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.
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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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EDIT I second Slipsius.
Full res : i.imgur.com/l89B1TC.gifI hope this helps !
To verify this bug you'll ned up to 10min
1. Type anything into the editor bellow, like "Hello world!" for example.
2. Wait a minute and you will see a notification Draft saved
3. Wait more but don't change anything in the editor. You will see what even if text remains the same editor continuously saves drafts. Why to save if nothing changed?
4. Next step. Leave the draft message as it is and go to other topic and repeat steps 1, 2, 3
5 . Return to this topic and you'll see what the first draft is still here
Depends where the draft is saved on the server or in my browser cash.
If on the server you may end up with a lot of unused drafts in server database unless is a limit of saved drafts.
I'm trying not to criticize people, for their inabilities to adjust, but some of these complaints remind me of when Facebook makes changes. Everyone loses their shit, because something isn't in the exact location it was before. Then weeks later, they adjust, and everything is back to normal. As long as the information is still there, it's not a bug. Learn to adjust, and your world will be comfy again.
In the old style I enjoyed seeing the amount of posts next to the thread titles. I think it was an interesting metric to see; it made clear which threads had new posts added, or which threads were just new and nobody had posted in them yet.
EDIT: Using a mobile browser here. After Notman mentioned below that the numbers are visible in the desktop version, it seems it's one more of the mobile things to fix. Thanks!
Also, if possible, have part of the OP text in that thread preview thingy. Just the first image is a bit unclear on what the thread is about or if it'll be interesting to read. The old style had a pop up with the first words of the OP text when you hovered the mouse.
Regards.
Full res : i.imgur.com/R3nKBVM.gif
I can't actually quote posts, it tries to make me start a new topic.
Also uhhh... it's hard to tell when you've applied bolding or anything during the edit phase of a post.
Also, PIOR's suggestion is the best one out of everyone's so far. I would love this look if it were like that. The current method throws information over too far to the left and makes it hard to read the text. having it reach full length and the text box itself be atleast centered would help tremendously with readability. Why is there such a huge mass of wasted space?
Also definitely need more Greentooth!
Those mockups are great... Basically, something that if visually between what we have now and the old look. @adam responded to my question about the avatar/author info. I understand the logic but I think the separation ends up wasting space.. If you stack the avatar over the other info like in @pior s mockup then you are getting back 200-300 pixels of space that keeping them separate requires.
Also, I would love to have the quote and reply buttons tucked back under the actually comment since those are more conversational actions v/s direct user actions.
Isn't Google+ a dying social media platform? Google even stopped automatically creating Google+ accounts for Google users. If you are going with social media at least give the options of Twitter / Facebook in addition to Google+.
Also have you guys noticed that when you click on the "qoute button" it opens a "post new topic" page instead of quoting that person in a reply?
Yes, bring green back please
EDIT: how do i even post quotes manually? [quote] and <quote> don't seem to work
When viewing threads there doesn't seem to be a way to see how many pages (unless directly going into the thread), only way to view last page is to click the "last" or replies number.
It's not a huge deal, I can go back and fix it. But it kind of sucks in the short term, and I worry the problem could pop up again because bugs be bugs.
And you circled the green tabby thing in the upper left and talk about a menu. Is that functional? If so, it's not working for me on Chrome 46.0.2490.80 m
edit: omg 3 more posts
Also, the OP's icon seems too large.
Edit: The button to the right of "flag" seems to take me to a Google+ page?
Also, when you go back to edit your post, the blinky cursor for writing text is huge and spacing is off:
One other thing I noticed is, do the stars to the right of people's usernames have any functionality/significance?
Hope we can get a feature to delete all favorites at once, as doing it one at a time would take quite a while with so many.
And like EQ mentions having the OP of a thread pinned on the RH side rather than the latest poster is a bit different... Perhaps you could have the OP's avatar on the LH side of the thread, and the latest on the right? Or both on the right? Another benefit of having the latest poster shown is you can tell if a thread has been updated by the OP (which is handy if you're only interested in updates from them (new art) and not general comments from other users. Sometimes you're only interested in a thread because you see someone specific reply (eg: oh cool Farfarer posted in this modo-related thread, I'm probably about to learn something new or find a cool new script he's written). Some other forums show ALL the avatars of posters in a thread (with an upper limit); so surely having OP and latest wouldn't be too crazy.
Seems that users get Stars and mods get MOD.
And also it was very convenient when threads I'm subscribed to where highlighted in the list of all threads.
On the old forum when I finished reading the topic to read next one I had two options
1. to scroll to the top of the page and click on the breadcrumb link to return to subforum
2. to click on back button in browser
Bought options are horrible because the first one involve a lot of scrolling and the second one loads the page from the browser cash and makes me reload the page to see what posts left unread.
What I propose is:
- to add at the end of the page a button what will move me to the next unread/updated topic as bellow in Mockup A
- or to add a short list for the user to select what to read next as in Mockup B. For this mockup I have collapsed the editor and made it visible by pressing Write a Reply button.
- also, this list can be done in a form of a slider as in Mockup C. This will be more engaging and will help with navigation and finding what to read next.
The slider from mockup C may illustrate the timeline of new/unread/updated posts, a good example may be in CS GO when you open a chest. (I guess it is a bit unclear please let me know if you wish me to explain in more detail what I mean by timeline, or example is unclear)
http://i.imgur.com/EHUr9Sc.png
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-display-update-notifications-in-the-browser-tab--cms-23458
@klunk Yeah I'd like it back, too. I'll add it to my list.
@arahnoid Nice suggestions! Full disclosure, we're reviewing & addressing all bugs before we consider design changes so don't expect to see anything from a design stand point for a while.
@xchris We're looking at getting redirects working.
The picture explains the problem.
http://polycount.com/discussion/49362/polycounter-job-census/p1
I just noticed that the job census post, the first one with all the jobs in it, got cut off hardcore... Its missing the majority of the post now?
I noticed this one too, same behavior.
I wish jumping into the lightbox view always showed images at full-res. People commonly post images larger than any monitor I own and to see them 1:1 I have to right click > view image in new tab.
I wish I could see the page count from the forum view, before entering a thread. I realize you can see postcount, but I would often jump straight to specific pages. Now it's extra clicks. Also not being able to see the most recent poster is a drag.
Seconding what everyone else has said about text being too large and too much padding.
This is the compression I'm seeing. When you upload a new avatar, it shows you it at ~256px and then a smaller version as well. The bigger one has very clear compression. Here's the version saved out from photoshop next to the compressed version.