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Title: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 02, 2013, 10:38:24 am The staff have been discussing the possibility of making changes to the site's layout once again. We recently had that poll where we asked how you view topics; that was to give us direction in how we approached the redesign, specifically with regards to if more scrolling or more clicking was the larger of two evils.
We want the site to be compact and "tidy", but still easily navigable. So here is what we've come up with so far (please excuse any "roughness" of the image, I had to do a lot of editing): (http://i.imgur.com/Xk2COey.png) These changes would significantly cut down on the amount of scrolling you'd have to do to find something you're interested in. Assume that if you don't see a board that's currently visible from the front page that it will be a child board of Miscellaneous Discussion (I just didn't want to type like 40 child boards). If you've got any opinions on the change or any specific criticisms/concerns, please let us know. We want this to be a positive change for you guys and for any possible new members, so we really, really need input. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Termin8or on August 02, 2013, 11:08:37 am As long as I still have my view unread posts link I'm good
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Turboweasle on August 02, 2013, 11:11:46 am Yeah that'll be there, I just didn't include the non-board part of the site.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Termin8or on August 02, 2013, 11:13:47 am Ok, looks good to me O0
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Autumn on August 02, 2013, 11:54:56 am Looks great!
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Oomomo953 on August 02, 2013, 12:31:38 pm I think it looks good. I just wanted to call you guys hyperactive chimps. ;)
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Handass on August 02, 2013, 06:28:40 pm I chose other because meh
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Laughing Turd on August 02, 2013, 08:56:26 pm Much better. Also, Handy is kechua
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: BMan on August 03, 2013, 05:40:31 am I like it. And Handy is a homo
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: BOSTONJOE on August 03, 2013, 05:47:11 am Hi :D I haven't been here in a long time! Im looking forward to a Change O0
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Turboweasle on August 03, 2013, 09:17:57 am Right on!
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Laughing Turd on August 03, 2013, 04:57:04 pm I wonder if this will make the site run faster. I mean, not on my PC because it runs fine there, but my PS3 browser takes forever to load it. I know it's not the best place to post from but it's convenient if I'm already on the PS3.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Turboweasle on August 03, 2013, 05:31:40 pm Not sure. Typically what makes sites load slowly is a lot of images. I'm not sure the board icons would be enough to slow down a browser noticeably, but these changes certainly won't hurt.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: ĪSaucelotĪ on August 03, 2013, 08:56:28 pm What browser can you use on ps3? Can u disable images or whatever?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Turboweasle on August 04, 2013, 09:19:08 am I think you have to use the PS3's default browser. And disabling images would make this site look like poop.
Also, I'm going to give this poll until later today, at which point I'll make the changes. If you've got any comments or concerns, make them now. We consider the poll to be 8 in favor and 0 against, because Oom's vote is really for the changes and Handy didn't elaborate on why he chose "other" so it's irrelevant. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: The Krazy One on August 04, 2013, 12:14:38 pm I'm fine with it I suppose. Though I'd change "Current Titles" to "Video Games" or something like that and take the board description off of the Wii U / Wii board.
With this, I'm also wondering where the handheld topics will go. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: ĪSaucelotĪ on August 04, 2013, 01:15:33 pm We Could always throw handhelds at the bottom of the Current Titles, and yeah i like the Idea of changing Current Titles to something else too. What else could we call it besides videogames lol
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: The Krazy One on August 04, 2013, 01:24:42 pm I was thinking "Gaming Discussions" but I honestly think the Gaming News board should be called that or the General Gaming Discussion board.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Turboweasle on August 05, 2013, 09:15:09 am Changes are now going into effect, please be patient while I move things around.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes Post by: Turboweasle on August 05, 2013, 10:17:19 am I think I've finished moving everything around. It's a little bit longer than the preview because I needed two more genre boards (racing and fighting), but aside from that it's pretty much the same. Let me know if you can't find anything or thing something should be moved somewhere else.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: ĪSaucelotĪ on August 05, 2013, 03:16:29 pm I definitely like the layout a lot better. We went down from 25-26 boards i think to 18 now, which is good. I would still like to compress it even more.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: The Krazy One on August 05, 2013, 04:41:23 pm You know how the Wii U / Wii board has a description? You should at least put a similar description for the Sony board. That one Vita owner needs love too (DG). :-\
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 05, 2013, 04:42:51 pm I definitely like the layout a lot better. We went down from 25-26 boards i think to 18 now, which is good. I would still like to compress it even more. Yeah I was a little disappointed that it was still as large as it is, but I figured we'd need to put fighting games and racing games there too. What do you think? You know how the Wii U / Wii board has a description? You should at least put a similar description for the Sony board. That one Vita owner needs love too (DG). :-\ Alright, I'll do that as soon as I finish editing this video. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: The Krazy One on August 05, 2013, 05:02:10 pm Also, do you think you could change the label of the "Current Titles" board to "Game Boards"?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 05, 2013, 05:03:47 pm I agree we need to change it, but since it has system boards as well what if we called it "Gaming Boards" instead of just "Game Boards"?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: The Krazy One on August 05, 2013, 05:05:55 pm Maybe that's a better name for it. Go with that then.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Laughing Turd on August 05, 2013, 05:20:36 pm Wow, the site looks great. A lot leaner for sure. I do disable sigs and the emoticons so the PS3 doesn't have to load them but it was still pretty slow before the change. It's much faster now. Not as fast as on the PC but still a noticeable decrease in load time.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: ĪSaucelotĪ on August 05, 2013, 06:21:10 pm Gaming Boards sounds fine, I hear ya on it steel feeling bulky though. I agree though we cant just not put those genres in there.
I didn't have any great Ideas, I think there were a few things. I dont really know all that much about the wonderful world of IRS and NDS, but it seems like a spam board, and the un-seeing eye is a spam board also so maybe we could put those together. Also, perhaps we could put feeback, welcome to WU, and free talk into one board. Call it Feedback, Introductions, and Log-in Problems or something like that. Or put them in one and have the other 2 be child boards idk. Just another though. This would cut the number of boards down to 15. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 05, 2013, 06:39:45 pm I didn't have any great Ideas, I think there were a few things. I dont really know all that much about the wonderful world of IRS and NDS, but it seems like a spam board, and the un-seeing eye is a spam board also so maybe we could put those together. The difference was that NDS's board was really a way to contain NDS being NDS, away from everything else. It had, uh, "limited" success. But since he's not here anymore I don't see any problem with merging that board with the USE. Quote Also, perhaps we could put feeback, welcome to WU, and free talk into one board. Call it Feedback, Introductions, and Log-in Problems or something like that. Or put them in one and have the other 2 be child boards idk. Just another though. I'm not sure on this one. I'd like to hear other peoples' thoughts. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: ĪSaucelotĪ on August 07, 2013, 02:29:03 pm Thanks for the input lol. Bump.
So you think we oughta put the spam boards together then for sure? Also, another thing we should do something about at some point. A few other big genres that we dont have are like third person shooters, strategy games, sports games, and platformers. Maybe some aren't big here yet, but we still should include them in the future. We could do like RPG's, MMO's, MOBA's, Strategy games in one board, what to call it though. I think we could definitly put Racing and Sports into one board. Idk, what do you think? I definitely dont want to expand the front page again lol. I like it now. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 07, 2013, 02:44:02 pm I think we only need to include genres if people here play games of those types and are talking about them a lot.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 08, 2013, 08:46:33 pm So does anyone else want to contribute or should Oce and I just do whatever we like?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Autumn1194 on August 09, 2013, 03:55:22 am I think you should leave those boards that ocelot mentioned alone... However I think it's kinda silly having the "welcome to wiiunite" board at the bottom of the page.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 09, 2013, 09:23:00 am So what would you suggest?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Autumn1194 on August 09, 2013, 12:13:15 pm well, I'd say move the three that Ocelot mentioned to the top... but then the layout would be almost the same as last time, right?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: ĪSaucelotĪ on August 12, 2013, 01:49:17 pm Well, what do you think of joining the spam boards?
Idk about moving those other boards up top, because then we also would have to have board announcements on top and yeah I feel like it would be the way we had it before lol. Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 12, 2013, 01:58:22 pm So did you guys get rid of all the clan boards or am I just blind?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 12, 2013, 02:17:08 pm Miscellaneous Discussion > Life Support > Clan Sub-Forums
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 12, 2013, 02:43:25 pm Thank you. I need to read a bunch of those posts.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 12, 2013, 03:07:24 pm Lol, I'm sure you do. :P
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 14, 2013, 02:41:38 pm Can you change everything back for a minute? I just want to make sure I like the new layout better :-\
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 14, 2013, 03:18:51 pm Nope.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 14, 2013, 03:34:13 pm wow, you're really inflexible >:(
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 14, 2013, 03:47:52 pm Not true, I stretch all the time.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Autumn on August 14, 2013, 06:00:17 pm Do you even lift?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 14, 2013, 06:01:24 pm (https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m71f2yrz481rvnnmgo1_500.jpg)
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Autumn on August 14, 2013, 06:03:28 pm Lol
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 14, 2013, 06:10:03 pm (https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq1d5qA5kS1qmk708o1_500.gif)
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 14, 2013, 06:57:05 pm (https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m71f2yrz481rvnnmgo1_500.jpg) You look stronger in this pic than you did in other pics. You must be packing on the muscle O0 Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 14, 2013, 07:04:40 pm I'll have you know I can lift a gallon of milk in only three attempts.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 14, 2013, 07:12:52 pm Little Jerry ran from Newman's apartment to Jerry's in less than 40 seconds!
Is that good? Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Turboweasle on August 14, 2013, 07:24:07 pm You lost me.
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 14, 2013, 07:34:16 pm Sorry, Seinfeld reference :-[
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Autumn on August 14, 2013, 11:31:20 pm Term, Seinfeld is for old people
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 15, 2013, 05:40:31 am Nah just for people with a real sense of humor :P
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Autumn on August 15, 2013, 09:03:00 am Old
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 15, 2013, 10:09:11 am New
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Autumn on August 15, 2013, 12:02:02 pm It's for new people?
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 15, 2013, 01:43:57 pm yes, the layout is
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Kreater on August 15, 2013, 02:16:31 pm Whatever you choose I'll adapt to. As long as you don't remove the "unread posts" button I'm straight
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: Termin8or on August 15, 2013, 02:18:11 pm yeah that's what I use too
Title: Re: A preview of possible layout changes (CHANGES MADE) Post by: ĪSaucelotĪ on August 15, 2013, 06:29:30 pm Lol funny ever since we started this I've been using that button more and more O0 Also, if anyone is opposed to combining the spam forums, please speak now. |