A big thanks to everyone who put in some undoubtedly long hours migrating the site! Congrats on not blowing it up. This has happened before, e.g. PE TechTalk was so screwed up after a "migration/update" that it was down or useless for weeks or months with lost user logins and data. It was a disaster. So much so that I stopped visiting it, and so did most users. Before that there was the Mad Board disaster. Very, very glad that nothing like that happened here!
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The envelope button only show conversation menu so I cannot find my previous messages and I just donated to get 500 messages…
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My user control panel shows that I don't have a signature. It appears they were not imported during the migration.
I just updated my signature and it appears to work.
All in all I think the new platform is working well.
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Vertical space usage that leads the eye, basically. Irrespective of zoom, just vertically tightening (while preserving some delineation between posts). Atop each post, the size of the "XX minutes ago" is too big. The whole LHS avatar column is burning space, too. The overall first impression was a lot of wasted space and inability to just vacuum-up the usual quantity of info in one sweep (like you referred-to with your 12 years ago "front door" experience).
Basically, we're all geeks and we're used to density. Tell the programmers we want to scan it like they scan code and maybe that'll help. We want to fly down the board and find out where to dive in like they want to do the same with code. I know this board has never been set-up this way, but density like old BBS's or Usenet; examples are good. Again, this diyA isn't this, but check a screenie from the asylum. One scan, you can see what's happening, who said it, when it happened, and dive-in or move-on. That's the front door use-case for any subforum to me.
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Spent many an hour there long ago and had completely forgotten about it or would have suggested it, so +1 for me.
Wow! What a new uptown look. I always thought that change should be incremental. Nothing incremental about this. 
Now this ole man has to learn something new all over again. Thanks a lot. Haven't looked around much yet. Where can I find all my subscriptions? Please tell me they're in there somewhere.
Now this ole man has to learn something new all over again. Thanks a lot. Haven't looked around much yet. Where can I find all my subscriptions? Please tell me they're in there somewhere.
