Jeez, I leave for a month or so and you blow the place up.
Good thing I didn't leave you with the keys to the car.
Good thing I didn't leave you with the keys to the car.
The Escapist Redesign
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Jeez, I leave for a month or so and you blow the place up.
Good thing I didn't leave you with the keys to the car.
Good thing I didn't leave you with the keys to the car.
And for that matter, how did I get a warning for a post that I supposedly made 42 years ago? I haven't even BEEN here since June.
Horrid and tasteless. Also liked having the video games and comics in same area.
Bors Minstrel said it pretty damned well.
Bors Minstrel said it pretty damned well.
I like how it's more readable, but it all feels a bit sterile. I don't hate it, but it doesn't feel like it's filled with fun and sparkles.
But what-evs, you've obviously spent ages working on it, and it does read nicely.
I don't like being encouraged to check out what you've been up to though. It's pointless and a little annoying, I mean, I'm here to look at what's been going on anyway.
But what-evs, you've obviously spent ages working on it, and it does read nicely.
I don't like being encouraged to check out what you've been up to though. It's pointless and a little annoying, I mean, I'm here to look at what's been going on anyway.
it seems better for iphone and ipad like devices, but much of the new website just causes issues for me (excluding bugs).Nasrin said:
The small compact comment section on the right has just become complex and fiddly for me.
Is the most views of the week or day the same thing as hot topic?
Also much of the website just looks ugly to me with overly bright saturated colours, with vast amounts of open space separating everything.
Will the actual community have any sway in this layout, or is this already a pre decided change the the community will have no control?
Currently my time on the escapist has already been reduced because of the new website, and i have read many other also are doing the same, meaning the only thing I see is reduced amount of users (excluding those visiting to see what the new website is like)
This change is more annoying than it is functional (So annoying that I actually made an account on this site to tell you about it!) I come here for precisely two reasons - 1) Zero Punctuation, 2) Escape To The Movies. I do nothing else on this site, nor do I have a desire to do anything else. I used to watch Extra Credits here, but of course that turned out to be a massive fiasco. It used to be nice and simple to find these columns on the sidebar to the right, but now they are in an annoying hover-over-drop-down-menu at the top (A design that I have hated since its inception, since it goes away the second you hover off of it) and it took me a half hour to find the content I wanted the first time I looked.
You are steadily taking away the reasons I come to this site at all, so if you want to lose web traffic, continue to make bad design changes that mess up site navigation. If I weren't such a fan of Yahtzee and Movie Bob I would consider abandoning Escapist entirely.
You are steadily taking away the reasons I come to this site at all, so if you want to lose web traffic, continue to make bad design changes that mess up site navigation. If I weren't such a fan of Yahtzee and Movie Bob I would consider abandoning Escapist entirely.
I don't want to be banhammered for short posting, but this a valid question and needs to be asked:
Where is the IRC channel?
Where is the IRC channel?
Preparing for a Facebook takeover?
What a horrid, bland, "designed by committee" atrocity. I have so much white space on each side of the new "centered" content I started putting my post-its there rather than the edge of my monitors. I am starting to think that music, animated .gifs, mouse trails and MySpace actually are net experience positives.
Seems like there are Chrome issues. Or just really slow (or buggy?)... Not sure. But also not in the mood to test it out.
At least I can bookmark the areas I normally visit and just ignore the main page or anything else. (And reload a few times and eventually watch / read it.)
A ^5 to Aldarionn ... I almost had assumed Zero Punctuation had been discontinued and was going to head on my merry way to my next daily site content feast.
What a horrid, bland, "designed by committee" atrocity. I have so much white space on each side of the new "centered" content I started putting my post-its there rather than the edge of my monitors. I am starting to think that music, animated .gifs, mouse trails and MySpace actually are net experience positives.
Seems like there are Chrome issues. Or just really slow (or buggy?)... Not sure. But also not in the mood to test it out.
At least I can bookmark the areas I normally visit and just ignore the main page or anything else. (And reload a few times and eventually watch / read it.)
A ^5 to Aldarionn ... I almost had assumed Zero Punctuation had been discontinued and was going to head on my merry way to my next daily site content feast.
*Puts on sunglasses*
No, this will not do at all.
Your next assignment is to create optional skins so that I can SEE. (And no, the dimmer would not help, as it's still a pasty-white board that my eyes don't want to focus on.)
No, this will not do at all.
Your next assignment is to create optional skins so that I can SEE. (And no, the dimmer would not help, as it's still a pasty-white board that my eyes don't want to focus on.)
Does seem to be a little faster than it was a couple of days ago, so thanks, but I still think there's a bit too much white space. On threads the only real difference is the lack of the sides, it seems a bit empty. I do like how the front page is redesigned though, especially now it's running better.
I was going to post a few comments here but Damn! cqaWolf nailed it in post #12. So...
/paste #12.
Thanks cqaWolf
EDIT: I am just shocked about how long it takes for this website to load a page now.
It took me 2.5mins to load the forum page. Really?!? escapist? Really?
I had better load times in 1998.
/paste #12.
Thanks cqaWolf
EDIT: I am just shocked about how long it takes for this website to load a page now.
It took me 2.5mins to load the forum page. Really?!? escapist? Really?
I had better load times in 1998.
Alright, I've really, really been liking this snowy landscape background, and I'm sure it fixes most people's "ZOMG THERE'S SO MUCH WHITE I'M BLIND". Could we have something like this all the time? At least an option for it? Hell, I saw the option to put an image on the sidebar, could users upload their own picture to use as a background?
EDIT: And it makes it feel even more open, like this middle section is displayed on a window.
EDIT: And it makes it feel even more open, like this middle section is displayed on a window.
Alright issue I've found is in the Forum drop down menu. It is displaying different preferences than my account should be, example being Off Topic taking the top spot when the forum board I visit most [Role Playing] isn't even on the list
Same here. Religion and Politics isn't even on my list despite being my 2nd or 3rd most active board.Lost In The Void said:
Lost In The Void said:
The forum drop down menu is being re-structured to deal with traffic better. Apparantly it wasn't made in the best of ways and whilst it was able to cope fine back when it was only PubClub members who had it as that was a much smaller amount of people using it, now it is being applied to the whole site so it needs to be optimised to take stress off the servers.RedEyesBlackGamer said:
Until then, the forum drop down list we have is a place-holder while ThyNameIsMud