> I'd need to see an example of layout to be able to visualise what you're talking about.
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I'm making some of the easier changes already (the icon migration will take a while).
> On icons versus text links, I don't think that's worked as well as I'd originally hoped. Slow board loading times often mean I'm looking at little white boxes with red x's and no way to know what they're meant to link to without refreshing. The icons rather than words also cause me to stop and think for just a fraction of a second, making me "notice" the mechanisms of the board - which isn't usually a good thing.
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I've been hearing the same complaints. Originally the complaint was that there were too many links at the top of the board, and they were too large, so they spilled over into two lines. Moving some of the commands elsewhere on the page should solve that, and allow (much smaller) commands to return.
> Of all the changes you mention, though, the only one I'd actively dislike is being unable to change the size of text on the main screen. I usually use a larger font to emphasise when I've posted a story rather than a random comment to make it easier to find, and to promote a "sense of occasion". Way back in the day when we first migrated from the first BZL board I recall we turned down an offer of being hosted on Comicboards in part because it couldn't offer size and colour variations. It's an alteration I'd regret.
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It's mostly the Subject and Weblog formats it creates a problem for. I'll see what I can do about minimizing the impact.
