When is Full Launch Due?
Quote from: Kelly It's seemed fine for me.
Dunno what to say, then
The Community Site has been really laggy again today at times, 30-45 second delays - maybe it's just my PC, but the UserGroup forums at http://usergroup.plus.net/forum/index.php load fine (consistently) so I'm a bit mystified if no one else is seeing the comm site delays.
Quote from: Saturn The speed seems ok from here
And seemingly from everywhere else also, judging by the numbers of people on line here and no-one else at all flagging up speed issues.
No idea where the delays (here) in comm-site-loading are coming from then; just something else to chalk up as one of life's minor anomalies
Regards,
Penny.
Quote from: James_H Seems super speedy here too.
Faster than the PUG site, which is to be expected of course.
... a somewhat unexpected sideswipe at PUG? I don't visit the PUG website at http://usergroup.plus.net often, but I can affirm that the PUG forums at http://usergroup.plus.net/forum/index.php always load fine for me at least.
This Community Site, though? No, it really doesn't load swiftly (here) and it's got worse not better in the last couple of days. I'm becoming fairly resigned to "life in the slow lane"
.... I'd thought I might visit more later, when the designers figure out a way to put side borders on the posts to separate them from the wide white margins (the present sea-of-white does my head in), but it seems like my access here for whatever reason just simply doesn't work quite like everyone else's. Maybe there's a moral there somewhere and I should confine what limited time I do have for posting, to the PUG forums ....
Quote from: James_H Penny, your IP appears to be an NTL one, if thats the case, I wonder if anybody else has had issues getting to the site via an NTL connection.
Yep, free access (authorised!) via cable someone else pays for (both my PN connections are dial-up and the house here already had NTL installed) - however no-one else on the commsite has flagged up any problems getting the commsite pages so it doesn't look like a generic NTL-access-to-PN problem. Weird.
Liveable-with if I don't visit the commsite much
not getting this problem with any other site, so, like I said before, just something to put down as one of life's minor anomalies.
Quote from: Bob Have you tried this Penny? You can create a custom style sheet to stretch the forums full width like the PUG ones.
LOL
Nice thought, Bob, but I'm really not going to change any settings here just to view this one forum
Quite apart from my legendary propensity to screw up anything to do with PCs, I'm not risking changing settings that I need to be able to build the PHC site effectively.
All the Community Site forums need to make them easier-on-the-eye is a single black border line down each side of the block where the posts are (or a midnight-blue one, or whatever fits with the colour scheme). The portal forums had lines down the sides of the post blocks, so it's hardly a major request.
I can live with the wishy-washy post background colours but not putting lines round tables set against huge white margins gives a shapeless output and definition is lost. Maybe "shapeless" is what's being aimed for here, but I really don't like it which is why I avoid visiting unless absolutely necessary.
People have complained about the lack of definition since the outset of "beta" and nothing has changed, so I figure there's little intention at the PN end, to change anything.
At the end of the day PN call the shots on how this forum looks so fair do's, make it look however you want it to. I don't have any personal axe to grind here - my comments originally were general ones because I figured other people would have issues with it the same way I do.
Building as I do, a website that techie-people look at and throw up their hands in horror, I fully appreciate that not everyone has the same ideas about what "works" or "doesn't" in terms of web design. The present "visual aspects" of the Community Site disincline me to visit it, but I have in the past been informed that the site I build has the same effect on techie people.
At the end of the day I design webpages in a format that appeals to the majority of the people who visit those pages, and no doubt PN aim to do likewise
Regards,
Penny.