Polycount Update - BUGS & SUGGESTIONS
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Use this thread to post any bugs you notice or suggestions you have on improving your experiences on the site.
Please use images whenever possible so we can see the bugs you're seeing, or to help us understand your suggestions better.
Alternatively, if you wish to keep your thoughts private please send me a Private Message directly.
Please use images whenever possible so we can see the bugs you're seeing, or to help us understand your suggestions better.
Alternatively, if you wish to keep your thoughts private please send me a Private Message directly.
COMMON/IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS & BUGS
Below is a list of common suggestions or bugs we're seeing users report in this thread.- The front page won't load on mobile and the forum is loading a default Vanilla skin. The front page should be loading and the forum skin needs to be Polycount themed.
- The site could use a pass on overall spacing of information, make things a bit tighter.
- Quote button doesn't work.
- The WYSIWYG editor can bust formatting at times, making it difficult to fix.
- Many users used the 'New Posts' button from vBulletin and would like to see it back.
- The notification window that pops up from the bottom left of the screen has white text on a whitebackground, making it illegible.
- There is some confusion over when and how threads get updated. Some users cannot tell where there posts are going when they reply, others have a hard time discerning if a thread is updated since they viewed it last when looking at the thread list. There is an icon indicating this, but it needs to be more apparent.
- There is a missing step in the forum breadcrumb that is omitting the main Forum name. See here.
- Emoticons are appearing in the Lightbox and when sending content to the front page. This shouldn't happen.
- Many users are hoping for redirects from old forum links, as many of them have specific threads bookmarked that no longer work.
- This member's name is all kinds of buggered.
- Users reported that Facebook & Twitter links is broken. I need to investigate this bug for better details.
- Clicking on a front-page news post that comes from a REPLY does not link to the reply, it links to the page it was posted on.
- Bring back custom Polycount emoticons.
- The website favicon is missing.
- Users are reporting some poor performance happening in the WYSIWYG editor.
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Like seeing their homepage/portfolio or sending a pm to that person without going into the inbox and sending from there.
If so then this is a suggestion for bringing it back
Suggested:
I know that there's the FORUMS link on the top bar, but I think it looks more consistent with the link there too, I clicked too much times on HOME thinking of going to the main forum page and found myself on the first (NEWS) page instead.
SO I noticed 2 problems:
When I attempt quoting someone, the site brings me to a new page but the page make it seems like I wanna create a new thread and not a simple reply.
When I go back on a previous thread, former text I wrote is still there (i think it's the draft It automatically saves).
Good luck.
Threads with multiple pages don't show page hotlinks in thread view, allowing you to skip to a specific page or the end (notice the link on the far right will go to latest, but miss the page #s)
Could we please have back the 'thread title is green, unless it's read, then it's grey' ? Now they are all grey the whole time.
Secondly, the forum breadcrumbs. There's no link to the forum index.(only to the homepage, or to the category) Except going all the way up to the header.
Thank you.
Is there an option to delete the mssg after it is posted?
I would also appreciate a "Sign Out" button that's got words on it, just like the "Sign In" button.
Currently it's so grayscale that it looks like polycount is eternally mourning over somebody's death.
It strikes me as example of blindly following the trend of using as few colors as possible - even though using more colors would allow users to distinguish different elements more easily.
I also converted it to a bookmarklet in case you don't want to/can't install Tampermonkey etc. Simply select all the text and drag it on your bookmark bar. Next time you visit a broken link, simply click on that bookmark and it should redirect you to the correct one.
The wiki has tons of those broken links
If the script doesn't work for a specific link, tell me via pm and I'll update asap.
Understand that the far right column that changes on hover serves a similar function, and allowing sticky-first-post somewhat fixes the problem, but having the ability to hop to a specific page (story: "i remember on page 4....") was nice. Maybe I'm one of the few who liked that feature of showing the page lengths /oldman. Downside here is when clicking on a thread i don't have an immediate sense of "what i'm about to get myself into." In the end, its more of a navigation and usability thing to reduce clicks, but I would think showing the page numbers could have a psychological effect on people and which threads they do or do not click on
I'd kind of like to see a "n Replies to [thread]", once things get rolling again and we start fav'ing more threads.