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Various site usability updates. Did I break anything?
Niero | 2:32 AM on 10.19.2008 54 comments




Just wanted to give you a round-up of all of the changes that took place during this weekend's maintenance. I'm nowhere near done but its always good to remind me if there's a feature or bug that you want fixed or added really bad. I'm all ears!

Here's what got done in this patch:

- Universal cblog navigation. One toolbar to rule them all! No more weird variants. There are some weird font issues I have to fix, but for the most part each community page should work the same. Forums are next.

- Google Chrome support. If your browser locked up when browsing Cblogs, it should work now.

- Digest view! Look at this hot shit:

http://www.destructoid.com/elephant/index-short.phtml

When you click on any game platform on the home page toolbar you'll get a shorter summary of the latest content instead of the full blown blog. Author pages, tag pages, and stuff like that also take advantage of this view. It's also fast as balls.

- Minor jaggy things fixed. We went through an awkward one week period where stuff just wasn't lining up. That's all good now.

- Shorter sidebar links on the home page. Features is now a section up top and we got rid of all the other crap nobody cared about.

- Shorter footer. The digest view eliminates the need to bunch that stuff in there. We'd rather give you the benefit of site speed.

- Smaller game review/avatar/podcast icons. Again, the site speed stuff. We'll be adding a section for previews/unreleased game content shortly.

- New user signup page now has a welcome message and explains the difference between blogging and forums. We hope this will reduce the amount of fail.

- Manage friends page no longer shows a double toolbar/looks exploded

- The Cblog post management page got completely redone and is available from your top links

- Corrected some weird spacing issues with the sidebar of cblogs where content went outside of the bounding box

- Fixed various Internet Explorer alignment and compatibility issues

- The login page has longer fields now for epic long email addresses. The error message when you don't put the right email now says "we don't recognize your email" instead of "wrong username" which was retarded of me in the first place. That was confusing people. The error message is also now a giant red angry box. Angry!

- ??????? - It's going to be awesome. Be here Monday night!



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Gamer Named Tim's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 02:54
Gamer Named Tim
LOVE the new digest view.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 03:04
mix
-???????
-Profit!

Nice changes and I agree with the digest view, makes scrolling through more stories easier and did notice that the page loaded much faster!

Awesome stuff!
SnakeDude4Life's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 03:16
SnakeDude4Life
Needs MOAR cowbell


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Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 03:27
Aaron Mxy Yost
Digest view is win! Everything is looking slick. The effort you guys put into making the site more awesome is appreciated as always!
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 03:49
Justice
I love the digest view, but is it possible we could get the number of c-blogs in the sidebar upped to 20, instead of 10?
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 03:51
Justice
Oh snap I didn't realise it had been upped to 25!
W00t!
T-rav's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 03:59
T-rav
The digest view is sweet. And the c-blog upgrade is nice too!
hood_954's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 04:28
hood_954
just wondering.. this contest coming up open for participants globally? or US only?
nebones's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 05:07
nebones
YAY THE FORUMS ARE GETTING RE-DONE!
CrocBox's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 05:33
CrocBox
and finally

- Profit. :P
shayward23's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 06:01
shayward23
Digest view makes me touch myself, but only in appropriate ways.
PhazonYoshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 07:46
PhazonYoshi
Fantasmigorical.
Zulu's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 07:47
Zulu
The new blog archive's are the sex.
The Incredible Edible Egg's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 08:53
The Incredible Edible Egg
Yay! I love you crazy cat lady-man!
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 09:03
ScottyG
Oh... very nice. Thank you for finally getting a unified layout, and it's good to hear the site is being optimized more. :)
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 09:05
RonBurgandy2010
The Comment Monitizor is broken.
ParaParaKing's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 09:10
ParaParaKing
digest view is sexy.

Also can't wait for monday.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 09:14
Holyetheline
Very nice update dude. I do appreciate it.
tsunamikitsune's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 09:16
tsunamikitsune
Bitchin' updates. Dtoid looks great. :D
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 09:46
falinter
much love
Velt's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 09:51
Velt
is looking good
Red TheHaze Veron's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 10:08
Red TheHaze Veron
workmeng uses vista with IE?
Danl Haas's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 10:58
Danl Haas
I miss the titles. You know, where it would tell you you were logged in with a little 'danlhaas is a miserable pile of secrets'? Where'd that go?
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 11:00
Niero
@ HOOD - both. Some prizes are US only, some will be global
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 11:04
Brian Szabelski
The archive page is sex. I definitely like the updates, Niero. :)
Clockwork's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 11:09
Clockwork
Digest view is sexy sexy sexy.
Niero's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 11:11
Niero
Thanks Ron, should be fixed in a bit. Check DT1?
Spartacus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 11:15
Spartacus
Digest view = bonars
IceMax's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 12:12
IceMax
- Fixed various Internet Explorer alignment and compatibility issues

you must have unlimited patience
eternalplayer2345's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 12:18
eternalplayer2345
How can dtoid be so awesome AND never remain stagnate thanks niero
welkstar's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 12:44
welkstar
I dig the new stuff! I have a small request, would it be possible to up the number of comments that are tracked?

Thanks for all your hard work, we <3 you.
vexed alex's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 12:46
vexed alex
Your hardwork is always appreciated.
grassr00ts's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 12:54
grassr00ts
looks great!

Would it be possible (i'm not sure if everyone else would want this but I always have) to link your e-mail and c-blog account with the forums? I always thought it was strange that I had to make another account just for the forums.

Just a thought!
aborto thefetus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 13:46
aborto thefetus
All I have to say is after the hype, monday better be the second coming of Jesus.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 14:48
Sharpless
Some of the fonts have become really oversized, particularly on the Track Comments page. Also, any chance of getting a more robust comment tracking system? I don't like the fact that my own c-blog/promoted posts take up permanent space on the tracker, unless the posts are hidden. It'd be nice to have more freedom with it, so I didn't have to hide everything.

Other than that, the site's looking great.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 15:43
RonBurgandy2010
It's fixed Niero.
Pedro Cortes's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 16:02
Pedro Cortes
Still having problems with Safari and seeing the Cblogs. It keeps hanging every time i try and load a Cblog ><
RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 16:37
RAB
i really love you niero (no homo)
Takeshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 17:44
Takeshi
Just wanted to say it looks good. Keep it up oh Robot King of all websites.
MatCD's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 18:18
MatCD
Could you put back the Japanator and Tomopop links that were at the top of the home page?
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 18:29
Wexx
Just my heart Niero :P
Keep up the great work!
Steel Squirrel's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 19:46
Steel Squirrel
Hmm, you added more to your profile, kewl.
RonBurgandy2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 21:05
RonBurgandy2010
You broke the Monitizor again Niero. No avatars and everything is in quotations.
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/19/2008 22:29
Darren Nakamura
ANGRY!!!
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/20/2008 03:21
Knivy
So it was you!!!!

Now I know why the internet in TJ died for so long. :P
xe-cute's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/20/2008 17:05
xe-cute
What about a couple more useful stuff?

Like letting us edit our replies (surely you are sick of people askking for this?)

Also support for HDTV and Widescreen monitors (make the middle coloumn expandible ffs), you are making my mouses scroll wheel break.

^ Gamespot had a widescreen beta version of there site and it went down very well (I think they actualy switched to it now).
xe-cute's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/20/2008 18:06
xe-cute
Oh another thing that I forgot to mention..... Does anyone else have this same problem?

Basicaly I start typing in this comments box and then a few seconds later I get cut-off and the page scrolls up... meaning I have to scroll back down, click inside box and continue my sentence.


I know that the reason for this is because I start typing before the page loads up fully (as you have very slow loading times), yet other websites do not do that (if you start typing before page is 100% loaded up).
KyleGamgee's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/22/2008 14:01
KyleGamgee
Thanks! I use Google Chrome at work now so this is a big help!

Come to my house again!

Giant Slide!
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