through settings??? Where the hell is THAT?? EDIT2 OK That is not on the home and contribution bar either. So which is it to be ??? everything starts from the bar or from the area where download is ?? remember KISS and keep it intuitive ....please  [Edit 2 times, last edit by OldChap at Nov 8, 2013 11:35:21 PM] |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hopefully this new design business is a "work in progress." So far the changes are not intuitive.
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Sgt. Joe
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Mumak
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 7, 2012 Post Count: 477 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I have a feeling (if I recall the previous design) that the table rows in forum have now lost their margins/spacing.. Is that intentional ?
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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 677 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Another one, when trying to access the stats page whilst the updates are going on the "Classic" horizontal menubar with the Forums and My Grid in it appear on the holding page instead of the "improved" version.
I still think a beta website would have been a better idea than making it up as we go along for the next 3 months or so. |
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themoonscrescent
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Jul 1, 2006 Post Count: 1320 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The link to the forums, help, select language ext, at the top right of the page, are no longer clickable links (in firefox).
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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4894 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It took only a minute to figure out where every thing was. I'm so used to it now that I don't even remember what the old website was like. Congratulation guys on a great upgrade.
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[AF>Belgique]Mamouth
Cruncher Joined: Dec 12, 2008 Post Count: 6 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The link to the forums, help, select language ext, at the top right of the page, are no longer clickable links (in firefox). Same here Firefox 25.0 It's working as it should on IE |
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