| ioi said: Personally (and maybe i'm just used to it), I don't see the issue with using the top tabs to navigate the sites. Each one has its own homepage and menu system and you can jump between them based on what you want to do. Most of you guys will spend most of your time on gamrConnect I guess, but it is easy enough to head to gamrReview to check the latest reviews or previews over E3, gamrFeed to find the latest news posts, VGChartz to check for sales updates. It is just a different way of doing things and something everyon needs to get used to I guess. With time you'll see the beauty of the system and the depth and flexibility it offers over the old site. The eventual plan is to have your activity feed fully customisable - you can set news / review alerts, follow certain games for updates and so on. There is a lot of cool new stuff on the way. |
I don't see much problem with it being "split" (though with so much interlinking I don't really see it as split in much else than the design and the url) like you say, I think it's a question of people being confused after having built up a system of navigation with the old site, everyone was the same on the change to 2.0.... though I still to this day think the top menu bar of 2.0 that you finalised was very limiting (on 1.0 and now 3.0 there are drop down options for instance under data analysis, or under the consoles in gamrreview.... with 2.0 I usually used the links at the bottom of the page to get where I wanted, which is a bit counter-intuitive to new people, anyhow that problem is no more 
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The customisation of the feed thing sounds excellent, at the moment I think with gamrConnect a small amount of information seems to be taking up a lot of space... one thing that I would think many will welcome is a constant "my recent threads" at least present on all forum pages... I don't think many will mind if it is below an advert or something (do adverts get more revenue if nearer the top of the page?)
Similarly the "recent threads" (for all users) is a little hidden, and short, at the bottom of the "Forum" page even though it is far more useful than the single "last topic" you get for each seperate forum, but take up loads of space.
