Now this is where push comes to shove, the tough gets going and shit really hits the fan. This is where YOU are needed.
A lot of you are experienced, even well-versed, when it comes to internet technologies. Your skillset can help out crossfire.
Naturally the new design got flamed right into ground; I would have been shocked if it weren't.
Cf3 had different designs, there's no reason why cf4 can't have that. This page is built without tables, mostly semantically correct and halfway nice HTML5. You should be able to do a lot simply by changing the stylesheet, you can practically re-invent the page.
Please do work on such things. Unfortunately I can't promise a timeframe where good and popular stylesheets will be made available for everyone, but the time will come and until then everybody with little skills can put your custom stylesheet on crossfire individually (I think there's even a tutorial for that here). It can be small stuff like sticky notifications :)
All the rotating might annoy you - or javascript loads where you'd prefer actual page loads, or the other way round.
You can do a lot with javascript, and it's quite easy to put those custom scripts into a) your browser and b) other peoples browser if they wish so. I'm sure that popular scripts will make it onto the page to better everybodys experience.
This might go a little far, but I wanted to throw it out there. The page doesn't code itself and if you do have skills, time and little enough selfrespect to work on a project like this for free, try to get in touch with one of the big names. Of course it might be hard to break into the circle as it requires a good level of trust before they'll let you through to the good stuff, but it worked before and it can work again.
This actually is a great opportunity to work on a reasonably large project. There are tables will well over 4 million rows and several hundred Mb of data which can be a good challenge to work with.
And of course: DO please contribute content, this is easy, everybody can do it, you just have to put some time into it. So go and get those new userflags for contributing
A lot of you are experienced, even well-versed, when it comes to internet technologies. Your skillset can help out crossfire.
The Design
Naturally the new design got flamed right into ground; I would have been shocked if it weren't.
Cf3 had different designs, there's no reason why cf4 can't have that. This page is built without tables, mostly semantically correct and halfway nice HTML5. You should be able to do a lot simply by changing the stylesheet, you can practically re-invent the page.
Please do work on such things. Unfortunately I can't promise a timeframe where good and popular stylesheets will be made available for everyone, but the time will come and until then everybody with little skills can put your custom stylesheet on crossfire individually (I think there's even a tutorial for that here). It can be small stuff like sticky notifications :)
Scripts
All the rotating might annoy you - or javascript loads where you'd prefer actual page loads, or the other way round.
You can do a lot with javascript, and it's quite easy to put those custom scripts into a) your browser and b) other peoples browser if they wish so. I'm sure that popular scripts will make it onto the page to better everybodys experience.
Serverside programming?
This might go a little far, but I wanted to throw it out there. The page doesn't code itself and if you do have skills, time and little enough selfrespect to work on a project like this for free, try to get in touch with one of the big names. Of course it might be hard to break into the circle as it requires a good level of trust before they'll let you through to the good stuff, but it worked before and it can work again.
This actually is a great opportunity to work on a reasonably large project. There are tables will well over 4 million rows and several hundred Mb of data which can be a good challenge to work with.
And of course: DO please contribute content, this is easy, everybody can do it, you just have to put some time into it. So go and get those new userflags for contributing
Great write-up, though.
As I said, I like the site. The lay-out looks cooler and "fresher" (not sure how to describe it).
There are, ofcourse, some things I'd like to see and there are some things I'd like to see removed, but it's impossible to make everybody happy. Change is a difficult thing for alot of people (hence the new map fails, just an example of the ET-Community) and it will take time for this community to accept the site as it is and/or will be.
I'd just like to say, great work guys and I hope you listen to the community and makes changes/updates where needed :).
There is hope for you :D
Thanks ^^
Only the buttons for interacting with the page could be a bit larger on the mobile, but those are easy and small fixes.
If tags would work within [h!de]-tag, everything would be fine or did I miss something?
I think people shouldn't be confused with half-working features. I still don't quite see how this is gonna work at all. when I follow 20 people I bet my inbox will be spammed to an amount that isn't funny anymore and so far it doesnt seem like I can open a certain page where I see what the people I follow did. notifications just dont seem right to me.
what I was gonna say: people are already confused when things change. we as users dont need to be challenged with features that do not work yet.
Your feedback is appreciated though.
ehm... does that mean I only get notifications when they create something like a news post? or journals? forum threads? so maybe if I was wrong, you see you could maybe go more into details how things work, cause obviously dumb people like me dont understand stuff when reading it once if some parts are just somewhere between the lines, if u know what I mean ;)
I didn't mean to just complain, I think I am one of the few that may be critical, but I try to give some sort of feedback that isnt like "everything sucks, we want cf3 back".
For now it's only content you'll be notified of when someone you follow creates it. Not comments. Yet we're thinking of implementing a possibility to opt-in for comments also. Maybe not high priority though.
Notifications should work as intended, maybe a minor bug here and there, but nothing obvious for sure.
I bet if you give it a try you'll see this site aids your life on Crossfire to such an extent it becomes a much more pleasant environment than the third version :)
Also, we're constantly monitoring feedback & implementing bug fixes and feature requests.
can just imagine someone mad saying duck rather than fuck, would make them even more mad :p
Why was there even a beta launch 2 months ago? just for the lolz? You obviously didn't test most features at all. A six year old kid could have spotted these bugs, you would guess a half decent coder would notice them as well.
I must be an asshole now for pointing out the obvious.
On a serious note, are you paying I2Y, 4drenaline and Excite for their work?
Of course I still didn't get used to this new layout, but I'm sure it's a matter of days.
I really like the design, simple & very recent.... it's quite difficult to get one with such large community sites that have a lot of features.
well done to everyone who have worked on the project!