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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 01 2011 at 23:33
I'm really the only one who thinks the MMA design is better and not nearly as clunky and ugly as PA? Oh well. I do agree the forum skins are blah, though. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 00:17
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 04:35
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

PA layout is way better.
 
(I really wish JMA followed PA design rather than MMA honestly.)
 
 
i'd also have preferred it, but I don't know if it was possible with the "album tag" feature
 
in some ways, the single-genre-belonging of PA is its (only??) Achille's heel. 
(besides the specialist teams barony, but that's an internal thing most casual users wouldn't know about) 
 
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and yes.... if black background forum for MMA sounds reasonable.... Blue would be better-suited for jazz >> Blue Note label...Wink
 
 
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I'm still having trouble to load up entry pages with many entries in JMA (mostly Miles & Herbie).
 
does anyone have that problem too???
 
 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 06:53
 
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

 
I'm still having trouble to load up entry pages with many entries in JMA (mostly Miles & Herbie).
 
does anyone have that problem too???

Well that's really something for the JMA forum, but since nobody posts there I guess it's ok. ;-) It works fine for me (although JMA Miles did seem to chug a little more than PA Miles, that Opera tells me the PA page has 192 elements while JMA's has 337 might have something to do with it), are you sure it isn't your internet? 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 07:11
I´m just happy people actually visit MMA and have an opinion about itThumbs Up.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 09:24
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

 
I'm still having trouble to load up entry pages with many entries in JMA (mostly Miles & Herbie).
 
does anyone have that problem too???

Well that's really something for the JMA forum, but since nobody posts there I guess it's ok. ;-) It works fine for me (although JMA Miles did seem to chug a little more than PA Miles, that Opera tells me the PA page has 192 elements while JMA's has 337 might have something to do with it), are you sure it isn't your internet? 
 
it does the same thing both at home and at work (different countries), so i gather it's not the server
 
loading the Miles PA page takes around  seconds... loading the JMA equivalent takes five or six times that long (at best), and I can't do anything else on the web while loading it (like it's jammed)....
ditto for Hancock.... but I think they're the only pages to do that.  
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 10:16
Multi-tagging and half stars are great but they're not a layout issue. M@x said in the past that there's no technical impediment to prevent him from implementing them on PA too. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 11:39
I like how everyone assumes this thread is about the forum layout.  No, the main site layout, which is horrible on PA
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 12:28
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I like how everyone assumes this thread is about the forum layout.  No, the main site layout, which is horrible on PA
 
This, actually.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 13:55
Who's talking about the forum layout?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 15:34
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Who's talking about the forum layout?


Apparently somebody is reading too much between the lines . . . LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 15:54
Everyone on the previous page was complaining about black forums
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 16:10
Not really; Karl mentioned it, and he got two people supporting his stand. That's not everyone. And Karl mentioned the black forums making it clear that it's something different than site layout, so he didn't make any wrong assumption. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 16:38
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I like how everyone assumes this thread is about the forum layout.  No, the main site layout, which is horrible on PA

I like the PA main site layout.

(inb4 u like dream theater)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:09
I'll agree that the fancy search is better, but the regular search isn't as good, and the layout seems poor to me.  Crap is just everywhere, it's cluttered
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:13
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

I'll agree that the fancy search is better, but the regular search isn't as good, and the layout seems poor to me.  Crap is just everywhere, it's cluttered
Yeah, there are a fair number of aspects of PA that I think are extremely unprofessional, but I've complained about them and very few of the members seem to care, much less Max, so I guess they will never be changed.

Since andy let me I am going to chose to blame the Dream Theater Bad Taste Brigade for this.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:30
Originally posted by toroddfuglesteg toroddfuglesteg wrote:

Noooooo !!!!!!!!!! Let's keep PA as it is and let the three M@X sites have their own separate identities.

 



A bit closed minded, its just a website not a historical institution LOL
If one prefers PA style than cool, but to keep it just because?
I think MMA has done a few things right and maybe JMA even more. I'm glad there's discussion to maybe improve PA!

It wont happen LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2011 at 18:03
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:


Since andy let me I am going to chose to blame the Dream Theater Bad Taste Brigade for this.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 13 2011 at 06:37
I prefer the PA functionality, but I do think that PA needs an upgraded look. It's starting to look a bit dated.
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