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Baalzamon said:

I personally love this site, and don't see how other people see it as being slow, because I've never had issues.

The ONE thing that I request to get fixed, however.  Allow us to use the plus sign, lol.


Yeah, I don't see the complaints about the speed. I turned off the sigs and I haven't had a problem since. The whole ad on the side gets me occasionally(like Rocketpig)

We just need a revamp on the PM system and I would be happy :D



Sig thanks to Saber! :D 

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MontanaHatchet said:

I used to contribute a lot to this site, so I feel like giving some input here:

Gamrconnect 2.0 sounds like a nightmare. While the new data does sound very promising (the more charts the better!), the last thing any part of this site needs is MORE features. If I can be a jerk (which I always am), this site is incredibly bloated, overcomplicated, and slow. Sites that are primarily data or information focused should generally be as linear, fast, and straightforward as possible. Finding the data you want should take you less than 20 seconds most of the time.

New information is fantastic, and new data tools are always welcome. But hell, a lot of great forums are just made using the same generic forum template without any gimmicky features at all. If features get in the way of functionality, then it's completely counterproductive to the cause of the site.

I think I've made this same post half a dozen times, but I still insist that this site actually has a total overhaul that makes it much simpler and more organized. I've been with this site since 2007, and I know that it's never been the speediest or more organized site. But with every update or change, it seems like more gimmicks get added and they don't do anything good for the site except make it more clunky (which actually isn't good). 

I'm just making this post because it sucks that Neogaf has a higher traffic rate and is just a site with two or so boards and not much else.

gamrConnect, when it launched, took away a number of features. We lost:

  • A proper hot topics section
  • VGC IM
  • The Prediction League
  • A decent PM system
  • A decent wall post system.

All of these things really should be added back.



(Former) Lead Moderator and (Eternal) VGC Detective

rocketpig said:

Scratch that, I figured it out. Me r stoopid. It's not entirely obvious how to do it, though.


Yeh thats something I just found out a couple weeks ago, I always wanted a search function and filters for news and always thought it just wasn't there until one day Zexen showed me how to get to it...it was awfully complicated?, I think it should be the first thing you see when you go to the news section.



Not trying to whine here, but I thought I should mention I'm having speed issues on the site as well. I know its been mentioned before, but I'm seeing some people say speed isnt an issue for them. IGN is probably the slowest site that I visit, but VGC loads so much slower than IGN(for me). It's really not VGC itself, but GamrReview that loads incredibly slow. When I buckle down to do some DB admin work(banners mostly), the lack of speed really slows things down and dampens my mood a bit. Even worse when you go through some submissions and have to check around on the site to verify some things.

Just my two cents.



"I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself."

The Master has been abducted? >__<

We must bring back the master and oliist must take his place, if all is lost.. 

 

As far as GameDB work goes.. I used to put 2 hours of work each night in the database back in 2.0, making crazy money. 3.0 made this so complicated and destroyed the games database and functionality. nordlead asked me to become a GameDB from my work that i've put in during the 2.0 days. It's SOOOOO hard to get any type of flow when it comes to adding things to the database. Each edit is a click on a menu.. And it's kind of sad seeing my money always getting lower and lower, because someone else replaced my banner.. hahaha

I suggest that GameDBs should be able to disable adds. Sometimes some adds take a long time to load , blow up taking up the screen if you pass over them or sound starts playing. Let us get down to the nitty gritty with a light version of the website. A simple edit screen that isnt hidden behind a drop down menu ,would be nice. All this java makes it unbearable sometimes just to get to the edit button. Remove the pop ups for GameDBs that say, "Your submission will be looked over by a GameDB admin" or whatever it says when you submit something. 

I disable shockwave just to make my computer load up a little faster

Fix the bug that won't let us delete screenshots

When someone submits a banner for a game. have the old banner pop up in the pop-up window along with tne new banner, so we dont have to take more time to go to the game's page, going through another java  cycle and adds.

Let us add more than one screenshot at a time

What's the Best browser to use for doing GameDB work? It's like some features dont work on others. I have to use a combination of Firefox and Internet Explorer.. Can't add screenshots with internet explorer?

Also, please bring back a proper Games page, not one that shows the games you added recently first then you have to keep pressing the back button to find a game? Really?! I used to love VGChartz for the games page, I wanted a website that would let me make a games collection that I can view with ease. Now I don't even know what games I have. I was about to add some games that i just bought a few months ago and wasnt sure if I added them already. I gave up on adding them, cuz I didn't feel like going through the back buttons and it's a pain searching for each game one by one in gamerReview, then clicking on add to see if i added it already. It would be nice to have a sort by feature (Name, Date added.. blah)







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pbroy said:

The Master has been abducted? >__<

We must bring back the master and oliist must take his place, if all is lost.. 

 

As far as GameDB work goes.. I used to put 2 hours of work each night in the database back in 2.0, making crazy money. 3.0 made this so complicated and destroyed the games database and functionality. nordlead asked me to become a GameDB from my work that i've put in during the 2.0 days. It's SOOOOO hard to get any type of flow when it comes to adding things to the database. Each edit is a click on a menu.. And it's kind of sad seeing my money always getting lower and lower, because someone else replaced my banner.. hahaha

I suggest that GameDBs should be able to disable adds. Sometimes some adds take a long time to load , blow up taking up the screen if you pass over them or sound starts playing. Let us get down to the nitty gritty with a light version of the website. A simple edit screen that isnt hidden behind a drop down menu ,would be nice. All this java makes it unbearable sometimes just to get to the edit button. Remove the pop ups for GameDBs that say, "Your submission will be looked over by a GameDB admin" or whatever it says when you submit something. 

I disable shockwave just to make my computer load up a little faster

Fix the bug that won't let us delete screenshots

When someone submits a banner for a game. have the old banner pop up in the pop-up window along with tne new banner, so we dont have to take more time to go to the game's page, going through another java  cycle and adds.

Let us add more than one screenshot at a time

What's the Best browser to use for doing GameDB work? It's like some features dont work on others. I have to use a combination of Firefox and Internet Explorer.. Can't add screenshots with internet explorer?

Also, please bring back a proper Games page, not one that shows the games you added recently first then you have to keep pressing the back button to find a game? Really?! I used to love VGChartz for the games page, I wanted a website that would let me make a games collection that I can view with ease. Now I don't even know what games I have. I was about to add some games that i just bought a few months ago and wasnt sure if I added them already. I gave up on adding them, cuz I didn't feel like going through the back buttons and it's a pain searching for each game one by one in gamerReview, then clicking on add to see if i added it already. It would be nice to have a sort by feature (Name, Date added.. blah)

I hear ya, I use to be able to do hundres of submissions in such a short time because everything was so fast simple and easy to submit. Now you have to click through a bunch of stuff just to get one submission. Discouraging to not see all the other DB work not in the points system as well, I know it'll be added later, but how hard would of been to add it when this new VG Chartz came? 

Also I really miss the top 10 richest users, I wanted to make that list so bad, and I was encouraged to stay on the list when I made it.

"Remove the pop ups for GameDBs that say, "Your submission will be looked over by a GameDB admin" or whatever it says when you submit something. "

Agreed, atleast get rid of this for DB Admins it slows things down to much.

"Fix the bug that won't let us delete screenshots"

Yes Please

"When someone submits a banner for a game. have the old banner pop up in the pop-up window along with tne new banner, so we dont have to take more time to go to the game's page, going through another java  cycle and adds."

Already discussed this with ioi, it's on the list of fixes now.

"Let us add more than one screenshot at a time"

Once again, agreed, why change it to make things slower?

...How about for DB Admins we get access the old VG Chartz strickly for DB submissions? :P lol




pbroy said:

The Master has been abducted? >__<

We must bring back the master and oliist must take his place, if all is lost..

Red named people that are also responsible for the DB are often going the way of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815.

I fear I could get LOST.



Tempus fugit Nintendo manet.

 

Level 1 - Newbie
Level 2 - Member - Pass 1k
Level 3 - Regular - Pass 2k
Level 4 - Addicted - Pass 5k
Level 5 - Obsessed - Pass 10k
Level 6 - Old Guard - Pass 20k
Level 7 - Legend - Pass 50k
Level 8 - Demi-God - Pass 100k
Level 9 - God - Pass 250k
Level 10 - Zeus - Pass 500k

New Table:

Level 1 - Newbie
Level 2 - Rookie - Pass 1k
Level 3 - Padawan - Pass 10k
Level 4 - Sea Dog - Pass 25k
Level 5 - Captain - Pass 50k
Level 6 - Agent - Pass 100k
Level 7 - Elite - Pass 175k
Level 8 - Hero - Pass 250k
Level 9 - Legend - Pass 500k
Level 10 - Titan - Pass 1 Million

oliist said:
pbroy said:

The Master has been abducted? >__<

We must bring back the master and oliist must take his place, if all is lost..

Red named people that are also responsible for the DB are often going the way of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815.

I fear I could get LOST.

But I think every purple name (even though I'm not purple -_-) agree that you should step in to replace the fallen admin, instead of hiring a new one that would probably suck and do things detrimental to the DB




oliist said:
pbroy said:

The Master has been abducted? >__<

We must bring back the master and oliist must take his place, if all is lost..

Red named people that are also responsible for the DB are often going the way of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815.

I fear I could get LOST.


I think all of us GameDBs would agree that oliist should take the spot. Would we listen to anybody else telling us what to do? Come on oliist, you pretty much do everything and know all the rules of the DB.. AND you'll get paid... would you really want someone else taking your rightfully earned spot and being YOUR boss? You're pretty much the boss already...  ¬_¬







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Gilgamesh said:
pbroy said:

The Master has been abducted? >__<

We must bring back the master and oliist must take his place, if all is lost.. 

 

As far as GameDB work goes.. I used to put 2 hours of work each night in the database back in 2.0, making crazy money. 3.0 made this so complicated and destroyed the games database and functionality. nordlead asked me to become a GameDB from my work that i've put in during the 2.0 days. It's SOOOOO hard to get any type of flow when it comes to adding things to the database. Each edit is a click on a menu.. And it's kind of sad seeing my money always getting lower and lower, because someone else replaced my banner.. hahaha

I suggest that GameDBs should be able to disable adds. Sometimes some adds take a long time to load , blow up taking up the screen if you pass over them or sound starts playing. Let us get down to the nitty gritty with a light version of the website. A simple edit screen that isnt hidden behind a drop down menu ,would be nice. All this java makes it unbearable sometimes just to get to the edit button. Remove the pop ups for GameDBs that say, "Your submission will be looked over by a GameDB admin" or whatever it says when you submit something. 

I disable shockwave just to make my computer load up a little faster

Fix the bug that won't let us delete screenshots

When someone submits a banner for a game. have the old banner pop up in the pop-up window along with tne new banner, so we dont have to take more time to go to the game's page, going through another java  cycle and adds.

Let us add more than one screenshot at a time

What's the Best browser to use for doing GameDB work? It's like some features dont work on others. I have to use a combination of Firefox and Internet Explorer.. Can't add screenshots with internet explorer?

Also, please bring back a proper Games page, not one that shows the games you added recently first then you have to keep pressing the back button to find a game? Really?! I used to love VGChartz for the games page, I wanted a website that would let me make a games collection that I can view with ease. Now I don't even know what games I have. I was about to add some games that i just bought a few months ago and wasnt sure if I added them already. I gave up on adding them, cuz I didn't feel like going through the back buttons and it's a pain searching for each game one by one in gamerReview, then clicking on add to see if i added it already. It would be nice to have a sort by feature (Name, Date added.. blah)

I hear ya, I use to be able to do hundres of submissions in such a short time because everything was so fast simple and easy to submit. Now you have to click through a bunch of stuff just to get one submission. Discouraging to not see all the other DB work not in the points system as well, I know it'll be added later, but how hard would of been to add it when this new VG Chartz came? 

Also I really miss the top 10 richest users, I wanted to make that list so bad, and I was encouraged to stay on the list when I made it.

"Remove the pop ups for GameDBs that say, "Your submission will be looked over by a GameDB admin" or whatever it says when you submit something. "

Agreed, atleast get rid of this for DB Admins it slows things down to much.

"Fix the bug that won't let us delete screenshots"

Yes Please

"When someone submits a banner for a game. have the old banner pop up in the pop-up window along with tne new banner, so we dont have to take more time to go to the game's page, going through another java  cycle and adds."

Already discussed this with ioi, it's on the list of fixes now.

"Let us add more than one screenshot at a time"

Once again, agreed, why change it to make things slower?

...How about for DB Admins we get access the old VG Chartz strickly for DB submissions? :P lol



I loved the Top 10 money makers for the week... How in the hell do we get a top post maker and not have a top money maker? THAT is what made contributing to the database worth it to most people, seeing their names on that list.

I also would LOVE to see the return of the edits list on the games page. So we know who added what to the database for each game. Makes you feel proud for adding something and seeing your name there. Then we can also see who was the person who made the banner that replaced yours and if it was a just call or not. The only person who gets credit on a game's page now. is a person who adds a screenshot. The list should be just for other submission, not screenshots. People want to see their names and it makes it feel like they helped.

I would also love to see the list on each games page of who owns that game come back.

2.0 database was the BEST videogame database on the internet (PERIOD)







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