Here’s a thread for everyone to list all their complaints, and even the occasional compliment on the operation and appearance of the new theme.
We’ve seen comments coming in through through emails and the contact us forms, but here is a centralized repository for comment.
UPDATE – From Anthony
I have already done the following items to improve the look:
- Darkened the text in posts and comments from the original look to improve contrast
- Enabled our new commenting system that allows you to rate comments and to edit them after the fact (see the gear icon)
- Put back the blogroll
- Misc other small tweaks.
Note that I’ll look at every comment, but I have no patience for people that are running an ancient browser (like Internet Explorer 8) or and old version of Firefox….or some weird Linux/Centos/Chromium variant that isn’t compliant – we can’t help you there. Likewise, if you are still running on Windows XP, and complaining about load times, broken things etc. – please don’t.
Now is a good time for everybody to upgrade their systems to be in the present rather than the past.
I welcome comments on real issues, and ideas for improvement. With every change, there are some who don’t like change simply because of change. I can’t help you there, as we are moving forward to be more effective in what will become a very ugly climate fight this year.
Thanks and kind regards,
Anthony Watts
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Ummm… “We are not worthy!”?
Thanks for all you all do.
I normally hate change but I like this one.
The new theme looks OK to me, but I must adjust the text size up a couple of ticks in my browser. (I do that with many websites.) I like the ability to edit my posted comments to correct for typos, etc.
Is there a way to use html tags? I like to embed links in sentences but, as far as I can tell, the only to embed a link displays the whole url rather than something like ‘wuwt’ so I’m stuck with …
link: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/12/27/the-new-theme/
First you write the sentence, highlight it, klick on the link button and paste the link overwriting the highlighted text in the edit-box
The new theme
I just noticed a typo:
For a brief while we used to be able to edit our posts. That was nice.
OK, one more time for good luck …
You can edit your comment for a short time.
Moving the mouse in the lower right corner of your comment, you’ll find the tag
just edited with the gear symbol
Thank you very much. I just tried editing the comment. If you can see this it worked. 🙂
It does 😀
And now, give it a try to link 😀
Ah, just found it – the “Manage Content” gear icon. Thanks!
The edit option sees to only seems to exist for an hour or so after the post is made.
thats pretty standard and an hr is plenty of time
Will be good to know, how long the time is for editing a comment
The color of the commentor’s name isn’t the best.
Perhaps the commenter’s name could be a bit darker or maybe bold or a text size bigger.?
agree with point 3
Love the fact that we can give thumbs up and down to posts. We WUWT followers in the UK are just grateful for its existence, for all the work done by Anthony, Charles, Eric and the team, and for all the informed discussion from the many contributors. The next four years will be tough – WUWT that is a much-needed balancing scientific forum. Keep going everyone 👍🏻!
Hear, hear!
WUWT is a much-needed balancing scientific forum
Yes, and it seems that “Climate Change” may have just been a trial to see if science could be coopted into a ‘religion’ through fear. Having succeeded beyond all hopes, they could start the Covid fear game
I like it, but my only nit is reading on my phone; when I open a story and scroll down it appears not everything loads and I am taken back to the top of the page.
What phone and browser do you use because I don’t have that problem?
Not to be picky or anything but a “dark theme” would be nice…
It would go with all the other dark colour schemes I configure for my other apps.
I like dark themes and use them whenever available as well. This format is fine. It’s what you get used to. The little font/format menu when writing comments is great to have.
I like it.
Love the look and feel of the new theme.
Love the new theme … well done and thank you so much to Mr Watts and all of the volunteers who make this great site possible !
I like it especially being able to post graphics easily.
Like this one.
On the other hand I can’t see how I can save images like the one you posted as a .jpg or whatever. It only gets saved with a .webp suffix and I can’t open this in Firefox (the latest update).
You will have to do screenshots… 🙂
Snip and Sketch lets you save an image from the web into any format you want.
I’ve noticed images, like your graph, in comments in this new format begore but they were to small to read.
Just now and it enlarged!
I tried the “back arrow” on my browser and it took me back to the WUWT home page.
TIP: I tried it again looking for something I missed and noticed the small circle with and X init in the lower right corner of the image.
Clicked on the X and it brought me back to where I was in the thread.
Suggestion: Perhaps a tab on the title bar next to “TEST” with instructions/examples of what each of the new comment icon does? Along the lines of “Ric Werme’s guide to WUWT”?
Or replace Ric’s examples under “TEST” for the old with examples for the new? (Might want to rename “TEST” to something like “TEST WITH DEMOS”.
Typo!
“Just now and it enlarged!”
Should have been:
“Just now I clicked on it and it enlarged!”
I like it. Much better than the old system. Like others, I thank you for being here. We are going to need WUWT during the next four years.
I would consider a paid subscription if it got rid of the ads, or even just the obnoxious ones like the huge popup at bottom-center. (And those “recommended” clickbait junk links.)
Second choice would be to go back to the old user experience, which wasn’t broken.
Being able to up/downvote and edit comments are improvements.
I use ‘Adblock Plus‘ & ‘Gostery‘ in Firefox…
= No adds,no popups, no problems
On my phone the ads still show. They are pretty annoying, dividing the text into several sections.
Adblocking is a bad solution as it removes any income Anthony might be getting. I agree the popup add bottom middle is terrible. Ads on the edge are fine.
DNT and blur by Abine are useful too
or ‘uBlock Origin” in Firefox
Anthony’s WUWT is “monetized.” As evidenced by all the ads that appear around the edges of the blog posts. Anthony gets a monthly revenue stream for this blog because of the ads. If he violates Terms of Service or if the Climate Libtards demand his host-service black-list him, then he’ll get “de-monetized.” I strongly support Anthony getting “monetized” for this open forum he has created (with the help of lots of others like CtM, Willis, EricW, and his moderator team, plus Guest posters) to express climate (and now Covid) opinions and expose the climate scam to a wide international viewership.
The Ads are probably provided by Google with not a lot of choice. I am totally sick of seeing the ones about an enlarged prostate as I no longer have one. They are actually not very clever because I have never clicked on one and the tinnitus is the other stupid one as having got hearing aids it is no longer a problem for me as it used to drive me crazy. Like a bunch of cicadas in your ears.
I must admit that ads like you see at the bottom of a page really annoys me when it covers content.
The only ads I click on are Greenpeace ones hoping that it costs them every time.:))
It’s fine with me. No problems. Haven’t figured out how to post multiple images yet but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.
Good job!
I’m not a fan of the new theme, I kind’a liked the old theme but… meh. As long as WUWT is fighting the good fight, I’ll be here reading the insightful and informative studies, articles and analysis from some of the serious players in the CAGW fight. I do wish something could be done about the Reference Pages but, WordPress… go figure.
I love the darkened text. The modern look is for text so feint to be near illegible. Any graphic designer who didn’t follow the current fashion would be considered hopelessly out of date, my dear.
But, but, but… please also darken the text in the comments section like this:
Thanks and kind regards,
Edit: Ah! The comments are in the darker text once they’re posted.
Yes, it would be good to see darker comments when actually composing the text . Also the red theme reminds me of the claim that the earth is on fire. I personally liked the blue of the old theme as it says ‘calm’. Apart from that everyone has done a great job in modernising the site and getting rid of the clutter on the right hand side
tonyb
My practice is to compose my comments in Notepad++ first, check them carefully, and then cut-and-paste them into the comment box.
bcause My ytping is soabd I alwys have mupltle coreections to mak, and oftwen hit some stpiud key thgat sendsd the whle commment into obljkvio
Notepad++ is freeware. You’ll love it. I love the new theme, too. Well done, Team!
Overall I like the new look and only have one comment. I’m missing the ability to scroll through and see which articles I’ve clicked on and which ones I haven’t. For me the title went from black to grey if I had clicked on it. Just due to a busy schedule I’m often days behind on my reading and marked articles make it much easier to figure out where I left off.
In conjunction with that, on the bottom is a list of what you’ve missed but for me it shows the latest posted articles whether I’ve read them or not.
Darrin I agree I have the same problem, after a day or two you forget where you were. Apart from that I really like the new format although I admit I had a little moan about it to begin with but now I’ve got used to it I like it. As long as wuwt can get through the next four years a few niggles won’t really matter.
I second this. Great feature.
Reading the comments here at WUWT has been a source of ultra-learning for me. The more useful the comments section becomes the more efficiently we can learn.
It used to be a feature a couple of years ago but then went away.
‘Not crazy about it. Too much scrolling to review latest posts. Fully 1/3 of the screen (right side) is ads and fluff. Ads everywhere. Using latest Firefox browser. Nonetheless, your attention to the site and desire to improve it are outstanding.
I use ‘Adblock Plus‘ & ‘Gostery‘ in Firefox…
= No adds,no popups, no problems
Agree with the comment that over 1/3 screen on the right side is too much. It was OK before; now just too wide.
I noticed something one one post. A table I made (two columns) was scrambled up. Tabs and spaces seem to be ignored. I don’t know if that can be corrected…
Which post? Please provide a link.
The banner with the “About”, “Climate Fail Files” is always on the screen. It should just stay at the top of the page. I’d rather not lose that 1/2 inch of real estate. When combined with the add that’s always on the bottom of the screen, there’s not a lot of room left for the article or posts.
Worse, neither is calculated in when doing a page up or page down Every time I page up or down, I then have to use the arrow key key 4 or 5 times to get the text I want to read out from under the banner or the ad.
I fully agree the top banner has to go
nah.. I Luv it !
Disagree
Mark, I agree on the banner. The only time I myself ever use it is on the odd occasions I need to go into “Tips and Notes.”
I don’t seem to have the same problem as you do with page up/page down, though.
BTW, you can get rid of the ad at the bottom, There is a little X tool way over on the right of the screen. Sometimes this tool goes underneath the up-arrow (“go to top”) tool in the lower right, and sometimes it takes a few tries, but you can get rid of it.
How about updating the blogroll and including a list of golden oldies that do not update much if any more.
The only thing I miss is that the titles of posts previously viewed don’t change color – e.g black to blue. Made it easy to spot new posts when I didn’t have a chance to check for a couple of days. Thanks Anthony and the rest of the regular posters. This is the best site on the internet.
epic
For all the people complaining about ads, three things:
Thing1: uBlock Origin or similar takes seconds to install and kills the vast majority dead. That said;
Thing2: WUWT earns revenue from ads. So they become part of the funding to keep WUWT going.
Thing3: I like the ads. Keeps me informed as to what the people collecting information on me and selling it think I’m interested in. Sometimes I google oddball sh*t just to see how long it takes before I see ads for it.
If I ever see an ad for a product called ‘ColMosby’s homestyle molten salt reactors’ you can be sure I will click on it — if nothing else just to see if the product claims are believable.
Yes, the ads are an important source of revenue so we have to put up with them whilst enjoying the fact that algorithms are still very dumb as I don think any of the ads displayed to me have ever bee the slightest bit relevant
tonyb
Can you selectively block the ear wax ones though? The pictures on those can be nauseating.
I click on the ads just so WUWT earns a little money
I also have me Brave shields down on WUWT for the same reason
I got banned from google adsense (ban is for lifetime no recourse) because during an election year google was posting political ads that interested my readers in specific locations. so they read the ads.I got banned for them always clicking ads.
You can donate to support WUWT (although I don’t see the link anymore?) But I agree with someone else’s suggestion about a paid subscription to eliminate ads.
I agree the ads are necessary along with your reasoning consider this, I am not a scientist some articles are complex and I can get easily lost,how many people would pay for a subscription to something they find difficult to understand. Wuwt needs more and more readers in the hope that more people will leave the dark side and see the agw scam for what it is. The warmists have all the media, TV press facetube etc to them almost the whole world is a stage from which to shout their message, they’ve even enlisted children. Compared to that we are barely whispering. I fear charging people to hear the truth will just make the mountain we have to climb even taller. Just a thought.