The New Shiny Escapist

[disturbed_one]

ok can someone please post a widescreen screenshot of the site. because I think it's really messed up on my side.

 

[LobsterFeng]

Something else I don't like. I can't find a way to browse through all of your posts. Before there was a tab that let you do that, I can't find one now.

Also, any word on what was going on with the forums today?

EDIT: I just realized that the 'forums' tab is what I was looking for. My bad.

 

[shrekfan246]

I try to fight my habits every time a site changes its layout, but with this one I have one major complaint: navigation. Before, whenever I visited Zero Punctuation, all the other shows, podcasts and blogs were neatly positioned under the forums tab; I could skim through them, pick the ones whose latest entries interested me, and click on them. Now, I may too dumb, but I can't seem to find anything like that. The "Video" tab up there just leads to a bunch of material that may not even be the latest release, I fail to see any structure. Please tell me if there's something I'm missing so I don't have to look for both Moviebob shows, Zero Punctuation, No Right Answer and Jimquisition every damn time.

Plus the pages do seem to load a tad longer.

I miss the side-bar too, it was extremely handy and added life to the sides of video pages. In fact, on Friday I almost forgot that two contributors updated their content and, due to being unable to access the site until late on Wednesday night, I had completely forgotten Feed Dump was updated until today. I like to linger on Yahtzee's main page and look at the various new forum posts, instead of lingering on the main page, so missing that side-bar is extremely frustrating because now I can't see when content is updated from almost anywhere on the site.

 

[WorldCritic]

Ok, I've been gone for three months and the layout is different when I come back. Oh well, looks like other people are already annoyed, so I'll just try to get used to it.

 

[Shaoken]

Are we actually getting warnings over these things? Because I'd hate to get banned because of a glitch.

 

[Kross]

Hey all, sorry about the forum oddities today. I've been working on rewriting the thread/group view function all day, as that one query was about 30% of the database load. Things seem much better now, although there's many more queries that I need to beat into submission to make the site really fast.

At least there shouldn't be slowdown during non peak hours for a while.

 

[Kross]

Glitch in the code? Or fucking time travel? I think in all the time Kross was not feeding the hamsters he was building a time machine.

My plan is to make a time dilation driver for the database. I figure if I can let queries run in their own time loop, then I don't have to care how slow they are!

My problem is getting them to return from the tesseract function after the query completes... They take literally forever to exit currently.

 

[Natdaprat]

Reading the news is... really hard.

I still can't figure out how to do it.

 

[Buizel91]

Hey all, sorry about the forum oddities today. I've been working on rewriting the thread/group view function all day, as that one query was about 30% of the database load. Things seem much better now, although there's many more queries that I need to beat into submission to make the site really fast.

At least there shouldn't be slowdown during non peak hours for a while.

So it was YOUR fault! >.>

I suppose i can forgive you...this one time >.>

Hehe i kid xD least we know something happening! can you tell us what's happening with the colours...im still getting blinded and it doesn't help that i have just woke up...The brightness kills :|

 

[MercurySteam]

Glitch in the code? Or fucking time travel? I think in all the time Kross was not feeding the hamsters he was building a time machine.

My plan is to make a time dilation driver for the database. I figure if I can let queries run in their own time loop, then I don't have to care how slow they are!

My problem is getting them to return from the tesseract function after the query completes... They take literally forever to exit currently.

Hmm, maybe if you shunt the reality compensators, recalibrate the doomsday pumpers and jettison the karaoke bar then you may have more luck (cookie for reference ).

I'm seeing posts dated from 1969, images for articles stretched beyond recognition, posts not appearing at all and a whole bunch of other spacey wacey..... stuff.

 

[Fasckira]

If you click on the Join the Publishers club link the graphics are messed up and the font is white on white at the top. Also, shouldn't the join link be hidden if Im already in the pub club?

 

[Hamhawk]

The funny coincidence with this whole fiasco (yes, this redesign is a fiasco, not quite to netflix/qwickster proportions or debit card fees, but along the same vein) is that I really was debating about joining the publishers club so I could see Yahtzee on my iPad. Now, however.. I can not view this site on my iPad without blinding myself or manually turning down the brightness. I guess I will not join now seeing how responsive the staff is to complaints and problems. I do not believe you deserve my hard earned cash.

 

[PrototypeC]

OK, more than the blinding background (just try blue... it doesn't bother me THAT much but it's not exactly appealling), I'm frusrated by this trend I've been noticing. See, (sarcasm mode: ON) you may not have noticed, but the URL for this website AND the name of the website happens to be Escapist Magazine. Did you notice that second word there? No, no. It's fine. Go look for yourself, you'll never believe me otherwise. Not only has there not been a new issue in... hang on...

OK, nevermind. I can't actually find the actual magazine archives anymore. That doesn't give anyone else pause for thought? Weren't these videos and webcomics coming in as a supplement to the slick and thoughtful articles that comprised each issue? It's almost Christmastime again, and regardless of your feeling about the whole holiday season the Escapist used to have a monstrous holiday issue every year. What are the chances of that happening this year?

I have to get this off my chest, because honestly Escapist (staff), with debacle after debacle like this you're making it very, very hard to love you.

 

[Corpse XxX]

I've almost stopped using this site completely now after the new changes..
I do not like them at all, just seems like such a mess and clutter..

I do believe they have downgraded themselves massively.. This is terrible..

 

[AndrewC]

The new site is an absolute mess...agreed with above poster.

I hardly come come here now, people need to learn that sometimes 'upgrades' aren't needed.

It wasn't broke, it didn't need fixed.

 

[Mediteral]

I like how much people complain about site changes when nothing has really changed. Still works just as fine as ever. (BTW by 'Like' i mean 'think it's stupid')

 

[Buizel91]

The funny coincidence with this whole fiasco (yes, this redesign is a fiasco, not quite to netflix/qwickster proportions or debit card fees, but along the same vein) is that I really was debating about joining the publishers club so I could see Yahtzee on my iPad. Now, however.. I can not view this site on my iPad without blinding myself or manually turning down the brightness. I guess I will not join now seeing how responsive the staff is to complaints and problems. I do not believe you deserve my hard earned cash.

You would rather them respond to EVERY SINGLE REUEST than to work on the problem while responding to a select few?

Priorities...sort them out

 

[swatmajor1]

I think a new article acknowledging the issues people are having, as well as what they are going to fix the issues and/or what they will be leaving alone would be a good for PR.

Doesn't take that much effort really...

 

[oldtaku]

This font is just horrible. Anyone got a greasemonkey script to replace it?

http://i.imgur.com/YRbNJ.png [http://i.imgur.com/YRbNJ.png]

 

[Spoon E11]

Look guys, I hate it. Sorry.