While these changes may appear out of the blue or uncalled for, they aren't. TL is an old website and more things than just the look were outdated - we needed an update for functionality.

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

August 01 2015 01:46 GMT

#463

On August 01 2015 09:17 felisconcolori wrote:
Colors are a bit muted for my tastes, also Plexa have you already noticed that your super cool custom icons and formatting that shouts out that you're staff/mod/etc are gone?

Makes it slightly tougher to scan through a thread when looking for posts from TL staff/mods.

Would it be possible to have a setting which specifies an alternate style sheet addressing different colors/styles? Sure I could do something like that with Stylish, but just a thought.

Yes, it was the first thing we noticed

the transition from the dev site to the main site was met with some difficulties and a number of bugs that weren't present on the dev site. The icons being one of those.

I imagine we'll be fixing some of the contrast (or rather lack of contrast) issues over the coming days, but there's a few more pressing things to be fixed before then. Sit tight!

As an interim 'fix' the following greasemonkey script will change the color of the TL background from white to an grey-ish purple which I find to be much easier on the eyes. It's not a perfect solution, but might helping reading before we can get to it.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        TL Background
// @namespace   TL_Background
// @include     [url=http://*.teamliquid.net/*]http://*.teamliquid.net/*[/url]
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==
document.body.style.background = "#aeb0c5";

ZAiNs

United Kingdom6525 Posts

August 01 2015 02:07 GMT

#464

It looks nice but I see a lot less topic title text in the sidebar which means I can't tell the difference between the Day 1 and Day 2 LR topics for example. Also sometimes I like to have my browser pretty skinny and set TL to 90% zoom which makes it fit perfectly, now I have to zoom out way too far to see the sidebars

EleanorRIgby

Canada3923 Posts

August 01 2015 02:13 GMT

#465

i loved the last new update, i remember back in 2006-2008 when it had such a simple and ugly design lol. im not really liking this update though, everything is so light.

art_of_turtle

United States1210 Posts

August 01 2015 03:06 GMT

#466

Quote button is really hard to see.

xTJx

Brazil419 Posts

August 01 2015 03:20 GMT

#467

old live events box was much better imo, and i can't find where i click to hide those filthy casual gaming streams and leave only BW and SC2 streams in my list.

MountainDewJunkie

United States10348 Posts

August 01 2015 03:21 GMT

#468

On August 01 2015 08:23 Ack1027 wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +

+ Show Spoiler +

I am having this same problem!

I can't zoom out without the right-hand menu jumping to the bottom page!

Also, not a fan of this update.

ninjamyst

United States1903 Posts

August 01 2015 03:21 GMT

#469

love the new design! so much cleaner.

Cyro

United Kingdom20345 Posts

August 01 2015 03:57 GMT

#470

On August 01 2015 10:16 Chairman Ray wrote:
Design seems better, but will take me some getting used to

As soon as the colors (especially background+fonts) are changed to be readable and the mouseover dropdown-after-short-delay stuff is just put there 24/7 in some of the huge empty free space like it used to be :D

There's just no reason for text to be grey, especially light grey on a light grey-blueish background. It was very clean and readable before

Introvert

United States5093 Posts

August 01 2015 03:58 GMT

#471

I don't usually care about such things, but I felt like the old design was more 'beefy' and everything was quite distinct. I liked it. This is just kind of flat. Looks like a mobile version of TL.

JimmyJRaynor

Canada18050 Posts

August 01 2015 04:05 GMT

#472

On August 01 2015 01:39 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

Show nested quote +

+1

the old TL.Net look was ESPN.com style ugly.
Baseball-Reference.com is another ugly looking, but functionally amazing site.

the old ESPN.com and Baseball-Reference.com sites are the best sports site ever made in terms of functionality.

i prefer the old TL.Net, however, i'm willing to give the new style some time to see if it grows on me.

now that the ride side bar is working properly i'd like to retract my previous complaints.

i still prefer the older site design, however, i'd say the current site design is only 5% worse.

On August 01 2015 12:58 Introvert wrote:
I don't usually care about such things, but I felt like the old design was more 'beefy' and everything was quite distinct. I liked it. This is just kind of flat. Looks like a mobile version of TL.

i feel the same way. again though, i feel like this design is only slightly worse than the old design.

c3rberUs

Japan11968 Posts

August 01 2015 04:07 GMT

#473

Uh, I don't know if this has been mentioned already but the BW replays section looks like this

By.herO - Light[aLive]Bisu - Zero
Bisu - ZerOSsak - Trutacz
Trutacz - By.Probe

instead of

By.herO - Light[aLive]
Bisu - Zero
Bisu - ZerO
Ssak - Trutacz
Trutacz - By.Probe

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

August 01 2015 04:29 GMT

#474

Looks great on my Surface Pro 3, but the right sidebar feels far too wide on my Macbook Pro.

poboxy

Canada48 Posts

August 01 2015 04:54 GMT

#475

The good part:

Looks good, responsive as hell.

The bad and almost deal breaker:

The calendar now is pure shit. Cute but adds way way way more clicks to get to essential information. Makes it quite useless to me as it is now.

Can we please have the old calendar back with all in one page without having to click for every little detail?

Arceus

Vietnam8333 Posts

August 01 2015 04:58 GMT

#476

Is it just me or the site's visual focus (sorry dont know the correct term) seems to be placed on the left. My eyes and neck move left every time I switch to teamliquid tab. Please adjust the width of all three major "columns"

Also the background of the post might be too light too

Cyro

United Kingdom20345 Posts

August 01 2015 05:02 GMT

#477

On August 01 2015 13:58 Arceus wrote:
Is it just me or the site's visual focus (sorry dont know the correct term) seems to be placed on the left. My eyes and neck move left every time I switch to teamliquid tab. Please adjust the width of all three major "columns"

Also the background of the post might be too light too

The main/center column is off-center to the left on 1920x1080. There's about 15% more white space on the right side.

MountainDewJunkie

United States10348 Posts

August 01 2015 05:08 GMT

#478

What's the the # of comments link on top? How is this useful? You click it and it does *nothing* It seems like it should not be linked to anything and just be a note. Looks like an error.

The chasm between steamers and viewers might be related to why the whole damn thing jumps to the bottom of the page when you zoom out? The actual thread/content of the page should be centered like it was before. It's off by an annoying amount.

Why are events at the BOTTOM? They need to be at the top again!

I'm sorry, quote and report are way too light. I had to read through some posts to find out where they hell they were haha But anyway the contrast of that color on the pale gray is actually hurting my eyes.

Hiding PM and Profile under a little tab makes no sense to me. Just have them both out and available like before.

And yeah, the X minutes/days/weeks ago thing needs to go. Please return the time stamp.

I'm really surprised by this update. Usually after a complete site update here, there's like... two things slightly bugged that are quickly remedied. Atop many functions that are actually improved. I frankly don't see anything that makes this easier to use, coupled with some really, really odd usability choices.

EDIT: Why the extra-large gap at the bottom of every post?

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

August 01 2015 05:22 GMT

#479

Thread pages are a lot easier hit on a phone.

FFGenerations

7088 Posts

August 01 2015 05:31 GMT

#480

hiding comment and profile (and there is no blog link) might look cleaner/cooler but if i was a new user to the site i would be pissed as hell to go a whole year without figuring out those links exist :D idk im not bothered either way but ive been a new user on other websites and got mad looking for things in their interfaces like that