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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That is one BMF check mark there Fred.
Wasn’t really meant to be that big.. still learning that aspect
Tried a emoji from https://emojikeyboard.io/ (symbols)
It was going to be HUGE !!! 🙂
test
Likes:
Dislikes:
The last month or so of the previous WP theme was a pain as it functioned correctly for several minutes using the Safari, Chrome or Firefox browser on my Mac (OS10.11.6) but then “disappeared” everything when scrolling up or down, with a spinning orb before the desired portion of the page did or often didn’t render.
This problem didn’t exist during my previous decade of visiting WUWT almost every day. WUWT tweaked a few things and although the site was fine in Chrome and Firefox in the final weeks of the previous theme, the problem remained for the Mac’s native Safari browser.
The new theme works perfectly in all browsers on my Mac and I’m tapping this out in Safari.
I’m suspicious that the updating ads at the top of WUWT pages have disappeared and so too have the technical problems. There’s now a string of ads on the right side of WUWT pages, but they’re static instead of streaming what was probably corrupt code for certain browsers, at least on the Mac.
Hopefully they’re bringing in some revenue and you stick with them because the ads constantly updated by an external server (probably Google) create headaches for some readers.
I note I’ve currently got this page open in Safari and Chrome, with Safari having no pop-up ad at the bottom of the page but Chrome having the pop-up. However, it’s a static ad and isn’t affecting how Chrome consistently renders all of the page.
Hey, I just got an email telling me my comment was approved. That’s new and kinda cool. But do I need it? No. Refreshing to see if a comment has been approved plus load all the new comments is pretty simple, in fact it is one mouse click. OK, a click and maybe some scrolling.
I’m OK with it if the majority of people prefer it, but I just delete it out of hand anyway and just consider it additional clutter in my inbox. Unless there is a setting or that?
That said… I wouldn’t mind an email alerting me that someone has replied to one of my comments. Sometimes a reply comes in way after I ceased following a thread and I only find out by accident when I revisit the thread looking for something else.
Fully agree with that David
tonyb
Yes, I agree. It would be particularly useful for us occasional guest authors, when someone puts on a new comment several days after the thread seems to have wound down.
I just subscribe to updates (“subscribe” just above the comment box up top) and it seems to work just fine?
ive had a couple too
its cos we used a bad word like K*ll in a sentence dont think Anthonys got control over that, its a “feature” of the algos i reckon
Thank you very much for re-installing the Blogroll/Bookmarks on the right side. I occasionally link to them.
The Polar Ice and ENSO value page & graphs seem to be broken sometimes. Is this beyond WUWT’s control?
Visiting since 2007!
As a conservative I like all sensible change
I’m growing to like the format
Of course, I’m just a mouth, I’m not one of those pasting data, charts, links, etc
I’m in learning mode
I’m really liking it – with the tweaks 😉
Thanks Anthony – for all you do providing this invaluable resource!
We’ll need to be on the warpath now, that’s understandable, but perhaps a slightly more subtle color for the hyperlinked words in the main text and comments might be good? Seems like it’s just a bit too red …
Is there an upper limit as to how much text can be posted inside one comment? For example, an upper limit in terms of bytes or number of text characters including spaces?
The reason for asking this question is that I’m not in a position to submit a formal WUWT article. It would be much too dangerous to my career. And so I sometimes write article-length comments in order to cover a topic in the detail I think is necessary.
What I usually do is write these long comments in a notepad text file for the first draft and then copy the text into the comment box when I’m done.
The editing feature has made it much simpler to write these article length comments because any typos and formatting mistakes can be quickly corrected.
Only flaw I see is hitting the spacebar to scroll up the main page; it moves up by the full window height, but should do so only by the height excluding the header. I’ve seen this on more sights than those which do the right thing, and don’t know what the difference is. It’s a minor annoyance at worst.
We can now post images?
Thank you.
I made a darker and wider theme for Stylus (Stylish) which you can find by searching for Watts Up With That.
https://userstyles.org/styles/195018/watts-up-with-that-dark-and-wider-theme
Thanks team, great improvement
Whats the point of complaining when the answer is always the same, die b*tch!
Thanks for replaclng the Bookmarks (blogroll). I liked the old style a bit better, but then I always like the older style better until I get used to the new one.
An image test:
Woohoo, we can post images again, for a while. Just copy image into the cut-paste buffer, then click on the canvas under edit and paste it. Easy peasy.
I like your colorized image of this 1937 tobacco worker. Looks like Ol’ Remus.
http://www.woodpilereport.com/
Yes, it does. There’s still a big hole on Tuesdays.
The lines in the posted material are too long to be viewed on an iPad. I need to magnify the letters to be able to read them, and then I can only see part of each line. Therefore, I can only read the text by constantly refocusing the view. The old format was better in this regard.
it should be possible to choose font size like in Kindle, where the lines then automatically are made shorter to fit the page.
So much red. Shouldn’t the dominant colour be kinda more blue? Just sayin’!
It would be nice if we could choose a “theme color” like can be done with Office but that may not be an option available with the new format.
If it is, maybe down the road it will be incorporated. I doubt many of us realize the work that went into and continues to go into making the switch. Priorities.
There is a lot of ‘white space’ between comments which leads to a lot of scrolling on mobile. Perhaps this could be improved to be a little more compact.
The color of the commenters name makes it a little hard to notice.
I think the ‘red theme’ is too aggressive and carries too much baggage from various places. Strongly recommend trying a different color theme that has a little more of neutral feeling to it.
I prefer Serif fonts for reading anything that is fairly long in length. Having spent 20 years the printing industry I saw quite a few different fonts, Serif ones seem easier on my eyes. So the new Sans Serif font on WUWT wears on me and I lose interest. They are fine for emails and memos but for reading articles and stories give me Serifs.
Indeed serif fonts require less brain power. Copywriters know this. Courier is one of the best. Science is your friend when you want to communicate effectively. If it’s a war Anthony, get the right ammo.
I was a bit dismayed, at first, to see yet another favorite website update itself. But after using it for a while now, don’t see any problems.
Use Ubuntu Linux, i7 with 16GB RAM on a fanless mini PC and a 32 inch curved HD monitor. Everything looks good.
The news crawl at the top of the page is a bit cheap looking. I thought dynamic stuff like that was discouraged by the best website designers. For me, it distracts from the static reading. But I DO like everything else, even though I’m not spending as much time here now.
I would like some way to tell which posts are new in a comment thread when I revisit the thread. Previously, WUWT software would highlight the new posts in a different color, which made it easy to scroll down through the comments to find new ones.
The scrolling healines bar at the top of the main page is distracting. But I solve that by scrolling it out of sight. 🙂
I like the new look. I think the bookmark section needs some maintenance. There are four categories:
1. Dead links – pages no longer exist – World Climate Report.
2 .Incorrect links – links were correct but haven’t been updated – UAH AMSU Daily Temps
3. Historical links – pages that are correct but are no longer being updated – EcoTretas (some are very old, but still contain useful information)
4. Correct/updated links.
Looks Good Watts! Nice upgrade.
The scrolling graphic bar does make me dizzy though… If your going to have something like that make it shaped like a planet and have the text wrap around it… heh.
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Can you make ALL the text on a white background black? In this box when typing a message, the text is a very light HARD TO SEE grey. The dates and In “Category” under the three Related links are also hard to see light grey. Just LOOK at a WUWT page and anywhere you see text on white and the text ain’t black (or some other easy to see color), make it black.
Low contrast text is a scourge upon the WWW and should be eliminated.