We're back to this again?!? Netgear, if I can't tell what topics I've read, I can't keep up, and I can't assist people. Either figure it out or revert and stay there - there was nothing wrong with the old forum! Rodney

Agree 100% This new format is god-awful. I know it's intended to accomodate mobile users, but it's a complete trainwreck on desktop. Maybe it's beautiful on mobile, but I'll never know since I don't use my phone to visit these forums.

This. Plus Netgear seems to have followed the absolutely ridiculous trend of ultra-low contrast UIs. I know it's trendy with the developer crowd, but light grey on lighter grey on white is a HORRIBLE choice for a UI. Thrown in small thin line font and you get a UI that is the very definition of anti-ergonomic.Suggestions:1. Roll back...2. Reassign your web UI developers to fixing the ORBI UI. Simple features like disabling auto-update and valid data in status screens are long overdue.rhester72 wrote:We're back to this again?!? Netgear, if I can't tell what topics I've read, I can't keep up, and I can't assist people. Either figure it out or revert and stay there - there was nothing wrong with the old forum! Rodney

I agree the new format is poor. However, topics you have not read are in Bold font. Topics you have read are normal. The problem is the font, because the difference between bold and normal is almost imperceptible.

Below is what I see. It's awful. It has already reduced the number of threads I read by 75%.

rhester72 wrote:We're back to this again?!? Netgear, if I can't tell what topics I've read, I can't keep up, and I can't assist people. Either figure it out or revert and stay there - there was nothing wrong with the old forum! RodneyAgreed. This new layout seems like a step back. Some simple improvements like actual topic categories and integrated multi-quote would be nice so there isn't just a landing page with every single Orbi thread ever created with 90+ pages and no organization.

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OrbiPhilip
Luminary
Jul 19, 2017
This. Plus Netgear seems to have followed the absolutely ridiculous trend of ultra-low contrast UIs.

I know it's trendy with the developer crowd, but light grey on lighter grey on white is a HORRIBLE choice for a UI. Thrown in small thin line font and you get a UI that is the very definition of anti-ergonomic.

Suggestions:
1. Roll back...
2. Reassign your web UI developers to fixing the ORBI UI. Simple features like disabling auto-update and valid data in status screens are long overdue.

rhester72 wrote:
We're back to this again?!?

Netgear, if I can't tell what topics I've read, I can't keep up, and I can't assist people.

Either figure it out or revert and stay there - there was nothing wrong with the old forum!

Rodney
st_shaw
Master
Jul 19, 2017
I agree the new format is poor. However, topics you have not read are in Bold font. Topics you have read are normal. The problem is the font, because the difference between bold and normal is almost imperceptible.
- OrbiPhilip
  Luminary
  Jul 19, 2017
  Below is what I see. It's awful. It has already reduced the number of threads I read by 75%.
- st_shaw
  Master
  Jul 19, 2017
  I can just barely see the bolding on the iPad and on Safari on Mac. The letters are ever so slightly thicker. I don't think I can see it at all on Windows 10 in the Edge browser.
- rhester72
  Virtuoso
  Jul 19, 2017
  I checked - on Chrome on Windows, there is literally not a single pixel differentiating read topics from unread. It may well vary by brower and platform.
  
  Rodney
  - ArtLee
    Apprentice
    Jul 19, 2017
    Of course, every computer is different, but fwiw, I have no problem at all seeing bolded (and unread) entries in the topics list.
Hydro130
Luminary
Jul 19, 2017
Agree 100%

This new format is god-awful.

I know it's intended to accomodate mobile users, but it's a complete trainwreck on desktop.

Maybe it's beautiful on mobile, but I'll never know since I don't use my phone to visit these forums.
captain_phaser
Apprentice
Jul 19, 2017
rhester72 wrote:
We're back to this again?!?

Netgear, if I can't tell what topics I've read, I can't keep up, and I can't assist people.

Either figure it out or revert and stay there - there was nothing wrong with the old forum!

Rodney
Agreed. This new layout seems like a step back. Some simple improvements like actual topic categories and integrated multi-quote would be nice so there isn't just a landing page with every single Orbi thread ever created with 90+ pages and no organization.
- martyfp
  Luminary
  Jul 19, 2017
  er. I have to agree. This is not an improvement....
  
  also missing is the link to jump to the latest post. It should have a link here...

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