Linked by David Adams on Tue 29th Jan 2008 23:10 UTC
Loyal OSNews readers, I 'd like to thank you for your patience as we've made a bumpy transition to a new back-end and an even bumpier rollout of the OSNews' new design, aka OSNews 4.1. We hope you like it. We'll be making many minor interface changes over the next weeks, and we'll read the comments of this posting in case you have any bug reports or suggestions. One feature that we've eliminated from the v4 beta was themes. For now, we are focusing on perfecting one unified theme, and hope to revisit that feature in the future. I'd like to thank OSNews' intrepid code slinger Adam Scheinberg for all his hard work on this project and also thank the many readers who helped us troubleshoot the v4 backend.
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2007-08-29
1: The extreme-left justification makes me want to violate Godwin's law. Make an option to put the sidebar on the left like normal people, or at least tab the left area in a little.
2: WTF fixed width. I use 1024x [strikethrough]at work[/strikethrough] sometimes (there is a good reason for this), and always have to resize my browser window to fit the page. This new version is much wider than 1024, making it now impossible to get rid of the bottom scroll bar.
3: The last version looked better, and the version before that was actually aesthetically pleasing.
4: The 'latest comic' thing is well-implemented, but the page it links to could use a forward/back browser.
5: Something that's bothering me for a while is that some things don't work the way one expects them to.
The first example of this is low-rated comments - they start shaded, and you can unroll them by clicking the titles. So clicking again should re-shade them -- which isn't really useful functionality, but makes sense. Instead, it takes you to (I think) a permalink page.
The second is, on a reply post, clicking the name of the post to which is is replying. It takes you to that post's permalink page, when one would expect it to take me to that post in the normal comment view. This is much faster when the posts are on the same page and allows you to continue browsing normally.
EDIT: This has been changed recently so that it now links to a page containing the conversation thread. This is better, but I perfer my way -- it would still allow one to navigate backward through a conversation, using the reply to links, and forward again with the forward button.
Basicly these are unrequested context switches (there is a usability term to describe this, but I don't know what it is), and are to be avoided. Permalinks should be accessed via a link that includes the work 'permalink'.
EDIT: 6: Yeah, the gray-on-white comment text is literally painful.
Edited 2008-01-30 02:56 UTC