Opinions on new front page:
3 years ago
Antarctica
Kai.
He/Him, She/Her
3 years ago

I saw the new page and it looks extremely cool but...

hate the new zoom and font

Nordanix, Tristoppy and 3 others like this
Argentina

Agreed. It's really hard to read at times, not to mention it's currently in dissonance with the rest of the site's style

Shiinyu, Tristoppy, and 1 like this
Antarctica

The font is horrendous, auto-playing videos/streams is like an internet taboo at this point (not to mention it appears to ignore the user setting to disable it), yeah, not a fan at all. I have the forums bookmarked so I don't have to see the front page. The new "News" page is also awful. The white font is nearly impossible to read on any background with a light color palette. Definitely some questionable choices on both of these screens.

Shiinyu, AppleSaws and 7 others like this
Russia

yep, this font has to go

HopeTrash and 1 like this
French Southern Territories

I would suggest having a setting where you can turn some of it off. (Or all of it lol)

MinecraftGaming, Shiinyu and 2 others like this
French Southern Territories

I think (but I could be wrong) that they've limited the number of recent runs that appear on the homepage. I have it set so that the max number of runs appear, but right now there's only 10, not 40. I agree that the font is horrible. I also hate how small it is.

Shiinyu, HopeTrash and 4 others like this
Argentina

Given how bad the readability on this font is, I refuse to believe someone picked it on purpose. I believe this might be a case of a custom font not loading correctly (or perhaps even an entire file with custom styles), thus forcing the page to use one of the default fonts.

@Merl_ I've set the homepage to show 15-20 runs for me, but I'm only seeing 9, so I think you're correct

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Shiinyu, HopeTrash and 4 others like this
Antarctica
Kai.
He/Him, She/Her
3 years ago

The font is fixed

zoom still sucks a bit

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Shiinyu, HopeTrash, and MrMonsh like this
Argentina

Can confirm the font has stopped stabbing my eyes as much. They're probably working on it as we speak, though I don't understand why they wouldn't do it on a test build first. :D

Shiinyu and Kai. like this
Argentina

@TaruPanther It's a bit too zoomed out for my taste, but at least now I can read it I guess.

Shiinyu likes this
Antarctica
Kai.
He/Him, She/Her
3 years ago

I think the update was set out by accident which is why the font went to the first font found in inspect

may be wrong idk

Edited by the author 3 years ago
MrMonsh likes this
Argentina

Basically, the text on the site doesn't have a defined font, but rather a font family, which includes a variety of fonts that should be similar in style, and they are ordered so that the first font is always preferred over the others.

However, if a font is not supported by the browser for some reason, the site then resorts to the next font in line in the family, and so on until it gets to default windows fonts. Perhaps they had defined the order incorrectly somewhere or a style sheet didn't load telling the site what font-family to use.

EDIT: In case you're interested, the font we all know and love is "Segoe UI", while the font that made us squint at the front page was (at least for me) "Helvetica Neue".

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Quivico, Merl_, and Kai. like this
United States

I like the front page so far. I was about to complain here about the text being too hard to read, but the spacing between the letters was changed when I refreshed the page so I'm pretty sure they're working on it as I type this. Overall I quite like the new design and I think the rest of the site should go in the same direction.

jkerz and Merl_ like this
French Southern Territories

Oh yeah. The new site looks really good. I just checked and it was updated. Hopefully I can see more than 10 runs soon.

Switzerland

With the news section taking up so much horizontal space, the main content is way too squeezed and hard to read. I don't like this layout at all.

1, discranola, and Merl_ like this
French Southern Territories

I like the new headers, but the news section and tweets take up too much space. I wish the stream/recent runs was still at normal size

MrMonsh likes this
Argentina

The "Latest Runs" section is usually a great way for games with a small following to attract attention whenever they get a new run verified, and it's personally a way I've found a few of my own speedgames, so I feel making it smaller will kinda impact this flow in a negative way.

I'd say that this section should go back to the same size it had before and that news flow under it, or at the very least it'd have to noticeably be the main focus of the start page IMO.

Ivory, Swagorath and 2 others like this