The New Shiny Escapist
- Thread starter Trujkin
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WHITE!!!BURNS!!!MY EYES!!!
Aeriously cut down with white. I know that it's the same color as cocaine but there are limits...
Aeriously cut down with white. I know that it's the same color as cocaine but there are limits...
My honest opinion:
It's clusterfucky and it stings my eyes with all the white. What's the hex code for this? GG GG GG?
And it reminds me of Facebook. I don't like Facebook.
All of these streamlined menu changes could've been done with the original scheme and there was space left for the whole profile thing. The messages on my profile is so small it's almost unclickable and everything seems off-ratio and too slim/small.
It's clusterfucky and it stings my eyes with all the white. What's the hex code for this? GG GG GG?
And it reminds me of Facebook. I don't like Facebook.
All of these streamlined menu changes could've been done with the original scheme and there was space left for the whole profile thing. The messages on my profile is so small it's almost unclickable and everything seems off-ratio and too slim/small.
hate it, sorry... i hate the fact the news section is now compressed, that and the fact the site is running slower then dial up...
sorry but this new clusterfuck design is enough to make me want to find another news website =/ just like when nexus destroyed their layout... change isnt always good
sorry but this new clusterfuck design is enough to make me want to find another news website =/ just like when nexus destroyed their layout... change isnt always good
Yeah, it's slow and the color scheme is almost exactly the same shit they rolled out at my work for our main management system a few weeks ago. So I get to have sore eyes and headache both at work and at home. Great job...
Also the main page feels horribly cluttered, a mess that's a pain to navigate. Did I also metion that it's significantly slower than it used to be? My two cents.
Also the main page feels horribly cluttered, a mess that's a pain to navigate. Did I also metion that it's significantly slower than it used to be? My two cents.
I cannot express enough hate for all this. This is probably going to kill my reading of this site just like Gawker's which looks alot like this, killed my reading of Kotaku simply because the design is horrible. The news on both the front page and the news page is clutter and confusing. Why would you pin news stories on the news page? That is what the front page is for not the news page. Plus is is hard to navigate through the news since there is only page down no page up. The white and bright blue makes my eyes hurt after a minute so even when I find something I want to read, I can't read it because of eye pain. Also I was just starting to enjoy the facebook comments at the bottom and now you have made them tiny and annoying to read through. If you guys disliked your website this much to pull a Gawker why not just shut it down?
Honestly, I feel like this design is going in a backwards direction.
Someone mentioned it before, and it did make sense, and its what I thought. When I refreshed the page and it came up, I seriously thought it was what happens when my browser doesnt want to load everything, and loads only the essential. Seriously, that isnt good.
Now another thing is the white. Not just the middle, but the borders. I lovvvvvveeeedddd the blue borders. They were extremely easy on the eyes and calming to look at. Now its just facebook like. I dont want no facebook in my escapist. Heck, im using facebook less because of all the stuff their doing to it.
The front page makes me sad face to. I used to be able to come on the front page and find nearly ANYTHING I wanted. It was great to see the new things just lined up at the top. Now it looks... funky... cluttered... out of place.
I commend you on your work, but my opinion is this was a backstep. I wonder if these comments will mean much either. Heres hoping that they do.
Someone mentioned it before, and it did make sense, and its what I thought. When I refreshed the page and it came up, I seriously thought it was what happens when my browser doesnt want to load everything, and loads only the essential. Seriously, that isnt good.
Now another thing is the white. Not just the middle, but the borders. I lovvvvvveeeedddd the blue borders. They were extremely easy on the eyes and calming to look at. Now its just facebook like. I dont want no facebook in my escapist. Heck, im using facebook less because of all the stuff their doing to it.
The front page makes me sad face to. I used to be able to come on the front page and find nearly ANYTHING I wanted. It was great to see the new things just lined up at the top. Now it looks... funky... cluttered... out of place.
I commend you on your work, but my opinion is this was a backstep. I wonder if these comments will mean much either. Heres hoping that they do.
Too white and too bright! And the visual design for the first page is offputting, I wasn't sure where to look or how to parse it.
And it looks like you've done away with the series index? I see no way to access stuff like Stolen Pixels, Top Five, There Will Be Brawl, or anything you've ever done not being updated RIGHT NOW. Yes, this is a news site, and the most recent stuff is important, but you've fallen into the modern fad of giving us OMGNEWCONTENT on the front page and then burying everything more than a month old.
You've been building up your content for, what, 6 years? And a lot of that is opinion pieces and entertainment videos/comics that are just as interesting today. Making that inaccessible to new readers doesn't help you, it severely limits the site.
And it looks like you've done away with the series index? I see no way to access stuff like Stolen Pixels, Top Five, There Will Be Brawl, or anything you've ever done not being updated RIGHT NOW. Yes, this is a news site, and the most recent stuff is important, but you've fallen into the modern fad of giving us OMGNEWCONTENT on the front page and then burying everything more than a month old.
You've been building up your content for, what, 6 years? And a lot of that is opinion pieces and entertainment videos/comics that are just as interesting today. Making that inaccessible to new readers doesn't help you, it severely limits the site.
You lucky lucky bastard.ImSkeletor said:
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
May god have mercy on your eyes.
The white is blinding, the tiny pictures are a bit shoddy looking and its a bit crowded for my attention. Other than that its actually going ok.
It's alright, I guess. I like the toolbar at the top instead of the tabs of videos going all the way down the page. I'm not hugely bothered by the colour scheme, but it's not so good in the threads, where there are no pictures - looks more plain.
What I don't like is that on the homepage, there are loads of links to a load of old articles and videos. I would rather they had all the up to date links up there rather than at the bottom of the page. Oh, and what that 'Games' box at the bottom right with WoW and ToR mentioned and what does 'MOR' mean?
I guess I'll get over most of it, but I really like the toolbar, so I'm happy.
Edit: I just went back to the homepage and it changed again. Now I'm confused.
What I don't like is that on the homepage, there are loads of links to a load of old articles and videos. I would rather they had all the up to date links up there rather than at the bottom of the page. Oh, and what that 'Games' box at the bottom right with WoW and ToR mentioned and what does 'MOR' mean?
I guess I'll get over most of it, but I really like the toolbar, so I'm happy.
Edit: I just went back to the homepage and it changed again. Now I'm confused.
It's alright, I guess. I like the toolbar at the top instead of the tabs of videos going all the way down the page. I'm not hugely bothered by the colour scheme, but it's not so good in the threads, where there are no pictures - looks more plain.
What I don't like is that on the homepage, there are loads of links to a load of old articles and videos. I would rather they had all the up to date links up there rather than at the bottom of the page. Oh, and what that 'Games' box at the bottom right with WoW and ToR mentioned and what does 'MOR' mean?
I guess I'll get over most of it, but I really like the toolbar, so I'm happy.
What I don't like is that on the homepage, there are loads of links to a load of old articles and videos. I would rather they had all the up to date links up there rather than at the bottom of the page. Oh, and what that 'Games' box at the bottom right with WoW and ToR mentioned and what does 'MOR' mean?
I guess I'll get over most of it, but I really like the toolbar, so I'm happy.
It's alright, I guess. I like the toolbar at the top instead of the tabs of videos going all the way down the page. I'm not hugely bothered by the colour scheme, but it's not so good in the threads, where there are no pictures - looks more plain.
What I don't like is that on the homepage, there are loads of links to a load of old articles and videos. I would rather they had all the up to date links up there rather than at the bottom of the page. Oh, and what that 'Games' box at the bottom right with WoW and ToR mentioned and what does 'MOR' mean?
I guess I'll get over most of it, but I really like the toolbar, so I'm happy.
Edit: Woah - I triple posted, sorry about that, it was running slowly so I clicked the 'Post' button a couple more times when I thought it wasn't loading. Sorry
What I don't like is that on the homepage, there are loads of links to a load of old articles and videos. I would rather they had all the up to date links up there rather than at the bottom of the page. Oh, and what that 'Games' box at the bottom right with WoW and ToR mentioned and what does 'MOR' mean?
I guess I'll get over most of it, but I really like the toolbar, so I'm happy.
Edit: Woah - I triple posted, sorry about that, it was running slowly so I clicked the 'Post' button a couple more times when I thought it wasn't loading. Sorry
Page still hasn't managed to load for me, and I've tried on three different computers. Also I can't seem to find the method of quickly searching through news. I would often check escapist at the end of the day and open all the news stories/videos I was interested in. Now I can't tell what is new and what is old and even worse the captions that informed my choice have been reduced to HUGE TITLES which really doesn't tell me much. Maybe in a week or so when I've gotten used to it, this will look better, but the loading thing needs to be fixed.