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New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Cindy_FICO — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 21:28:54 GMT

Members, we’re excited to announce that a new myFICO® Forums design and layout will be coming soon! With the new design, there will be a better mobile experience (something we know you’re going to love).

Although there is a new design, the functionality will be the same. How you post, give kudos, reply, etc. shouldn’t change one bit. There is one major change to the avatars, which will change from a square to circle format.

We’re so excited for you to see it! If you have any questions, please direct them to the mods and admins.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:45:21 GMT

I’’m surprised that no one has commented so far but after seeing the new design and some major improvements in one area, I think everyone will be very pleased with the changes. Thanks @Cindy_FICO and everyone else for all of your hard work.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:56:15 GMT

One feature I would love to see is stuff to do with logging in. I understand the need to auto-logout people in a timely fashion but it would be great if after logging in it didn't take us to that useless page to let us know we're logged in!

Also would be nice if this particular page worked on mobile: ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/forums/unreadpostspage/tab/thread/page/1

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:04:11 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
One feature I would love to see is stuff to do with logging in. I understand the need to auto-logout people in a timely fashion but it would be great if after logging in it didn't take us to that useless page to let us know we're logged in!

Also would be nice if this particular page worked on mobile: ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/forums/unreadpostspage/tab/thread/page/1

Regarding #1, heh. Doubt that will change.

I think you’ll be happy about your second point.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:06:52 GMT

Ha! Today is the first day I'm not mobile in forever. Have to replace the battery in my phone and already have it pulled apart from last night and am waiting for coffee to do its magic before I start re-assembly.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Gregory1776 — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:22:05 GMT

Can we please simplify the sign in? I hate getting the your signed in now message, it’s annoying.....☹️☹️

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:16:21 GMT

@Gregory1776 wrote:
Can we please simplify the sign in? I hate getting the your signed in now message, it’s annoying.....☹️☹️

That's not going to change and in the end, I don't think it's a big deal.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Gregory1776 — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 00:21:36 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Gregory1776 wrote:
Can we please simplify the sign in? I hate getting the your signed in now message, it’s annoying.....☹️☹️
That's not going to change and in the end, I don't think it's a big deal.

Boo! ☹🙃

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 01:45:15 GMT

@Gregory1776 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Gregory1776 wrote:
Can we please simplify the sign in? I hate getting the your signed in now message, it’s annoying.....☹️☹️
That's not going to change and in the end, I don't think it's a big deal.
Boo! ☹🙃

I'm sorrythat you're disappointed but I know everyone will like the improvements, especially if you use mobile a lot.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Gregory1776 — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 01:48:55 GMT

No biggie. Just a suggestion, and I always switch to the full webpage option on my phone, I really don’t like the mobile style. It stays on regular webpage format on my iPad.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:21:31 GMT

Hi folks who are in charge of programming this thing (and moderating us folks within it!)... I thank you for your work because I appreciate this place.

Is there a better way to search within a thread? Not for a thread, but within a specific thread. Posters are often referred to these monster threads that are potentially a hundred pages long (or more) and may need to find information on a specific string of text. It is currently not user friendly.

Here's an example: if I go to the Bankruptcy Friendly Credit Cards thread, http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Bankruptcy/Bankruptcy-Friendly-Credit-Cards-Pt-2/td-p/3999737 and I want to find out if Consumers is bankruptcy friendly, I have to search "Consumer" or "CCU" in each of 19 pages (I have 50pp). If you have 10pp, it's just a nightmare and not even worth trying. If there were a search box, or a link (under Topic Options) to get to a search box, it would be so much nicer.

I have to explain this every time I refer people to these "monster threads," which is a little annoying. :-) Would be nice to have a topic-specific search option.

Thank you again!

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Adkins — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 02:04:20 GMT

I haven't noticed any changes on my mobile, when exactly are they due to take effect? Thanks,!

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 15:11:21 GMT

@Adkins wrote:
I haven't noticed any changes on my mobile, when exactly are they due to take effect? Thanks,!

Monday

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Adkins — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 19:42:39 GMT

Ok, thanks!

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Cindy_FICO — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:38:17 GMT

Thanks for the feedback. We'd also like work on a simpler sign in/sign up process. But that won't be a part of this update.

Re: New Forums Experience Coming Soon!

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 01:28:44 GMT

I see the update was rolled out. I think the notifications and inbox icon at the top are much better placed now, my only big critiques are that I instantly thought my browser was zoomed in 125% when I loaded a thread and the desktop version feels a little too much like a mobile site. I'm thinking this is because of the plethora of white space on each side that feels like a lot of wasted space. Maybe increasing the width of the thread boxes would help with this? I may be crazy, but I feel like the font was smaller or something was different that allowed more of a page to be displayed without scrolling. With change there's always going to be growing pains, I just think the desktop site feels underpowered.

Update: 80% zoom on desktop is a much more "natural" display to me

W0W! Forum Decor Change

CreditMagic7 — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:36:14 GMT

Is it just on my end or did MyFico just update the forum software.

Looks totally different and i can finally see my own siggy again (outdated because it was buried in the old forum setup)

I'll have to get busy on that.

Thanks

Re: W0W! Forum Decor Change

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:41:42 GMT

The change is going to take some getting use to.

Re: W0W! Forum Decor Change

OmarR — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:42:40 GMT

It's now a bright white background for me.

Typically, most people do not favor change. We'll see how this goes.

Re: W0W! Forum Decor Change

CreditMagic7 — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 18:45:49 GMT

You can say that again about going to take some getting used to.

I will say that i can finally read posts in LARGER font than before.