create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave
posted by max on September 24, 2006 at 01:39:23 AM
hey guys, what's up?
Before you whine and cry,
1) clear your cache
2) look at the new browse feature.
lots of changes, more than i care to list. too many 16 hour work days. i'm going to sleep.
Before you whine and cry,
1) clear your cache
2) look at the new browse feature.
lots of changes, more than i care to list. too many 16 hour work days. i'm going to sleep.
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CAPS LOCK. FAILURE. NO TOP 5. NO TOP 15. NO TOP RATED. NO TOP ANYTHING. YOU TOOK THE CRAPPIEST PART OF YTMND (RECENTLY CREATED) AND MADE IT THE MAIN FEATURE. YOU TOOK WHAT MADE YTMND GREAT AND FLIPPED IT OPPOSITE. I HATE the new Ytmnd. Aesthetics don't make a site credible. The sites do, and none of them are on the front page. MAJOR FAIL.
I'm sorry. I'm a dissenter and whiner. I find it impractical, I question what it will do to views, how it will impact the already strange voting pattern changes over the last several months, and other things... I just... I dont know, I dont know if I want to make sites for THIS ytmnd. we'll see, but I'm openly disappointed.
HERE IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE NEW SITE TYPED IN ALL CAPS. I THINK THERE SHOULD STILL BE A 'BEST OF THE DAY' ON THE FRONTPAGE, USING A COMBINATION OF VOTES GIVEN, VIEWS GIVEN, WHATEVER. BECAUSE NOW YOU HAVE PRIME REAL-ESTATE FOR THOSE SITES TO BECOME FAMOUS THEREBY INCREASING THE DESIRE FOR SAID REAL ESTATE. WHICH WILL GIVE A REASON FOR PEOPLE TO MAKE SITES. RIGHT NOW I THINK ITS TOO FRACTURED. HIERARCHICAL POPULARITY WORKS. DISCUSS.
max, its not even really so much the change to the main YTMND page. I made YTMND Digest my new main page... but even that I have to scroll up and down through all this overly large blocky stuff to find what section i want... I... uh... even dont like the look of it, the Orange and beige is garish and difficult to look at for an extended period of time. MY EYES. THEY BURN.
example: on all the YTMND Digest pages the creator name is in my opinion, unnecessarily, on the list, as is the creation date.... the latter is flat out unuseful to 98% of viewers, and the former, well in my case I would get automatic kissasses, or higher expectations, or an immediate downvote from certain peoples for various reasons... in the case of a user with a previously or current bad reputation, they would also increasingly get unfair renumeration for their work - not that it was perfect before...
Max, first and foremost I wholeheartedly appreciate your continued efforts. However, I'm left wondering...do you really think this is better? Does it somehow make things easier from an operational standpoint? If so then the change is worthwhile already. But if not... well...see klasky and mastersitsu's comments.
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This actually looks pretty nice. I thought everybody was going to hate you because you were going to sell the site.
One thing: in IE7 at least, the menu (home, sites, users, about etc.) is messed up. It's centered and every item is on a separate line in the middle of the page, overlapping everything else on the page. "forums" is overlapping the news post and "Wiki" is under this comments box.
The thing I don't like is too much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.oo much scrolling. scolling. too much scrolling.vvvv
Hey, just a quick suggestion i thought you might like to consider to stop the bitches whinging about the colour scheme of the new layout. If possible you might be able to make a few different CSS style sheets that users can choose on either the frontpage or VIA user preferences that gives a whole bunch of different colour schemes. Maybe orange/tan (current style), classic orange/white (for the whiners), even other colours like purple/tan or purple/white for those into PTKFGS etc.
Wow, looks surprisingly classy for YTMND. The orange used for the headers isn't really my kinda thing though, but otherwise this is quite nice. And the emphasis on the Recently Created is a great idea; even though most YTMNDs that get made are terrible (let's be honest, it's true) there's always a few gems that get buried just because the creator happened to submit them when loads of other people were making sites.