Originally Posted by alienator .
Don't need any time, because it won't grow on me. I could care less about hot links to retailers. It's not as if they're difficult to find. User reviews? There are thousands at Roadbikereview.com, and they are, for the most part, worthless. The paucity of reviews that will exist here for years will be even worse. After reading a review, you get the big opportunity to say if the review was helpful....well, you don't get to say "no", only "yes". That's mighty helpful. Does anyone really think one or two lines of review are helpful?
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I'm not sure why Steve even bothered to ask people if they wanted to evaluate the new format beforehand. He absolutely did not give adequate time to do so, and he certainly didn't leave enough time for him to take said reviews into consideration. Lip service describes that situation well. The change over was already a done deal. What the hell was he even asking for opinions for then? WTF asks for opinions when they don't plan on considering said opinions?
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Spam? It's already here, but then we still have the same mods so maybe that's to be expected.
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It seems usability was given very little thought. WTF knows what the criteria for a new "format" were.
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Wiki sections? No different than stickies and possibly worse. Given some of the whacked stuff that's believed on this forum, does anyone really expect wiki stuff to help? It's cutesy but doesn't add anything to usability.
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Gone is the ability to go right to the end of a thread from the sub-forum index. Gone is the ability to use vBB (It's been dumbed down for no apparent reason). The site is slower. Readability is worse as contrast doesn't exist. For no known reason, clicking on images causes them to open in a new window (or tab).
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But hoooooo doggie: we can now insert horizontal lines! Woo hoo! What a victory!
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Alas, I'm as interested to hear Steve's rational for choosing this kack as he was to take into consideration people's opinions of test drives, which is to say not very."
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Alienator, I couldn't agree more!