| ioi said: I don't expect thanks, it just annoys me a little when long-time members moan about the fact that the site has changed from 2006 / 2007. I owe a large amount to you guys for coming here to start with and help build an initial idea into a site but things change and evolve. VGChartz has doubled its earnings every year for the last 3 years (so if you do the math we did 8 times as much in 2010 as in 2007), taken on loads of staff etc etc - the growth of the site in so many ways is very obvious and yet people wonder why it isn't as basic and simple as it was back in 2007. I prefer the site ten times over how it is now to how it was then and it has taken a lot of hard work and investment to get it to where it is today! A lot of the issue with the site this time last year was the lack of focus on the charts and how hard it was to get data. With a proper dedicated VGChartz site now, all the data you need is right their at your fingertips, simply presented, easy to navigate. How can that be a backward step? Similarly if you just want to read the news each day then go to gamrFeed and scroll down and there it is. The site is far simpler and easier to navigate than it has ever been if you ask me. We have more content than probably any other gaming site out there now (charts, forums, news blog, reviews, game database, previews, cheats, screenshots, videos, community pages etc) - I'd say we organise that content pretty well and it is generally pretty easy to find what you want with a couple of clicks. If anyone has a good example of where this isn't the case then let me know and we can work on it! That said, things can always be improved and with the new gamrConnect site a lot of users should be much happier with the forums and social aspects of the site so and things should become much more streamlined. With websites it is all a process of iteration and improvement, some times we get things wrong but most of the time I think we do a pretty good job! |
The only improvement I see that is drastically needed is speed (like a few people have already mentioned). The heavy implementation of flash is nice for looks but bogs the speed way down. I even upgraded my internet to 20 mbps dl/2 upload and I still see long load times. However, it seems to happen at certain times (perhaps the heavier traffic periods). Sometimes this site loads pretty quick and is just as fast as others. However, sometimes it is very slow and I am just waiting for the site to load. The main thing I ask you to focus on is speed (make it fast even during high traffic times). Also, please don't post news articles calling for doom, etc. I've seen a little too many Nintendo is doomed news stories the past few days. While each news story might have some legitimate argument against Nintendo; who in their right mind would say Nintendo is doomed (oh wait... Patcher...). Anyways, I understand that titles should pull people in to the article but there has to be a better way of doing that than semi offending a person's console preference just to attract more hits.
