Feedback on the AFF website & brand refresh

[AuSammy]

Assuming you're talking about the forum theme, yes you can -:

At the bottom of the page...

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Then select one of the "Classic" themes...

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Great to know. Reverted

 

[dylarr]

I really don't like the deprioritisation of news content on the home page - it feels buried now. But otherwise I like the new visual identity and new XenForo theme.

 

[DejaBrew]

Not sure if others see it the same way, but for me, there is not enough colour contrast for small font sizes when presented in the light blue colour against the purple background. Makes it difficult to read. Larger font sizes don't really suffer from that issue so much.



Also, looking at the toolbar for creating a new post... Comparing the new version to the old -:



In the new site theme, the toolbar icons all give the appearance of being disabled/inactive given how greyed out they are, especially when compared to the "Classic" theme. Sure, if you hover over the icons then the colours change and it becomes more obvious that they are indeed active and selectable, but at first glance, it sure looks like all of the formatting options are unusable.

 

[Flyerwin]

Wow what a refreshing and dramatic change! I like it!

 

[Spoor 35]

It's... Terrible. Your customers are Frequent Flyers but this feels like it is catering to just credit card churning. I understand you get kick back from referring, but this is lossing touch with what we're all after, news, market research and the community.

 

[Rich]

As we when

The light blue text on a purple background for the reply is very hard to read. I doubt it is WCAG compliant.

 

[Denali]

Good grief... why are we purple and circa 2005 forum looking?

 

[DejaBrew]

The light blue text on a purple background for the reply is very hard to read. I doubt it is WCAG compliant.

Definitely not.

 

[Pushka]

. It's no different for me.

 

[DejaBrew]

. It's no different for me.

Have you tried changing your theme? If not, see here.

 

[burneracc]

Just got jump scared by the new landing page

 

[AuSammy]

Good grief... why are we purple and circa 2005 forum looking?

Reprioritising sponsors disguised as a site refresh.

 

[Pushka]

Have you tried changing your theme? If not, see here.

Ah. Thanks. Ok. I can barely read your name there. That blue is too bright. Anything in this colour is hard to read for me. I can read the white lettering on that colour blue but can't read the blue in writing.

So I've changed style back to classic.

 

[Denali]

Im guessing the IT department pushed this as an "enhancement"


First I was

Then I was

Now Im

 

[dylarr]

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Thanks, now this can't be unseen

 

[DejaBrew]

Link colours in posts are SUPER difficult to see in the new theme....


Sure, if you hover over it then the link becomes clear as day, but that purple link font colour contrasts very poorly against the standard grey font colour.

 

[flyingfan]

Another vote that this blue is very hard to read.





The below text, both black and blue, is hard to read against the purple.



And the toolbar looks extremely ghosted out and disabled.

 

[Denali]

Assuming you're talking about the forum theme, yes you can -:

At the bottom of the page...

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Then select one of the "Classic" themes...

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Thank you, back to classic blue/easier to read.

Its feeling very circa early 2000s forum layout/font vibe

 

[brett-au]

I think the Virgin purple is probably easier on the eyes than the Qantas red.

 

[MollyJones]

Had to check I hadn't logged into to a fake site at first as the font looks a bit childish to me.
Sorry, but the bubble style font reminds me of school projects and such.
I am sure, in time, I will forget what the old site looked like, and will add this to my list of "back in my day we didn't have to keep changing everything" whinges.
Nice to see you attempting to keep things fresh and I guess this is what the young ones are looking for.
(will take off my grumpy old person hat now)