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Squilliam on 26 May 2009

Hey I found a bug, or a tweak required: When you send a PM with no subject it comes up with an error rather than telling you what you've done wrong.



Tease.

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11ht11 on 26 May 2009

the site seems to take a while to load sometimes



11ht11 on 26 May 2009

the site seems to take a while to load sometimes

edit: i had to click back cause it wouldnt load when i clicked "post"

 

and it seems it was a double post too



Timmah! on 26 May 2009
im_sneaky said:
My only problem is the black colour scheme. It hurts my eyes.

Play around with the brightness & contrast on your monitor till it feels better, you may want to reset it to the defaults first.



superchunk on 26 May 2009

Thanks for all the feedback ioi. At first I was more aligned with NJ5 on this, but after following your chat w/ him and thinking about the logic you are using, it makes a lot more sense. However, I would still consider is a vital option to somehow show notices about PM's, recent threads, etc on the homepage for users that are logged in.

Maybe some kind of popup item like the quick links.

The news and actual sales charts are the point to the site and that should be the focal point of the top center of the pages.

Also, I would really sink some time into finding a way to make the width more dynamic. I would be happy to help if possible. Many of the boxes definitely have extra padding that could become part of the dynamic % width controls vs specific widths.

Either way, great job and really looking forward to your E3 coverage. :)



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Timmah! on 26 May 2009

Screenshot of the Menu problem I've been having. Seems to happen mostly in IE7/8. Very much of a pain when trying to navigate from the front page.

The banner ad is also on top of QuickLinks, making those impossible to use as well.



Xxain on 26 May 2009

When I qoute ppl it centers everything for some reason..and the HOME page isnt loading properly



nordlead on 26 May 2009
Xxain said:
When I qoute ppl it centers everything for some reason..and the HOME page isnt loading properly

did you already try clearing your cache or hitting ctrl+F5 like I said earlier?




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11ht11 on 26 May 2009

so nothing is going to happen for the people with resolution problems?



crumas2 on 26 May 2009
ioi said:

What you guys need to realise though is that "my stuff", whilst useful to me and you, takes up valuable homepage space that could be used for listing more stories. When we have 40-50 articles per DAY going up at E3 we're gonna need as many ways of organising and displaying them as we can - the news rotator shows major featured articles, most popular (with tabs to filter by console etc) lists out the majority of what people want to read about, recent headlines provides the list from which stories can become popular if they get picked up by readers.

Looking at the big picture, expanding the news coverage on the site (when we are sending 9 people out to E3 this year and have a packed schedule of interviews, booth tours, conferences and so on) takes priority to taking up a whole column with profile links and recent threads. Especially when for guests, that left column just ended up being the ad and nothing else - total waste.

You say it accomplishes less with more but with the new setup we have the potential to make 87 different news pieces accessible to someone visiting the front page (5 for the news rotator. 8x9 popular stories and 10 most recent - of course there will be some overlap) compared to 28 on the old site (with a lot of overlap and the main list of 20 being way down the page) - whilst also making the reviews more prominent and keeping all the sales stuff up there where it should be. I think that is a fair accomplishment actually and a very neat solution to a number of different problems we have been facing.

Ahhh... there are no perfect solutions... life is full of trade-offs.

You've done a really great job balancing conflicting goals, but perhaps you're demanding too much of a single homepage.  I wonder if it's possible to have a special E3 homepage during that event--one that is streamlined for the purpose--with a link to the "normal" homepage that has all the wonderful content that we've come to expect from the site.  That way you don't have two massive competing objectives trying to rule the first page seen.

Probably a stupid idea from an implementation perspective, but I try to think out-of-the-box every once in a while just to see if a novel idea might actually work out...