The Semiotics of the New Look

[sweetnpetite]

Interresting, I think you have a point. I feel a bit disconnected to the site at the moment. I do believe my brain will adapt to it all pretty soon though. The main thing that bugs me is the small base font size, and the extra speca between and frame around every post. The first makes it more formal and business like to look at and read, and the latter makes the separare posts feel disconnected from each other, the sense of an ongoing discussion is somewhat lost.

There are also a few things that I dig. But those are more functins than prsentation.

Yes, some of the new *features* are cool. But the new skins are just distracting and they really *do* make my eyes hurt.

 

[pop_54]

Most of us are pretty sensitive to the way text looks on paper or a screen, and are aware (or should be) that look and layout send a sub-textual message. If your reading voice starts rushing when you read Italics or shouting when you read caps, then you know what I mean. If that kind of stuff doesn't bother you, then this post isn't for you.

We've got a host of new skins here to choose from, which means that I'm probably not seeing the same thing on my screen that you see on yours. If all you care about is content, that doesn't matter much, because the content is the same, but to me, since I'm sensitive to layout, that makes us seem more like strangers to one another.

I also notice now that each reply to a thread stands alone with empty space around it. That bothers me too. It makes me feel less connected. The fact that right now the font used for messages is identical to the font used for sig line stuff also makes it seem like our voices are lost in a babble of noise. The messages don't seem any more important than anything else.

When you go to send a PM, your reassuring Buddy list isn't there any longer to click on. If you've got a name that's tricky, like I do (I use an underline for a space: dr_mabeuse. People tend to forget that), people are going to have to look you up or copy&paste you.

No doubt we'll all get used to these changes in time, but I wonder if the new layout is going to change the tone of this place. I predict it will. I predict we'll lose some of the intimacy and friendliness we had on the old layout, and that's too bad.

Well, we'll see.

---dr.M.

I'm with you Mab's mate, all the old close friendly look and feel is gone, all too jazzy and cheap looking, gaudy and unfriendly, cheap crappy looking smilies even, no personal feeling of being virtually connected to the person above who you may be replying to in a personal manner. Call me old fashioned if you like, but I preferred the old style Lit. Even the quote you're replying to is insulated from you in a freekin box.

 

[Liar]

...no personal feeling of being virtually connected to the person above who you may be replying to in a personal manner. Call me old fashioned if you like, but I preferred the old style Lit. Even the quote you're replying to is insulated from you in a freekin box.

Yes! You nailed it, pop. That's exactly the thing that annoys me. The sense of intinate conversation is totally lost.

However, this s a skin issue, and one that should be possible to fix. Let's be patient and see what happens in the next days...

 

[neonlyte]

Let's be patient and see what happens in the next days...

I bet we all get older,







he'll fix the birthdays.

 

[pop_54]

I bet we all get older,







he'll fix the birthdays.

Damn I was looking forward to getting even younger

 

[Liar]

I bet we all get older,







he'll fix the birthdays.

Huh... I wonder what happened to younger members who were so close to 18 that they got younger than that. Did they get kicked off the site and redirected to something more family-friendly, perhaps?

Have Earlie checked in?

 

[neonlyte]

Damn I was looking forward to getting even younger

Hi ya Pops. how you doing.

Us old lads can stick together, plenty of lasses who prefer a mature outlook.

Any idea where I can get one?

 

[LadyJeanne]

I'm feeling disconnected, too, although not deprogrammed. I keep changing skins in an attempt to find one that feels right. I see you, I know you're there, but you all feel so far away now, no matter which view I try.



Except Liar. His AV is going to pop through my screen any minute now, I can feel it.

 

[Liar]

Except Liar. His AV is going to pop through my screen any minute now, I can feel it.

I feel a sneeze coming on...

 

[Guest]

I feel a sneeze coming on...

roflmao that mental image has me scarred for life.
heres a hankey...

 

[LadyJeanne]

I feel a sneeze coming on...

*ducks for cover*

RUN!!!!

SAVE YOURSELVES!!!

 

[pop_54]

Huh... I wonder what happened to younger members who were so close to 18 that they got younger than that. Did they get kicked off the site and redirected to something more family-friendly, perhaps?

Have Earlie checked in?

Jesus shite mate, I hope no one from this crowd here ever find their way onto a family site

 

[pop_54]

Hi ya Pops. how you doing.

Us old lads can stick together, plenty of lasses who prefer a mature outlook.

Any idea where I can get one?

Well mate I can't help on either at the moment, the lasses, or the mature outlook, I have neither I'm afraid

Have to get down the 'grab a granny' club later

 

[Guest]

Us old lads can stick together, plenty of lasses who prefer a mature outlook.
Any idea where I can get one?

Trust me, Neon, having met you I can assure you you've got one.

Perdita

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Well mate I can't help on either at the moment, the lasses, or the mature outlook, I have neither I'm afraid

Have to get down the 'grab a granny' club later

Jeez, Pop! I can't believe how good it is to see you! Gives me hope.

---dr.M.

 

[neonlyte]

Trust me, Neon, having met you I can assure you you've got one.

Perdita

and on Valentine's day to!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

My latest impression is that everyone's dressed up. The old Lit was a kind of come-as-you-are place, but now it looks like everyone's wearing tuxedos and evening gowns. It's intimidating.

---Zoot

 

[Guest]

My latest impression is that everyone's dressed up. The old Lit was a kind of come-as-you-are place, but now it looks like everyone's wearing tuxedos and evening gowns. It's intimidating.

Ha, you're right. I'm going to roll up my sleeves and take my shoes off (maybe my knickers go next if Gauche ever shows up).

Perdita

 

[Op_Cit]

I'm tending to agree with Doc on this.

I turn off AV's and Siglines and this new thing is a great waste of space (makes for a lot of scrolling to read content).

Has anyone found a skin to put the poster info in the margin as before?

 

[Liar]

I'm tending to agree with Doc on this.

I turn off AV's and Siglines and this new thing is a great waste of space (makes for a lot of scrolling to read content).

Has anyone found a skin to put the poster info in the margin as before?

All the Aria skins does that. But they have small fonts.

 

[English Lady]

Yeah,I have aria citrusand everything is down the side font is ok for me now ive got used to it though