WhoCaresItsNotReal
04-30-2013, 06:23 AM
Forum login and password security isn't the same as forum cosmetics. I get that. But the number of basic problems with the new forum makes it clear that once again, this stuff just hasn't been adequately tested. So my concern is if there are so many basic problems then what hope do we have that the critical stuff has been treated with more care?
Not sure what I mean? Here's a quick list as I see it
1. New forum has no "remember" option and logs you out every 5 minutes
2. New forum has a Community drop-down with a Forums option that takes you to https://www.ddo.com/en/community instead of the correct page at https://www.ddo.com/en/forums
3. New forum colour scheme for "code" sections is an illegible yellow text on white background, requiring you to highlight the text to see it in reverse video
4. No dev tracker, which presumably even the devs who post on the forums didn't notice during their testing? I'm guessing that community spokespeople would have tested the new forums themselves to give feedback before this was launched? Right?
5. Classes sub-forums are illegible: see https://www.ddo.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/21-Classes
6. No documentation on the new forum features to familiarise users who have spent YEARS with the old forums
7. Bookmarks that users have individually saved appear broken, when they can easily edit their bookmark to recover their old threads - no sticky in the new forums to explain this
8. According to the login details there are no countries in the world apart from USA and Canada.
9. Board FAQ is in same illegible yellow on white: https://www.ddo.com/forums/faq.php
10. Style selector at the bottom doesn't provide any useful options that could address some of the cosmetic problems that we're seeing - Community Default is what we have and - Default Mobile Style is still the vBulletin default with clashing colours and not obvious that you need to use the Full Site option at the bottom to revert to the Community Default. Why is there no - DDO Classic option to use black background with red frames that some users might be more familiar with?
11. Same illegible yellow on white used to highlight menu selections in User Settings.
I'll not even go into aesthetics like the jumbo sized letter icons at the side of threads that just look stupid to me, or the capitalised font for the new forum titles (even though basic design teaches you to use mixed fonts because they're easier on the eye and to reserve colour, capitalisation, bolding and underlining for drawing attention to key elements).
Now I'm sure these things can be quickly addressed and rectified, and some we'll just get used to as with all change.
But given this is the released live version, which clearly hasn't been competently tested, it gives me zero confidence that my actual account details are secure.
Not sure what I mean? Here's a quick list as I see it
1. New forum has no "remember" option and logs you out every 5 minutes
2. New forum has a Community drop-down with a Forums option that takes you to https://www.ddo.com/en/community instead of the correct page at https://www.ddo.com/en/forums
3. New forum colour scheme for "code" sections is an illegible yellow text on white background, requiring you to highlight the text to see it in reverse video
4. No dev tracker, which presumably even the devs who post on the forums didn't notice during their testing? I'm guessing that community spokespeople would have tested the new forums themselves to give feedback before this was launched? Right?
5. Classes sub-forums are illegible: see https://www.ddo.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/21-Classes
6. No documentation on the new forum features to familiarise users who have spent YEARS with the old forums
7. Bookmarks that users have individually saved appear broken, when they can easily edit their bookmark to recover their old threads - no sticky in the new forums to explain this
8. According to the login details there are no countries in the world apart from USA and Canada.
9. Board FAQ is in same illegible yellow on white: https://www.ddo.com/forums/faq.php
10. Style selector at the bottom doesn't provide any useful options that could address some of the cosmetic problems that we're seeing - Community Default is what we have and - Default Mobile Style is still the vBulletin default with clashing colours and not obvious that you need to use the Full Site option at the bottom to revert to the Community Default. Why is there no - DDO Classic option to use black background with red frames that some users might be more familiar with?
11. Same illegible yellow on white used to highlight menu selections in User Settings.
I'll not even go into aesthetics like the jumbo sized letter icons at the side of threads that just look stupid to me, or the capitalised font for the new forum titles (even though basic design teaches you to use mixed fonts because they're easier on the eye and to reserve colour, capitalisation, bolding and underlining for drawing attention to key elements).
Now I'm sure these things can be quickly addressed and rectified, and some we'll just get used to as with all change.
But given this is the released live version, which clearly hasn't been competently tested, it gives me zero confidence that my actual account details are secure.