I found the beta redesign to be flawed to the core, actually. The problem I had with it was that information about games in collections and/or search results was now no longer presented in a table, but rather in AJAX-able blocks. Forum discussions likewise. That meant that scanning vertically to look for something in a particular column, which I do very often, was no longer possible because the information was interrupted with stuff and crud. Similarly, the redesign thought it clever to always use the width of the page column to display information. Granted, it looked cool. But now you had to put in effort to read from left to right as well as from top to bottom, and this was damned tiring to the point where I simply did not look up information as much as I used to. In a single sentence: BGG would have become much, much harder for me to use. Now I understand why you'd want these blocks: they're much easier to manipulate than full-blown tables, they're just DIVs. But frankly, it depends on how you access the website. On wide screens, like that of my laptop, tables are really more efficient. On small smartphone and tablet screens, blocks are the smarter choice. I SINCERELY
On Jan 14, 6:52 am, Digren <[email protected]> wrote: > While I understand the desire to do something of a much larger scale, it's > too bad that the new site didn't get a chance to go live before its > replacement was planned. Not only is (was) it incredibly clean and easy to > use, but it often wouldn't go down when the main site would. Last few BGG > outages the beta site would still serve some content (sometimes nothing > from the database, sometimes so). It was a lifesaver when trying to look > up game FAQs at parties. =P > > While I had to switch back to regular BGG on my laptop to do some things > (mostly requiring geeklist manipulation), I used the beta site exclusively > on my iPad for the past year, finding the interface significantly nicer > (albeit still not made for a mobile device, sure). It turned off entirely > a few weeks back. =( > > > > > > > > On Sunday, January 13, 2013 9:22:29 PM UTC-6, Crokinole Dundee wrote: > > > Thank you for that really thorough update. I hope we see something come > > out of this. Then if BSW would just scrap and redesign, then it would be a > > utopia. > > > On Sunday, January 13, 2013 3:26:18 PM UTC-8, Crokinole Dundee wrote: > > >> It seems like a while ago, there was talk of a new site redesign. Is this > >> something in the works? It sure needs it badly. Not to look a gift horse in > >> the mouth or anything. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
