Nooo! Change! Whyyy? The humanity! (New mobile friendly forum theme)
Wow.
We’ve run the forum for almost as long as this site has existed (7 years, give or take), without any massive change to the forum layout.
And today we’re changing this. With a completely new forum theme. Check it out!
I know that some people will not appreciate the change. Some of the things you were used to have changed positions. You don’t like the new font. Or the colors, etc…
But this had been a required change for a long time now:
Many of you had been asking for Tapatalk support on the forum, in order to be able to use the forum “properly” from a mobile device. And finally, I listened. Sort of.
I won’t go into the details of why I’d rather use a mobile-friendly template, rather than rely on a paid-app to give mobile access to our /talk users. I hope my choice makes sense, at least it does to me.
So, let’s focus on what cool stuff we’re getting with this new theme. There’s pile of new stuff, but I think the most two important changes are mobile access, and less “in your face” advertising for registered users.
You should now be able to read and post on the forum with your phone or tablet without having to painfully zoom-in. Yay responsiveness! As a nice bonus, I used the opportunity to move some ads below the top of the screen. Namely, the big ad that was at the top of the forum is now at the bottom, and should in general be less intrusive. Check the screenshots below:
The new Theme (Desktop)
Mobile Friendly (Forum Index)
Mobile Friendly (Posting a reply)
Before (Old Theme)
I want to thank /talk user juistm for the cool new Logo that we’re using on the forum.
Feel free to report issues with the new layout in the comments below, on twitter, or in a PM on /talk. Enjoy!
As you can see, The_Zett already loves it:
@frwololo @qwikrazor87 Your page is currently worse than Windows8 Metro on a non-touch PC.
— The Z (@The_Zett) February 20, 2015
The Thett always crying like a little…. kid
Sharp looking logo 😉
i’ll have to agree with the zett on this one, the /talk layout looks ugly as heck
While its easy to criticize lets point out the good first allowing you to browse this site comfortably on your vita. While normally I only browse via desktop this is a nice bonus. Thanks for the 7 years also 🙂 I been here for only 2 or 3 of them 🙂
This change makes sense! Looks good. Over 80% of my browsing is done via mobile. Good job!
I wholeheartedly feel sorry for you.
Zitt loves it!
Oh god. The laughs. Ooooh god.
I personally prefer this new layout. I don’t know why people are complaining. Its totally beneficial & easy on the eyes for mobile users. If you’re going to complain, then I just view that as an attempt to appear “unique”, aside everyone else. Good job, wololo!
It ruins the desktop experience. Wololo should never put his “mobile” users above his desktop users.
It’s neat. I like it! Great job! 😀
What is this annoying + for?
Why topics letters are smaller that +?
Color is not a problem. Usability is.
The new layout is awesome but some colours should be made darker. It can be hard to read sometimes and I hope this is tweaked. Overall the theme is a nice welcomed change.
I agree. At first I was like NOOO! But then I checked it out (on my PC, not mobile device), and it’s a great improvement. Much more sophisticated, and it offers more features/functionality. I agree with Cas though, it does need some areas to be darker (for contrast reasons).
I like the theme i was having a hard time finding the cool active topics bar?
I love being able to see all the post people recently make.
SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH THE SITE!
I DON’T LIKE CHANGE! 😛
In all seriousness, though, it looks fine.
Zetts bluffing. He loves win8 metro ui
I love it as much as testicular cancer
I don’t like it. In the beginning, Wololo.net had a much better design, I felt as if I was in an underground hacker website, I felt unique and dark. Now it’s looking more and more mainstream IGN-like. Eww.
Dont you love to life in a “mobile friendly” internet?
I surely do!
It’s no where near mobile friendly. I’m waiting for wololo to implement “like” on this site soon. That would be so “great”.
its good i liket just keep performance
Wololo… Great job! 😉
already missing on the old one, anyway to revert back the changes?
WOLOLOOOOOO !!!!!!! What the heck !? The site is changing too much for my taste……..where’s the dark theme ? The asterix ” * ” thing isn’t as obvious as it should be for “already read topic” T_T
Where’s everything ? you moved it all T_T
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nevermind, found them (except for the quick FAQ button)
Don’t mind the double posting, I had some…difficulties to even post one so I did it twice. You know, thinking it will go faster :p
WOLOLOOOOOO !!!!!!! What the heck !? The site is changing too much for my taste……..where’s the dark theme ? The asterix ” * ” thing isn’t as obvious as it should be for “already read topic” T_T
well I agree with zett I disabled metro on my pc for a reason….now the forum just looks ugly and way to damn bright…I guess this is one way to stop pc users from using your site anymore right?
i like the classic one, didn’t you guys?
maybe add preference? old and new please?
Change!?
OBAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
This is an improvement nice!!!
With Tapatalk support on, then no ads would be possible and it a real lost for Wololo, beside it feel better just this way for me.
I think the old web design was perfectly fine and didn’t need to be replaced. The new one is defininitely harder to read and requries way more clicks to get around. For example there used to be a direct link to your latest posts (so you easily can get back to forum threads you were previously in) but now I have to do 4 clicks to achieve the same thing (maybe there’s a faster way but I can’t find any…)
My point exactly. More clicks = Mobile friendly? Really?!
My point exactly. More clicks = Mobile friendly? Really?!
What will be next, “Like” button?
Compatibility with mobile phones is fine as long as it doesn’t hurt Desktop users. So far, on Youtube, deviantart mobile friendly updtades were ugly as heck and brought confusion and issues that made browsing this pages more annoying than it should be. I’m glad this page doesn’t feauture dumb and ugly lined control button that always tends to hide itself randomly and causes confusion for me on said pages. Also it seems, and I hope that this update is not as bad as others. In my opinion web pages should adapt “Desktop first” policy because people tend to underestimate how many desktop/notebook users are and will be out there. Android platform is about compromises and I don’t want to have these compromises on PC. Windows 8 tried to bring these compromises and failed terribly and may the same happen to all who dare to bring shame to glorious PC master race ;P. But heck why are all forum icons on coloured and bulky ? I didn’t know that tablets had monochrome displays nowdays (nwm, didn’t notice that some icons were grayed out to show inactivity) .
I’m fine with the change, it’s just way, way too freaken bright at the moment. if there were a dark theme available that’d be great, viewing a bright forum is an awful experience imo. Other than that (imo BIG issue), no complaints. Zetts just being over dramatic ;P
I’m also glad you turned down the tapatalk option, I hate that app, and it really gets annoying when you try to visit a forum that forces the app on you, having to tick the box saying you don’t want to use the disgusting app every time you access the forum on mobile.
@The_Zett I sympathise.
While I feel glad for people using the forum on their mobile devices, us straight old-fashioned people still using monitors at 1920×1080 or higher resolution have to suffer through washed-out colors with tiny fonts.
I don’t have the access to visitors’ user agent stats, but I really hope that the majority is using low-res mobile devices with small screens, otherwise the change is not warranted at best and counter-productive at worst.
TL;DR: why can’t we have both variants (preferably automatically chosen based on platform/resolution)
This is making me blind.
I actually agree with The Z.
Beautiful theme I love it, very useful and easy to use.