New site layout - Amendments #1
4 years ago
Greater London, England

thanks for the updates! i'd absolutely love the background positioning/scrolling/etc. options back. i appreciate you being responsive to feedback, and i hope you figure out a satisfactory way to get themes working on light mode. :)

Personally I'd vouch mainly for bringing back the unscaled tiling of backgrounds (tile backgrounds option basically), as the removal of that feature has kind of hurt the theme design I had going originally on a couple leaderboards, and making a new large image replicating the effect will have space and scaling issues.

Also, MLSTRM is right, it is weird to make it mandatory to only use one viewing mode over the other to get themes. I think it would be wise to have theme viewability as separate from day/night mode.

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Texas, USA

The new layout is very beautiful. You're a genius, thank you. @Pac

United Kingdom

@Pac Since the new update I have noticed in the Main Sonic Series that certain games have appeared which don't belong there, as in they're are ROM hacks and not official games. How would I go about getting them moved off the main Sonic series and to the Sonic Fan Series section?

Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, Finland

i appreciate the ability to change the footer color back to what it used to be but i genuinely think that green is one of the worst color choices for footer design

European Union

@neuro the footer (foot = bottom) is colourless and always has been, the only thing that has a colour change is the header (head = top)

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France

Small visual bug when loading/refreshing a game page. All the subcategories of the game are displayed at first, then only the ones related to the displayed category and then the leaderboard loads the runs. Don't know if this can be fixed but it would be a bit cleaner not having this huge list of subcategories displayed during a few frames. EDIT: Instead of showing all the subcategories and then hiding them with the "display: none", you could probably do the inverse by hiding them all at first and only display the ones you need with "display: block". Thanks.

https://i.imgur.com/r2fnLSc.png

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Scotland

@SilverSpade92 its a coding error not a refresh error

Virginia, USA

Can we bring back the "empty" text next to a category's name when said category is empty? It really helps to see which games are actually have runs submitted.

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European Union

@finnaboing for the time being you can use this css to add it back for yourself,

[quote]a.nav-item.nav-link.category.empty:after { content: " (empty)"; color:rgb(145,145,145); font-size:10px; } label.btn.btn-default.empty:after { content: " (empty)"; color:rgb(145,145,145); font-size:10px; }[/quote]

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Virginia, USA

@HowDenKing Cool! How exactly do I use that though?

European Union

@finnaboing use a browser plugin like "user CSS" on chrome to add it in, the plugin will do the rest automatically.

Virginia, USA

Thanks so much!

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Jersey

There seems to be an error with formatting with the subcategories on game boards or category extension boards. When there's enough subcategories under a certain criteria, the boxes don't properly format, like shown here: https://prnt.sc/o5qj6k

Antarctica

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but I’d like to see the ability to jump to different pages within threads (and forums) again. Right now, if I don’t click on the last page in a thread from the forum page, I have to either click through page by page, go back to the forum and click the last page or manually change the URL.

Not something that comes up often as threads usually don’t get more than a few pages long, but for some of these Site threads they can get kinda lengthy. Not a big deal, just something I used a lot as a convenience.

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United States

My only complaint about the new layout so far is that it is really hard to tell what leaderboard category you have selected.

screenshot: https://gyazo.com/e1a43d06e7a419e6ba9382843a1f1cff

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France

I've made a thread about some encoding problem with the apostrophe character some months ago but it's still not fixed. Since this thread is about feedbacks and bugs it's a good time for a reminder in case you missed it :). The categories with this encoding issue weren't displayed in the WR history graph so since you're working on new graphs, it would be nice if you could fix that at the same time: https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/x9ekk Thanks.

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European Union

@FitterSpace you can add this css code to give it a bit more contrast

[quote]body.dark .nav-tabs .nav-link { background-color: #191919 !important;} [/quote]

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European Union

As an addition to the Series Moderator bug: the Moderators page is available and works, it's just not showing on the menu. ( adding /moderators to the url as a workaround for now until fixed )

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Florida, USA

Whatever you're doing now allows this to happen: https://www.speedrun.com/thecave Can't spot the problem? The top nav links are the exact same color as the nav bar. Instant fail.

While I appreciate your efforts, as someone who has been designing and building websites for over 20 years, I'd be very careful about giving users control over the UI.