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[pxleyes]

The mockup is definitely a step up, but the first thing that jumped out at me is the quote button. Black is really not a good choice there. I would use a grey just slightly darker than the post header itself. You want that quote button to blend in. You could even go so far as to take what you have and simply drop the opacity to like 0.3 and have it bump the opacity to 1 when you click it.

One more finer point for improvement, I would use a blue that is a few shades darker than the title bar as the text-shadow color. Using black really stands out here, and I think it cheapens the effect you are trying to achieve.

Ok, final thing. The neogaf logo looks like the white path was overly simplified when you scaled it down. I would export it larger than needed and scale it as a flattened bitmap to avoid the distortions where the white path intersects with the outer edge of the sphere.

 

[Piano]

Posting from the mock up.

Like it but the giant black quote button on every post is really visually distracting.

 

[Riggs]

This is tricky. You see, for iOS devices to be able to embed YouTube clips, Safari looks for the old style embed tags. If I embedded using YouTube's HTML5 embed method, I think it won't work anymore. I should probably test thus but the last time I checked, only EMBED tags did the trick.


Par for the course. All ads are designed to somewhat fool you into clicking them.


Read the OP.

Sorry op I posted that with no sleep my bad honestly missed it. Ty!!

 

[Bboy AJ]

Is the quote button supposed to look like this huge black icon? No way this came from ckohler? I'm on my Galaxy Nexus on Chrome.

It works well but it's not very attractive.

 

[LCfiner]

well, it is a mockup

I think it would look better if the quote and multi quote buttons were a different shade of grey or just very light. also, if they were made a bit more similar in size. the big quote is a little too dominating and unbalanced over the + icon. I'd say make it a bit smaller to see if that works.

 

[Keylime]

Just seems like the quote button should slightly shrink and the + button should slightly grow...and maybe greyed a bit.

 

[Cudder]

Posting from mockup on Galaxy Nexus stock browser. Awesome.

 

[noah111]

I just realized...

Can't unsee the face. :lol

The black is going to be changed back, just read a bit of the last page people..

 

[Taco_Human]

I took a look at the mockup on my Nexus One. I don't see any block to quote posts. I like it though. Sad to see ads but whatever needs to be done in guess.

 

[LCfiner]

I just realized...

Can't unsee the face. :lol

The black is going to be changed back, just read a bit of the last page people..

dammit.

it's like it's crying after eating a lemon

 

[Septimus]

Sorry if it's been answered but are the buttons that move you to the top or bottom of the page going to be put back in?

 

[noah111]

Sorry if it's been answered but are the buttons that move you to the top or bottom of the page going to be put back in?

Tap anywhere on the top banner to jump to the bottom. Same goes for tapping in the empty area of the bottom footer bar.

 

[Demy]

I just realized...

Can't unsee the face. :lol

The black is going to be changed back, just read a bit of the last page people..

Damn you.

 

[ckohler]

Could you possibly make a separate page on the front page that links to all the people online?

Man, that's a great idea. Easy too. I'll add that when I have time.

The mockup is definitely a step up, but the first thing that jumped out at me is the quote button. Black is really not a good choice there. I would use a grey just slightly darker than the post header itself. You want that quote button to blend in. You could even go so far as to take what you have and simply drop the opacity to like 0.3 and have it bump the opacity to 1 when you click it.

Good idea about the opacity.

Ok, final thing. The neogaf logo looks like the white path was overly simplified when you scaled it down. I would export it larger than needed and scale it as a flattened bitmap to avoid the distortions where the white path intersects with the outer edge of the sphere.

Not really sure what you mean. It looks fine to me. Maybe your browser is mangling the image some because it resizes it down if you don't have a high dpi display.

Is the quote button supposed to look like this huge black icon? No way this came from ckohler? I'm on my Galaxy Nexus on Chrome. It works well but it's not very attractive.

Everyone makes mistakes. I didn't like them either but I put those on there because I wanted to get it out there and testing before playing Mass Effect. I'll redo them.

 

[Invisible_Insane]

Posting from the mockup, this shit is the bees' knees. I appreciate that wp7 thing too. Great work.

 

[Gowans]

I love the quick links box on the mock up.

So so so good, really impressed.

Edit:
The quote and edit buttons need to be smaller tho, I've always used the 70% font size for maximum text on screen an the take up a bunch on space.

Edit2:

Maybe make the + to the left instead of underneath:

 

[Bboy AJ]

Everyone makes mistakes. I didn't like them either but I put those on there because I wanted to get it out there and testing before playing Mass Effect. I'll redo them.

No sweat. Just wondering. This would be your first mistake in an otherwise awesome endeavor. And the mistake isn't even the end of the world. Thanks again.

 

[kehs]

So I guess I'm the only one having the picture links not embed the image inline? It keeps opting a new tab. This is on Android 4.

Also I'm wondering if the reply button wouldnt be better served being in line with the page buttons.

 

[Complex Shadow]

Lol. Actually, those icons were just me trying something different. I didn't realize they would be so despised. I'll try making them more like the originals.

I wanna be nice and say they look just as good if not better than the old buttons. But i wanna be honest and say these icons looks pre-alpha-ish. Everything else is awesome.

 

[Keylime]

May have run into a bug:

Yesterday I was playing with the multi-quote feature, but never actually replied with the multi quotes, just pressed the plus' and hit reply to see if it worked. I saw both quotes show up in the reply and backed out.

Fast forward to today and I quote someone to reply, and low and behold yesterday's multi-quotes were already inserted on top of my new quote.

No big deal, but thought I'd mention it.

Still loving this to death. Great great work.

 

[Shearie]

May have run into a bug:

Yesterday I was playing with the multi-quote feature, but never actually replied with the multi quotes, just pressed the plus' and hit reply to see if it worked. I saw both quotes show up in the reply and backed out.

Fast forward to today and I quote someone to reply, and low and behold yesterday's multi-quotes were already inserted on top of my new quote.

No big deal, but thought I'd mention it.

Still loving this to death. Great great work.

I've noticed that too and it's a little annoying. You can clear all quotes by logging out and back in but there should be some kind of button to press to clear your quotes.

 

[Tunesmith]

I've got multi-quote to work however it's behavior will have to be a little different from the main website. The reason is that mobile browsers pretty much keep the same session open all the time, so the cookie never expires. Also, it's harder for me to detect what quotes belog to what threads using screen scraping. So, to keep it simple and put the logic on vBulletin, here's how I suggest to make it work:

You'll be able to multi-quote within-in the same thread only. No cross thread multi-quoting. Once you press the compose button, your multi-quotes will appear in the message body. Once you submit a post (same thread or not), your prior multi-quote selections are cleared. Also, your multi-quote selections will automatically expire after 24 hours.

I've noticed that too and it's a little annoying. You can clear all quotes by logging out and back in but there should be some kind of button to press to clear your quotes.

Just quoting the current mechanics behind the function. One would assume you wouldn't multiquote if you weren't going to post, thus resolving the issue but I can see where you're coming from. Maybe a decrease of the 24 hour expiry timer to accomodate more manageable "sessions" of GAF activities. I don't personally think many people would have the need to keep quotes for many hours before responding to a post via mobile.

 

[Cudder]

Can the autocorrect for the stock ICS browser be fixed or no?

 

[Doopliss]

Can the autocorrect for the stock ICS browser be fixed or no?

It works for me. I get word suggestions while I'm typing and words it doesn't know are underlined in red so I can tap on them to change them.

 

[kehs]

It works for me. I get word suggestions while I'm typing and words it doesn't know are underlined in red so I can tap on them to change them.

What phone and version ics? It's never worked like that for me.

 

[Dunlop]

What phone and version ics? It's never worked like that for me.

Just quoted you to test.

Looks good from my Optimus one with Opera mini

 

[Doopliss]

What phone and version ics? It's never worked like that for me.

Galaxy S II with Android 4.0.3 (CM9).

 

[ckohler]

I've noticed that too and it's a little annoying. You can clear all quotes by logging out and back in but there should be some kind of button to press to clear your quotes.

I'll look into adding a "clear quotes" link to the compose page.

I can reduce the timeout of the cookie if you guys think 24 hours is too long.

 

[Keylime]

I'll look into adding a "clear quotes" link to the compose page.

I can reduce the timeout of the cookie if you guys think 24 hours is too long.

Maybe the question from my end would be: what's the use case where a timeout of greater than 5 minutes is necessary? I can't think of a situation where I'd want to be selecting multi-quotes for longer than a few seconds, let alone for minutes.

 

[ckohler]

Maybe the question from my end would be: what's the use case where a timeout of greater than 5 minutes is necessary? I can't think of a situation where I'd want to be selecting multi-quotes for longer than a few seconds, let alone for minutes.

Good point. I was siding on the conservative side, in case someone wanted to multi-quote with intention of replying later in the evening. Being on-the-go and all. That's probably not likely to happen, though.

Five or ten minutes after quoting seems like the most typical use case.

 

[noah111]

Maybe the question from my end would be: what's the use case where a timeout of greater than 5 minutes is necessary? I can't think of a situation where I'd want to be selecting multi-quotes for longer than a few seconds, let alone for minutes.

Good point. I was siding on the conservative side, in case someone wanted to multi-quote with intention of replying later in the evening. Being on-the-go and all. That's probably not likely to happen, though.

Five or ten minutes after quoting seems like the most typical use case.

But it needs to be taken into account that this is for mobile use, and not as dedicated as quoting on prime-GAF. I think leaving it to fifteen-twenty minutes or so is more reasonable, as mobile uses should take into account idle times and all that.

Tbh, although 24 hours may be too long, it doesn't really matter if there's just a 'clear previous quotes' option or something.I would rather have to do it manually after a mistake of ending up not posting, than quoting several people, putting the phone in my pocket to do something else, refresh the page and quoting another person, only to find all my previous quotes gone (for example).

 

[mrklaw]

might be a pain, but is there any way to bump the right-margin icons slightly left when viewing on a vita? they're so small and so far to the right that they're either difficult to press, or you accidentally press one of the menu buttons for the web browser which are also on the right side of the vita

 

[noah111]

Nice job on changing the multi/quote button opacities, ckohler! Looks much better.

 

[woahitsreeo]

Kind of nitpicky, but the Post/Update button's corners aren't transparent and don't blend in to the menu header like the drop down menu button does.

 

[Cudder]

Also is the dark theme going to make a comeback in the mockup?

 

[Complex Shadow]

Also is the dark theme going to make a comeback in the mockup?

Please be true. I love the dark theme. Even wih it's broken spoiler tags.

 

[DefectiveReject]

I get a few issues where the previous page sometimes overlays the current page

E.g. I log in, takes me to the menu.
I click Gaming and the menu is laying over the top of the topics in gaming
Clicking a post and going back clears it!

 

[ckohler]

I get a few issues where the previous page sometimes overlays the current page

E.g. I log in, takes me to the menu.
I click Gaming and the menu is laying over the top of the topics in gaming
Clicking a post and going back clears it!

What menu and what phone are you using?

 

[Meier]

Just found out about this the other day and remembered to try it on my phone. Super sharp but I am a little disappointed by the change of the top bar (Gaming/OT) not swapping to the other rather than zooming to the bottom of the page. That was definitely one of the nicer sort of hidden features.

 

[jet1911]

Just found out about this the other day and remembered to try it on my phone. Super sharp but I am a little disappointed by the change of the top bar (Gaming/OT) not swapping to the other rather than zooming to the bottom of the page. That was definitely one of the nicer sort of hidden features.

You can press "view forum" and it will ask you if you want to switch forum (gaming/OT)

 

[Meier]

You can press "view forum" and it will ask you if you want to switch forum (gaming/OT)

Oops, just swapped over to the old version to double check and was going to edit but ya caught me. Right, the new version doesn't have that "View Forum" bar that you click to switch back and forth.

 

[Host Samurai]

For some reason the app does not appear on the Iphone 4 Verizon. I search NeoGaf and no luck.

 

[D4Danger]

For some reason the app does not appear on the Iphone 4 Verizon. I search NeoGaf and no luck.

It's not an app. Just point your browser at http://secondapps.com/mockup

thread title needs an update

 

[Divvy]

Just wanted to chime in and say fantastic work on the mockup.

I do hope the dark theme makes its return.

 

[Woz]

Love the mockup, I use it even on Safari OS X :>

 

[kehs]

I'll bring up a few things about the usage/layout that are really bugging me.

The quick links menu seems more logical placed at the bottom of the screen instead of the top.

You use the quick links when you're done reading a thread, typically at the last post.

The place where the reply/new thread would be a great spot for the quick links instead.

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The reply/new thread button is too detached from the thread's content, especially with the ad in place now.

I suggested it earlier, but instead of the "Go to page" being prominent dead center, that should be the reply/new thread button.

I can imagine too many people using the "Go to page" more than the reply/new thread buttons.

 

[teiresias]

You can press "view forum" and it will ask you if you want to switch forum (gaming/OT)

It would be very nice if Community was added to this selection, mainly because since Poligaf got moved to Community I'm in that particular sub-section a great deal more than I used to be.

 

[Divvy]

It would be very nice if Community was added to this selection, mainly because since Poligaf got moved to Community I'm in that particular sub-section a great deal more than I used to be.

It is though.

 

[ckohler]

I'll bring up a few things about the usage/layout that are really bugging me.

The quick links menu seems more logical placed at the bottom of the screen instead of the top.

You use the quick links when you're done reading a thread, typically at the last post.

The place where the reply/new thread would be a great spot for the quick links instead.

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The reply/new thread button is too detached from the thread's content, especially with the ad in place now.

I suggested it earlier, but instead of the "Go to page" being prominent dead center, that should be the reply/new thread button.

I can imagine too many people using the "Go to page" more than the reply/new thread buttons.

I don't agree with the menu being at the bottom. I prefer it at the top where people expect it to be.

What does everyone else think about Copernicus' suggestion of swapping the "Go To Page" and "Compose" buttons? I like how keeping all the navigation controls all grouped together. It also makes it easier to code because I they don't have to change their layout based on if you are logged in or not.

 

[Nero3000]

So I was playing around with Windows 8 on a tablet, and the new mockup (great work by the way!) doesn't work on the Metro IE10, it just gives a link to the desktop version.

Can we add support for it?