Welcome to the NeoGAF 2025 "OT" Update

things look much better today, especially with the reactions!!!
 
Only quibble I have: avatar transparencies seem to be not working, not sure if the new themes support that but would love it if that could be worked in at some point.

Edit: specifically this is for the Classic style, works fine in the regular style.
 
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Only quibble I have: avatar transparencies seem to be not working, not sure if the new themes support that but would love it if that could be worked in at some point.

Edit: specifically this is for the Classic style, works fine in the regular style.
We'll look into it.
 
I'm on desktop: option is on bottom left of the page.

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Thanks so much.
 
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What's the best way to choose a reaction now on phone besides like? Press and hold? Seems to pull up a different menu instead sometimes.

What's the best way to look at my previous posts? When I click my name and then click messages now (31,601) it goes to DMs instead.
 
Mobile on my end on iphone safari sometimes makes the page glitch up and down very rapidly like the page has a seizure. It stops and then you can scroll but just thought I would post it in case its fixable.
 
Love the article tag, sometimes you want to quote and link but you had to use two tags or highlight everything which was spammy. Upon first reaching the site I found the blue links on black background hard to read. Now my eyes kind of adapted but still kind of hard to see for me as a farsighted man. Same as with white letters in bright orange buttons but already got used to that.

Ah, yes, something is off there and it's hard to tell at a glance whether I've liked a post or not. Looks like Like is slightly beneath alignment with Gift/Quote/Reply too. Will fix.

A wireframe Like like the Gift or Reply ones should work personally, using the same icon there. Or maybe chaging the word Like for React.

Nice change overall, never knew there was a dark theme lol
 
Looks pretty good and nice changes. I still think the reactions could benefit from a bit more spice, like the ones over at RPGCodex. But I also understand that the choice of the reactions currently available was most likely a compromise of being expressive while also being "neutral enough".
 
It is really nice to see the team still has the drive to make things better, bravo !
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Lots of great additions.

Personally i cannot wait to export my ignore list and make beautiful excel spreadsheets out of everyone else's :messenger_winking:

My only small gripe is with the numbers added to reactions. They make sense even tho they seem a bit "dated" esthetically. I of course have no idea of how to make it better and anyway im sure in a week tops everyone will be used to them and it won't jump out of the page like it kind of does now.
 
Not sure if it's just me but there seems to be a bit of a lag in opening pages. They take a second or so more than they used to before.
 
The new react emoji system is great but I liked the old "like/react" button that you had to click to react because the new one looks like I've already selected the like react whereas the old one matched the other icons beside it.
 
On desktop: Those submenus only display one option, is this normal?

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Also, on mobile: when holding down the react button to display all the different reactions, it seems to treat it like an URL link because it display the options menu with stuff like "open in a new tab", "download link", etc.
 
My one request, if you guys ever revamp notifications, is that the actual type of reaction is closer to the beginning of the notification.

For example, when this notification pops up, the end part is cut off in a normal, non-extended notification:
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It would be nicer UX if it was like "amigastar reacted with LOL to your post in the thread…" so that you can see what the reaction actually is without expanding or tapping the notification.

Very, very low priority and minor request. But it would be nice!
 
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned yet, but before when you hadn't reacted to a post yet, the icon (thumbs up) next to Like would be hollow/just an outline. Now it's always the same.

It seems now the Like does become bold, but still makes it difficult to tell if you reacted to a post or not.
 
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On mobile if I click a reaction it selects like. If I press and hold it opens up my phone menu covering the whole screen for open in new tab, etc. Then I have to click out of that, then click the alternative reaction. Not sure what to suggest on that. Maybe tap once brings up the menu of all reactions? I don't know.
 
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Not sure if it's just me but there seems to be a bit of a lag in opening pages. They take a second or so more than they used to before.
We are still optimizing stuff server-side. We made a change that should fix this, please let me know if you're still experiencing slowdowns.
 
Another non-issue I found, is went scrolling down to the bottom on mobile. The "Write your reply..." box, pops up in full screen.
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Awesome changes!

Hope we can get a thumbs down, or some kind of "disagree" reaction instead of using LOL in a passive aggressive manner.
 
Working well for me so far on desktop! Awesome update. A couple things:

1. I sent you guys a message via Contact Us form since I accidentally locked myself out by updating my email address, but the re-confirmation emails didn't seem to work yesterday. I tried again today and it worked, so please ignore my message if you come across it.

2. Suggestion for the new Time and Article editor features, can these be moved out of the "more options" section? I feel these will get a LOT of use, especially the article one and the discoverability suffers if it's tucked away there.
 
Something I just noticed when you select the reaction menu to see all the reactions, from who, and the time.

The reactions on the right hand side aren't aligned properly if the timestamp varies from "today" and "yesterday" and maybe some others. I don't remember if this was how it was before, but now it bothers me lol.
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Another non-issue I found, is went scrolling down to the bottom on mobile. The "Write your reply..." box, pops up in full screen.
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Is this happening every time you scroll to the bottom of the page? There is a new "full-screen editor" option we set up (but are still working on to get fully working). You should be able to press the "collapse" button to return to the default editor:

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Something I just noticed when you select the reaction menu to see all the reactions, from who, and the time.

The reactions on the right hand side aren't aligned properly if the timestamp varies from "today" and "yesterday" and maybe some others. I don't remember if this was how it was before, but now it bothers me lol.
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Done!
 
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