TS 3.0 redesign bug reports

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> "Windows Tech Support" takes one to BSOD help - "Tech Support" was the general title for virus/bsods/driver help. Maybe change the label to be more specific for the specific BSOD forum?
> There's no icon for the drivers forum (my personal favorite :) )

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Besides, add one more icon to the bottom row and you evened it all out! :p
 
I am not sure if this is a bug or if it is meant to be this way, but the large ribbon at the top of the page that includes the logo, your alerts, social media buttons, and search is small on every page except the home page. I see you increased the size of it only on the homepage but not on any other pages. Not sure if this was a bug or not, so I might as well just report it.
 
JC713 said:
I am not sure if this is a bug or if it is meant to be this way, but the large ribbon at the top of the page that includes the logo, your alerts, social media buttons, and search is small on every page except the home page. I see you increased the size of it only on the homepage but not on any other pages. Not sure if this was a bug or not, so I might as well just report it.
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Not a bug. It's by design.
 
The forum software come with drop-down banners. It seems the new Site Menu layer is on top of a normally hidden drop-down banners. The normally hidden drop-down banners should have a higher Z-Index.

When I mark the forum read, I see a small portion of the drop-down below the blue menu area. The rest is covered over.

This also brings me to reporting another alignment issue I've noticed. After marking the forum read, the page that is redirected has the user details partially covered by the Site Menu. Makes me wonder what else is covered over by the permanent Site Menu, that wasn't shifted down to compensate.

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The media widget doesn't scroll right, I was going to mention this earlier but the pages I visited to check for the issue appeared to be fixed. The widget on the following page doesn't scroll correctly.
https://www.techspot.com/news/56490...to-time-warner-cable-this-quarter-for-99.html

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But yet after visiting the link I posted the scroll seems to work for the widget. Don't ask me what the difference is between the two tabs. One tab scrolls correctly and the other doesn't.
 
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I've noticed a one small issue on the mobile page (WP8.1/IE11), that is the notifications show up very next to search icon, which kind of make it difficult select these by tapping at little red notification icon.

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Mobile device guidelines suggests
  • use buttons instead of links
  • add padding and margins to all links - - fingers are much fatter & imprecise than a mouse (duh).
 
I liked the new (y) look but was quite frustrated with the fact that there was no "cookie trail" to enable basic navigating,,,I am patient kind of fellow and after I found this thread, and read through its growing content,,,
JC713 said:
As for some site feedback Julio, do you think you guys can add a summary of the pages of an article at the bottom like the old site had? In the new R9 295X2 review, it is hard to navigate back to different pages since there is no page selection at the bottom of the review.
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Shortly after I read this post I found that the Addblock I was running removes the banner and that is where the 'trail' is. So I need to turn off the Addblock on Techspot which is fine. Well until I went to Google Chrome to verify that it was just the addblocker, which is where I let my mouse roll over a hot link that read Ibm, and the audio blared-out because of the (n) auto play in Chrome.
I remember a few years back you installed this same program and people became aggressive because you were turning their words in their free advice into paid advertising!!?
Happy to turn it off (addblock for Techspot) but I do not want to go back to writing M icR o_so_ft again please?
Edit:- Was able to load your new RSS news feed into my Sony Tablet p that I tested CCleaner for Android -over here- I do like (y)(y)the new site the and point that I am making is, please do not to forget the "word of mouth" advertisers/helpers advertise you too,,,
Edit (ii):- Have just notice that the braggingrights/system specs do not pop up when you mouse over a users profile? "Would you like to show other members your computer specs? Default is (NO) This will be displayed in your posts via a drop down menu for other members to view. Add your system specs in your usercp Edit options."
Not extensively tested (Julio Franco's did not show on mouse over/drop down menu?)
 
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no "cookie trail" to enable basic navigating
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Web servers use Bread Crumbs for this purpose, not Cookie Trails.
Bread Crumbs look like
Home --> Forums --> topic name - - > this topic​
:)
 
jobeard said:
Web servers use Bread Crumbs for this purpose, not Cookie Trails.
Bread Crumbs look like
Home --> Forums --> topic name - - > this topic​
:)
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@jobeard (y) thank-you,,,--->awkward pause,,,--->goes to show how much l :'( err know,,,--->am learning and that I was brought up on sesame street :D
 
Julio Franco said:
Beloved TechSpotters, please help us troubleshoot the issues you are finding with our redesign.

Note there are some known bugs that we are fixing soon (e.g. the social widget in news pages on certain browsers), but there are others, like the comments font being too big or hard to read that we've been unable to replicate thus far.

Please post your findings in this thread dedicated to the redesign bug fixes.

A screenshot of the issue, OS and browser versions are a must to help us narrow things down.

Thank you!
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I am currently using my Sony Tablet p to post and cannot find a way to log out of the site?
Which is good for your stats but I need a log out button placed in my profile, because that is where the floating banner takes me.
Speaking of the banner they usually block up the screen when you double tap (to increase the font size to readable size) but the Techspot one does not, great.
Hmmm I'll try requesting a "desktop site" from my standard install browser?,,,Posting firstly no this did not work foxtrot,uniform,charlie,kilo,,,
What happened to the clear cookies page?,,,,help

more running commentary
,,,this edit window,,,is sooo very painful to use one the Tablet,,,definitely will not use this method of input again, sorry Julio,,,
I found the cookies page but to my dismay there is no clear cookies and LOG-OUT button!,,,
 
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We have tested the site in various 7 and 10 inch tablets and the site works as expected. Logout link is the same across all devices; click or tap the user menu drop down (next to search) and logout is one of the last options.

I have posted this from a 4" smartphone BTW. ;)
 
Julio Franco said:
We have tested the site in various 7 and 10 inch tablets and the site works as expected. Logout link is the same across all devices; click or tap the user menu drop down (next to search) and logout is one of the last options.

I have posted this from a 4" smartphone BTW. ;)
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Hullo Julio, this post made using my Sony Xperia Z1 and seems a little err, less 'clunky' this is of course is the mobile platform where the Tablet as I believe runs a reduced standard format. (ThT?,,,ThhmThhmmThhmThhhe,,,rowful that was me trying to go to a new line using enter key,,,gave up and posted-->came back and edited?) You can not do this?
(iiNiiRiREiREPiREPLiREPLYireply)Update this problem has disappeared so I can attribute it to Addblock in Firefox and some of the editorial functionality has returned using Chrome
Chrome
Chrome,,,Hmmm-->enter/return key pressed twice from the last letter in the word-->then press the backspace key--> and you have the word pasted --> backspace again same word pasted in again on a new line,,,

The drop down Menu you speak of (works in the Mobile platform) does not, when using the Tablet, allow multi-select. Once you tap on the "button" (does not exist when using tablet) that is where you are being directed to on the Tablet. The simple fix would be to add in a menu item at the bottom of the left-hand menu --->Log out and clear cookies, thanks for visiting Techspot<--- would do? Thanks for reading
 
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I have some feedback regarding these comment tags:
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I think if the article has above 15 or 25 comments the tag should be red rather than just all blue for greater than 5. This is just a minor thing but I feel like it makes sense.

Edit: Thanks Julio!
 
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I was posting a reply to broni here and after typing my message and clicking 'post reply' I was redirected to the image shown below instead of the usual.
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Archean said:
I've noticed a one small issue on the mobile page (WP8.1/IE11), that is the notifications show up very next to search icon, which kind of make it difficult select these by tapping at little red notification icon.

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Is this going to be fixed soon? I keep trying it on my iPhone & it still don't work correctly. Thanks,I know you're busy. :)
 
The new top toolbar makes it nearly impossible to see the title of what you are thinking about downloading, as seen below.
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That's because of your ad blocker.

BTW, logged in users see less ads than the rest of users, for example in the homepage there's no top banner and no in-text ads whatsoever around the site.

That's to encourage TS readers to register and regular members not to block.

Also note we are not an ad heavy site in the first place either :)
 
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Julio Franco said:
That's because of your ad blocker.
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That's to encourage TS readers to register and regular members not to block.

Also note we are not an ad heavy site in the first place either :)
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So without using ad blocker, the menu would normally overlay the ad instead? I don't understand why anything would be positioned under TechSpots's Menu, ad blocker or no ad blocker.

Maybe I'm just screwed up in the head and not thinking clearly. It wouldn't be the first time.
 
cliffordcooley said:
I don't understand why anything would be positioned under TechSpots's Menu, ad blocker or no ad blocker.
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Because the ad blocker removes the entire DIV including the upper margin, it's not our fault what that software does (even though we may look into a workaround later on either way).
 
o.O

So knowing that ad blocker removes the entire ad DIV, the upper margin was placed inside this DIV? Yeah, you were right encouragement was intentional.
 
I have a few mentions of bugs to report:

The mobile site has been having a few problems for me as of the last week (Not sure if longer I don't use it that often). Im on iPhone and for some reason if a new article is posted you cannot post comments (There seems to be an add in the spot where when you push for comments stretches beyond the screen).

Another thing is that the menu button depending on the page does not work at all on the iPhone. It seems to be on articles specifically if you try to read comments.
 
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