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Watch Shawn and the 1999 Michigan Football team beat those blue and gold bums in the link below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VJcnALA-3w
Thanks WH for the vids as always!
Sean McKeon days away too!
Let's see some good play out of another TE wearing #84 in 2018!
I absolutely hate this new blog format.
It's unreadable.
When the blog traffic drops over time maybe we will go back.
It's the clunkiest, most awkward-looking new website I've seen in a long time. Somehow they've managed to produce something that looks older than the previous version.
I'm assuming it's because its design was optimized for mobile rather than desktop.
I just want to add on to this a little bit. I'm just a lurker, but I can't stand the update. That's not to say that it's all bad (in particular the collapsible threads are a nice touch), but there are so many issues that I have.
First of all, how little information/content is actually presented any time that you're anywhere on the site. If I'm reading the forums, I'm lucky to see maybe one and a half posts at a time. That shouldn't be the case as somebody browsing on a desktop! If you're on the main page, you have to scroll down for an eternity to get to the board on the side. I understand that they want to emphasize the diaries and main posts, but if I'm being honest, the board is where I spend 95% of my time on this site. It used to be so easy to get to on the old site, I hardly had to scroll at all.
Then, any time that I look at a post, the date makes the first line of that post get cut off. It looks awful. Why not just add in another line so that they're all uniform?
Next, how much endless bright white space that there is. It genuinely gives me a headache to look at for prolonged periods of time. I very much so miss the offsetting blue on the old site. It made it not torture to look at.
The shrunken avatars are also pretty annoying. I really wish that they'd be enlarged to be in line with how they used to be. They seem like an afterthought at this point, rather than jumping out.
I can understand the disallowing hotlinking images aspect, in terms of security, but it the complete lack of communication when they went ahead and did so (and communication in general) is pretty bad. I've seen a lot of people confused over that.
Accessing the site on my phone is similarly tough to navigate. It's very unresponsive and takes a lot longer to load, even on my home wifi. Trying to jump around on it is just painful, and I'm pretty sure that mobile was the emphasis.
I understand that this was a huge undertaking for everybody, and probably sucks for them to hear people complaining about it after how long they've been working on it. Having said that, I think that it's important to keep the feedback honest. It really reminds me of a generic though worse SBNation website at this point. I don't think that this is a kneejerk "I HATE CHANGE" reaction that people are having, either. I think that they need to make some real tweaks. I acknowledge that it's ungrateful and probably something that they don't want to hear, but that's how I feel.
Agree with much of what you've said. I'm old (born during the Truman administration), but I have no problem with change -- when it represents a significant improvement. For me, MGoBlog 3.0 seems like 1985's New Coke, and I'm wondering whether the moderators and the website designer might want to go back to the drawing board and bring back MGoBlog 2.0 until they've worked out all the kinks in MGoBlog 3.0.
I've usually accessed the site from a PC desktop using the Chrome browser. I rarely, if ever, accessed the site through my phone after discovering that it rapidly drained battery power. Trying to navigate through MGoBlog 3.0 without an instruction manual from the moderators that would enable me to work as easily with MGoBlog 3.0 as I did with MGoBlog 2.0 has been frustrating.
Before this morning, I had no idea what it would take to insert an image in a post. That Imce File Manager system involves many more steps to insert an image than what was relatively simple in MGoBlog 2.0. Through trial and error, I had to learn that I (a) first had to save an image to my computer, then (b) click on the Images icon in the Imce File Manager box, then (c) click on the Upload button, then (d) click on "Add File", then (e) find the image in the Photos file in my computer, then (f) click on that image, and then finally (g) click on "Select" in order for the image to appear in the body of the post. And I still have no idea what it would take to resize the image OR how to embed a video -- two things that were relatively easy for me in MGoBlog 2.0.
I like that I can click on that MGoBoard drop-down menu up above and go quickly to the list of blog posts without having to worry about opening the list of posts in new tabs, but other than that, I'm straining to find things that I like more about MGoBlog 3.0 than I liked about MGoBlog 2.0. For me, MGoBlog 2.0 was like Coke Classic.
Right now, I'd be happy to go back to MGoBlog Classic.
The lack of a quote feature to use for replies is what has killed me for years. Indented replies are absolutely horrible. Many times, it’s so difficult to see who is replying to whom. Also, this site is optimized for mobile when you turn the device to landscape view, which barely anyone uses when reading websites. If you’re in portrait mode, you cannot determine who replies to whom. They really need to add a quote feature and 86 these indented replies.
Traffic already seems to have dropped a bit. Threads that I know would get 100 or more replies in the previous format are getting maybe 60 or so on average.
There are some specific things that I miss too - the upvotes and downvotes on board posts were usually a decent indicator of how long that thread was for this world, and now that is missing. There was a tracking page that I used a lot which told me which threads had new replies and how many and now that's gone too. I used those to moderate quite a bit. Now I actually have to read threads and that's....making it problematic sometimes.
Way too much white space and scrolling.
Yes, Sean McKeon definitely approves.
There are also only 12 weeks until we beat ND. That sounds and feels a lot closer.