Triality said:
Hate the main page layout. It's a mess. Disorganized. Having a title bar on each table does not make it organized, it gives the web masters an excuse to cram as many topics onto the home page as possible. Waaaaaaaaaay too many choices.
The front page is very malleable, I'm sure we'll figure something out that isn't overwhelming. It may take a few days for the editors to get used to it.
Triality said:
Hey Escapist, when are you going to fix this broken reply box? I can't drag and highlight fucking anything in Opera for more than .235 seconds before it automatically refreshes and my highlight is cancelled and I am forced to drag what little i was trying to highlight to begin with. Shit, I'm appalled IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT HASN'T CHANGED! PRIORITIES?
This is the first I've heard of this. Mouse gesture your way down to the bottom of the page and click the report bug link. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/contact/subject/tech] We rarely take a long time to fix simple page mechanic bugs if we know about them. We also don't test in Opera. We do however test in Firefox, IE, and Chrome. The general thought was if people were buying their browser, they'd make a quirks mode that works with the rest of the Internet. *shrugs*
Triality said:
On reCaptcha: I'm sorry is this site's forum getting carpet bombed with fake accounts plastering links to Russian goat pornography? Thanks for making it take longer to participate in this community and giving Google another slave pen for its crowd sourcing because its overmind is too busy to realize (talk,") and (malloof) are grammar errors and proper nouns that don't mean anything to 5,999,999,999 people on this Earth while its useful idiots scan every book on this planet and ignore every cease and desist order from impoverished writers (which I assume most of you are; and would quickly identify with your comrades' plight? No?)
Myself and the moderating staff appreciate your sympathies. Spammers waste hours/days of the (very busy) IT staff, and the also busy volunteer moderator's time. The captcha system prevents a noticeable amount of automated spamming for minimal user aggravation. I don't understand why people have issues with the language or whatever. It's not a book, type the characters you can make out or hit the refresh button right next to the captcha until you can. It only happens once a day for 80% of our forum users (we tuned the algorithm for that even), and then once every X posts due to spammers using real people to log in and then passing it off to a script. Pubclub doesn't have to do it because if someone wants to spam there, I'm happy to take their money while I mass delete and ban the account.
Triality said:
I'm sorry for ranting. I love Escapist. I hate seeing it imitate its inferiors. Don't be that guy, Escapist. Don't be that guy.
It's ok, a lot for us here used to be GMs for not overly popular MMOs. I've heard some rants. Give us some time to get the basic site running smoothly (we've added a lot of fun things on the backend that the old site couldn't support) and then we'll start doing some things you definitely haven't seen before.
