Hey all,
So as some of you have already noticed, the site has gone from 4.0 to 5.0. I would like to personally thank all the @Development Advisers who participated from the start of this to the finish and gave feedback along the way.
We are already starting to see reports of how much faster it is to load the site for plenty of users, which brings me to our next point.
3/3.5/4 mostly focused on code fixes and some minor improvements (4 over 3, with a more professional, slick feel). 5, while it fixes the rest of the code issues (by cleaning up several insanely massive CSS Files into nothing more than one document with several lines), focuses more on the visual side of things by removing all gradients (worthless CSS as mentioned before), unneeded images built into the style for depth, or other nonsense. For all intents and purposes this is truly a flat design, the flattest RpN has ever been.
Thus, loading times for mobile alone are 2-3 times faster, just like on desktop.
Apart from loading times the design utilizes the space better. One obvious example is this:
vs
Of course the giant logo did not help but even after that, so much space existed before you could even reach the first section of the site.
Aside from the above example, the idea of utilizing space better has been used all across the site, even the actual forum list itself is more compact and less overwhelming to read.
There have also been several bug fixes including, but not limited to (seriously, there's a lot more):
If you notice something that is missing/broken or just have feedback in general, please post below
!
Note: The current logo is still a work in progress.
So as some of you have already noticed, the site has gone from 4.0 to 5.0. I would like to personally thank all the @Development Advisers who participated from the start of this to the finish and gave feedback along the way.
We are already starting to see reports of how much faster it is to load the site for plenty of users, which brings me to our next point.
3/3.5/4 mostly focused on code fixes and some minor improvements (4 over 3, with a more professional, slick feel). 5, while it fixes the rest of the code issues (by cleaning up several insanely massive CSS Files into nothing more than one document with several lines), focuses more on the visual side of things by removing all gradients (worthless CSS as mentioned before), unneeded images built into the style for depth, or other nonsense. For all intents and purposes this is truly a flat design, the flattest RpN has ever been.
Thus, loading times for mobile alone are 2-3 times faster, just like on desktop.
Apart from loading times the design utilizes the space better. One obvious example is this:
vs
Of course the giant logo did not help but even after that, so much space existed before you could even reach the first section of the site.
Aside from the above example, the idea of utilizing space better has been used all across the site, even the actual forum list itself is more compact and less overwhelming to read.
There have also been several bug fixes including, but not limited to (seriously, there's a lot more):
- Fixed the issue with avatars that have a transparent background
- Sidebar cleaned up (it was causing a good chunk of the load time for the home page of the site)
- Several mobile fixes
- Avatars are regular sized again (this is only considered a bug because it broke several other things, and in the future, we will have the option to make them big again)
- Much more
If you notice something that is missing/broken or just have feedback in general, please post below
!Note: The current logo is still a work in progress.
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