Why the change in viewing photos?

hellnbak

Within the last couple of days I've noticed a change in how you view photos here on the forums. Used to be when you clicked on a photo to enlarge it, you could then click on an arrow at the bottom of that photo to either go forward to the next photo or back to a previous photo, or just click outside of the photo to go back to the thread.

Now the arrows are gone, you must click on the back arrow at the top left of the page to cease viewing the enlarged photo, and then click on another photo to enlarge it, and then go thru the whole process again.

Why the change? It adds unnecessary steps and slows down the whole process.

This, along with some other changes that came with the "new and improved forum" detract from it rather than improve it. In my opinion.

Like the changes in the "smilies". Some of the most popular ones were done away with and replaced with the larger and, IMHO, sillier smilies (which I refuse to use).

Who makes these decisions? What is the process? Why can't we, the members that have to use the forum, vote on changes of this sort before they are arbitrarily implemented?

Ok, soap box is put away. For now.

Now everyone can dump on me for making trouble

Gaieus

Hi Steve,

We are trying to fix some speed issues and improve the overall performance of the site. I cannot comment on the smiles but this disabling of the lightbox sort of image viewing was probably not intentional but something that happened during tweaking the javascripts the site uses (there were too many html requests also due to too many javascripts running on the site).

We'll definitely look into this one (I did not even notice until you mentioned, sorry)

hellnbak

Thanks Gaieus,

I know how hard you guys are working in the background to keep this site up and running, and I can't begin to thank you enuf for your efforts.

Sorry I started bitching. Just ignore me, I've had a pretty bad day and am not feeling all that well, plus I am by nature a pain in the butt.

S'pose I should just go to bed. Yeah, that sounds good.

Gaieus

Hehe. No, really, this was an important and valuable feedback. It somehow slipped through our attention while making the changes. The sooner we realize the problem the better as later we can forget what steps were made when and detect what went wrong much harder.