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Korodzik Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Nov 22nd 2010 at 11:05:33 PM

Just see:

http://yfrog.com/hqtinyp

It's not like this on the forums, just on the trope pages.

Is it just a problem on my part? It's quite inconvenient, especially the itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie watchlist buttons.

edited 22nd Nov '10 11:06:42 PM by Korodzik

Nightraid May Dhunia guide me on my path. Since: Jan, 2001
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#2: Nov 22nd 2010 at 11:35:05 PM

I had the same problem a few hours ago, but everything seems fine now. I guess the staff is trying to make the buttons more ergonomic. Looks pretty good so far.

edited 22nd Nov '10 11:36:38 PM by Nightraid

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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#3: Nov 23rd 2010 at 3:43:18 AM

My "your profile" button is split in half over two lines. Otherwise they look fine. Any idea why only "your profile" is messed up?

Agent0042 Creator - Laconic/24 from Dayton, Ohio Since: Apr, 2009
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#4: Nov 23rd 2010 at 11:01:24 AM

I don't know about small buttons, but now I'm seeing especially large ones over on the right side, messing up the flow of the page by pushing everything down.

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VonOppendown from Ice Box, USA Since: Aug, 2010
#5: Nov 23rd 2010 at 11:09:40 AM

I'm having the same problem as Agent, as well as having the buttons on the homepage appear to all be left-aligned.

Yamikuronue So Yeah Since: Aug, 2009
#6: Nov 23rd 2010 at 11:13:15 AM

^ I have that: [1]

edited 23rd Nov '10 11:13:25 AM by Yamikuronue

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carla Since: Jan, 2010
#7: Nov 23rd 2010 at 11:42:46 AM

you gotta love it when one little thing goes out of whack and half a second later everybody's going "omg what is going OOOOON?!" evil grin oh, i do love you, internet. tongue

Angeldog2437 from New York Since: Jun, 2010
#8: Nov 23rd 2010 at 1:46:06 PM

Same here. Also, the Google search bar's looking different. I kinda liked the previous one, the one without the blue.

chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#9: Nov 23rd 2010 at 2:52:38 PM

...Some of the buttons are gone now.

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#10: Nov 23rd 2010 at 8:01:18 PM

This is what I'm seeing.

http://yfrog.com/eiweirdlayoutp

edited 23rd Nov '10 8:02:04 PM by lalalei2001

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Wulf Gotta trope, dood! from Louisiana Since: Jan, 2001
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#11: Nov 24th 2010 at 12:42:27 AM

All the buttons on the far left are showing up with about half the blue's length in white space be for me. Gonna try clearing cache and see if that fixes anything.

EDIT: Annnd, now they're white rather than blue. Guess we got a site redesign...

EDIT 2: Looks like this redesign hasn't expanded to any of the tabbed page types, though... odd.

edited 24th Nov '10 12:50:39 AM by Wulf

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TibetanFox Feels Good, Man from Death Continent Since: Oct, 2010
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#12: Nov 24th 2010 at 2:39:36 AM

I like this new layout. I don't know if the font is different, but it all looks kinda sharper now.

Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#13: Nov 24th 2010 at 3:38:16 AM

I, also, like the new layout.

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Specialist290 Since: Jan, 2001
#14: Nov 24th 2010 at 8:23:14 AM

I don't know; it might be a purely psychological thing, but I liked the blue buttons a lot more than the current design. The white buttons just seem a little... soulless somehow.

DocStrange Sorcerer Supreme from Rhode Island Since: Jan, 2001
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#15: Nov 24th 2010 at 10:55:36 AM

You know what I see on my desktop computer?

  • New Edits, View Source and Make A To Do are longer than the rest, but the actual blue part with the names of the buttons are only in half of the button and there's white space on the other half.
  • The whole bottom row of buttons have a red outline. I suppose that means they're for logged-in users only?
  • On the Main Page, The Sugar Wiki (excluding the cupcake logo) and Haiku tabs are on a second, centered line, which obscure parts of the Playing With and Laconic tab

As for non-buggy stuff, I'll probably get used to that Search Bar in the right hand corner.

edited 24th Nov '10 10:57:10 AM by DocStrange

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Yamikuronue So Yeah Since: Aug, 2009
#16: Nov 24th 2010 at 1:08:42 PM

The top ad on the forum overlaps the forum special nav bar (About the forums, Tweets, Mailbox, etc)

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DocStrange Sorcerer Supreme from Rhode Island Since: Jan, 2001
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#17: Nov 24th 2010 at 1:54:31 PM

Issue #1 of the three issues I noticed has been fixed, but i'm not totally convinced that the "fix" was caused by the Thanksgiving logo being larger than the regular TV Tropes.

Also, that last row of buttons is no longer in red.

Which means the only problem I still see is the last one, which likely only affects certain users who have a certain screen resolutions (as I've only seen it on one other computer).

edited 24th Nov '10 1:55:37 PM by DocStrange

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DocStrange Sorcerer Supreme from Rhode Island Since: Jan, 2001
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#18: Nov 24th 2010 at 2:04:25 PM

Eek, the whole forum just went all Times New Roman there for a second.

Is that also the reason that the site is now all white instead of White/Blue/Goldenrod?

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Angeldog2437 from New York Since: Jun, 2010
#19: Nov 24th 2010 at 3:06:02 PM

I kinda liked the previous layout better. This one is all weird and spaced out, and I liked the trope icons centered, and the redirect box's too big. D;

shadowmagus Since: Jan, 2001
#20: Nov 24th 2010 at 3:23:19 PM

Ew, now a lot of the buttons are at the top above the logo and stretching my page out. Do not want.

Angeldog2437 from New York Since: Jun, 2010
DocStrange Sorcerer Supreme from Rhode Island Since: Jan, 2001
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#22: Nov 24th 2010 at 3:27:01 PM

yeah, that "row o' buttons at the top" doesn't look very good (especially because it now stretches out the page vertically). I liked it perfectly fine when it was three rows of three. Sure, the edit button was kind of buried but at least the buttons didn't stretch the page.

edited 24th Nov '10 3:32:13 PM by DocStrange

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#23: Nov 24th 2010 at 4:08:41 PM

Seriously, I have to scroll pages horizontally now.

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YamiiDenryuu Since: Jan, 2010
#24: Nov 24th 2010 at 4:09:54 PM

Couldn't there just be two rows of buttons below the logo like before? They'll be longer than before, but I don't think it'll stretch....

Draco234 Since: Dec, 1969
#25: Nov 24th 2010 at 4:25:45 PM

The buttons on the main page are above the logo. I think someone goofed.


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