Why do people hate simplicity so much?

ive been wanting us to switch to this for a while, and im glad we did. we look new! i pretty much disagree with everything geki said.

i really like it. i keep coming back and looking around for new features and stuff just because i like the look of it.

(though slightly insignificant) change is that you can see how many comments you've made on your homepage. This is my 6,996th at RR.

is my avatar too much?

It appears "center" tags don't work in the new format. Or didn't translate.

And my photos are all run together, even though they are wrapped in paragraph tags.

I'm not sure if the simple formatting capabilities will be a good thing. Will we be seeing a lot of this?
If Dunn would strikeout LESS he would be a better OVERALL player!!!1!!eleven!!
Oh well. Ever since Steve Guttenberg invented the printing press the peons have had the power of communication. Let me try a blockquote.

"It seems like we've been dealing with a lot of trouble in the world ever since this on base percentage stuff came about."

Hmmm... pink.

Maybe I'm not looking in the right place, but it seems like the search function only returns front page posts, not fandiaryposts. Sounds like it's in an early stage, but the ability to filter by author or time period would be nifty.

It's kind of a losing effort since Google will always be the best way to search the site.

Here's a little something I really like. Your signature stays on a post even if you change it later. So when looking through the archives you can see where Slyde had the threat level for example.

This is gonna encourage me to add a sig. It bothered me to see current references on old posts.

Seems all good to me

I like love the "C" function to find new comments. And the new html buttons or whatever you call those things next to "message."

I'm just disappointed that "Ken" was already taken. I was all set to capitalize!

Some things that I know will affect a lot of the past posts/comments on the site:

* Can we get the code tag formatting back? I've used that A LOT to post tabular data and I know others frequently use it too. This is a big one for me.

* I'm not a big fan of the blockquote box and I've noticed some places where we have pictures that are now overlapping the boxes on posts. I'm not a CSS whiz, so I don't know if it's possible, but is there a way to get the box to wrap to images much like the text does?

* To help the cluttered feel a bit, you could probably just remove the avatars from the fanposts section and give that space back to the main middle section of the blog. My least favorite thing about the new design is that it kinda feels like the blog posts are just crammed into all of the other stuff rather than the other stuff being built around the main blog. I know the other stuff is what makes the money, but from a user experience it detracts from the site a bit.

* I love all of the new functionality. I'm a big fan of the highlighted new comments and the keyboard navigation within the posts. I love common user id for all of the SBN sites - it will make me more likely to visit the other sites and comment since it is so easy to join a new site. I am concerned about people flaming each other on rival sites, but hopefully that won't be a problem.

In general, I like it. It will take some getting used to, but the old design was definitely getting stale.

Each "front paged" FanPost's "comment count" should be positioned immediately under the title of the FanPost and the author's name.

I'm not saying that the "comment count" shouldn't also be positioned where it currently is (at the end of each FanPost), just that once a reader has read a lengthy FanPost and then later in the day returns to the site, the reader then typically wants to see if any new comments have been added to the FanPost. And it would be handy if the reader could see that information without having to scroll to the bottom of the FanPost.

just what I need, more new shit to figgur out.

or is there a reason for the ~2 inches of total blank space right below the site title at the top of the screen and the ~4 inches right below the search box?

Another thing I'm not a fan of is not having an immediate button to "submit", and instead having to go through a preview screen. I'm sure Justin agrees with me.

And umm... when did they get rid of everybody else?

I'm on record as fearing change, and I agree with a lot of Geki's sentiments. But perhaps Red Reporter is just getting older, and I'm beginning to notice changes. I'm feeling new things, beginning to notice girls (BubbaFan, Daedalus, Ash, pw, ladies...), and getting FanPosts where there never used to be any FanPosts.

But because I'm addicted to this site, I can't stop coming and posting.

I guess my feelings can best be described by that modern sage, Garth Algar. "Well, it's like a new pair of underpants. At first it's constrictive, but eventually, it becomes a part of you."

where the fuck is the booze, the swag and the babes in sandwich boards?

Yeah, I think I liked the simplicity of the old site better, but new toys are fun to. Running 5 sites myself, sometimes it is difficult juggling the old and the new. One hasn't been changed in five years and another I just put together the second theme for in the past year.

on all this nonsense for now.

We need to some sort of built-in widget to specifically flag posts as racist. Lot of whiteys in Cincinnati will never learn...

But what code should I use? I prefer regular shmegular HTML coding, but that's just me. And yes I understand I could just test it, but I'm lazy.

Haha! Thank God I got here before chandrathan!

I feel like I'm at ctrent's blog except with an overload of features. JD, can't we just go back to Reds Daily?

When we have a 300 post game thread, how are we supposed to find the 'new' posts if they're popping up all over the place faster than we can read them? It's going to be hell on those of us with certain portable Internet devices who can't use the shortcut tools (ie. locating new posts with a touch of a button.)

And why do I have to click twice to post my comments now? Is that a 'feature' that I have to turn off?

i'm really disappointed that I can't have the newest post at the top as well. This is going to be frustrating.

Okay, let's preview and see how I did . . .

Ok looks good. Now let's post. Oh, wait I need to preview again . . .

I'm with the "I'll get used to it" camp, I guess.

Do it this way:

1. Type your subject. (Or don't. The subject line is now optional. Didja'll know that?)

2. Use "tab" to move your cursor to the message box.

3. Use "tab" to move your cursor to "PREVIEW."

4. Use your spacebar to "click" preview.

5. Use your spacebar to "click" "POST!"

I know it seems like a few too many superfluous tabs and clicks and whatnot but if you're trying to get away from using your mouse I think you'll pretty quickly teach your fingers the little ballet.

But with this said, I still must add that I don't know why previewing is mandatory. Especially when most folks are gonna clickity click right past it.

Did everyone else miss Class Action Guy? I know I did. (It was either that or a picture of George Steinbrenner dressed as a Revolutionary soldier sitting on a horse. Hell, I'll probably bust that out at some point.)

Anyway, enjoy...

Now that I'm home and experiencing the new site on my computer, I can see what everyone is talking about. The pages load very nicely, and the site isn't nearly as annoying as when trying to follow along on the iphone. Which sucks, because I spend a lot of time on a train picking up news and Red Reporter reactions. The preview/post takes forever to load, and the fanposts banner on the right takes FOREVER to pop up.

I'm still in favor of simpler being better. But that's life. There will always be fixes for things that aren't broken.

I think it looks real nice the way things are right now at 9:00 pm tonight. One of the things I really like is that logging into the new SBN it tells me when other SBN sites I am a member of update as well.

Possibly a list of "recently commented fanposts/stories/whatever" somewhere for the junkies like myself who visit often?

So there's that.

I must be wasted

I am wondering what would happen in this situation. Say you were at the bottom of a page reading the newest comments or whatever, and it auto-refreshed, a new comment showed up farther up in the page. If you were to leave the site, and come back at another time, would the above comment show up as new?

I would think that it should come up as new, because you haven't read it, and it auto-refreshed so you weren't aware of it. But I would also think that the way the site seems to work, since you've already been on a page with the comment on it, it would not show up as new next time.

Thoughts?

Is anyone else having a problem with slow loading times when the threads get really long? I'll see one new comment, click on the thread and start hitting Z like a hyperactive kindergartner drinking Red Bull. But it takes forever for the page to load. Is it just my crappy computers, or is all this fanciness slowing us down?

Seen a lot of changes. Been against every one of them.

but I wish the player pages had more info on them, like their career stats or favorite ice cream. Would it be possible to get a link to their baseball-reference page?

Sorry, "FanPost"

I really dislike the new nomenclature on this site. A lot.

I think it would be a welcome improvement to allow each SB Nation site to choose the specific titles of the sections. For instance, if the "FanShots" (NO SAPCES!!111) section were called "Quick Hits" like JD is used to putting up, I bet sid would have been more likely to use that function.

I doubt it would be that disorienting to folks visiting from other SB Nation sites and it might better engender in the community a feeling of ownership .

Are yall ok with the black titles on posts?

Rec me if you'd prefer the red.

If a "FanPost" gets promoted to the main thread, can we take it off of the "Recent FanPosts" column? I'll be scanning for new comments and see some in the main thread and some off to the side, in what will actually be the same post. However, the numbers of new comments don't always correspond, leading to added confusion. So after I check out one post, I go to look at the other post where there were new comments, only to find that I've been tricked again.

If I'm reading a "new" yellow comment and then a newer comment appears above where I am reading, when I push Z, both comments seem to get marked as read. Is this happening for anyone else?

Since you've already implemented keyboard shortcuts, would it be difficult to have keyboard shortcuts on the main page? For instance, I could hit j to move to the title of the next post or something like that similar to Google Reader or Bloglines.

Probably not a high priority, but just a suggestion.

Where are the links to get to the other SBNation baseball sites?

Look what happens when I leave to go on vacation for a week... jeez...

I don't mind FanPosts and FanShots. They're descriptive. And hey, it's the Internet. We don't need no freakin' spaces. It could be worse. It could be Fan!Posts and Fan!Shots.

I was never wild about the term "diary," which sounds like something a preteen girl would write. Preferably in a pink text block.

Agree that it's unfortunate (design-wise) that the Reds color is, well, red. One of the first things they teach you in graphic design class is that red on white is the most difficult color combination to read. It's hard on the eyes. Red and black also a rather unreadable combination. And white on red is really bad, too (as on the "recent posts" sidebar). I think the color scheme is a big reason the site looks so cluttered.

However, this is a common problem on all Reds sites, and I'm not sure it's that much worse than the old format, which also had a lot of red on white.

For some reason, I am no longer getting new comments highlighted. It was working this morning, but isn't working now. I don't think I changed anything.

At least, new comments are no longer being flagged in the posts that have been front paged. Not sure about the rest.

No new comments are listed in the comment count, even though I can see from said comment count that new comments have been posted. And when I click on the post, I see the new comments, but they aren't highlighted, and don't get anything when I click C or Z.

Sigh. I liked the [new] flags better. Worked great with Firefox, though I can see how it would be less convenient with IE.

And boy, is this site slow loading now. Even posts that don't have a lot of comments take forever to load. Seems like the database is getting hammered. This is going to be a right pain for game threads.

I don't like the preview, either. I don't mind mandatory preview, but when you click it, you have to scroll up to see the actual preview. That is seriously a pain, especially with longer posts.

I noticed on minorleagueball.com, where the new SBN stuff was put up around 2 weeks ago, that the recommended FanPosts section is getting kind of busy. There are currently 5 FanPosts in the recommended section, and three of them have been dead for at least several days. I'm not sure how that works currently, but I'd suggest something like taking them off the recommended FanPost section if they're no longer active. Perhaps something like if nobody posts in them for 48 hours, they are removed, but I don't know how you guys do that right now.

I noticed that a few of the FANPosts which I had previously read and double checked it the other day when we switch over, today show up as NEW Comments (all of the posts not just unread ones). Anyone else experiencing that? I do use different browsers in different places (home/work/home - yes multiple home computers..)

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