Has the forum been hacked ?

[user22161]

I would suggest the reason for change is because of the money to be made every time someone clicks on a displayed advert. Our sailing club site has a link to Amazon and the club receives a small payment every time someone clicks the link - they don't even have to buy anything. Friend with a boat related site says he earns £600+ per month from Google just from people clicking links!

 

[stuartpaul]

I loathe and detest it as I've already posted . I hate this 'modern look' which has infected far too many forums . Too many basic design errors to begin discussing.

As the dolphins said ...

"So long and thanks for all the fish".

Spits dummy and flounces off stage left!

At least the mods/Charley are listening to people and making some changes (font colour already changed).

 

[Student]

Re. the new look:
Do I like it? No.
Will I live with it? Probably.
What can be done to improve it? Remember that the majority of members are of a certain age and grey text on white (as it shows on my iPad and laptop) is far from ideal. As someone else said, if the text for adverts can be in black text, why not the rest of it.
Although this is supposed to be a complete revamping of the site I notice that, on the top menu, most is irrelevant:
• MIsc. – most of the content is way out of date
• Reviews – mostly by Charley 14+ years ago although there are a couple by others from 6 years ago
• Videos – again, all posted by Charley and the most recent dated 5 years ago
• Project showcase – nothing newer than 2 years ago
The content of all these tabs could be moved to the forum pages. However, having said all this, the site is a wealth of information for novices such as me so I can’t complain (much).

 

[Jonzjob]

I loathe and detest it as I've already posted . I hate this 'modern look' which has infected far too many forums . Too many basic design errors to begin discussing.

As the dolphins said ...

"So long and thanks for all the fish".

Spits dummy and flounces off stage left!

At least the mods/Charley are listening to people and making some changes (font colour already changed).

Blimey! Are you telling me that it's not green anymore :shock: :shock:

 

[powertools]

In my humble opinion, you're wrong. My browsing for instance is 90% on a pc, occasionally on tablet and my phone is just that - a phone.

My dislike of this type of forum layout is partly down to cost. Using mobile internet for around 8 months p.a. I'm having to pay to download advert and video content I don't want. Fortunately, adblock works to remove some.

Another forum I use daily has viewing options to cater for those using pcs or tablet & phones, just click which format you want. Any chance of that here? I think the new style is **cking awful.


As long as your humble opinion is based on fact rather than your own personal habbit I am happy to stand corrected.
My humble opinion is based on fact.

 

[hammer n nails]

Yes dislike button works great forum but preferred the old site

 

[user22161]

As long as your humble opinion is based on fact rather than your own personal habbit I am happy to stand corrected. My humble opinion is based on fact.

You said it was "your opinion" and I offered mine in reply. The facts are that a very large percentage of the posts on forums I frequent are made during working hours on company computers, by people who should be working. The majority of my acquaintances and friends do indeed prefer computer keyboards, these days more laptops than desktops, possibly due to being of the older generation, needing glasses.

Maybe you would like to share your "facts" and the sources?

 

[Matt@]

Admin will have stats for what screen size is being used by people viewing this forum. Its these stats that often drive a decision to make a site mobile friendly...

 

[powertools]

I think that the stats from Ofcom will be far more realibale than anything you or l could submit.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/la ... mr-uk-2015

 

[Paul200]

No mobile signal where I live so although it was nice of you to attempt to make me use the damn thing I'm afraid it didn't work! :wink: :roll:

 

[powertools]

I am not trying to make you do anything.

 

[user22161]

I think that the stats from Ofcom will be far more realibale than anything you or l could submit.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/la ... mr-uk-2015

Some interesting figures there and the growth in smartphone usage isn't a surprise but quite a few gaps in the knowledge base. From what I gather (as I don't own one) smartphones are on-line as soon as they're switched on and remain that way I suppose all day, whereas laptops and pcs are generally only on-line when actually being used so it's hardly surprising there's a vast difference in on-line time. 33% of internet users prefer smartphone (does this include tablets?) and 30% laptops so, what do the other 37% use?

Anyway, WTF, I prefer the Asus notebook pc I've been using most of the day, as usual

edit - smileys don't appear to be working

 

[nev]

...
Anyway, WTF, I prefer the Asus notebook pc I've been using most of the day, as usual

edit - smileys don't appear to be working

Try putting a gap after the word usual and before the :

 

[Matt@]

I think that the stats from Ofcom will be far more realibale than anything you or l could submit.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/la ... mr-uk-2015

how can OFCOM say what screen sizes users here are using? as in using for THIS site??

 

[Charley]

Regarding the Flickr image.

https://flic.kr/p/VCyhWL isn't a direct link to the image, it's a link to a site, which is why it isn't working.
The image url is actually https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4308/352 ... d3b1_z.jpg


IMG_1889 by John Fairbairn, on Flickr

 

[nev]

....

Photos?

https://flic.kr/p/VCyhWL

Absolutely no idea?
...

Hi John,
Re: sharing Flickr pics
As Charley says in the above post, when sharing from the Flickr page choose the Sharing BBCode option and copy the link and then just paste that into your post without any need for the IMG or URL tags.
That actually pastes two lines of code into your post.
You can leave it like that or edit the links.
If you leave it as is it provides a link to your Flickr page.
If you'd prefer just to have the pic with no external links just delete everything apart from the bit between (but including) the IMG brackets.
so just keep the part highlighted in bold

{url=https://flic.kr/p/VCyhWL]{img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4308/35200603144_ec827cd3b1_z.jpg[/img}[/url}{url=https://flic.kr/p/VCyhWL]IMG_1889[/url} by {url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/150763274@N06/]John Fairbairn[/url}, on Flickr

becomes

{img]https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4308/35200603144_ec827cd3b1_z.jpg[/img}

that will result in ...