Website layout

Totally get what neildmoss is saying.

Especially regarding the comments on forum threads.

Could there be a way of lessening adverts for Team Road.cc members perhaps? (as per STW)

I appreciate the new found speed of the site but it just feels a bit like the site hasn't quite been finished yet. Sorry, just being honest, so no offence to those working hard behind the scenes.

My feedback:

Visually, it's not as polished. Whilst it's more responsive and presents better on my mobile phone, it looks less professional generally - more like a teenager blog.

Bootstrap templates are great startpoints, but I don't believe they stand up as the final product.

The absence of any Forum activity information on the homepage (e.g. latest comments) is a loss.

Forum sorting doesn't - click the Topic, Replies or Last Reply headers and the resulting list is different, but the order doesn't bear any resemblence to the selected column type or direction.

The ordering of comments within a Forum post doesn't preserve my preference. I am a fan of "Oldest First" so I can follow the conversation on screen in the order it occurred. If I change it on one thread, I'd like the site to remember that. OR... I could declare a more persistent preference in my user profile.

I don't want to automatically be subscribed for notifications when a comment is added to a thread. I get enough email, thanks. Let me opt-in on a thread-by-thread basis, but otherwise don't send me this stuff.

Site is faster for me, less content on front page but adverts v annoying now!

Need the latest comments feature back otherwise forum contributions likely to drop

Also ordering topics by post date seems more confusing now

I've got to admit the Leyzene ad is awfully distracting, in a bad way before all the advertising suits say that is what they were going for, it just makes me scroll past faster.

Give the site time, we will all get used to it. 

It's faster now!  I'm happier.

I do not wish to disparage the hard work of people who know more than I do about web design and running a business but-- well, hopefully this feeling of a wonderful thing having become less wonderful will subside.  

Not a fan of the new layout

Too many picture tiles on the main page, no list of the latest forum posts on the right anymore

It just becomes a blur when you scroll

Maybe things will change, will pop back and check now and again but the main page really does put me off viewing the site

Also the edit button has gone, everytime some quotes you, you get a damn email, all the writing has shrunken and is hardly readable....

I know this website is free and therefore I accept that we will see lots of adverts. But have you any idea how annoying the flashing is on the Lezyne advert?

Also the site now appears to be even slower on my IPad.

i fail to see any advantages to the new layout and a number of major disadvantages.

Sadly Iwill not be coming back to it as frequently