1) The new layout is very white. It is very hard to see the separation between different posts.
2) The new layout doesn't color-code code blocks anymore.
3) The link "Tips for Posting Messages" do show code as color-coded. It also fails to make use of for the example code that is then shown formatted - so the input data doesn't have indented text, but after add of the "pre" tags, indents magically appears.
4) Why does every new post ask for the users name? To make sure that even more people will make lots of posts using faked names - sometimes even switching between two names and one-man Q/A sessions.
5) This forum really do need real, registered, accounts. Where the posters name gets permanently locked, making sure that however many aliases someone creates they are still unable to impersonate someone else. The ability to impersonate or use whatever random aliases is creating lots of extra rude posts.
There are many more features that can be added. Like..."Watch this Thread" feature. By adding a thread to watch list, a person gets mail updates whenever there is any new post on that thread. User ratings can also be a feature (which will obviously require registration).
Also, does displaying (not displaying) the Country Flag matter?
Is this merely a restyling exercise (more like ARM coporate colours) if keil is seriously considering following ARM, then they should also think of resytling (adding) other features.
Hi guys,
There is more to come, i.e. this is not a mere restyling exercise - the restyling also involved the consolidation of various different backend templating systems etc which was necessary before we can move forward with new functionality and further improvements to design/layout of important pages.
There are definite plans to move to a new, much more full-featured forum system in the not too distant future which will hopefully address many of the issues around missing/buggy functionality - proper registration, watched threads, etc.
If it's there, it should work.
Better to remove it altogether than having a known-dead feature just hanging around!
Agreed, there's a lot more fumdamental things than coutry flags (or even ratings & watches) that really need fixing first...
There are many more features that can be added.
why worry about adding features as long as everyone have to look down the list to see how far (s)he has seen all posts.
get a "no new post sice last visit" marker going and forget about the rest till that is fixed