NJ5 said:
ioi said:
Solid_Snake4RD said:
hey we all love VGC,it is my fav site
and i know people would have worked hard over this but did you really needed to separate everything
it has a number of advantages,its alrite to expand into a network but atleast keep the VGC HUB like the all in one VGC we had earlier.
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Well, what specifically is it that you dislike? The hub page lists a few of the most popular stories, latest reviews, latest chart and a few threads - is it really that different to the old homepage?
The biggest issue with the old site is that it didn't know what it was trying to be. I had this comment made to me on many occasions - are we a sales site, a reviews site, news site, community site? By throwing it all together it overwhelms many new visitors to the site and turns them away. With the new design, we have the correct balance between having seperate core areas to appeal to different people and an overall cohesiveness that pulls the site together.
Like I say, nobody likes change and those who were used to the site will want the old site back just like everybody did with 2.0. Those who can see the big picture will be excited about the new possibilities that this site offers. gamrConnect in particular is now geared more towards many smaller relationships and interactions than one large one where everybody annoys each other and trolls each other's threads. You can form friendships, track those friends, use their wall to keep in contact and then go to find the forum that is of most interest to you to post in. It will reduce trolling, taking threads off-topic and give each sub-forum a different feel. It will obviously take some time to adjust to, but it'll be worth it...
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VGC 2.0 was in fact a bit overwhelming in its front page, but it did have the traditional VGC features easily accessible (sales data and forums). The reason it was overwhelming was that you were expanding the site with more and more kinds of content (reviews, news, etc.).
VGC 3.0 has the opposite problem of fracturing all the content into different sites, which many people don't appreciate as it means more mouse clicks to access the same information.
If you look at the big picture, it seems to me that the root of the problems behind both 2.0 and 3.0 is that you are trying to make the site do too much. And now reaching a point where it's no longer a site, but four different ones, none of which is as good as the original VGChartz.
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