Using Safari on my iMac and the bottom of every thread looks like this:
FWIW
The double scroll bars seem to be gone. Thanks goodness (and you I guess) for fixing that.
The white menu bar of the parent frame was never there. It is too bright. I understand that the parent frame cannot inherit the dark mode of the child frame, but before it was in a frameset, the forum menu was at the top and it’s theme matched everything else. I think the only way to fix that would be to build a dark mode for the PSA web site. Then I could select that for the site and the two frames would be visually compatable.
Another thing that is happening is this:
And if I can put 2-cents in the bright white icon for the forum against the dark mode looks out of place. Perhaps make the icon background transparent so instead of white we see the bacground color.
Giant header and footer is annoying.
Maybe refresh? They’re gone for me.
All looks good here using iPad/Safari. I especially like that the thread title is now fixed at top while you scroll through the thread. Makes it easier to remember where you read that important piece of info!
oh man - thats maybe my least favorite thing. It takes up so much real-estate and just remains there. I feel like I am looking through a tiny window
MacBook Pro (Tahoe 26.1) and Safari 26.1, all hunky-dory out west.
Looks the same here—wonkiness successfully dodged!
I think that might be the dark mode which Discourse isn’t supporting anymore via our site. I should have switched that off. Maybe give another look and refresh your browser (shift + the refresh button or a hard refresh, command+shift+R)
please also use the dark mode when you are testing it otherwise you aren’t doing a full test. In dark mode now we are getting the terrible wonkiness on the footer as showing in this first image.
As to the header, on my macbook pro I can get about one medium topic, or two one liner replies under the gigantic banner where I used to get many. What does the sticky header buy in this case? I know I’m at psaudio forum, there are multiple ways to tell - does it need to have the whole banner when scrolling? I can understand having the topic title, but that plus the menu plus the sales notification is a lot.
In my use-case it buys me absolutely nothing. If I want to go look at the new PMG series, I dont go to the forum, look at the top, got to psaudio shop and look for the series, I open a new tab and type ps which is then autofilled to psaudio.com and I am done. You have 26 menu items up there - what would your UI people say if you put that on a DAC?
Fair enough but I will argue for a moment about the sticky header. I would say the majority of folks I communicate with struggle on the forums to know where they are. Once the sticky header containing the return to home icon and the post topic plus the category topic along with the search icon, and your profile picture that allows you to go through your search and reply history is of value. Once this header goes away you have to remember where to go and how to get there. For me, as a user, it’s a blessing. We’ve always had the main PS Audio menu above that, so that’s no different (though it’s the proper menu now instead of the wonky one we used in its place).
The sales pitch at the top of the page comes and goes and I agree it can be annoying. Let me see about that. Maybe I can make that go away when viewing the forums.
But the header has literally nothing to do with the forum and its topics and categories - its Shop, Support, Hi-fi Family, Dealers, Octave, and Listen… exactly where would I find my reply to you or find a topic on fuses in all that? The “hamburger" menu (three line icon to the right of the forum topic) is where that is, and it hasnt changed from before at all
Try it now. Do a refresh (shift+refresh) you should see the blue sales bar gone giving you more room.
yep, that is definitely better without the sales prompt - but my point about its usefulness to the forum or even to one’s shopping for your excellent products stands. Its wasted space if its not used often. And it also doesnt follow the dark mode - fine if you feel thats part of the company identity, but then just get rid of dark mode (but please dont get rid of dark mode!)
Ahh, sorry. Terminology. There’s are two “headers”. There’s the main PS Audio website header with all the menu items that allows you to navigate the site. That’s been there all along and remains so people can move about the site.
Then there’s the forum header right below that. That’s the “sticky header” we are referring to. It is what says “Forum just went wonky” and has the colorful home return icon etc. That’s the part we made sticky and what I was referring to.
I removed the blue sales header when viewing the forums page so you have a bit more room.
OK, luckily I had a tab open to a topic that I havent refreshed in a while (and dont want to now) - the forum topic header has always been there and was always sticky:
What you have now added and made sticky is the main PS Audio website header. It was never sticky - now it is. It follows me all the way down the thread with its bright glow piercing my eyeballs like a useless blue LED on a cheap piece of gear. I dont see the necessity of it at all
After 'refresh" all’s good and happy in Forumland. Thanks Bossman.
ahhh. Got it. Thanks. Let’s live with it for a little while and see. I get that it’s new and different, and I also understand the sticky main menu takes up more room. You’re right. The problem I was trying to solve is multifold but basically I had a number of complaints from folks who found it difficult to navigate once in the forums. This kind of made sense since the forums are (and always have been) hosted on another platform. The forums are an adjunct of the main PS Audio website and I wanted to keep t easy for folks not as experienced and knowledgeable as yourself to be able to easily navigate to the forums and back again to products. Imagine for a moment reading about the new DAC (or whatever) and then wanting to go to the product page to see what it was all about. In the old scheme that was “easy” for veteran forum usres but somewhat of a mystery for newbies.
I haven’t figured out a way to please everyone yet but I keep trying.
Well said DCM. A step backwards IMO.