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How do you like the new look and functionality of VGChartz?

It's notably better than before 98 11.06%
 
It's slightly better than before 237 26.75%
 
It's about the same as before 80 9.03%
 
It's slightly worse than before 192 21.67%
 
It's notably worse than before 257 29.01%
 
Didn't even notice a change 22 2.48%
 
Total:886
axumblade said:

In the sites defense, it's still a work in progress. Its working a lot better than it has been earlier today and last night. 

It's gotten much snappier even since this morning.



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The only thing I used the front page for was the hot topics section. So i have never really looked at the other areas to make a full decision on if it is better or not. I can see why some people don't like it and some do. I think it was a step in the right direction but now needs tweaks to it based on community feedback.



 

 

trunkswd said:
noname2200 said:
axumblade said:

In the sites defense, it's still a work in progress. Its working a lot better than it has been earlier today and last night. 

It's gotten much snappier even since this morning.

Right now from what I am seeing it is just the front page that is still running slow. Talon's main focus is to get everything loading as fast as it should be then fixing bugs and anything else we've overlooked. 

The front page is definitely working a lot faster for me now.



Little bug with the pagination. Not sure if it's been noted yet.



It's working a lot better today than yesterday. Very fast, quick to respond today, not used to this site responding this quickly! Plus the Borat add breaking the scroll bar is gone today, much better. Otherwise, it still looks mostly the same to me, cleaner look, renders faster, feels good.



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I like the new look, but it seems to revert back to the old looking you get off the beaten path.



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I've noticed fast load times mucb of the time today, but still far too many super slow loads. To the OP..... I'm neutral on the look. I like it, but I think I'd like it a lot more with fewer graphics on the homepage. If that happens, it'll be a significant upgrade over the old look. Regarding functionality, because of the slow loading, I haven't really tried much out. In general though, I just read articles and participate in the forum. So, I don't expect a lot of impact on my usage of the site anyway.



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Last edited by mutantsushi - on 09 November 2020

I guess some thing have sped up, but other stuff is still slow... Not sure if it's still the case, but when I was going to next pages of thread, they basically wouldn't load. I would think upgrading to new server version should have FASTER site, not slower, or that should be goal. Maybe some stuff with UI is good like dark mode and menus, but overall the front page is a wreck, way too much space used on graphics, from user icons to too large flags and 'logos' for sections.

Cut that down, and make it more information dense, 99% of the time I am only interested in 5-10% of the content and I assume most users are like that, so it needs to be streamlined so you can easiliy scan the whole page and have the items you are interested pop out, which boils down to the TEXT. If you have space to include game cover without impeding the rest, OK, but the game graphics is not something that actually lets me navigate the page, i.e. I see the pic and know to click on it, etc. The article graphics likewise could be smaller so more can be fit in smaller area to allow less scrolling.

The 'modal' buttons like in upper right of page (to switch display of (sub)forums) seems absurdly wasteful: Spreading out "Hot Topics", "Latest Topics" over two lines... all to have a bunch of empty horizontal space? Having "scroll" function when there is only 5 subtopics that only need one "scroll" click in the 1st place?? Why not break it up into 3 column X 2 row text array, 1 for Forum in general, 5 others for each sub-topic? ->No scrolling, direct access, and only needs normal HTML text instead of empty-space wasting "button" BS.

Also look at how small choice end up forcing suboptimal layout: "Global Hardware Weekly - Week 44, 2020 " is long enough it forces 2nd line, but is that really neccessay? Instead, why not just say "Global Hardware - Week 44, 2020", repeating Weekly/Week doesn't seem necessay.

It looks like the full "Articles" have good space saving approach of overlaying text atop the b/g graphics, Why don't the shorter "Latest Stories" content use the same approach? Just that one step would makethem take about 40% less vertical space, reducing the "required" scrolling by that much instantly. Those graphics themselves seem like they could be reduced to 60% current height while still being good quality. It's possible the "top Article" and it's graphic could also be similarly reduced in size, I mean is the current Global Sales Chart article REALLY that amazing that everybody must have it take up 1/3 of the front pagevertical space, which forces more scrolling? I don't think so, having one item bigger is understandable,but I think that still works at only 60% of current "top article" image's current size.

Going by the rouglhy 3" of black space on sides of my screen, I also wonder if the layout could be adaptable, Seems like alot of people could easily use 3x wide layout for the articles (instead of current 2 column layout), reducing scrolling by 50% in one go. Honestly I think the vast majority of people have "wide screens" that could easily add an extra column,so just making that the default seems reasonable, even if page will scale back to 2x wide article layout on smaller screens.

EDIT: Posting this from quick reply takes FOREVER and seems to hang, that seems another problem. Also the Quick Reply doesn't keep any blank lines between paragraphs, I had to go back and EDIT this so it didn't look like giant un-readable wall of text.

Last edited by mutantsushi - on 09 November 2020

Load times are still very slow occasionally. 



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