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Zkuq on 07 November 2020
TalonMan said:
Zkuq said:
Congratulations on upgrading from PHP 5! My understanding is that PHP 7 has a lot of breaking changes, so it must have been quite a task to upgrade from PHP 5. Should make things a lot better though, I imagine! I feel the pain this must have caused because where I work, we're in the process of performing some updates that should have been done a long time ago, and it's a huge pain to do all the while developing new features as well...That said, while I appreciate all the work, at first I'm not a huge fan of all the UI changes. It's mainly because of what seems like added scrolling and visuality, which takes up space, but it's definitely nothing I can't cope with. I might leave more detailed and constructive feedback once I have the time to get familiar with the site refresh, but for now, thanks for the work anyway! I really do appreciate taking care of the site.

Keep in mind - most UI changes were made with being more "mobile friendly" in mind. Things like those scrolls work MUCH better on a mobile device - rather than trying to navigate a drop-down... 

I can see that despite not using the site on a mobile device. That's kind of my main problem with the design trends we have today: Things look pretty clearly designed for mobile devices even on PC. I agree it makes sense for sites to do that because mobile is so huge today, but as someone who uses the web mainly on PC, I find it kind of annoying. Still, this isn't too bad for a change behind whom mobile-friendliness has been as a factor - and like I said, I certainly appreciate the work even if I don't like all the changes. Can't please everyone, right?



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Signalstar on 07 November 2020

Some ads still take up half a page.Can't scroll on Firefox browser on my Mac. Too many competing colors on the front page.



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DonFerrari on 07 November 2020

They take half page even when you don't see they over there and them cause pop up that uses the whole page.



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Cerebralbore101 on 07 November 2020
trunkswd said:
Cerebralbore101 said:

I love how there's a weekly chartz section for different countries. Does this mean articles like "Game X sells 10,000 copies on the Swiss chartz" won't wind up clogging the news feed? There's been a lot of articles in the past on this site that just weren't newsworthy or didn't really need to be pushing more important articles off the front page. I feel like giving them their own section of the front page off to the side is a really good compromise.

Edit: I just noticed that there more room for articles on the front page. Before the site update the limit looked like 17 articles. Now it's 24. Anyway hopefully between these two improvements the site becomes less clogged with articles that just aren't newsworthy, and nobody cares about. You know what I mean. All those articles that have 0 comments. There's 11 of them on the front page as we speak!

The front page used to display 14 articles under "latest stories." While the smaller news doesn't get as many views as bigger stories, a decent number of people have told me they are happy we report on smaller games. If you go into a specific article you will see on the side there is a new "Popular Stories" section that displays the most popular stories of the past week. 

I would love a personal settings option that just shows the popular news articles!




kirby007 on 07 November 2020

2 things :1 this thread isn't visible in hot topics2 to enter this thread i had to accept a security warning, some nonsense about a certificate



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Farsala on 07 November 2020

Site is/was pretty broken for me on Firefox (PC) as well as getting Security risk notifications. I couldn't even post this without quoting a random guy on page 2. I can't scroll down. The load is extremely slow.

After accepting the terms of use and cookies, it seems to be better except the extreme load times.



sundin13 on 07 November 2020

A couple minor issues that I noticed:

-The bar under forum posts (with the Thumbs Up, Reply, Quote, etc buttons) seems to have gotten a lot bigger for some reason

-The forum has stopped auto-truncating Quote Pyramids

EDIT: And hitting "Enter" in forum posts doesn't work when in quick post apparently...



mutantsushi on 07 November 2020

Yeah, please fix the slow loading issue, that is really egregious and I needed to log into to say that. Overall, some changes seem OK, but honestly I personally don't like the change to what is "lower information density" which seems to favor more pictures but less text, which actually just means I am forced to scroll more to see all the articles or whatever, not very helpful and not "promoting engagement" for me. Want: more Functional ergonomics, less superficial happy design.



kirby007 on 07 November 2020
Ryuu96 said:
kirby007 said:
2 things :1 this thread isn't visible in hot topics2 to enter this thread i had to accept a security warning, some nonsense about a certificate

1. Odd, it appears for me and it is marked 'Important' so it should appear everywhere, are you talking about Hot Topics viewed via front page? Do you have any things ticked off in filters?

Farsala said:

Site is/was pretty broken for me on Firefox (PC) as well as getting Security risk notifications. I couldn't even post this without quoting a random guy on page 2. I can't scroll down. The load is extremely slow.

After accepting the terms of use and cookies, it seems to be better except the extreme load times.

Yeah...That security risk shouldn't have happened, think it is fixed

Load sucks, we're aware, trying to find the cause. With the being unable to scroll, do you have any Adblock on?

no its not visible on hot topic in the forum pm me on discord if you want a picture cant add it here without reuploading it somewhere else



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Verter on 07 November 2020

All the issues I was gonna inform of are no longer issues. =P Good job.

But I do have a suggestion. If it's possible, I'd make the right sidebar wider, so that the three buttons in the Community Contributions wouldn't be so condensed and the Forums menu would display three whole upper buttons, instead of two and a half. Also, that would give more visibility to the forums.

If that wouldn't be possible, however, I'd at least reduce the width of the upper buttons in the Forums menu, so that they would fit better in the existing space (three buttons at a time, instead of the current two and a half).

But it's just a suggestion. Apart from that (and the slowness already addressed), I think the new design in general is better than the previous one, specially on mobile devices, so good job again!



I'm mostly a lurker now.