Some good changes here, but the forums have a huge flaw: right now, on this thread, I can barely see the thread title top of the first post when the page initially loads due to the three 'preview panes' (MTG Salvation Deck Builder Coming Soon; The Magic Market Index for April 1, 2017; The Magic Market Index).
It's fine to have these on the front page, but they need to be gone, or much, much smaller, when browsing the discussion forums.
Everything seems to load a lot faster. I'm neutral on the look, but it seems like it functions a lot better.
Yeah can confirm, and as I said in the first post this was the one I wanted the most. As a programmer and web designer, good job guys. Just tone the brightness a bit down and it'll be perfect.
does anyone have any colors they would like? the core theme wont be able to change drastically, but we could possibly pick a different color for the post bits, if there is something people like, instead of the off white we have now.
Appreciate the effort put into the new design but allow me to suggest a few things:
Please bring back dark skin. One of the reasons I still frequent MTGS is the dark skin. I get to read/post a bit before sleeping without hurting my eyes. Same reason I didn't like the past few MTG market articles, too bright.
There is no point in putting the top 3 articles at the top of the main page when they are already below the spoilers bar. They take too much space, display half the article title, and the art is of lower quality (enlarged)
Instead of the "Featured New Article", which is promoted in 3 different places, you could show "Recent Forum Topics" with more than just 4 topics. After all, MTGS is a forum before everything else.
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The colours look rather sanitary to me, like being in a hospital. The slate grey band on the side is dull and unnecessary. Most forums fill the entire width of the screen, which is always looks more streamlined, imo. The font is smaller, which I don't like, and the white with pale blue again remind me of hospital colours. How about tan with brown/black or something?
After removing the .below-header-inner with element hider I now like the change a lot. That component (the very large featured thread images) was just way too big, causing the need to scroll past it every time the page changes. Without it everything is much more streamlined and I can actually navigate the site without scrolling until I land on the page I want. My feedback would honestly be to remove those images entirely (they seem more appropriate for a front page, not at the top of every page), or at the very least shrink them significantly.
does anyone have any colors they would like? the core theme wont be able to change drastically, but we could possibly pick a different color for the post bits, if there is something people like, instead of the off white we have now.
Just by using the existing color scheme, I managed something in between. It's not perfect but I like it better than blinding white
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One thing I would like to see is the breadcrumb links on the bottom of the page in addition to the top. I know there is the 'Back to Top' link, but I'm lazy and want fewer click
I also agree that the banners for the Magic Market Index articles (and other ones in that bar) are a little too big.
Finally for spoiler season it would be nice to have cards on the top of the home page like they used to be.
does anyone have any colors they would like? the core theme wont be able to change drastically, but we could possibly pick a different color for the post bits, if there is something people like, instead of the off white we have now.
Just by using the existing color scheme, I managed something in between. It's not perfect but I like it better than blinding white
I would much prefer something like this. Anything more along the lines of a gray (dark gray or a bluish gray is preferable, but even light gray would be better than solid white like now).
Yeah, the gap is off. I don't mind the articles though, but I also approve about the breadcrumbs both on top and bottom. It's more user friendly that way. Finally, while I don't like the post skin as dark as the one proposed, the gray-ish one of the previous incarnation was good enough, readable and didn't make me go blind everytime I open the forum.
The one about spoilers is fair, but not sure how to solve it yet, we will be talking.
as for the space above, people who are using adblock may not understand it. An issue on this site, (and all sites on curse) is when a super leaderboard or siteskin loads, everyhting gets pushed down on the user. which caused site performance issues, as well as miss-clicks
having the news articles at the top, now prevents all pop-in when an ad loads, also allows the editorial team here to show off some cool content on all parts of the site now, as well as announcements.
(example of a super leaderboard loading:
I think its fair to be a little thrown off by the extra space, even more so if you had been using adblocker. But to use the forums, you still have to scroll no matter what to read everything. With that said, a LOT of talk went into adding that system, so we are very interested in peoples thoughts as they use the site for the days to come, as how it impacts user engagement on both forums, and news will be good info
I'm just going to throw my hat in that I visited here a lot more after I found the dark skin option, because the stark white does give me a headache. Part of that is that I have a light sensitivity, so I normally keep my brightness way down, but white is always a bit difficult to tolerate.
The site loads way better on mobile so good job there.
I support the darkening of the colors as it's a real bright right now.
On mobile, the new layout has a ton of wasted space. There's a pretty large margin on both sides of the screen. This gets really bad in quotes that contain quotes.
The banner at the top is also huge. It takes up enough of the screen that while typing this I can only see about six lines of text between the banner and the keyboard.
As a general naysayer when it comes to changing something I've grown accustomed to, I gotta say, I actually really like the design, look, and feel of this redesign. With that said, though, the naysayer in me can't leave without saying how much I miss the dark skin. Everything I use is immediately moved to a dark skin. Please give us the option for skins again.
I'm also going to complain about the brightness of the site, but the site is now fast to download. I'm on mobile using the desktop view and the area where it would say "General -> The Rumor Mill" is all jumbled. Using an old iOS from the 5s iPhone, if that helps any.
Please, if you wanted to fix anything and want to keep users using the site, darken the layout. If this keeps up, I'm out for good here. I barely post as it is.
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My apologies. The area where is said is jumbled isn't jumbled. It's above that and below the ads.
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thread titletop of the first post when the page initially loads due to the three 'preview panes' (MTG Salvation Deck Builder Coming Soon; The Magic Market Index for April 1, 2017; The Magic Market Index).It's fine to have these on the front page, but they need to be gone, or much, much smaller, when browsing the discussion forums.
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Yeah can confirm, and as I said in the first post this was the one I wanted the most. As a programmer and web designer, good job guys. Just tone the brightness a bit down and it'll be perfect.
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Just by using the existing color scheme, I managed something in between. It's not perfect but I like it better than blinding white
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I also agree that the banners for the Magic Market Index articles (and other ones in that bar) are a little too big.
Finally for spoiler season it would be nice to have cards on the top of the home page like they used to be.
Also, this giant gap and the giant article links are a little much. Please make the gap smaller and get rid of those links.
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The one about spoilers is fair, but not sure how to solve it yet, we will be talking.
as for the space above, people who are using adblock may not understand it. An issue on this site, (and all sites on curse) is when a super leaderboard or siteskin loads, everyhting gets pushed down on the user. which caused site performance issues, as well as miss-clicks
having the news articles at the top, now prevents all pop-in when an ad loads, also allows the editorial team here to show off some cool content on all parts of the site now, as well as announcements.
(example of a super leaderboard loading:
I think its fair to be a little thrown off by the extra space, even more so if you had been using adblocker. But to use the forums, you still have to scroll no matter what to read everything. With that said, a LOT of talk went into adding that system, so we are very interested in peoples thoughts as they use the site for the days to come, as how it impacts user engagement on both forums, and news will be good info
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I support the darkening of the colors as it's a real bright right now.
On mobile, the new layout has a ton of wasted space. There's a pretty large margin on both sides of the screen. This gets really bad in quotes that contain quotes.
The banner at the top is also huge. It takes up enough of the screen that while typing this I can only see about six lines of text between the banner and the keyboard.
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Please, if you wanted to fix anything and want to keep users using the site, darken the layout. If this keeps up, I'm out for good here. I barely post as it is.
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My apologies. The area where is said is jumbled isn't jumbled. It's above that and below the ads.