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Don't you just love it when corrupt politicians expose each other? That's one of the dividends of democracy.

What's complex about New Nairaland?

It took many men to destroy Nigeria, so I don't think any single man can change Nigeria for good.

Bill Gates contributed the "computer in every home" vision to humanity and he's an atheist. So what are we saying?

As an atheist, I have contributed Nairaland to humanity, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Tai Solarin contributed Mayflower School which set many young children on the path to success.

Quiet, shy, but ambitious and intelligent and kind.

[quote author=ekt_bear]Logout button STILL doesn't work for me...[/quote]What's the error you get?

Of course I will improve my project management skills, because I strive for continual improvement, but you don't seem to be grasping the magnitude of what we've achieved here. We wrote a forum script from scratch in a few months and deployed it on the busiest web forum in Africa, and things have been humming along nicely as if it was a routine UI upgrade. Our untested script goes down less frequently than the average Nigerian bank server, and comes back up in minutes. It's a momentous achievement!There have been mistakes here and there but I can't think of any human endeavor without mistakes. Those mistakes do not in any way diminish the magnitude of our achievement. The Challenger space shuttle exploded with astronauts on board, but we still respect NASA's thorough development process!

That aside, the mobile UI issue is my call. If it's a mistake, it's my mistake. I hereby take responsibility for it. I have limited cognitive and financial resources, so I try to conserve them by making some "lazy" decisions. I just don't see the sense in developing a separate desktop and mobile UI for every new feature. It's not as simple as implementing a different view, because the mobile UI will have different features, which will complicate the entire code-base. If your code-base is too complicated, it becomes more difficult to fix bugs and add new features over time. Simple things are far more manageable on the long run. I also notice that mobile users don't like limited mobile sites. They want to have access to the full features of the site, and that's what we're offering them.

The antispam bot issue is real. It started two days ago due to an awful bug that was exposed by a configuration change that should have had nothing to do with the antispam bot. Since then it's not been checking posts, and mods (especially me) have been forced to remove spam posts manually. So sorry about this. The way it was presented, I thought you were saying the spam has increased since we switched to new nairaland, which is false. It started just 2 days ago.

Mine is not only 'mark as read'. Is there a problem with the notification system? I don't get email notifications anymore.

Most users don't like email notifications, but we will implement that if we have to.

Did you notice the increase in spam topics? What could be the cause?

There has been no increase in spam topic as a result of the transition to New Nairaland.

@yawa-ti-de: At first I was bewildered by all the random things you typed, but eventually, I figured out what you were trying to say. Your only problem with New Nairaland is the lack of a 'mark as read' feature. We can implement that. It won't be a problem. As a well-respected techie, you should be able to express your desires concisely and accurately in a form that can be acted upon. All the jarasis you added only distracted the reader from the actual issue you're having, which is the lack of the 'mark as read' feature. It has nothing to do with 'mobile'.

What's the name of the contest?

Markenny: @seun Last week I was not able to acces nairaland on the phone..for almost 12hours,I ask honsule over bbm if nairaland have problem loading on phones,he said nope.
When I finally open nairaland on my phone,I was lookin for a topic,I type germany on the search box,all I see is a yellow and with codes...germany writen in btw them.I try to make a screenshot but phone got frozen.
Plus have any one try useing the search box on the phone?it really mess up.try fix that@seun.nairaland search search for lagos it will take u to jamica.pls do somethin about it.

A search highlighting issue that occured when a search contained extra spaces and special characters has been fixed. Please try again. I do not understand the second complaint at all, as well as most of the complaints on this thread. They are insufficiently detailed and contradict my experience of the site as a user.

I never doubted the pedigree and sincerity of the people running the programme, but ... Kudos to the winners, anyway.

If you already have money, information is more valuable.
If you already have information, money is more valuable.

What do you mean by ruling the world?

FILEBE: damn! this ne interface really sucks! i havr r to squint TO READ THE POSTS AND REPLIES. the colours and the arrangement doesnt help jare

Can you provide the information requested in my first post? Thanks so much.

Hello,

New Nairaland was designed to work perfectly on mobile phones, but some people have reported that it doesn't look good on their phones. If you have that problem, please post about it on this thread, using the format below:
1) Detailed description of the problem you're experiencing with new Nairaland at the moment.
2) The exact name and model of the phone with which you're currently experiencing the problem.
3) The mobile phone browser with which you browse Nairaland when you experience this problem.

We're serious about making New Nairaland usable and functional for everyone.

Thanks!

El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]Okay -- Stil got a Complain to make!

How the Heck Do I just Quote Peepz In Here? Think am begining to See the Core Reason Why 2Buff took this Case to the Tribunals [/color]

The quote post button.

Is it out now??

Kakatazz: Yes yes yes.My kid got FREE health care in of Lagos state's ultra modern hospitals.

It was not free. It was paid for by other people's tax. Your kid got the health care and they paid the bills.

Odunnu: Are you saying i'm working for the President? Wow!

He says all sorts of silly and wrong, even delusional things, so don't take it too seriously.

We'll make signatures optional. If you turn them on, you'll be able to see peoples' signatures.

What about those with poor eyesight who are not albinos? What about albinos with good eyesight or glasses?

It would make infinitely more sense to print their question papers in extra-large fonts.

We cannot revert the whole thing. It's technically very difficult and expensive and would hurt our traffic immensely. That would be suicide. What we can do, however, is correct specific things that are wrong with the new Nairaland. We've corrected saturation, brightness, and readability of board pages, and we will correct more things. This is our platform, and we can do anything we want with it. Our imagination is the limit to what we can achieve here.

Emmyk: Lol. And I noticed my POST COUNT boosted up, dunno why, buh I guess its the posts I do post on the formal NL which wont count, MAYBE!

Yes, we now count all your posts, regardless of where you posted them. Cool, eh?

Pennywise: This is not about having difficulty getting used to something new. I didn't have any problem adjusting to the old Nairaland when I signed in. I doubt it if I would have stayed beyond a few days had the website been like this. The new NL is almost a week old yet the site still looks like a kaleidoscope of white and gray. It is amorphous, it doesn't look right and it doesn't feel right even if it appears to be the best 'web interface' in the eyes of the site owner.

I'm sorry that it doesn't look right or feel right for you. But I don't really understand what it means for a site to not "feel right" or to be "amorphous". When people said it was too bright, I made the greens darker than the former site. When people said the colors were too loud, I desaturated them, even though I prefer the more saturated look. Specific feedback is helpful.

The old NL was good and everybody loved it. If that was the case why change a good thing? There may have been a few complaints from the 'webmasters' and 'internet denizens'. But they were few and far between and mostly unserious. The vast majority loved things the way they where.

We didn't change Nairaland for the purpose of modernizing the look. We moved from PHP and SMF to a new platform that we understand very well, Python and CherryPy, so we can start adding new features regularly. We had to change the look because the old look doesn't belong to us and we used the opportunity to create a theme that looks alright on mobile phones and PCs. I made a bet that a uniform look on mobile and web will give us unique advantages. It was my call.

There are many different ways the site can be modernized. What has been done is a complete no no. Other changes like the exact date and time that posts were made should be retained rather than a user having to research for it. Again it is really not necessary to have a separate record for all the posts that were initiated by a particular user. It takes something away from the anonymity the site is supposed to give.

I feel that this feature is an extremely important one whose benefits outweigh the risks.

I know several threads have been opened on this same topic, it will be insensitive for Seun to continue to ignore the opinion of users on this matter. The new Nl is difficult in fact it is impossible to love.

I'm very sorry that you feel this way. We will invest more time and effort into irresistible features.

Odunnu: Is it particular to this thread or thats how it is all across the community? I cant quote a post!
@Seun: I rejected your friend request because I dont like you again

Aww. Why now? You can quote a post by clicking on "quote post".

Apparently, this Airtel Ad is offensive, according to the Twiterrati:
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millionaire at 29. that's too late

fast is an attitude

We know the pace you set for yourself. hThat's why we set our Internet speeds to challenge that. So that you never have to slow down, even for a moment.

3.75g in all 36 states in Nigeria.
Speed up to 42mpbs

What's offensive about it? I'm not very sure. I don't get it.

How many Mother's days do we have in a year?

Eyah

zebudaya: Anyone who does millions of naira in business daily and does not want to move to cashless would soon be out of business. Get with the times.

Why do you think it's great that the CBN is trying to put some people out of business?