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Dean Henrichsmeyer Joined: Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 6 Other Topics	Posted Jun 20, 2007 at 2:19:06 PM Subject: Comments on our site Please login and post your comments and suggestions here. We value your opinion and appreciate the community that takes part in Linux.com :-)
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Warbo Joined Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 1 Location:Sheffield, UK Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 4:23:00 PM Subject: Comments on our site Hi, I like the site redesign, but I am having a problem viewing it correctly. The problem seems to be that the background is white, but the fonts are using a default colour. Since I am using a black theme my default font colour is white, so I can't read most of the text without selecting it :( I am using Epiphany, and there is an option to override all of a site's colours, but then I wouldn't get to see the cool new design. I hope this isn't too hard to fix Thanks, Warbo
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jamonation Joined Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 4:38:33 PM Subject: Comments on our site There is a very large blank space at the top with adblocking turned on, though of course you don't want to hear that ;) Looks good, tableless etc. There is a 1px border showing up on mouseovers in this forum that bumps everything on the page down by 1px: .highlight td { border-bottom: 1px solid #99CCFF !important } Is the theme released under GPL or is it only for Linux.com use?
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Rich Gibbs Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1 Location:Northern Virginia USA Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 4:57:05 PM Subject: Comments on our site The new design looks good. (I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.4 on Ubuntu Linux.) I got to this new page via a bookmark I had for 'newsforge.com', which I've been reading for years. I'm assuming that this is meant to be the "new NewsForge", especially since much of the content appears to be the same. -- Rich Gibbs (richg74) richg74@gmail.com
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Joe Barr Joined Nov 09, 2009 Posts: 146 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 5:01:35 PM Subject: Comments on our site Hi, Rich. Yes, the new Linux.com is also the new NewsForge.com. Same editorial staff and writers. Glad you like the new look, we're excited about it. Joe
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mtnixnut Joined Jun 16, 2007 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 5:25:23 PM Subject: Comments on our site All you need to do now is loose the ads that tell me that I'm better off using Windows. I find it hard to imagine a site named Linux.com funded by Windows ads. Ironic to say the least. It's weird because I don't see a lot of Windows ads at Mac.com or... I think you get the idea. The site seems to work now. Not sure what happened the other night. I am long time reader, Keep up the good work
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tr1pw1re Joined Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 5:31:26 PM Subject: Comments on our site Why when I try to visit newsforge.com am I redirected here? EDIT: Oops. My bad. It's supposed to be this way. :embarrassed: <!-- start: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd --> [Modified by: tr1pw1re on June 20, 2007 05:33 PM]<!-- end: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd -->
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WarPengi Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 5 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 6:31:49 PM Subject: Comments on our site Newsforge is gone :-( :-( RIP Newsforge, you will be missed. I understand the desire to use the Linux.com domain, of course. For those of us who have been around the *forge name has it's own attachment. In fact I believe that's why I 1st visited Newsforge was the connection to the venerable Sourceforge. Can't believe I'm getting all maudlin over a webb address. Oh well, not all of existence is bound in the rational. Now for a couple of bugs. 1. I had to browse back and clikc on the Reply button several times as I kept getting the message: A fatal error occurred while serving your request. We are sorry for this inconvenience. If this is the first time you see this message, you can try to access the site directly through index.php If you see this message every time you tried to access to this service, it is probable that our server is experiencing heavy problems, for this reason we ask you to retry in some hours. If you see this message for days, we ask you to report the unavailablity of service to our webmaster. Thanks. Technical information Xaraya has failed to serve the request, and the failure could not be handled. This is a bad sign and probably means that Xaraya is not configured properly. The failure reason is: xarDB_init: Failed to connect to xarmysql://xardba@xaraya-db-2/lc_live2, error message: Too many connections 2. The site is awful slow to load. 3. When I hit the back button after viewing the preview, all my work was gone. I should be able to browse back to the composition page and retain all my work and/or have the editing symbols available on the preview page for further editing. If the formatting of this comment is not easily readable it's because I have not yet figured out adding spaces between lines. I'm assuming we have to use non-breaking spaces. I will figure it out soon but for a newcomer to this format this is one area that is non-intuitive (at least to me).
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WarPengi Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 5 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 6:35:46 PM Subject: Comments on our site Bug #4 The preview pane shows my comment without the spaces I put between paragraphs. The preview does not display the post as it will appear on the forum.
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WarPengi Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 5 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 6:40:15 PM Subject: Comments on our site Did I mention how slow this site loads? This site loads so slow my dead granny could run a mile before it loads. This site is so slow the tortoise and the hare both beat it. This site loads so slow the rapture will be over before readers can view news from the day before the rapture started.
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Joe Barr Joined Nov 09, 2009 Posts: 146 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 7:59:12 PM Subject: Comments on our site It is unacceptably slow at the moment, our apologies. We are working like mad behind the scenes to rectify that. Thanks for your patience in the meantime. Joe Barr [Modified by: Dean Henrichsmeyer on June 21, 2007 07:16 PM]
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roblimo Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 11 Location:Bradenton, Florida Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 11:18:00 PM Subject: Comments on our site WarPengi, I created and named NewsForge, so it was even harder for me to let the name go, but Linux.com is a "better" name in a general sense for an "All things Linux and open source" site. As for the rest of the changeover pain... I'm viewing it as a bystander from Seoul, S. Korea (LinuxWorld Korea is this week, and I'm here both to speak and report), and I know both the programmers and network operations people involved will get things squared away before long. - Robin 'Roblimo' Miller Editor, etc.
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masterkabuki Joined Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 20, 2007 11:30:40 PM Subject: Comments on our site This looks bad for all of Linux. I am disappointed that a site with this kind of performance is being viewed by the public. I have had complaints from a number of people I have recommended to switch to Linux about this site today. I can not defend the poor performance. Is there another way to troubleshoot this problem by leveraging your community without putting this poorly performing site online? Was there an Alpha/Beta test for this site with the Linux community ? or was this a hot cut over ? Sad today for Linux ...
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not my true identity Joined Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 3:11:59 AM Subject: Comments on our site Speed is slow, I'm on DSL that is usually slow, and I just came from dialup. Total load times are about what sites needed when I had dialup. Site seems to hesitate in responding at all - problem is not as if I get one graphic, then a sentence, then a pause for 10 seconds.... I get no activity in FireFox for about 10 seconds. Numion.com testing my connection speed shows: "Download speed: 5,319.20 (664.90) 100% Upload speed: 673.69 (84.21) 100% Surfspeed inside United States: 145.59 (18.19) 100% Surfspeed average (worldwide): 165.91 (20.73) 100% Surfspeed outside United States: 179.39 (22.42) 100% Latency: 422 milliseconds" For your site: http://www.numion.com/SiteSpeed/index.html might help you. As for masterkabuki and others.... hold yer horses - complaining without helping is for newbs.
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masterkabuki Joined Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 4:29:36 AM Subject: Comments on our site Team, I have noticed a 50% improvement in screen load times vs earlier today. If you are tuning.... good progress !!!!! There is a difference between the load times for IE and Firefox. Interestingly, IE is loading the pages faster (20-40%) than Firefox. This is still twice as slow as the original site. If there are any specific tests or timings you need run, please let me know. Keep plugging.....[b]
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Torfinn Ingolfsen Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 2:32:53 PM Subject: Comments on our site [quote=roblimo]WarPengi, I created and named NewsForge, so it was even harder for me to let the name go, but Linux.com is a "better" name in a general sense for an "All things Linux and open source" site. [/quote] Allow me to disagree - the Linux.com name is a very good name for "All things Linux", but in my opinion (and I suspect, the opinion of many others who use lots of different OSS things on lots of different platforms) it is a poorer name for "all things open source"... Also, as an avid reader of both NewsForge.com and Linux.com, I really felt the the two sites were different in profile (read: content). But this might just be my imagination, of course. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway -- Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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noldrin Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 3:18:43 PM Subject: Comments on our site The Good: It now looks like a real destination web site rather than a collection of links someone put somewhere. The Bad: The light blue highlighting that follows ones mouse is very annoying. (very)
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WarPengi Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 5 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 4:25:00 PM Subject: Comments on our site [quote=roblimo]WarPengi, I created and named NewsForge, so it was even harder for me to let the name go, but Linux.com is a "better" name in a general sense for an "All things Linux and open source" site.[/quote] OK, so we can mourn the loss together. I know, as a parent, your loss is greater than mine. I just want you to know that it meant a lot to me too.:-)
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John Varouhakis Joined Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 6:56:07 PM Subject: Comments on our site [quote=noldrin]The Bad: The light blue highlighting that follows ones mouse is very annoying. (very)[/quote] I second that. it's extremely annoying. Makes me think that if I click, something will happen. <!-- start: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd --> [Modified by: John Varouhakis on June 21, 2007 06:57 PM]<!-- end: modules/comments/xartemplates/user-modifiedby.xd -->
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phubert Joined Jun 20, 2007 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 8:06:51 PM Subject: Comments on our site Haven't tried IE yet, but any site that is slow enough for me to give up on the page load to go on to other things isn't exactly going to get me to frequent it. And, I must agree with others who commented about the name... isn't there as much or MORE OSS running on Windows? Or, is everyone running this site so biased against Windows unilaterally that anything associated with it is simply discounted? I presently provide support in a Microsoft-ONLY environment and am looking for ways to open doors to OSS and Linux. I'm sure my situation isn't at all uncommon, especially in government!
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Peter Jakobi Joined Jun 21, 2007 Posts: 7 Other Topics	Posted: Jun 21, 2007 11:58:50 PM Subject: Comments on our site Hi, 1. I prefer the old setup, as the layout's less in-your-face than the new one; permitting more textual information / skimming more news items at a glance. Also the visual weighting of the features vs the raw newsvac worked quite nicely. Now news around the web's nearly half the width of the text area; font far too large, only headlines visible for 2nd and later items. As for the feature text - even this seems to offer maybe half as much information as before; maybe because the 'stylish nav menu' is too wide. Navigation column: far too wide, too heavy visual borders, font far too large (remember: people rarely try to read much text in the nav column, so it doesn't matter if they squint for a second, as long as they don't have to squint for the main textual content, i.e. the features). Tweaking font sizes, table cell width or allowing users to select a css-style via cookies or whatever might solve most of the points above. [firefox 2.04; ancient linux box rather old gtk/... installations] 2. The current setup via linux.com seems slower than the old via newsforge (?!) 3. And a non-code problem: Fearing a possible change of topics and definitely the perception of a far more restricted scope I'd kind of considered newsforge a one-stop point for news on free unix, from linux to bsd, opensolaris to more interesting stuff like minix3, plan9 or hurd. With a flavouring about new non-intel hardware and a peek once in a while at larger changes to commercial unices software or hardware, from OS x (ok...) to Solaris, AIX and maybe even HP-UX. Given the switch in the hostname, I see some possible problem with community generated content for non-linux topics. And given the hostname, if such content is NOT 100% linux specific (say Lawrence Lessig's change in research topic), I can easily imagine non-community people now saying: "oh that's just a special interest linux resource, but I'm not a geek, I won't read it even if people-in-the-know try to point me to important articles on linux.com." IMHO Newsforge's name being more neutral was an advantage. cu Peter
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