Me and Trunks have been talking about how to clean up the frontpage somewhat. We're both on the same page at least that the focus needs to be on the Forums, Sales, Articles and there's too much going on in the front page still, a lack of focus, it has features all over the place that don't really need to be there so I want to see what the community thinks in how the frontpage can be cleaned up more.
None of us are graphic designers, we do all this stuff in our free time and whatever capabilities we have, be kind, Lol.
Some of Trunks and mine ideas that we're talking about.
- The avatars displayed by threads either should all conform to the same size or should be deleted entirely because right now it's just a mess with a bunch of different sized avatars displayed all over the place, it looks unprofessional and so I ask, would you guys rather it be fixed to conform to the same size or would you guys rather they be removed completely?
- Me and Trunks think Poll of the Week (PotW) and Prediction League (PL) should both be removed from the front page, we think that PotW instead should simply have a Master Thread linking to all Previous Polls (See Here) and then every week for PotW as per usual a thread will be made but it will be marked as "Important" for the week which in case anyone is unaware, labelling something as "Important" will stick it at the top of the forums in orange text.
The downside to this is that PotW will no longer be able to be voted on via logged-out accounts or based on IP, I personally don't see this as a downside as I was the one who pushed thread polls to be based on account rather than IP and I think PotW still being based on IP makes it inaccurate and not representative of the community's opinion we have here and easily cheated/botted, I also think we should be encouraging sign-ups as much as possible, Lol.
We also think PL could instead be better served as an ongoing Master Thread and with how few people seemingly use it nowadays, I personally feel it is taking up unnecessary space. Instead with both PL and PotW we would be putting the focus back to Threads for them both and removing bloat from the front page. Personally I looked into PL and was a little lost. We can figure out a way to store the leaderboards somewhere else which can be directly linked to in the thread too and whoever is in charge of the thread can also link directly to where you place your betting as well. - I'm debating whether we need Community Contributions too...Not many use GameDB and instead could we not just when someone makes a review, have it automatically post to their wall "I've just written a review for -Insert Game-" instead of on the front-page? For the "top rated reviews" I think we could simply whip up an area of the site which displays a leaderboard for various VGChartz stats, such as post count, like count, top rated reviews, top PL winner, etc. I've always wanted to create a master leaderboard somewhere on the site which displays dozens of different stats anyway, Lol.
And would you prefer something like this...(This image may delete itself since Discord doesn't host for long now).
Instead of the current scroll feature which cuts the rest off?
Feel free to post your own thoughts and ideas.
FWIW The purpose of deleting stuff isn't simply "ah we've deleted some stuff, it's sorted" but it's to actually get some sort of focus to the front page again on what we're about, then from there it would make actually making it look nicer overall be easier when we don't have to consider 20 different sections as well, Lol.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 August 2024
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