Published on 12, July, 2020
Brand update and maintenance, 26 September - more details
..."more Details" links to information saying:
Brand and site maintenance - 26 September 2018Owing to planned maintenance, this site will be unavailable overnight on 26 September, including the early hours of 27 September. We are doing two pieces of work:
Refreshing the design to reflect the National Autistic Society's new brand.Updating the software to a new version. The main benefit to this should be improvements to the listing of messages in threads, and the flagging of new messages. We want to implement this in order to help with problems that users have reported
...The words "new brand" link to a (small) Page, here:www.autism.org.uk/.../2018-09-13-changing.aspx
... いま, From myself: I begin this Thread because that is one of the things which I myself used to be most useful for, upon this Forum... But Now things are different and so I Post less (!). Also, However, not everyone notices the Main NAS message, and, also, WebPM says that "As ever, your feedback after the update is welcome." upon the following Thread:
community.autism.org.uk/.../82297
...Lastly from me, this next Link is actually the latest Thread for Posting "Strange" Things... but not many people remembered it...
community.autism.org.uk/.../
...That Thread contains many Links to other Threads which are for specific problems (Older Errors, Notifications, Ideas, Spam, Copybots, etc.).
In closing: All in all, Thanks NAS - especially Mr.WebPM. And Good Luck to all.
(This is an example of what I mean. The red arrow points to white writing upon a white background.)
WebPM said:the style clashes
(...So that is what we are calling them, instead of colour or design errors. Okay...)
While waiting for these to be resolved, I just found another bad one: White upon White - there is no seeing that at all! This is for new Users who have not (yet) posted a picture onto the background of their Profile page. All of the buttons (activity, mentions, likes, blogs, etc.) ARE there... but the writing is White upon White.
To see what I mean, click upon anyone who seems "new", with a 'Generic' Icon and <> "NAS12345" as Username. Next to the Icon is just whitespace... but the writing IS there...! (Have fun checking this, anyone...(!))
NAS --- This is SO wrong...
I can confirm that we are certainly looking at your feedback, in this thread and others. As I have mentioned, we are working on a package of minor changes to resolve some of the style clashes that you have highlighted. Those certainly include the things mentioned in the last couple of messages here.
They will go through our normal process, so please be patient while we complete the work. It may be a couple of weeks.
Here is another one. Thank You to "Caretwo" for this:
...PLEASE at least look at the pictures we are posting here, NAS...?! This has little to do with Autism but much to do with Common Sense as applied to Graphic Design, surely (Violet upon Black, White upon Grey)...?
Greetings, all. This is just a Post with links to other Threads about the New Look of the Site/Forum. ( WebPM said that it is both useful to start other Threads and also to keep to one Thread... So, um, what...? )...:
https://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/13506/is-the-new-website-too-bright/
https://community.autism.org.uk/f/adults-on-the-autistic-spectrum/13509/unread-notifications-lightning-bolt-thing/
https://community.autism.org.uk/f/miscellaneous-and-chat/13447/a-little-niggle-with-the-site-revamp/
...Thanks!
To Robert and DC,,, posting screen captured images are random,,, sometimes they post and yet the same ones won’t,,
anyway yes to both of you,, the white on white cannot be seen by me even if I zoom right in? I randomly hit the space from memory,, until DC posted the picture I assumed the boxes were no longer a feature!
And yes purple on black,,, May as well not exist.
Also other boxes are so bright with blue plus purple letters they are not visible..
A total mess, on face book NAS has had a lot of negative feed back,, cost of new image,,, no real benefit,,, no one seems to have been consulted or an opinion sought ... just who did they talk to regards the new look site?
...Good Grief, NAS... Yes Mr.Robert123 I actually mentioned it twice here already, but NAS said nothing about it. Mr LoneWarrior also mentioned the Violet-On-Black thing twice already. Here is the picture I posted above -again:
...Maybe NAS will notice now... but again it is the weekend and so there may be no reply until Monday -again...
I haven't read all the posts so I'm not sure if anyone has noticed this.
But on my smartphone, when replying to the original post. I am finding it difficult to see the; Cancel Like More. Options. Because they are white on an off-white background.
See examples below.
...Further convoluting this Thread, I am re-posting here a thing which was upon the other Thread, because that other Thread is being totally ignored... but this I thought was important and darned useful.
D.C. Said (upon the other Thread):
I began this Thread for reasons said, up there. The first thing is that, upon the Community Home Screen, upon a Touch Device, what used to happen was HIGHLIGHTING. (In Pink.) Now this does not happen. Please bring it back - it was rather essential.
E.g. - Title of Thread - Last answer 1 Hour ago - by "ABCDEFG"
Highlighted - Title of Thread (in a different colour) - Last answer 1 Hour ago - by "ABCDEFG"
...We used to be able see which Lines were selected. But now we cannot. And that "Boldface" thing has no connection to reality at all: I post into a Thread and it turns BOLD, but I simply visit a Thread and that is BOLD as well, and I visit then vote up a person in a Thread and that is sometimes Bold and sometimes not.
...Here is a part of the Alcatel Site...
...And here is likely what you mean, maybe...
...so now I might know: it is not supposed to be a Q or an O, but an A (lowercase " a "), hmmm...
Not the original picture but this one loaded so!
I knew I had seen the new logo somewhere.
spotted it today when someone showed me something in an Argos catalogue.
maybe not so colourful but still just like a Q!
Yes a Q.
it was an Alcatel mobile!
Alc”Q”tel! Mobile phones.
(Picture size to big)
I have experienced slow loading both before AND after this update. I have cleared my cache and it makes no difference.
...For the time being, I can do this, and so here is what I mean; even in zooming, how easy is it to see the words "Like" and "More" at the top of this Thread, here?
...And Mr.LoneWarrior already put pictures of the Violet-On-Black thing, and so I should not need to post pictures of that. Sort it out, Thanks.
WebPM said:We'll look into the lack of zoom on mobile as well.
...Again Thanks for a reply. But... changing font size and "zoom" are two different matters: We touchscreen users (me at least) can "zoom" in using the old two-finger-pinch-out gesture, and so that was NOT a big problem. The problem was text in general being very small, which is a very old problem, even upon laptops - e.g. the reply box...
...However my main point of posting is that that is not the worst of the problems - please sort out the colours, first, please - the White-upon-Grey thing as well as the violet-in-black thing... Please...
(One cannot zoom in upon text if it cannot be seen in the first place!)
We'll look into the lack of zoom on mobile as well.
Trogluddite said:1) Thanks for the advice; after clearing my browser cache, the home page links do seem to be working OK now.
...Yes, this worked for myself, also, and so Thanks.
Trogluddite said:Thanks for the speedy response, WebPM (if only other sites had such a responsive web-dev!)
...Just to say that I sometimes try to say this - I often Thank Mr.WebPM as separate. from NAS - but no-one is really allowed to make the distinction...(!)
...In short, this Post here is again Thanking WebPM for maintaining this Forum, and NAS for allowing it in the first place. Again. :-)
...I read this now, Sir. Thanks for this. This is going to sound mad, but... this is likely a Topic for...
YET ANOTHER NEW THREAD...? :-(