To me, the new theme is oddly mobile unfriendly considering that it's supposed to BE more friendly. UI elements being cut off the screen at a certain size for one, and another the text being a bit too large for me personally.

ooof yeah I will agree.. when it comes to mobile the classic works much better

Request desktop site on mobile makes it a bit more manageable

They just changed a few lines of CSS and made the boarders of things more defined and brighter. To stand out more. Calling it new and improved when nothing ultimately changed. I'll post some thoughts of of myself in a journal here soon if you wish to see my full thoughts.

I only use my phone and this new layout sucks -.-

I'll agree.... for mobile classic works way better and the fonts are reasonably sized

I reverted it back to classic in my account settings. Even on a 65" 4k screen that text is just massive.

OMG thank you, i though we couldnt revert

Not a problem :)

yay

NYEEEEH

The mobile site manages to be even worse than the old non-mobile site, and on desktop/laptop screens everything is on the wrong side.

I find it to be meh, i preferred the old but this is fine. I'm more expecting the standard "welp, guess i'm leaving to twitter nao" crap, and seeing as like 60% of the artists i've been watching have already abandoned the site, that leaves even less artists for me to watch... At the current rate, i'll be removed from Fa solely because nobody i want to view art from will be using the site, which sucks as it had a nice pleasant layout which wasn't a pain in the ass to look through.

ichanged it back to the normal shit i was used to. The weird style it was after change felt like back in myspace days lol

Bruh, this layout destroyed the look of my profile on mobile, lmao.

Looks fine on my end, both via mobile emulation and on my phone directly.

We might be using different devices. For mine though, it’s not centered anymore, doesn’t look as clean.

Ahh I see it.

media only screen and (max-width: 480px) section:first-child, .section:first-child {
margin: 10px 10px 0;
}

That second 10px..is indeed shifting things 10px to the right. I hadn't noticed much though, as all the content still aligned well.

Of all the things, the fact that you can't see journal headers/footers unless you navigate to an actual journal page is what made me swap back, just because I use mine to keep track of my outstanding commissions.

So the profile/gallery/scraps/favourites/journals/commission section does get cut off.
I've not seen any other glaring issues on desktop or mobile so far. I wonder if some of the issues are down to caching.

I honestly like the modern look. However, everything just feels way too zoomed in, so until they fix that, I'm gonna stick to the classic version.

ah ah, yeah understand the feelings. people never like changes!
well, switched to the beta shape for a while now, and i like the new layout, definitely nice and modern.
but yeah, need to get used to it .

but in a way on another, you will put your scaly butt on it =P

IT"LL BE A HOSTILE BUTT TAKEOVER!

DRAYK SMASHES! LET HIM SMASHES!

Yes because it's always due to people being averse to change. Not because the change has multiple issues only an amateur would make.
No it's just because it's new and new is bad.

That's the spirit!

Everyone is so quick to judge and demonize "change," they never give it a second thought. I actually like the compartmentalized feel of this style...just, I wish the ads weren't so prevalent. lol

I'll say to you what I've said to many over. It's not just because "New bad grr" it's because the new has some glaring problems that any half decent designer would never have given the OK.

Okay, but I'm not really a designer. I just go with the flow. If I complained about every single change that happened in my life...small things like FurAffinity, or large things like moving and relationships, I'd be pretty fucked up in the head by how many things have happened in the span of a year and a half from now...

You can say, "These changes would never have been okay," but...are you in the position to really give that response when you don't work for FurAffinity? When you don't know what processes they deal with behind the scenes, or what other factors they have to determine?

Just like me, you are a commenter, a user, nothing more. You are allowed to voice your opinions, but at least try to see outside your own peripheral at times. The world isn't so narrow when you take into account other aspects besides your own. If you don't like FurAffinity's new look/feel, revert back to the old, or...leave? No skin off the rest of us, honestly.

And for clarity, I'm not intending this response to come off as "defensive," or "overly aggressive," I'm merely replying with the same energy as your first sentence was input: "I'll say to you what I've said to many over."

Well guess what? I work as a web developer. I unlike most people on the site have some idea of what I'm talking about (that came off way more elitist than I intended).
But the point is, as a web dev I know that anyone with any degree of skill or experience wouldn't have greenlit any of what we have in this beta.

A user, nothing more? Yeah y'know, that thing that a website lives and dies on? You make it sound like the userbase is irrelevant. And if FA wants to stay alive it needs to pay attention to what it's users are saying and thinking. Okay not everyone has criticism or feedback that's particularly helpful or constructive. But I've been seeing plenty myself.

If I left the site then my opinion/feedback wouldn't be out there, and if everybody left, nobody's opinion or feedback would be out there, and the site would die. Okay a mass exodus is a pretty strong message that something is completely fucked, but if it gets to that point it's probably already too late.

One thing that baffles me about a lot of the response I've been getting is that it seems wrong of me to want/expect better. Wasn't IMVU buying up FA supposed to help funding? Whatever happened to that? Why has this beta that's been in development for so long so lackluster in so many aspects? How is a site layout and UI that's about a decade behind the times somehow better than the modern equivalent? Who have they hired to do all this? Because the new layout/UI is the work of a bedroom developer, not a professional.

It just feels all completely backwards. Yeah the site is shinier and "modern" but without any of the actually meaningful stuff modern website design is supposed to bring with it. It's all flash and no substance.

Now that response was far more on point of helpful criticism. Cheers.

Well, whatever the people behind FA want to do, they do...it's their "baby" to take care of, so to speak. All us users can do is offer up criticism, critique, concern, and hope that something is done.

Treating it as a "baby" is how a lot of projects come burning to the ground unfortunately...

I haven't had any problems with the mobile site yet

Relateable as all hells

the desktop version could use some more frame padding honestly. right now user icons are just standing right on the far left for comments, and the bar separating the OP quick info from the journal just afterward is... well, it's unbalanced.
and for this, it's not incredibly clear that this text box is meant for adding comments, it's just placed here without any real visual context or identification besides just being above the comment section.

other than that, *change* is the ux designer's means of keeping a job. so whatever.

editing/hiding comments is more sensible. I don't see the smiley window anymore, though.
also why does the Recent Journals window extend all the way to the bottom of the comment section? it just weirdly cuts off comments on the right by its width.

just noticed it shows your user title up top by your name too now

This is what annoys me the most about it. The extension to use every piece of available space on my widescreen means everything is fifteen miles wide and two inches tall. I prefer the larger gutters.

so its not just me then i thought i clicked something wrong when i popped into FA.

The future is now, old man :V

I'm not old.... I'm just *56k modem noises* ... FUCK OFF MY LAWN

Modern theme means you get the mobile version no one wants but has to use cause you know why everyone uses it on mobile lmao

Its not just cuz it's new, it's because it is terrible. Anyone with any semblance of knowledge on website layout and design will tell you that.

I've seen websites more popular than FurAffinity with far less appealing and confusing layouts, where you'd spend half-an-hour looking for one button.

What's your point exactly?

I was just saying that, while the new "shinier" boxy look is new, there's plenty of websites out there that have been updated constantly and have way worse layouts...to the point you can't find what you're looking for on the page, because it's obscured and confusingly put in a place that might make zero sense to you.

In essence, "It could be worse..." It's a mantra I try to live by, as if I always got upset over issues, I'd be living quite the angry life. lol

It's possible to demand/expect better and NOT live in constant anger. Personally I don't buy the excuse of "There's worse out there, so deal with it".

*resets to old* and done.