RD 3.0 Style - Feedback and Suggestions

Dr. Death · Apr 11, 2021

I understand this new design is "futuristic" and more "forum like" however i dislike how it focuses so much on forum part instead of the news part and it looks like it was made just for mobile phones exclusively. Can we have an option to return to the old UI?

Dave Stephenson · Apr 11, 2021

Afraid not as it's not comapatible with the new version of the forum.

The news section and it's various widgets are disabled for public viewing atm while work continues and will be returning later to take back their normal position as the main entry point to the site.

Jan Larsen · Apr 11, 2021

Unrelated, but unworthy of a new thread:

Is the dark theme working?

ATSSHD · Apr 11, 2021

Jan Larsen said:
Unrelated, but unworthy of a new thread:

Is the dark theme working?

For me no..

GuitarTech · Apr 11, 2021

ATSSHD said:
For me no..

Me neither. I do hope the dark theme will be available again when they're finished with the update.

Eckhart von Glan · Apr 11, 2021

loving it! but I do miss the old colour scheme

Bonoldi · Apr 11, 2021

Very clean site and beautiful logo but, where is the black theme???

Rodger Davies · Apr 11, 2021

Dr. Death said:
I understand this new design is "futuristic" and more "forum like" however i dislike how it focuses so much on forum part instead of the news part and it looks like it was made just for mobile phones exclusively. Can we have an option to return to the old UI?

As someone who uses it on a mobile... it doesn't feel made for mobiles. Everything is unnecessarily huge and I can only fit about 50% of the info on the screen that I used to. It used to be excellent on a mobile.

I realise this sounds very ungrateful to the staff working hard on it, but it's really frustrating as a user; I stopped using motorsport.com forums when they had a similar 'upgrade' because it became impractical to use. This one does, admittedly, seem better than that.

Ole Marius Myrvold · Apr 11, 2021

As the red banner on top of RD says, it is still "in process" of updating

There's already been quite a few small (but noticeable changes) since I saw RD earlier today.

Eckhart von Glan · Apr 11, 2021

Bonoldi said:
Very clean site and beautiful logo but, where is the black theme???

oh, did we have one? never found out, so not much missed here. Surprised we do not have the logo in the top left corner, though. would fit.

melanieuk · Apr 11, 2021

The clash of the R and D lettering plus the colours reminds me to much of rFactor2 logo, maybe they was inspired by studio 397. Still a nice update to the site logo.

A nice feature I've just noticed, just like 'Disqus', I like that the forum tells you 'live' that a new post was added while you was writing a new comment.

Stereo · Apr 11, 2021

All I want is square avatars, round may be trendy on every site but it's just not better.

Ole Marius Myrvold · Apr 11, 2021

Eckhart von Glan said:
oh, did we have one? never found out, so not much missed here. Surprised we do not have the logo in the top left corner, though. would fit.

Yup, we had a light theme, a dark theme and a @Paul Jeffrey - Shirt theme!

melanieuk · Apr 11, 2021

For those that cant wait for the dark theme to return, you sholuld try https://darkreader.org/ until then.

Bonoldi · Apr 11, 2021

Well, I need more time to test the new design but, where is the dark theme??? This is very important! Dark theme, please.
Tks

Deleted member 197115 · Apr 11, 2021

My eyes.
What a horrible theme choice and where did all emojis go?

Ole Marius Myrvold · Apr 11, 2021

Andrew_WOT said:
where did all emojis go?

Johnny23 · Apr 11, 2021

I dont' like (ugly!) the new theme and style, it looks so big and white and boring, and so much space is wasted, like its made for Smartphones?
The Theme, UI is not suitable for Desktops, can we burn it down?