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    peter posted in the group Early Adopters

    • 1 year, 6 months ago

    I’ve gotten feedback from several members that all four of the read / unread systems we’ve used in the forums either haven’t worked properly for at least some users or it simply wasn’t intuitive enough. After making some posts about it, I haven’t received any feedback from anyone saying they liked it, so I took it that it was best to look for…Read More

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      Release
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Love it, thanks!

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Seeing your comment made my day! Thanks for sharing your candid feedback.

      @patrickwichrowski made an excellent observation — that the contrast between the two images isn’t ideal and I think he’s right. So, I’m going to be replacing those with something that has more contrast. If you can think of any sites where you’ve seen images to represent…Read More

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      Blacque Jacque Shellacque
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I agree that thre isn”t enough difference in the two icons. Maybe an exclamation point for unread and a checkmark when read. An other alternative is an exclamation point for unread and nothing when read.

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      On the lighter side, I did realize that when I tagged Release in the poll that I probably unintentionally killed any possibility to see anyone who was going to vote “it’s alright” or “I don’t really like it” from voting as they’re like — um, no, Peter can see my vote and he’ll tag me next! Sorry folks, I’ll try to wait a bit longer next time.…Read More

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I liked the system with the blue stripe for unread posts. It made it very obvious what was read and unread. Is that the one people found unintuitive? Being slightly colour blind I can’t really distringuish between the green and the gray of the current system. Maybe I just got used to it but I really liked the system the old forum had of having a…Read More

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I was told by two people that it didn’t work. I don’t recall hearing from anyone else, so I assumed that it had problems and moved on.

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @blackjackschellac It make take several days, but the plugin allows me to upload my own graphic, so in the next several days I’ll replace it and I’m very interested in hearing or seeing screenshots of forums where you think the icons they use are highly intuitive.

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      Blacque Jacque Shellacque
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I am not part of many forums, so I can’t really suggest any graphics unfortunatly. I am part of this forum and cakewalk’s and visit other site’s when searching for specific help. But I suggest keeping it simple. The most important thing is visibility. The Cakewalk forum has a simple dot in front of the title when unread that disappears when read.…Read More

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Just spitballing here. It’s a very small element, so a U in reverse on a green circle for unread. When a topic of forum is read it remains a ball, but with a revetse R out of gray. But it could just as well be a checkmark because it’s so small

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      Blacque Jacque Shellacque
      1 year, 6 months ago

      Yes, when it is small details are difficult to see at a glance which is what we want for this. I have done some looking on the internet and from what I saw, I believe you could use the activity icon you already have. 3 dots in it when it is unread and a checkmark when it is read. I also realised, from some of the comments I saw, is that we must be…Read More

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      That surprises me that people said stripes didn’t work. It worked great for me and was exactly what I was looking for. Did they DM you about it or was it part of a thread? If part of a thread, then I missed the discussion. Anyway, what you are now proposing would be fine as well,

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure it.was either the thread for people to report fixes or a thread in the Earky Adopters Group. I realize that sometimes the issues are that folks don’t understand how to use something. I wish I remembered which one had the stripes so I could note it. I take it you like that better than the one we’re using now?

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      The stripes made it very easy to see what was read and unread. If the current system would do that, then I would be fine with it. As it stands now, I cannot tell the difference between read and unread so the current system is useless to me.

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      The current system is the first one where I’ve had positive feedback. But if MOST people agree they want a prior system — and because I’ve installed, I think, a total of 4 different systems, I can’t recall which one had the blue bars, but I’d replace this one if a bunch of members can agree to it. Feel free to do a poll just like I did below –…Read More

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @peter I am not against the current system. Just used different icons for read/unread to help us poor color challenged folk.

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @doug You must have missed the discussion, but I’m going to create new icons that are specifically considering those who are color blind. I have a long history of managing / leading digital marketing, including corporate websites at three major global brands. While it was EXTREMELY unpopular among the next level up (I’ll try not get sued), I…Read More

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @peter I did not miss the discussion on accomodating colour blind people. Brian tagged me and asked if I did not see the exclaimation marks showing read and unread messages. I responded saying I saw the exclaimation marks but not the difference between green and gray. Then I was confused by your statement about the forum being functionally…Read More

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      doug
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @peter, I have responded to your DM with more discussion on this topic.

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      peter
      1 year, 6 months ago

      @doug By functionally complete I only meant that I was finished adding new features for version one. I definitely 100% support anything I can do (within the constraints of my budget) to make the site more accessible. There’s no end date for that. That is about human beings. No, I absolutely planned on getting this fixed as soon as it was pointed…Read More

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