The New Shiny Escapist

[briunj04]

Hmm, I was trying to give the redesign a chance and whatnot, but if it doesn't change I'm probably not going to come to The Escapist anymore. The new site disorients and confuses me too much. The lack of borders or different colors makes it hard for me to find what I want and makes the whole site just look incomplete or like it's some cheap website made for a school project.

 

[Esotera]

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?

Spoiler: I swear Im not trolling! I was told yesterday, so that's what I 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.

I realise that it might be too late for this redesign, but next time why not do a competition to improve various parts of the site, with points awarded for loading times, code readability, and maybe a user vote on how easy it is to use. There are plenty of clever people on the site with a background in web design, and I'm sure you'd attract many more. You could then pick & mix what you want, and also attract lots of (cheap) talent to try out more ideas than the staff at present have time for.

It's good to hear you're listening to feedback, and all the customisation is looking like an awesome feature.

 

[Jodski]

Not so much a bug, but a requested suggestion.

Please add like a 'play list' like feature so that i can just watch Zero Punctuation without having to come back every 5 mins and click on the next one.

If your looking for feedback, I'm not a fan of this new layout.

Yes it is more 'airy', but just gives the impression that there isn't much on the site and just more area to cross to get to other content.

Please put back the list of shows and such on the right hand side when a particular page has been opened.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I'm having a bit of trouble with badges and quote notifications. Also, my profile says I have no avatar every now and again.

Not trying to *****, just letting you know.

 

[Absimilliard]

Concrete bugs:
Apparently my latest badge is one I got for a quiz last month, not all the holiday-badges I've gotten since(according to the "your latest:" section).
The names of the shows in the Video drop-down menu do not always line up with the logos.

Furthermore, thanks for saving my eyes, but the site still looks worse than it did before all this. I'm sorry to say that the term "soul-less" still springs to mind. The "Latest" function on the drop-down menu is handy, but not as handy as the good ol' sidebar. Also, the running newsreel on the main page is not helpful at all, it's actually quite annoying...

Anyways, I'm glad you seem to take some of our feedback to heart, and I do appreciate your intent and hard work (especially at this time), but don't try to hard with the integration/assimilation of facebook and twitter, there's a reason most forum users don't use their own names and/or pictures...

 

[Kross]

Okay, this is IT. I'm done. Fuck... this... shit...

"Just wait a few days." "Give it a day or two." "We're taking your feedback srsly."

My... ASS!

I paid for PubClub just a few days before this bullshit went live and I want my god damn money back. There's no option for that anywhere in the profile, so will someone tell me how I get them back? I didn't pay for this eyebleeding disaster of a bullshit theme. I didn't pay for a site that loads as if I'm back in fucking 1985. I paid because I wanted to support what WAS a decent site, but then you go ahead and fuck us over for no god damn good reason.

I did not get the product I paid for. Now give me my god damn money back you assholes. (And before you start bitching some more about how much work you're putting into it, yeah I'm not buying that shit. You've had weeks to unfuck this disaster area and you haven't done shit.)

Ahhhhahahaha, sucker!

 

[Absimilliard]

And here's some positive feedback: the background now looks very nice indeed. Some personality has returned to the Escapist's appearance.

 

[cynik]

Font issue has been fixed for me, I also like the winter theme.

 

[Buizel91]

Borders are much better! Thank you! Please...NEVER go back to pure white :|

My issues have been solved ^^ although as a recommendation, make the light blue nav bar a darker blue, it suites the Escapist better, the blue that is used for the "Quote" and "Reply" button would suit it a lot better!

 

[Absimilliard]

Borders are much better! Thank you! Please...NEVER go back to pure white :|

My issues have been solved ^^ although as a recommendation, make the light blue nav bar a darker blue, it suites the Escapist better, the blue that is used for the "Quote" and "Reply" button would suit it a lot better!

I agree whole-heartedly with the suggestion about the blue, that would work a lot better than the new one.

 

[Wolfbane_Daoine]

It took me a while this morning to realise that the blinding snowwhite side panels had been replaced with... actual snow. Irony, it is delicious. Kudos!

And I can see the occasional snowflake falling. Nifty

 

[cbrichar]

HMMmmmm... has anyone else found that the main content body of the shiny new website won't load under Firefox 8.0.1 if Adblock Plus is running? It only seemed to crop up after the borders were added, and even adding the domain to the list of exceptions couldn't fix it. I had to resort to using IE. Yikes.

Edit - Fixed. If anyone else is in the same boat, you need to define the site filter exception as '@@|http://www.escapistmagazine.com' in Adblock Plus.

 

[Don Reba]

The new background has a nice colour theme, but the image quality is poor ? the JPEG compression artifacts are very visible. Also, the motto of the moment is now nearly unreadable, as it is gray on bluish gray.

Also, the bottom bar does this as I edit my post (IE8):

Oh, and hope the snow goes away soon. It takes too much CPU.

 

[Jesse Kilgore]

The Snow is slowing down my computer...

 

[Sassafrass]

The Snow is slowing down my computer...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/forum_options

You can turn it off here.

 

[Don Reba]

The Snow is slowing down my computer...

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/forum_options

You can turn it off here.

Much obliged.