My first disappointment with the new Mylot script.
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
February 16, 2016 4:54am CST
I am not sure how many of you will have already looked at the new layout site for Mylot, but suspect that quite a few will have.
It is quite a change from the old layout and looks more like a regular webpage as opposed to the forum layout of the old site. Naturally I like this, as I expect most members will also do.
The disappointment for me is that the avatar is displayed on the navigation bar and not below it as in the old layout. This results in the avatar not animating and appearing encased in a black background. The avatar that I refer to is our own avatar, so for those not using an animated one this will not be noticed.
Of course this is the only place that it will not animate, so anyone seeing my avatar alongside my discussions or comments will view the animated version.
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26 responses
@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Feb 16
@pgntwo It shows up alongside the $ sign at the upper right on a desktop computer, but not on a mobile. I was quite impressed with the new look on my desktop, so decided to check out the mobile access.
I never use Mylot on my mobile, so I looked at the old site first and then the new, which was terrible in comparison. On the old site I can expand the page to view, but with the new Mylot it cannot be expanded and is seriously difficult to read.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
16 Feb 16
But I thought we both agreed that since our avatar is only visible to us it would not matter much. Anyway if they can still consider your viewpoint nothing like it.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Feb 16
I don't use animated avatars so not really a concern for me
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Feb 16
@arthurchappell I may be tempted to attempt that myself because I do like a challenge.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
16 Feb 16
@Asylum my technical skills are limited on such image manipulation sadly
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
16 Feb 16
@Asylum As Ajmal said,we are seeing the animated avatar.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Feb 16
@silvermist Quite possibly because the new version has been pre launched for testing purposes. However, I feel that it is unlikely to change due to the avatar's location.
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@silvermist (19701)
• India
16 Feb 16
@Asylum I see what you mean..May be this will be fixed soon.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
17 Feb 16
Odd that it won't animate on the navigation bar. I wonder what is different in the coding there. The odd thing I've noticed with the new app is that my responses to discussion posts keeps showing up below the post with a time stamp of 5 hours before I actually posted the response.
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@rosekiss (30413)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Feb 16
I like the new mylot site as it is much nicer and cleaner than the other site, and the drop down menus are great too. Everything is all in one place and not having to seach all over the place is ideal. I use it exclusively now, as we will be using it late anyway. As far as your animated avatar, it is animating on the new site.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
The majority of members appear to have misunderstood my reference to the animated avatar, which does suggest that I may not have explained it well enough.
The avatar animates fine in the discussions, so nobody except myself will notice the difference. On the old site your personal avatar appears at the upper left below your username, whereas on the new site it is above there on the navigation bar. This is the one that will not animate, but only a member with an animated avatar will ever notice that.
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@rosekiss (30413)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Feb 16
@Asylum Oh okay, I was misunderstanding it then. I hope that they fix that part of it soon, so it will animate all the time. They seem to be right up on things though, as when there are problems, and they know about it, they do take care of them. It is nice that they do care for us like they do, and will fix things that need fixing.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
Swagbucks is only likely to have a link to the old site.
You need to log into
myLot is an enormous discussion board, blogging community, questions and answers hub, social network and online hangout that pays you for your valuable contributions
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@sishy7 (27166)
• Australia
17 Feb 16
My somewhat concern would be the first old myLot layout will be all forgotten with this newest layout. You know how we always refer to the original layout as the 'old myLot' and the current one being the 'new myLot' especially after they restart the earning feature in the middle of last year. Well, now everyone is referring to the current one as the 'old myLot' and the one under testing as the 'new myLot'. 
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
17 Feb 16
I guess I must have missed something, I didn't know that there was a new MyLot.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
It was launched a few days ago. The programmers are in the process of upgrading the site layout, so they have released the future site early so that we can use it and comment on any issues that we encounter. Both sites display the same material simultaneously, so you can post or comment on either.
It is located at
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@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Feb 16
My only disappointment in the new layout so far is that I can't easily see how many notifications I have without hovering my mouse pointer over my avatar. In the old layout, that information was readily displayed.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
@moffittjc This seems rather unlikely. The coding used is certain to be cross platform and suitable for Apple, Windows or Linux.
@moffittjc (128837)
• Gainesville, Florida
17 Feb 16
@Asylum I'm on a Macbook Pro laptop. I wonder if it displays a little differently for Apple devices?
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
17 Feb 16
I don't currently use animated avatars, although I'd like to use them more, but I don't have the extra time to make them work correctly, so not having it on the top bar isn't a biggy for me. But, I do enjoy seeing it animated on your page. Do you think that won't be available in the long run? I saw your comment on their post and it seemed like you understood that since it was located where it now is that was the reason.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
The new site will support animation in the discussions and comments just as the current one does, the only difference being the one that appears on the upper navigation bar.
Fortunately that only shows on the page of the member whose avatar it is, so is not too major a deal.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
@MarshaMusselman If we are unable to control circumstances then we have to simply accept them.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
17 Feb 16
@Asylum I'm glad you were able to get over it that quickly. I wasn't too sure whether you could live here with that part not working as you're used to. 
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
It is worth taking a look at least. If the issues get fully ironed out then it may become the only Mylot available, in which case everyone shall need to use it.
Trying it now would be the easy way to become accustomed while you can still use it for a short while and revert to the old site.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Feb 16
Mylot is in the process of introducing a new layout, which is being optimised to be mobile friendly and will eventually replace the current version. We have just entered the testing phase, so both versions of the site are accessible for the time being.
Whatever you write on one version will appear on the other simultaneously, thus providing an choice during this interim period. The new version of Mylot can be accessed via
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
@ElizabethWallace Since both sites are operating in unison, you can always use the old site to contact support.
It may be worthwhile to post your comment on Mylotbugs discussion at
Anybody who has pulled up myLot on their phone or tablet knows that things looked pretty rough. We've been working on fixing this for awhile and are finally...
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@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
17 Feb 16
@Asylum I just tried to log into the new site. It would not let me. It said I should contact support, but I could not find that on the new site. Now what?
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Feb 16
Maybe it is your browser because the avatar(yours) that I am seeing is animated and working fine. Has no black background. I am on the new site. I see where you have copied an image but the avatar by your username is working just fine.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
That is not the particular image that I am referring to. It does animate fine in the discussions, but not on the navigation bar.
On the old site our avatar is displayed below our screen name in a box in the upper left of the page, whereas on the new site it appears higher up on the navigation bar itself. It is this example on the left of the navigation bar that will not animate.
This will only be visible on my page because you will see your own avatar there instead.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Feb 16
@celticeagle I already consider the new site layout to be a worthwhile upgrade. I am just greedy and want everything, which is my nature.
@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Feb 16
@Asylum ....Perhaps, after a while, this will b over ridden by all the other nice characteristics of the new site.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
18 Feb 16
@Bluedoll The images are placed in different locations on the new Mylot, as in the image supplied along with the discussion.
The one change that you will not have noticed is the static animation. If you look at the upper left corner you will notice that your avatar is on the navigation bar, which is where an animated avatar will not work properly.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Feb 16
@marlina I would still recommend visiting the new Mylot if only for curiosity. It would not matter which version you wrote on because the same will appear on both.
The site is located at
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Feb 16
It is animated everywhere except on the navigation bar, which fortunately is only visible to the owner of the avatar because upper left shows our personal avatar.
This will have no effect on what others see, but does disappoint me to view it that way myself.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
18 Feb 16
I can live with that. They have fixed it so the drop down menu now appears on my iPad.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
18 Feb 16
@Morleyhunt I prefer using the computer due to the size of the screen.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
18 Feb 16
@Asylum my iPad is my tool of choice. It comes with me and I'm not restricted to sitting at the table far removed from my family.
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