Welcome to PF 3.5: New Style, Image Gallery & More!

[Greg Bernhardt]

No your computer has not been hacked You are viewing the new PF 3.5 style! This style is purely aesthetic with virtually no new functionality. However we feel it does offer a more modern and productive experience at PF. Big thanks to the entire staff, SA's and HH's as they were a big help in final refinement (so blame them for anything you don't like ). Speaking of refinement, we welcome any feedback and suggestions. However, please keep in mind we have thousands of members and millions of visitors. It is impossible to please everyone. If there is a serious criticism, all I ask if that you give the style a few days to sink in. For better or worse, change is never easy. You might notice a few things missing. Please give me a few days to complete the transition, there are a few things I couldn't add or tweak until it was released to the public.

There is one exciting new feature at PF and that is the Image Gallery. Located in the "Features" drop down in the upper nav bar. This image gallery displays all the images we have stored as attachments here at PF. You maybe simply browse the current images or search by file name keywords. You may also browse by forum by selecting the forum you want in the drop down menu and leave the search box empty. Then click search and you'll see images for just that forum.

Check it out here:
https://www.physicsforums.com/attach_gallery.php Thanks for all your support! PF 3.5 here we are!*reminder to upgrade your browsers. FF/Chrome/Safari/Opera work the best. If you are intent on using IE, make sure it is IE10 (IE9 is minimum).

 

[trollcast]

Ooooh, it looks shiny and new. But the new blue colour scheme had me refreshing the page a couple of times to make sure I was on the right site

 

[Fredrik]

Ooooh, it looks shiny and new. But the new blue colour scheme had me refreshing the page a couple of times to make sure I was on the right site

The new quotes look really nice.

 

[aquitaine]

When the page first came up I thought I somehow went to the wrong site. Still, the new look is refreshing.

 

[rbj]

i think it looks a lot better.

and, as one of the "thousands", i think you need make no apologies, Greg. (maybe a couple of the admins with keys do, but as best as i can see, not you.)

 

[turbo]

Wow! New visuals.

 

[fluidistic]

I really like the new look. More modern for sure. Good work guys!

 

[dlgoff]

Thank you Greg. Outstanding.

 

[Saitama]

Thanks Greg, the new skin looks great!

 

[GeneralOJB]

Was about time, looks very nice.

 

[RobinSky]

Wow looks great! I clicked my PF icon on my browser and this new page showed up. The first thing I said to myself was
"What did I click the wrong webpage!?". However, it looks great! I like it much more than the old one :-)!

 

[Crake2]

It looks great, it really does. There's only one thing I don't like :P... The "Stay connected" thingie, on the right side of the home page.

 

[ZapperZ]

No, really. Your computer has been hacked!

:)

Zz.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It looks great, it really does. There's only one thing I don't like :P... The "Stay connected" thingie, on the right side of the home page.

Yeah I get it. Unfortunately in today's times we need to compete in the social media and mobile world.

 

[Hepth]

I don't like how the title banner behind the logo "Physics Forums" is a deeper hue than the blues used in the rest of the site, including the bars above everyone's posts (with the stars). Its deep blue up top but then everywhere else a more pastel-like teal.

Its probably intentional, and doesn't look BAD, but it was the first thing that jumped out at me.

Otherwise GREAT new appearance!

 

[MathematicalPhysicist]

Nice outlook.
Looks futuristic...

 

[dkotschessaa]

I didn't like the old look much, but I was comfortable with it and fear change.

But seriously, it looks great. I'm sure I'll get used to it.

Great job to all who worked on the upgrade. I am sure this is a busy, high maintenance forum, and you all do a great job.

-Dave K

 

[Dembadon]

It'll take me a bit to get used to it (for reasons that aren't rational), but I'm glad the new look isn't adversely affecting functionality, for me, at least. All-in-all, great work!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Thanks for all the support! We will be transferring some files over to the CDN later today. So there is good possibility of some random funkiness and broken images, but it shouldn't last more than a few minutes.

 

[Natassha]

Firstly, many many thanks to Gerg for PF 3.5. the new PF looks very nice.

the grey side bar is looks good but how one can expand the PF 3.5 to whole window.

 

[SolsticeFire]

I don't like how the title banner behind the logo "Physics Forums" is a deeper hue than the blues used in the rest of the site, including the bars above everyone's posts (with the stars). Its deep blue up top but then everywhere else a more pastel-like teal.

Its probably intentional, and doesn't look BAD, but it was the first thing that jumped out at me.

Otherwise GREAT new appearance!

The deeper hue in the title is because it portrays the night sky! If you squint hard enough, you'll see little stars twinkling in the background :)

Quotes look awesome too!

Love it!

SolsticeFire

 

[Borg]

It's going to take me a while to get used to it. I have to stare at everything to know what I'm clicking on. It does look nice though.

 

[Fredrik]

how one can expand the PF 3.5 to whole window.

You can't. The width is fixed. This has the advantage that if someone posts an image or something that's too wide, it will only mess up that post instead of all the posts on the page.

Personally, I don't see the need to stretch the window out more to the right. Longer lines of text are harder to read.

 

[jedishrfu]

will you be adding the colorizing of program source code to posts?

Geshi works well:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

Forgot to say. I like the new look. The old one reminded so much of the 1990's style of web pages. This one is still reserved but much better.

 

[TMFKAN64]

Is it me, or is there now no way to tell which threads you have already read all of the messages on?

EDIT: Nevermind... for some reason, when I first connected to the new PF it thought *everything* was already read. Once new messages came in, the thread title was in bold.

 

[reenmachine]

Very nice colors.

Agreeable for the eyes.

Well done!

 

[Monique]

Looks great!

 

[Lisa!]

I thought it was this year April's joke!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I thought it was this year April's joke!

Maybe the joke is going back to the old one :D

 

[Whovian]

*I notice a new page in my top sites*

Me: Oh, I see you redecorated! I don't like it.

(Note that that was just to have a proper reference to Doctor Who, I actually do like it.)

 

[G01]

Whoa dude...

 

[Lyrassia]

Very nice colors.

Agreeable for the eyes.

Well done!

Agreed!

Very well done. The new look definitely looks more modern and enjoyable.

 

[bp_psy]

Noooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[Useful nucleus]

The new look of PF is amazing! Thank you very much for your efforts!

 

[ChiralWaltz]

WOOOOWF! I :!) the blue and green color scheme. The buttons are more fun to press. Fast forward button on the quotes? Incredible! And a fish scale boarder? This is too much, I must go pinch myself!

 

[Dembadon]

The new look is definitely growing on me. Thank you for all of the hard work you do to keep this site's quality high.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Is the forum having a little indigestion with the changes? Seemed to be bouncing with 500 internal server errors this morning.

Just thought I'd mention it.

-Dave K

{Pats PF on the head..there there little guy...It'll be ok.}

 

[epenguin]

As you say you cannot please everybody. I soon noticed superscript + looks rather like a - as in [H⁺] and [OH^-], involved in about 50% of the Chemistry and Biology questions, or is it only me needing new glasses?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is the forum having a little indigestion with the changes? Seemed to be bouncing with 500 internal server errors this morning.

Sorry about that. Should be fixed now.

 

[Fredrik]

As you say you cannot please everybody. I soon noticed superscript + looks rather like a - as in [H⁺] and [OH^-], involved in about 50% of the Chemistry and Biology questions, or is it only me needing new glasses?

Looks fine to me.

 

[Mentalist]

A bit too much. I liked the more minimalist style the previous board had. Over-time I will get used to it though.

 

[jhae2.718]

will you be adding the colorizing of program source code to posts?

Geshi works well:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi
.

I've been using Pygments to highlight source code in my posts, e.g. with something similar to:

echo "import antigravity" | pygmentize -l python -f bbcode

I agree that something that automatically did that would be nice.

 

[Ben Niehoff]

With the new color scheme it is harder to tell at a glance whether I am on Physics Forums or Facebook. Be forewarned.

 

[dlgoff]

Recognitions: after inserting a "too large" image. No big deal. Just sayin'.

 

[mfb]

That is still better than the version we had 1-2 days ago, where the whole text was overlapping with the border of the boxes.
$$\rm{This is the equivalent to a very wide image. This is the equivalent to a very wide image. This is the equivalent to a very wide image.}$$

Interesting, a different box size.

 

[rubi]

The new look is okay, but i have a wide screen and it sucks that the design doesn't adapt to the window size. I've made a Greasemonkey script for everyone who likes a flexible design. It also gets rid of the sidebar on the front page. I've attached a screenshot of the changes.

But here's a warning: I'm not a webdesigner, so maybe this is a very dilletantish way to do it, but it works for me. I also haven't tested this for more than 5 minutes and i didn't try it with other browsers than Firefox. So use it on your own risk.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        Physics Forums
// @namespace   physicsforums
// @include     [PLAIN]https://www.physicsforums.com/*[/PLAIN] 
// @version     1
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

document.body.style.background = "none";

page = document.getElementsByClassName("page")[0];
page.style.width = "95%";

rightcontainer = document.getElementById ("right-container");
if (rightcontainer) rightcontainer.parentNode.removeChild (rightcontainer);

leftcontainer = document.getElementById ("left-container");
if (leftcontainer) leftcontainer.style.width = "100%";

posts = document.getElementsByClassName ("last-post");
for (i = 0; i < posts.length; i++) {
    post = posts[i];
    post.parentNode.width = "425px";
    post.style.width = "400px";
    link = post.children[0].children[0].children[0].children[0];
    title = link.title;
    title = title.substr (35);
    title = title.substr (0, title.length - 1);
    if (title.length > 55) title = title.substr (0, 55) + "...";
    link.children[0].innerHTML = title;
}

pre = document.getElementsByTagName ("pre");
for (i = 0; i < pre.length; i++) {
    if (pre[i].style.width == "640px") pre[i].style.width = "100%";
}

 

[Borg]

Uh... Did you apply it to a saved copy of the page? You can't get a script on your computer to apply itself to whatever page you choose on the internet.

 

[Fredrik]

i have a wide screen and it sucks that the design doesn't adapt to the window size.

Why? Longer lines of text are harder to read.

 

[rubi]

Uh... Did you apply it to a saved copy of the page? You can't get a script on your computer to apply itself to whatever page you choose on the internet.

Yes, you can. It's called Greasemonkey. Get it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

Why? Longer lines of text are harder to read.

Well, if you like shorter lines, then just change the number "95%" in the script to whatever you like better. The new design was just a bit too small for me. But it's a matter of taste i think.

 

[Borg]

Yes, you can. It's called Greasemonkey. Get it from here: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

I knew I should have qualified that statement. Yeah, I guess if you're willing to modify the browser's functionality...