Hi guys,

Over the last few months, we've been developing a completely new interface for Omegaforums.net to replace the existing one. We've analysed how people use and interact with the forum, which controls and aspects work, which are not used, which are convenient and which need to be made more so in developing the new interface in order to make it faster and more intuitive to use.

Our crew of moderators have been on the new version for a week or two now, with myself and Trev having used it for about two months during testing, and we're at the point where we're keen to open it up for public testing before we bring it online for all users, so we're keen for anyone that's interested in trying it ahead of time volunteering to be switched to the new style.

What we need from you if you're interested is to make a post below, with your operating system and web browser version (example, Windows 7 Ultimate, Google Chrome 25). We will then switch you over to OF2, if you experience any bugs or issues, please reply to this thread with the problems you experience, screenshots, and as much detail as possible, Thanks!

Screenshots of Omegaforums 2.0:

 

Gavin CanberraOmega alam gatorcpa X350 XJR pitpro and others you guys keen?

 

Android tablet? What model?

 

Do you use tapatalk or just the normal website?

 

K, its not entirely polished on tablets but see how you go

 

To summarize:
- On desktop sized displays, we're about 95% complete. IE8 or less isn't tested. This is all very new, some popup dialogs aren't even styled. It's pretty stable and nice if you're on recent versions of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and IE9+.
- For tablets we're about 60% there, don't expect it to be pretty (or even close to as fast as the final version will be).
- For phones, it's not finished or suitable. This includes big phones likes the Sammy Note2.

 

Excellent

I'm taking the weekend off from coding/design work. I went a bit nuts on it and burnt myself out. Forum browsing only, no building

 

... seven? uh oh, I've only ever seen this happen in the military, and other government agencies

That browser was released 4 years before the iPad was even invented, to put things in perspective re: tech time-lines. Unfortunately, we're not aiming for anything below IE8. Even IE8 isn't a priority.

Users with IE7 and less will see the following notice:

Essentially, IE7 would be pretty messy looking, perhaps unusable in some areas. We're using CSS selectors and other modern/clean code that it doesn't understand

ΩF1 would've been "ok" on 7, but we've stripped out all of the legacy cruft that was wasting space.

 

You could be correct. I know a guy in the Aus military who mentioned they were still running IE7 everywhere, at least where he was.

We would like to support old browsers too, of course. It just reaches a point where the effort/benefit ratio makes it very impractical.

 

Ok if you're on Windows 7 you're fine, its IE8+ by default

 

At home - Windows 8 Home and IE10
At work - Windows 7 Pro and IE8
On cellphone - iPhone 5 and Safari Mobile.

Not sure if this helps or hurts,
gatorcpa