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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? New Buttons to Create New Discussions and Reply to Existing One Post 303029552 by Neo on Tuesday 29th of January 2019 12:54:51 AM
Old 01-29-2019
New Buttons to Create New Discussions and Reply to Existing One

You may have noticed a lot of big blue buttons" on the site, replacing the Font Awesome icons for creating new discussions and replying to discussions.

Here are the reasons for this change:
  1. A number of unix.com moderators, including Don Cragun and Ravinder Singh, have commented that new members often have trouble understanding how to post a new discussion.
  2. A number of new users have asked questions like "how do it post a new discussion at unix.com?".
  3. Some unix.com members seems to find the icons confusing and wanted something more direct and easy to understand.

So, it's done, I have replaced all the confusing icons for creating and replying to discussions with big, blue, easy to see and understand buttons using Bootstrap classes.

Also, because new members are often confused because discussions are created in specific forums, I went a step further and created a single, simple, big blue button on the home page for posting a new discussion in the "Question and Answers for Beginners" forum.

Yesterday, after making this change, there was bug discovered by wisecracker, one of our valued forum advisors, had issued with these new buttons related to the Firefox browser. That bug was squashed as soon as I got the message (around 4 AM my time... LOL).

So, enjoy the new buttons.

I hope these big, blue, simple buttons will make it much easier for new unix.com members to post a question here.

Please note, I'm not a big fan of the big blue buttons compared to the icons (for posting new discussions and replying); but I agree with all who mentioned that for new members, the icons are confusing.

Thanks for the great feedback, as always!
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