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colorofmoney91 
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 Topic: Upgrade to JMA type layout?
Posted: June 13 2011 at 06:37 |
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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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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 18:03 |
 Henry Plainview wrote:
Since andy let me I am going to chose to blame the Dream Theater Bad Taste Brigade for this. |
works for me
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JJLehto
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:30 |
toroddfuglesteg wrote:
Noooooo !!!!!!!!!! Let's keep PA as it is and let the three M@X sites have their own separate identities.
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A bit closed minded, its just a website not a historical institution  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
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:13 |
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
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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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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:09 |
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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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Andy Webb
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 16:38 |
Triceratopsoil wrote:
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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I like the PA main site layout.
(inb4 u like dream theater)
Edited by Andyman1125 - June 02 2011 at 16:39
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 16:10 |
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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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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 15:54 |
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Everyone on the previous page was complaining about black forums
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CCVP
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 15:34 |
harmonium.ro wrote:
Who's talking about the forum layout?
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Apparently somebody is reading too much between the lines . . .
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 13:55 |
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Who's talking about the forum layout?
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The Truth
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 12:28 |
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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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 11:39 |
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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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harmonium.ro
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 10:16 |
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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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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 09:24 |
Henry Plainview wrote:
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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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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UMUR
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 07:11 |
I´m just happy people actually visit MMA and have an opinion about it  .
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 06:53 |
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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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 04:35 |
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... 
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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???
Edited by Sean Trane - June 02 2011 at 04:39
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: June 02 2011 at 00:17 |
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: June 01 2011 at 23:33 |
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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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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 01 2011 at 21:47 |
PA layout is way better.
(I really wish JMA followed PA design rather than MMA honestly.)
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Upgrade to JMA type layout?
