The New Shiny Escapist
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Ok, it's a day later and there's no announcement. Is it just taking longer than you anticipated, or are you just trolling us?Nasrin said:I'm not allowed to say what it is because it's supposed to be a surprise. I can tell you that powers higher up than me will be making an announcement today on the matteradalekplunger said:
Hey, just returning now that I've played with the site more on both PC and PS3. I'm still OK with the color scheme. I miss having the list of recent videos and the list of most recent news on the main page, but this is more a gripe when on the PS3. The RSS feed still serves most of my needs on the computer. On the PS3, the News, Features, Videos, etc., on the top ends up being vertical and a drop-down menu will block the rest, so trying to get to the Videos section is a pain. I'm also a bit tired of how the "Welcome to the Escapist..." message claims to be removable, but keeps popping back up. I do like how the personal info is held in a little box on the side and shows latest badge and quiz score. I have no opinion about the scrolling news bar.
Vromnir said:
We're trying to troubleshoot the changes we've had to make as a result of your feedback. We want to release as good a product as we can to you, and that involves a good bit of product testing and adaptation. Our coders are working pretty much around the clock to get it done, but we're a very, very small staff.
Okay, well the 'notice a bug' link brought me here, so guess this is the best place for it. Basically all of my badges have vanished and been replaced with lots of other badges, many of which it's impossible for me to earn, such as staff badges and badges from events that happened before I signed up, or benchmark badges that I haven't reached yet.
I know this isn't a huge issue, but I just thought it needed reporting. The update in the profile box in the corner telling me I had been awarded a staff badge most recently really confused me.
Edit: Apparently this issue is only visible on my profile, since this posted showing all the badges I had set in my top 4 before this happened.
Another edit: It appears to have returned to normal. How strange.
I know this isn't a huge issue, but I just thought it needed reporting. The update in the profile box in the corner telling me I had been awarded a staff badge most recently really confused me.
Edit: Apparently this issue is only visible on my profile, since this posted showing all the badges I had set in my top 4 before this happened.
Another edit: It appears to have returned to normal. How strange.
Well I clearly won the Escapist cause now I just unlocked every badge possible including only those given to staff members, sweet...
It's been a horrible change not only is the site a million times slower than shit it functions horrible and something new breaks everyday. My goodwill is at an end.
It's been a horrible change not only is the site a million times slower than shit it functions horrible and something new breaks everyday. My goodwill is at an end.
I don't care if it takes another week tbh, i've learned how to use the site properly by playing around a bit, the only thing that i have gripe with is the blinding borders...Nasrin said:Vromnir said:
We're trying to troubleshoot the changes we've had to make as a result of your feedback. We want to release as good a product as we can to you, and that involves a good bit of product testing and adaptation. Our coders are working pretty much around the clock to get it done, but we're a very, very small staff.
At least we know something is been done, thank you!
Okay, after reporting earlier that I had a ton of badges I shouldn't have had and that it went back to normal, my profile now shows that I have no badges at all. Don't know what's going on today with my profile page. Everything sorted itself out after the problem earlier and now it's all bugged out again.
The option to change the background colour is a nice gesture, but the omission of a "dark grey" option which would (hopefully) be of actual use in reducing eye strain over long term viewing is a glaring oversight, not to mention other colours all together (like blue, orange or green, etc.) which might be more aesthetically pleasing to some individuals. Furthermore, none of the new colour options (especially the most important, default one) reduce the impression of a failed load by my browser.
Oh well, at least ctrl+a is still available to remove the eye strain.
Oh well, at least ctrl+a is still available to remove the eye strain.
I just.....I give up now! Half the time in my group is now just waiting for its chat to load or send data, Most pages crash Flash for me so I have to restart Youtube vids, news here is hard to find and getting from the past means going to a TINY box 5 articles long, its even breaking any outsource sites that try to set it back to its old state for me!
I'm sorry, but this update takes the term "Cock-Up" to a whole other level! Nobody I knew wanted a new site, let alone something like this. The Pub Club guys I knew said that this layout was crap, you didn't even (as far as I know) beta test it fully for any bugs or problems, like the many that are now around the site! You tried to make it look appealing for a new crowd, but all you've done is just ruin a fantastic site to just make it look more like Facebook!!
Please, for the love of *Insert your favourite deity here*, just change it back to how it was. Hardware upgrades: Understandable! Software upgrades: Awesome! This:........take it NC
And then some! Please.....just at least till you make a MUCH better idea!!!
I'm sorry, but this update takes the term "Cock-Up" to a whole other level! Nobody I knew wanted a new site, let alone something like this. The Pub Club guys I knew said that this layout was crap, you didn't even (as far as I know) beta test it fully for any bugs or problems, like the many that are now around the site! You tried to make it look appealing for a new crowd, but all you've done is just ruin a fantastic site to just make it look more like Facebook!!
Please, for the love of *Insert your favourite deity here*, just change it back to how it was. Hardware upgrades: Understandable! Software upgrades: Awesome! This:........take it NC
And then some! Please.....just at least till you make a MUCH better idea!!!
I don't think you quite understand the concept of jumping the shark.SPARTANXIII said:
Jumping the shark is something a series does when it runs out of ideas. Jumping the shark is doing something that has no place within the standard realms of the property, and is done merely for the spectacle and for something to do to keep the property going.
What has happened here is just a poor site redesign that has a lot more kinks to work out than it should.
"3. Please note that the default background of the site is white, and that the overall aesthetic of the site is customized to this. Using alternate background colors are provided as a user convenience, and it is likely that the site will not present ideally under these conditions. We will continue to better enhance the site presentation with alternate backgrounds as time permits."
So instead of actually changing anything you are making us change things without promising it'll work right. Thank you but no thank you. Why should we have to make the effort, comes across as a slap in the face.
So instead of actually changing anything you are making us change things without promising it'll work right. Thank you but no thank you. Why should we have to make the effort, comes across as a slap in the face.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Escapist-Redesign-InformationBob Kyuss said:
That's the link where I found out that changing the background colour was an option. Basically, at the top of any any news page (not a main page, but a specific news story, like http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114925-Facebook-Adding-Advertisements-to-Personal-News-Feeds for example), you'll see a very tiny "Aa" icon nestled very tightly to the right of the title of the news article. If you can manage to see this icon and hover your mouse cursor over it, you'll be offered an extremely limited selection of background colours alongside text fonts and sizes.
So can you enlighten us/me if there are going to be more options than those three colors? The natural is nice, but it makes my eyes bug, and the gray doesnt help to to much.Nasrin said:
Like will there be an escapist blue option? Cus thats what was great before, made it real easy to read the site for a lonnnggg time.
Thank you for pointing that out, I hadn't been able to find it before. I do find it odd that, despite my saving the content option multiple times as "darker" it still consistently loads the page as "natural", but I suspect that this stems from the fact that the two are (at least temporarily) identical in appearance.ThyNameIsMud said:
Now, if only the entire page (stuff like quoted text, forum left hand side bar (where avatars/user names/etc are shown), the input box I'm using to type this response, the thing about stuff, the latest content / most popular / most commented boxes, etc.) would utilize the specified colour scheme, I might be able to enjoy the immensely awesome content of this website without needing to squint (or work around with ctrl+a) again.