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Personal opinion. And being really picky. Sizes in top banner:

#mainMenu > li > a { font-size:15px } - or 1.4rem, down from 17px.

.subMenu > div > div.heading { font-size:15px; } - down from 18px, matches the 'seeAll' class in that menu.

#supporterBox { font-size: 13px; padding: 3px 15px; } - font-size down 1, padding top and bottom up 1.

#searchIconBox img, #socialMediaIconBox img { width:80% } - only because i can see a slight blur on the images, while this is how the images are, it's still annoying.

Still, doing great man, keep it up.



Hmm, pie.

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I feel like the front page de empathizes VGC as sells focus site. The global HW/SW charts should take center stage a little more. I assume the forums are gearing up a redesign as well?



I noticed that on a different computer with different scaling the VGBuddy sometimes doesn't fit on the homepage, so I have to actually move it on top of content, while on the forum it always does for me.



TalonMan said:
Xxain said:
I assume the forums are gearing up a redesign as well?

Yes - that's exactly why I started this thread. I want to put the front page redesign to bed, so I can rollout the forums...

My 2 cents 

Condense 

Gaming section

General gaming discussion 

Nintendo gaming discussion

PlayStation gaming discussion

Xbox gaming discussion 

* This is done to keep the threads console focused. No more hearing other parts of the company in the gaming sections.

I honestly dont think we need a PC section. Its never used and when PC news is brought up its done in general gaming

We should have a all purpose gaming news section. The console specific threads are always flooded with a bunch of news, relevant or not .

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Sales section

Hardware

software

Financials

All sales talk here NOT in the gaming section. 

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side thing - Ads are outta control on this site. Lets get them in control



Xxain said:
TalonMan said:

Yes - that's exactly why I started this thread. I want to put the front page redesign to bed, so I can rollout the forums...

My 2 cents 

Condense 

Gaming section

General gaming discussion 

Nintendo gaming discussion

PlayStation gaming discussion

Xbox gaming discussion 

* This is done to keep the threads console focused. No more hearing other parts of the company in the gaming sections.

I honestly dont think we need a PC section. Its never used and when PC news is brought up its done in general gaming

We should have a all purpose gaming news section. The console specific threads are always flooded with a bunch of news, relevant or not .

-------------------------

Sales section

Hardware

software

Financials

All sales talk here NOT in the gaming section. 

-------------------------

 

side thing - Ads are outta control on this site. Lets get them in control

We should keep the PC section, it may not be used much but getting rid of it would just drive more PC gamers away.



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OK, here's some suggestions for desktop:

  • Detached buddy would really benefit from being resizable. It's not tall enough, and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the width either. The width isn't bad, but it looks somehow odd (and not in a good way).  Alternatively, it's dimensions could be tweaked, but the really good solution would be to make it properly resizable (and yes, I'm aware of the width adjustment button on it).
  • Detached buddy has poor colours. It kind of blends into the background but not really. I tried a different colour really quickly, and simply using a darker share of gray seemed a lot better. There might be an even better option, but making it darker also helps a lot.
  • I still don't like how the top bar follows you around. It takes up valuable vertical space without being very useful, and it's way bigger than it needs to be. For comparison, it looks roughly 1.5 times the height of the top bar on Twitter. The main culprit here are the icons in the top right of the bar. The need to be smaller.
  • While you're at it, make the social media icon on the top bar sharper. It's really blurry. Making stuff on the top bar less tall might help with this, but either way, increasing the icon's resolution also seems necessary. Also, having the social media icons fill the whole width doesn't look too great. I can live with them being behind a popup (although I'm not a huge fan of that solution), but a screen-wide popup doesn't look too good.
  • Make the top bar popup bars (e.g. social media, search) hideable! Right now, it's not possible to hide them once you've opened them.
  • The chart image (with the sales bars) has a blurry title ('Global Hardware Totals'). Its resolution should be increased.

Also, while the site generally feels like it works fairly well on desktop, something does make it feel like it was designed with heavy focus on mobile devices. It's possible my suggestions above will already help with it, but beyond that, I'm not sure what can be done. One possibility is to add some more structure to the site in the form of subtle but visible dividers. In practice, this probably means separating the three main columns with vertical dividers. One problem is that forum hot topics aren't separated from site background in any way, which a vertical divider might help with a bit. Of course this suggestion is somewhat problematic, as I imagine fitting vertical dividers can be difficult to pull off in a way that looks decent.



I don't know if it's a bug, but I've checked a notification straight from the forum buddy in the front page, but the warning didn't go until I did it the old way (going into my notifications and checking the warning in question).

Also, a suggestion I made in the other thread, having the thread links in black and the article links in green is very odd. In my opinion, given that the front page is now more clear (or less dark), they should all be the same colour: black.



Please excuse my bad English.

Currently gaming on a PC with an i5-4670k@stock (for now), 16Gb RAM 1600 MHz and a GTX 1070

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Got a question: Why is Prediction League placed higher than Latest Chart Updates? I feel like the Latest Chart Updates holds more importance than PL seeing as that we have to check daily to see sales in each region.



Rob5VGC said:
Got a question: Why is Prediction League placed higher than Latest Chart Updates? I feel like the Latest Chart Updates holds more importance than PL seeing as that we have to check daily to see sales in each region.

Because the actual charts that got updated are above the Prediction League



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kirby007 said:
Rob5VGC said:
Got a question: Why is Prediction League placed higher than Latest Chart Updates? I feel like the Latest Chart Updates holds more importance than PL seeing as that we have to check daily to see sales in each region.

Because the actual charts that got updated are above the Prediction League

But it doesn't show France, UK, and Germany updates.