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 -- 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.
