@Chumly,
Chumly wrote:
The overall interface is very inefficient.
Well it just got a little more efficient with the tag grids. Lots more work to do there but it's already better than the last site in terms of navigation to the core features with the tag update.
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The general layout has far too much empty space.
If you pay attention to how fast the changes are coming, you might consider we have things planned for those spaces.
Quote:The avatars are too small.
There will be a preference to set different sizes and to eliminate them altogether.
Quote:The option buttons are too big.
What options buttons?
Quote:Pretty much everything is ill-proportioned and unintuitive.
I think this is just a bit of hyperbole, but if you point out specifics it could be helpful to me.
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Even the thumbs are cryptic, no one needs icons when simplistic text would do.
And what would the text be? Those icons are meant to change, but I actually think icons will better convey the meaning than any text, especially when localization to other languages comes into play.
I personally would prefer an up or down arrow, but the whole voting badge was unfinished (graphic designer is busy) and not even what we had planned for launch.
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Even the balloon help is lame as it's either nonexistent or simply redundant.
What do you mean by this? The tooltips? The "alt" and "title" texts? If so, yeah they need a lot of work and I'll eventually get to it. But that's hardly in the way of anyone and is a low priority. The last software had stuff like "image" for the tooltips as well.
Quote:And the ridiculously short time you have to edit posts is ultra-lame, there should be no time limit for edits until the next poster responds.
Actually I prefer no time limit for any posts regardless of chronology, albeit I like to see the complete edit history, which is another thing this site does not have.
Unlimited edits probably wouldn't be considered without the revision history, which is actually being considered. But this is a process issue more than a technical one. With unlimited editing, spammers will do things like post a helpful post and edit it in later when to have links to porn without easy ways to catch that, since users are focused on the last posts and wouldn't see and report it as much.
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Oh, and having to log in with an email address now that one is the hight if lameness, you should be able to choose whatever login text you want.
I agree that it should be either email or username and will eventually work that way, but the last site didn't give you the option either, and the use of the username is a usability challenge for more users (for the infrequent ones more than the regulars).
Many infrequent users don't remember what username they used, but they do remember their email. Email is a better login credential than username, but this system could and will support both eventually.
Chumly, this site's been open for a few weeks, and it's still just two guys doing it part time with other jobs to help foot the bill. I think we'll do good for a2k, and make an application that rivals the best applications out there, but you can't expect it to have the polish of other applications like vbulletin that have been around for years (decades even?) right now. It's unfinished and we said it would be rough in the beginning.
