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It is quite funny how people are moaning about this now, I strongly remember the backlash after the last update...

@ ioi, all these things sound really great and I think it would really help if there was a news item in which all these plans are detailed, so people stay happier



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ioi said:
DOLBYdigital said:
ioi said:


The irony here is that there were 100s of people saying the exact opposite when we moved from 1.0 to 2.0 - too cluttered, too many colours, too much going on, no focus on sales and charts etc. It is evident that you guys just really hate change! You'll soon be used to it in a few days like you all were the last time we revamped the site.

Man just looking at the comparison shots shows how smashed and unorganized the new site looks. 2.0 was very nicely organized, clean and structured. The new site just looks like a mess. I hate to say it but I probably won't be around as much as before.  Hope you guys come up with a better look for 4.0  :)


Seriously, you guys are winding me up now right?

We must have had 200-300 comments when 2.0 launched about how terrible the homepage is, now it was perfect?

Wow

I think the big thing is that people hate change..

I just have a question though, and perhaps you can answer it or perhaps someone else with more background in web design can.  I assume that the site uses a combination of PHP, javascript and a mysql backend?

Anyhow, is it possible to have settings in your "settings" under profile that would allow you to specify bgcolor, text color, etc?  and store them as variables in the mysql database and when it goes to call the css sheet it can pass variables to it?

If not, would it be possible to do a couple predefined combinations of colors and have a couple of different css sheets for those predefined color templates and then based on what you selected for a color template in your profile it would load that CSS sheet (wish I paid more attention in my e-commerce classes now :D



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Forum Hot Topics should be at the center of the gamrConnect homepage, not notices of who wrote on whose walls.  Also, those Hot Topic thread links should have all information like they used to: number of posts and number of new posts, who started the thread, etc.  There should definitely be a link directly to the new posts of the thread.



I can't seem to find the option for adding screenshots! >:[



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ioi said:
zuvuyeay said:

its a pretty good look overall though ioi,

i'd say you'll get alot more everyday people visiting the 4 sections of the site and more hits

and not just  nerds with nothing better to do.....o-0

Exactly. Site designs are normally to attract new people so it is entirely understandable that existing users may dislike some changes but as the site owner I can see the bigger picture. With a team of 30-40 writers then reviews and news is becoming a prime focus of what we do so they need full, dedicated sections. Similarly, VGChartz is now jam packed with charts and tools, and far more easily accessible.

I can't help but be a little frustrated when you revamp and improve a site to such a huge extent like this and all you get is 100 posts saying "I hate the green color". Eventually, your gamrConnect homepage will be hugely customisable - you'll be able to select exactly what is shown and which boxes / links you display - this will serve as your personal "hub" and should have everything you need on one page. The splitting of the site is obviously designed to allow each area to have a full focus and for each to build up a dedicated brand and audience - the advantages in terms of bringing in new users are, I'm afraid, far outweighing the inevitable loss of some current users who find the system "too hard to navigate" and aren't prepared to give it a go and get used to it...

alot of us are stats/charts lovers which is why we are here in the first place,but not everyone does and your new design makes good sense,people will get linked to the reviews and news sections without maybe knowing abot the sales side and they'll only get bigger/better as they evolve those sections

when your own hub page can be personalised to what you want,then that sounds like job done





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I like the white background, I just dont really like the ad background which removes some of the clean aspect it had with the background of this morning.



sad.man.loves.vgc said:

too bright, TOO BRIGHT! and the fonts are not dark enough.

no hot topics?


And people called VGC 2.0 "Too dark, terrible colour combinations & a recipe to strain one's eyes"

back then people wanted the white background of VGC 1.5 back!

So you moan if they do it & you moan if they don't do it

How can someone win?!



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Munkeh111 said:

It is quite funny how people are moaning about this now, I strongly remember the backlash after the last update...

@ ioi, all these things sound really great and I think it would really help if there was a news item in which all these plans are detailed, so people stay happier


well there is this in gamerfeed, it says what the intent is for each area.
http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/80196/vgchartz-has-evolved/



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ioi said:
DOLBYdigital said:
ioi said:


The irony here is that there were 100s of people saying the exact opposite when we moved from 1.0 to 2.0 - too cluttered, too many colours, too much going on, no focus on sales and charts etc. It is evident that you guys just really hate change! You'll soon be used to it in a few days like you all were the last time we revamped the site.

Man just looking at the comparison shots shows how smashed and unorganized the new site looks. 2.0 was very nicely organized, clean and structured. The new site just looks like a mess. I hate to say it but I probably won't be around as much as before.  Hope you guys come up with a better look for 4.0  :)


Seriously, you guys are winding me up now right?

We must have had 200-300 comments when 2.0 launched about how terrible the homepage is, now it was perfect?

Wow


Ignore those comments. The overall idea now is far better as the old site's homepage was almost unusable to me on many devices and without certian upgrades to my browsers I would have stopped visiting a long time ago.

Now, I can run at the default browser experience and its FAR better, faster, and will probably work better no my Wii/PS3/phone. I'll try later.

However, in this thread really consider my 'quick view' improvement to better connect the new modules. It would solve the complaint that you can't easily view the primary data from various areas.



Ah, found the top sellers for each platform.  A lot of the wording is different this time around, so finding eveything from before has taken a bit of time haha. ^_^

I'm really liking the data analysis section of VGChartz, adds a bit more pizazz to the sales data.