Damn, posted too early... ;-).

On Jan 14, 10:15 am, Maarten <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

hope that the new new site takes this into account.

Finally, I don't think that you can compare the stability of a beta
website to that of the main one. The number of users is of a totally
different order, and what works on one may fail completely on the
other.


Maarten

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