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New dropdown top bar sucks.

2,920 5,903 March 16, 2021 at 11:41 AM
This is different than the other post in this form as I don't want to go back to the entire old redesign.

Hovering over community doesn't automatically bring up the list of forms.
Several forms are missing and it's annoying to have to add extra clicks to get there.
There is so much wasted space.
Something is wrong with the avatars and scaling. It's shrinks the width more than the height.
I'm guessing it's designed to me more mobile friendly (but IDK because I use basic html), but the desktop version still needs help.

Is there a way to just go back to the old header?
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BoldIntrepid
03-16-2021 at 01:53 PM.
03-16-2021 at 01:53 PM.
I second this. I have to click twice to get to popular now and it unnecessarily takes more pixels on my screen. Like why is the search bar so big?
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03-16-2021 at 04:19 PM.
03-16-2021 at 04:19 PM.
Popular is one click away from within the "categories" drop down.
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FabulousOstrich1300 | Staff
03-16-2021 at 04:20 PM.
03-16-2021 at 04:20 PM.
Thanks for reporting this. "Something is wrong with the avatars and scaling. It's shrinks the width more than the height." We will investigate.
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03-16-2021 at 05:06 PM.
03-16-2021 at 05:06 PM.
Quote from FabulousOstrich1300 :
Popular is one click away from within the "categories" drop down.
Forums like Consumer Awareness are now 2 extra clicks and extra scrolling...
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y_kurt
03-16-2021 at 05:30 PM.
03-16-2021 at 05:30 PM.
This sucks. Just leave it alone!
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njf
03-16-2021 at 06:27 PM.
03-16-2021 at 06:27 PM.
If I click the show last unread post, the last unread post is covered up by this new stupid bar...
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beestea
03-16-2021 at 06:55 PM.
03-16-2021 at 06:55 PM.
Yep, took me way too long to find forums, and hotdeals (on mobile web client - chrome)
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littleman
03-16-2021 at 07:09 PM.
03-16-2021 at 07:09 PM.
I am on a desktop, please offer an option to keep the header locked into the top of the page like the old way... it continuously gets in the way when you scroll up even a pixel. There's rarely a use for any of those header options when I am 20 posts deep in a thread or in a forum category .

EDIT: I found classic all the way at the bottom to fix this, though the redesign could infact benefit from the above suggestion
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Scintillation
03-16-2021 at 07:15 PM.
03-16-2021 at 07:15 PM.
I don't mind the new banner, but the size is too big.
It should take less of the screen size.
I don't know if you are doing it by % of resolution, but it should be smaller.
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DigiHex
03-16-2021 at 08:39 PM.
03-16-2021 at 08:39 PM.
New header sucks so hard, but I am glad they changed the header from stores to coupons which makes more sense now.
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03-16-2021 at 09:10 PM.
03-16-2021 at 09:10 PM.
Doesn't work with safari on iPad... no clue how to get anywhere!
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mk.list
03-16-2021 at 10:40 PM.
03-16-2021 at 10:40 PM.
Get rid of that drop down PLEASE! I'm on an iphone SE and I can't see anything every time I slightly scroll up

Edit: screenshot of this madness included for reference
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03-17-2021 at 07:37 AM.
03-17-2021 at 07:37 AM.
I was just about to start a thread about this and glad to see that I'm not the only one annoyed by the hover top bar. It's annoying as hell when trying to scroll through the page to look at deals. It's too damn big and takes up space unnecessarily. Get rid of it.
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03-17-2021 at 09:05 AM.
03-17-2021 at 09:05 AM.
First visit to this forum ever IIRC, and came to complain about this very thing. Glad I'm not the only one. Drives me nuts how it keeps popping up and eating up 20% of my SD view just because I wanted to scroll up.

If you don't change it, please give us some sort of option in our profile or somewhere to let us choose to turn that off.
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