New Website Design

I thought join date was important for a few reasons. 1) if someone's been a BA for like 12 years, I think it's important to give credit where credit's due and recognize that person's contribution to the community. 2) Join date puts certain posts into context. If someone posts a question that may seem naive or misguided to some BAs (and I've seen this plenty of times), knowing that they're new to the site helps us take it with a grain of salt and offer the most appropriate guidance rather than dismissing it outright.

As with beer karma it was a good indicator of experience and contribution to the BA community.

 

I like the site not locking up or crashing daily around 8:30 to 9:00 PM Central!!!

 

Nothing on this front? Am I the only one with this or just crazy?

 

Fair enough. I disabled the adblocker on this site, and you're right, that 1/3 of the screen is for the ads.

Thanks for answering me. At least I know I'm not crazy

 

On things to consider, I'm with the people that liked having the beer pics that went with the App. Hoping it will be on the 4.0 version.

 

Maybe I'm missing it, but does the mobile site have a way to jump to the first unread post in a thread? I wind up using that feature quite a bit on my laptop.

 

Anytime I am logged in and a click on a thread that I have read before, it automatically goes to the first unread post. On my laptop, ipad mini, and phone. It does it on all 3. Only time It messes up a bit is when loading the latest haul thread etc, since it has lots of images and loads a little slower on mobile because of that.

 

I'd say the difference is that the homepage "join the discussion" area pulls in the new posts from only some of the main forums. But not the sub forums.

Whereas if you go to "New Posts" it is new posts for EVERYTHING. Most that I don't care about. Regional sub forums, international, homebrewing, new members, etc. Way too much content that isn't relevant to the majority of people. It would be different if you could make this only populate with that forums sections that you subscribe to, rather than an all in setup.

 

It does on a lot of threads but not all of them. I just went to "post a picture of your latest haul" and I'm on post #1. It seems like this happens to me most often on longer threads or threads that go "dormant" for a few months (the "Bell's 30th Anniversary Ale" thread comes to mind). Before the responsive redesign, the "first unread" link was available since the mobile & desktop site looked the same.