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Forums - Website Topics - What I think is wrong with 3.0 and what should be fixed

Since there's so many little things that's bothering me with 3.0 I'll make a separate thread to see if everyone agrees with some of the stuff I suggested or not, I'd also like to know if anything will be done about any of these problems, because I'm really bothered by a lot. I spend most of my computer time on VG Chartz so it's kind of like a second home and when somethings wrong it just bothers me to much. 

I think 3.0 was rushed way to much, I'm sure you guys wanted to release it before E3 but it's no where complete that it should be, a lot of good features missing from 2.0 and bugs. I find myself spending over 90% of my time in the forums now, when it use to be all split up equally between the game section and news.

So here's a list of what I think needs to be fixed or changed for the better of VG Chartz, there's going to be a lot of little things and some big things.

Hub

- I'm not a fan of the hub, I'd really rather the main page be the page with the sales numbers, it's just another pointless page I have to go through to get where I want to go, but I'm sure it's going to stay so a little suggestion would be to rearrange the pages it's displaying, the top two pages should be news and and sales and the lesser important ones at the bottom, the first thing you see when you come to VG Chartz is those first two boxes, so since VG Chartz is really all about numbers the sales box should be in the first two. Also that sales box needs to be changed, it should display WW hardware sales and software (maybe top 5 software sales to save room), and really if it had to be one I'd rather see the WW hardware sales then software.

VG Chartz sales

- Needs a little more color, looks very dull and not very appealing. For the weekly hardware sales maybe give the console names color, and something the same for software.

- Everything should be outlined a little better, when looking at the whole page it looks like all that information is all one.

GamrFeed

- Not much problem with this everything is organized well and there's a lot of useful features.

GamrReview

- When you go to release dates the Japan flag is just a red dot because the background is white as well, looks odd, maybe put an outline around the flag or change the background color.

- In the latest review scores section there should be an option to sort the scores from highest to lowest.

- Under the games section the list of games should be numbered.

- Don't use abbreviations for the list of games, have the full name so new people to gaming will know the actual name of the console, I've been saying this for a long time and it has to be changed.

- You should be able to click the sales number and it'll take you to the sales section for that game so you can look at the weekly sales for it.

- In games pages where it shows the review score you should have the sales for the game as well, I'm shocked that there's no sales information about a game on a the game page. Again I say put the sales number for the game and have it linked to go to the sales sections of that game. Also the top 10 weekly sales for each game has got to come back I'm baffled as to why it was removed, I know there was another section dedicated to weekly sales for games but most people really want to see the top 10 weekly sales for each region and the total, why can't we have it all in one page instead if were in the GamrReview section looking at a game if we want to see the weekly sales we'll have to go through many more other pages just to see weekly sales numbers, way to inconvenient.

- When you go to edit game summaries there's no options to change text or add bullets etc, that should be brought back.

- Still can't submit a release date.

- Expand the amount of screenshots you can add at a time to 15 or maybe even more, it'll make uploading screen shots easier and quicker.

- Have the option to go to the game page in the pending job section for games, also the pending jobs should be default for what we see first instead of claimed.

GamrConnect

- On the right where it says Game DB and it says how many jobs is pending you shouldn't stop at 10+ it should say exactly how many jobs are pending.

- At the User's section we should be able to sort by post.

- Everytime I go to a new thread it automatically jumps to the reply box, really annoying having to scroll back up to read the OP.

- Bring back the feature where under your recent post it turns a different color when someone quotes you.

- Have the ability again to be able to sort the Views and Post by highest to lowest.

- When posting there's a lot of features missing like color and the option to upload a video.

- Maybe do what you had in 2.0 for a thread one post will have a white background and the next post bellow it will be shaded a bit darker and the next white and so on, just so you can tell the difference between each post easier.

- When someone is quoted the quoted box should be shaded so you can easily tell the difference between the post and the quoted part.

Profile

- Complete the point's breakdown section obviously, and I hope the you get the points for having people post in your thread back, that was one of the reasons why I made so many threads and put a lot of work into making some of them was to try and get a lot of post and get more points.

- At Forum activity section at the bottom maybe put a link to the page that has all your post, recent replies and threads.

Other

- Put the top 10 people with the most points and top ten most points made in the last 7 days back, not sure where it can go but it needs to come back, it'll inspire people to try and get more points to make the list therefor helping out the site.

- Make VG Charts more customizable, make it so we can change the text color in the website or have a light version of the site. 

That should be about all that I can think of now, I hope I don't sound like the site is no good or anything I know you guys put a lot of work into it and I like a lot of new features, but I think it was launched way to prematurely. I just want to see what you guys think of my suggestion and whether anything will actually be done about it. If you don't understand anything just let me know and I'll explain it more in detail or provide a picture.

Thanks for your time for reading this long ass thread 



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I just want to be able to tell when someone has quoted me.



I just want the option to change this white background...



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I understand why the gamrfeed is white with green. It's the XBOX colours. All of them have console colors. But how about changing the white background in favor of the new console. A good relaunch representation of a darker colour. Some of the colour fixes post above. Also the hot forum topics should have some indicator to the forum they belong too. Like the old red, green blue. But know you want the colour scheme how about an Icon in front of the headline text.

Anyways I want to say thanks for putting the Hot topics above the activity feed. And fixing that damnd banner problem.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.

d21lewis said:

I just want to be able to tell when someone has quoted me.


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Fun Fact:  In the early days of VGChartz, it was possible for users to customize their home pages with pictures.  The result was a huge eyesore and unreadable User pages.