New support page layout

New support page layout

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Last edit: 11:42, 4 September 2011

I find the new layout of the support page extremely hard to follow. It requires a considerably increaded amount of scrolling. I am constantly at a loss finding things or telling what I had already read, and what not. Page contents are resorted each time I look at it, that is obviously bewildering. There is a lot of borders and frames bearing no information at all but eating up screen space and wasting my attention.

Worst: I had a set of additional edit toolbar buttons which safe a lot of my time. They are gone now.

Really bad also: Each time I edit this page, it is automatically taken off my watchlist. Marking edits as minor is not possible any more.

Is there a switch that would allow me to go back to normal?

Purodha Blissenbach19:11, 11 November 2009

No, there is no way to switch back. Set watch on, and read it through you new messages. If you have suggestions for improvement, please report bugs to bugzilla: and Andrew will take care of it. It takes some getting used to, but I love it already.

Siebrand19:59, 11 November 2009

I don't like the layout, either. The Support page is loading very slow, several times a message box appears telling me that there is a script that doesn't react. Ervery time I have to click a button in this message box to continue loading the Support page. Probably this script causes collapsing/expanding the More link. If I stop the script not all More links are collapsed.

Michawiki22:46, 12 November 2009

Can you debug which script it is? Then it should be reported to bugzilla. I myself don't have any speed problems with liquid threads, although the structure needs getting used to.

Nike14:19, 13 November 2009
 
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Last edit: 11:42, 4 September 2011
Loading time is an issue for me, too. The huge loss of information and readability is another. I do not know what exactly "read it through you new messages" is meant to be.
Side note: I wanted to copy a piece of text from the top of this editing page so as to paste it here in the edit box. The box was gone. Usually, it is near the end of the page, with some well known stuff in between. Not so any more. Now it lingers somewhere in between of lots of little pieces of text and border lines. I am lucky that I spotted it now, since I had already spent so much time searching that I was about to restart the edit in order to have it back.
Since a while I have the link "Neu Nohreeschte (108)" (new Messages (108)) in the personal bar (:Which at first shocked me, but there were not 108 new messages on my talk page:) It links to a page looking like development work in progress, so I made no efford trying to understand it. Its layout makes it quite impractical to be read anyways, among others due to scattered overly wide lines of text starting outside the initially visible part of the screen.
Ok, I'll resort to bug reports for now.
Purodha Blissenbach14:07, 13 November 2009