Thoughts about the new site

woah woah woah... theres no traditional forums?!?? what am i looking at?!?!?
bettcha the textbox is worse to find on wii u browser

its extremely weird to hit a link for 'forum' and have giant block posts. cant that page just be topic lines?? is there gona be or is there an option to display topic/subject lines only?

The only thing I miss is the old forum look, but I can get used to this if I have to.
Also, the all capitalized text on the stories and our usernames is a bit odd to me. Stories should be normal and usernames would look better all lowercase or just normal as well.
Will edit if I think of other things. :P

I'm not really sure I like the new forums/comment style. I dunno.

I'll see what happens.

I would also like the old topic/subject line formatting back (or something similar). It was a lot more convenient when browsing. I could immediately see what interested me and which topics were active.

Also I'm not a fan of the hyper-minimalistic aesthetic. I get that it's supposed to be 'sophisticated' and 'modern', but it looks more sterile than anything. I guess, that's something I'll get used to, though.

The header is cool, though.

I haven't really put much thought into how I feel about the new design, but I love love LOVE how reply notifications are built right in now. I enjoyed being social on occasion before but I felt it difficult to actually keep up with the conversation (if there was one), so I often just didn't.
Shame that comments can't have signatures anymore though. I was about to put together a fancy plug for my artwork tumblr to put there.
Also, this design does seem to have trouble loading on the 3DS browser sometimes. Might not be a priority, though.

Also, is it just me, or are there no ads anymore? Not complaining of course, but I haven't ran into any ad on both my PC and phone.

For the My Discussions panel on the right sidebar, will you guys be changing it to only show each topic once regardless of all the replies made? 

This new design is definitely going to take some getting used to. The more I look at it, the more I start to like it, but part of me still misses the old site. Either way, I'm glad everything is running smoothly again!

forum standard was set years ago, this is more like diqus to me.. but without adding disqus????

I love the new site for the most part. But, I hope something will change with the forums. I loved how it would just show the title of the topic before and you could sort them by new/active posts and topics you've commented on. This is fine now that there's only like 5 topics, but when there are hundreds again it's going to take forever to wade through them and see if there's anything that interests you. I could see this causing a lot of new threads being made for topics that already have threads because they will get buried under tons of other topics and people are only going to look through so many when it is showing the entire first post of each topic. It looks nice, but it would be great to have an option to just show the titles too. I do like how you can just reply directly to a comment now though.

Wow, this place looks pretty slick and shiny! :O Definitely an improvement from the clutter of the older version. It was definitely a shock to see the site down several days ago. I'm glad you guys are back up and running. :thumbs up:

Yeah, so far I don't mind the site's design for the news stories, but the forums are still confusing and I'm still getting used to them. Plus I don't know how to make my gif avatar animate again when it did on the old GN. Oh well, I'll find out eventually I hope.

some of you are expecting a standard forum, but that's not what we're doing. we have specific reasons for it--some of which are not fully developed, so you should just drop that expectation, so you can get on with discussion.

that said, we didn't have time to figure or smooth out a few things for the forums before being forced to launch. we know it's not perfect, but have plans to improve. give us some slack there, please.

what we will be doing is making some tweaks to make things a little more comfortable when thinking of things as a forum.

The updated forums are much better than they were the other day.  The main site loads faster for me than before, which is really nice  (EDIT: Actually, it seems like it's back to the same speed now), and I appreciate the ability to hide all blog posts and selectively view what I'm interested in.  The old site was so bad with loading and random posts that I only ever went on the forums to read posts.  The new site is a nice compromise between the blog site and the forums.  Kudos to that. 

My only complaint is the way quotes work.  I've never liked this style on other sides because it feels like individual conversations rather than a nice, unified comment/post section that is easy to follow because it's all in chronological order.  It seems disjointed.

I really like the new forum layout now, or at least the boards/topics layout!

My only issue with the site right now is trying to change my avatar.  I was hoping to direct link an image from my dropbox, but it isn't accepting it due to to the address starting in https .  Am I doing something really stupid, or should I be trying to do it a different way?

There should really be a section in the forum dedicated to the site. I've been talking to Cort about a lot of things that I don't like about the site. He doesn't agree on some things for some reason. But I like it a lot still. Really nice upgrade.

Also I just wanna say that I really hope this forum will thrive. The last forum looked crap but the fanbase of GoNintendo is so big that this could really be a great thing. So I'm glad this looks better. But it's still quite lackluster.

I hope I can come back here and have a lot of discussions as I've missed that after I stopped going to a Swedish forum several years ago.

It's a lot easier on the eyes....except for maybe the header....that really doesn't say "Nintendo" to me for some reason.  The font seems more like a Sony thing than a Nintendo thing.  When I first saw it I just couldn't get use to it.  Anyway moving on, it is also a lot easier to navigate, send in news tips....don't like that categories are missing from the news posts.  The color scheme also seems like it doesn't mesh well together...  All in all it is an improvement..but just barely.

I keep getting autologged out. Is it a problem others are having, or just me? It happens everytime I open up the browser and even sometimes when I open up multiple GN tabs at once.

Also, any chance that we can get a recent section specifically for the forums on the right sidebar...kind of like the recent comments section but forums specific.

I've been trying to get used to the new font, but a recent PR story(about the Balance Board patent thing) really strained my eyes trying to read it.  These comments are okay because they have a little background to them, but the really thin sans-serif and bright-white background(especially when the PR stories have their text lighter-colored and in italics) makes reading kinda difficult.  I don't really have any suggestions about it, just.... thought I'd mention it.

I know the site was rushed to get it working when the old one died, but if there was one thing I was hoping was part of the prototype or hadn't been user-tested yet, the font was one of those. I don't have a problem with the capitalization because that's the way NSider used to be(and why I keep my username capitalized on whatever sites I use it on), but the really thin font and occasionally light-colored/italic text makes things difficult.

I agree that the thin text is a bit hard on the eyes. But I'm glad that I finally don't have to zoom in to 120% like I've had to for many years.

Is there an easy way to tell when people are commenting on older stories from the main site? Before, I would just look in the forum for the site and see which topics had recent comments, but now I would have to go and look at each story to see if there are new comments. If I miss a story and don't comment on it for a few hours or a day later, it almost feels pointless to leave a comment because no one will know or even read it.

Yeah, I really miss the "view active topics" that listed all the threads that had posts in it while you were away. Also, the "view your posts" that listed every single thread that you posted in that had new posts. "Recent comments" shows the last ten comments, but its usually all within the past hour which doesn't help too much. And "my discussion" is also a bit confusing because new comments would highlight the entire title in red before on the forums which made it easy to see.
Those two links, along with the MCP, were the first things I opened when coming to this site and I really miss them a lot. View active topics would make navigating the forums much easier again, especially when we get a lot more topics.

Well I will definitely say that the new comment box is a huge improvement... no lag at all now, and the new buttons are pretty nice looking.

I've been meaning to ask this but why are we limited to rating only 8 stories for the whole day? Any reason for the limit?