OT: New Sidebar (the FAQ and Feedback thread)

[stakesishigh]

Looks horrible. Please get rid of that garbage.

 

[Eb]

Most people hate change.

Everyone hated Facebook's changes when they were first implemented. Now they all think they're great. It takes time.

 

[Cor]

It has broken the whole site. Just going into the threads when the sidebar isn't there is ruined now

 

[Ace88*]

Most people hate change.

Everyone hated Facebook's changes when they were first implemented. Now they all think they're great. It takes time.

No, most people just hate ugly and badly executed change

 

[Daisy Jane]

No, most people just hate ugly and badly executed change

like most of facebook changes.

also with this new thinger - it makes normal thread margins totally out of alignment. this really isn't good. truthfully, i've re-arranged my things to make sure i don't see it because i don't want to. if there was something i wanted to read on hockey futures, i'd go read it i shouldn't have to be forced to see it, because y'all want to eliminate stickies on the main page.

 

[Swervin81]

If you want badly executed change, just look at YouTube

 

[Paradoc]

I woke up this morning and thought I disable ******* or something. This looks terrible.

 

[leafstilldeath*]

Not liking it. It actually annoying

 

[LV*]

Its so bad lol

 

[Chandrashekhar Limit]

If you want badly executed change, just look at YouTube

Or the new google maps interface.

The sidebar is HORRIBLE.

 

[hatterson]

So, is the introduction of this nonsense the real reason they wanted to cut down on the number of stickied threads?

Just in case you were serious about this question. No, the cutdown of stickies a couple months back had nothing to do with this. When we started to trim down the number of stuck threads we had zero idea that this was coming, I'm not even sure the site ownership had it planned at that point.

 

[Quadruple Dion]

If you're able to edit the CSS, it might work better. Even a little padding within the .rssincl-entry divs and between the rows improves things:

 

[leafsfan5]

it sucks,please change it

 

[Squiffy]

Would appreciate option to collapse it, at least for sponsors anyways. Or you know, golden parachuters living off past glory.. lol..

I like the twitter feed idea, if that could be worked in somehow in a less intrusive manner.

 

[Joey Hoser]

Aesthetically awful and zero links I want to click on.

 

[AustonMitchWilly]

I use mobile mode on my laptop. Clean and clear, and under control!

 

[7even]

It's really poorly styled. And the typography sucks. It's very distracting due to this, in a bad way.

Very poor design. Some designer should be ashamed.

The idea isn't terrible, just the execution.

HF itself already looks somewhat outdated and unprofessional. This new side bar has potential but is complete garbage. HF's is actually a decent looking site, I don't understand why they haven't used its design style of at least some of it on these forums.

With the help of youtube I could code a better side bar than that. Nothing makes me want to click on the links of the articles. It looks like it is from the late 90's.

The twitter feed has potential but again it is only HF's feed. It could be a good idea if they added a couple other people to the feed.

Finally, the thread part is actually a good idea but again looks like **** and it broken. Also it should be featured in the middle instead of the bottom.

I tend to agree. A sidebar isn't a terrible idea in theory, but it absolutely does not gel with the website; it looks like an ad from 2005. If HF wants to run a sidebar, the site probably needs to be overhauled to jive with it.

But then it'd lose some of it's minimalist appeal.

 

[Leaf Rocket]

I get it it is bring in the traffic and what not but the format looks just awful.

 

[mydnyte]

looks horrid ...if they want to add a twitter feed make it a ticker across the top, the other with the thread links are nothing less than SPAM in a sense, because if anyone really cared about those threads they would already be reading the respective forums.

 

[Deebo]

I don't like it, takes up too much space.

An option to turn it off would be nice.

 

[mydnyte]

I tend to agree. A sidebar isn't a terrible idea in theory, but it absolutely does not gel with the website; it looks like an ad from 2005. If HF wants to run a sidebar, the site probably needs to be overhauled to jive with it.

But then it'd lose some of it's minimalist appeal.

vBulletin is forum software that is included free based on web-hosting ...there is a sidebar addin, but, i dont think HF is using it, as it should look much better than this, and i have seen it, and used it myself in the past. this one is just so cheezy looking

 

[Ace88*]

If you're able to edit the CSS, it might work better. Even a little padding within the .rssincl-entry divs and between the rows improves things:

All i was really able to do is space it out evenly like in your screencap and add a smoother border. It still looks like donkey ****, but at least things aren't touching or overlapping anymore. I still want to punch my eyes every time i look at it though.

This is a really good case study of a company being SO far out of touch with both current aesthetics and what their customers want. Could see this swing-and-a-miss from space ffs

 

[HEAVY DUTY]

hey mods, is it against the rules to post about a solution which gets rid of the side bar?

 

[BertCorbeau]

hey mods, is it against the rules to post about a solution which gets rid of the side bar?

Yes it is

 

[Deebo]

Improving the content on Hockeysfuture will drive traffic.