Welcome to Crossfire 4!
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15 Jul 2012, 15:29
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News
Welcome to Crossfire 4! Long in the making and even longer overdue we are pleased to welcome you all to our new humble abode. The goal of the new site is to open Crossfire up to the next generation of users. Whilst we will always be true to our heritage we must also be forward looking, this ideology will safeguard our long term future.
So what is Crossfire 4? Crossfire 4 is one of the most flexible user generated content engines in the gaming space. Merging the freedom of user contribution with strong administration and quality content.
Whats new? Err..everything? Since you last saw the Crossfire 4 Beta over fifteen thousand more lines of code have been added. We’ve also taken onboard the overwhelming feedback that our previous new design was unpopular. In our new, new design we’ve stayed true to Crossfire 3’s previous colour scheme and tried go for evolution rather than revolution! We’ve also reprioritised certain features on the front page.
Oh, and we’re not done yet either! We’ve still got a list of further features we want to add but we wanted to get this out to the community as soon as possible. Coming quickly will be a “Get Enemy Territory” section, we’ve got it designed, written and ready to launch we simply had to wait until after the migration was done. Search will be getting better day by day, we’ve migrated to SOLR search and this is indexing currently and will replace the Google search in about 72 hours.
This site wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work of a number of Crossfire’s finest! So many thanks should go those who have worked on this site conceptually, technically and bug testing-ly...
Krosan, 
skooli for being captains on the ship! 
I2Y, 
4drenaline Excite as developers, 
J_ for his superb design and 
ag0n for his expert bug testing skills! Other bug testers SimonKinsler, Frop and 
LION.
From here its over to you! We want your feedback, please use this site tell us what works, tell us what doesn’t work! Tell us what you want next! We’ve got an active development team and we can really keep going with your feedback.
Thank You!
Toss
P.S.
If you have a Crossfire 3 account, but no longer have access to its email address, you can activate your Crossfire 4.0 account by filling http://www.crossfire.nu/user/emailMigration with your Crossfire 3 information.
So what is Crossfire 4? Crossfire 4 is one of the most flexible user generated content engines in the gaming space. Merging the freedom of user contribution with strong administration and quality content.
Whats new? Err..everything? Since you last saw the Crossfire 4 Beta over fifteen thousand more lines of code have been added. We’ve also taken onboard the overwhelming feedback that our previous new design was unpopular. In our new, new design we’ve stayed true to Crossfire 3’s previous colour scheme and tried go for evolution rather than revolution! We’ve also reprioritised certain features on the front page.
Oh, and we’re not done yet either! We’ve still got a list of further features we want to add but we wanted to get this out to the community as soon as possible. Coming quickly will be a “Get Enemy Territory” section, we’ve got it designed, written and ready to launch we simply had to wait until after the migration was done. Search will be getting better day by day, we’ve migrated to SOLR search and this is indexing currently and will replace the Google search in about 72 hours.
This site wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work of a number of Crossfire’s finest! So many thanks should go those who have worked on this site conceptually, technically and bug testing-ly...
Krosan, skooli for being captains on the ship! I2Y, 4drenaline Excite as developers, J_ for his superb design and ag0n for his expert bug testing skills! Other bug testers SimonKinsler, Frop and LION.From here its over to you! We want your feedback, please use this site tell us what works, tell us what doesn’t work! Tell us what you want next! We’ve got an active development team and we can really keep going with your feedback.
Thank You!
Toss
P.S.
If you have a Crossfire 3 account, but no longer have access to its email address, you can activate your Crossfire 4.0 account by filling http://www.crossfire.nu/user/emailMigration with your Crossfire 3 information.
- Lawaman :)
Don't like the new look personally, looks like all the other gaming sites. Crossfire was special because the looks dated back to WW2.
Personally think the CF3 design was awesome, should have just edited/modified/updated that design in stead of rewriting the entire thing. Oh well, perhaps I'll start to love this too.
GJ on still having the will and time to improve this though.
How come my profile is fucked up now? Are the codes different? And can you stop the Recent/Event/Polls thingy from switching? Same goes for Videos/Albums.
profile anyway wtf about codes, cannot see who is online of my buddies :((
hope you get everything fixed
Some of the current problems are related to cf3 to cf4 port. A open release like that is needed to find the latest issues.
Just relax and let the team work.
did you earn money for this?? or only for selling your hairy body?
on topic: site is ugly as fuck and really messy
still pretty gay
And gamestv integration, well, if you know the technical lead is the same guy who created ettv & gamestv.org you can imagine such a feature isn't far away :)
np at all.. i raged for some hours, but i guess they will improve some things, if they see all the points which have been posted. imo they wont be that straight and blind to not react. so im more than calm :P
anyway it wasnt meant serious by me =)
will need some time to get used to the new look but the first impression is nice ;)
migration function doesnt work
accessible only with difficulty for new users
journals ante 2012 are aparently lost
search function quite confusing/unclear but you have access to way more results (compared to cf3 search)
+ :
i like that facebook style
cool award system
site looks more modern and adapted to 2010+
functionality basically the same as cf3
I don't like 4.0 version at all...
gief me cf 3.2 back pls!
http://www.google.com/webfonts#UsePlace:use/Collection:Open+Sans
Congrats & nice work.
This site is good, but I don't like it. I found many usefull and good features, but I don't feel like this is complete. Not bad at all... but the previous one was better in my eyes, for an example: this 4.0 headline is boring, the whole site gives me a feeling I am reading some kind of clanpage on random domain with free design, sorry.
- Karrde
Keep the good job up!
IMO
needs a skin that's not as bright as this one
I want to see the online users, members list+ birthdays
what about my hits pfff!!
the section where it shows the groups u r assigned to it's too large/big
I want to see as well if a pm that I sent has been read or not (as you could do it before)
In rest I quite like to explore the new cf features. Lovely :)
- No responsive CSS (Hello, this is 2012)
- Fonts: Too inconsistent (size, unnecessary italics, bad fonts in general, buttons) Just look at the title on this page: Welcome to Crossfire 4! by TosspoT • today, 16:29 • News
- The layout of the comment section needs more work: Especially spacing and those round user images (looks much better with flags only)
- The top right part of the navigation bar looks disconnected because of the lighter part with the user name etc
- The background of the search form is lighter than the column which makes it look like it's floating
- Profile looks like there's no layout at all
I think, as far as I could play around with, are mainly better then the previous version.
what bothered me most was the circular avatars.
good job
not saying I hate it, but just takes a lot of getting used to.
[x] its utter crap
Notes:
This avatar system needs to be abolished and be replaced with the flags again.
Also, this whole "follow" thing is pretty ridiculous. What's with the whole "you're no longer a fan of so-and-so" after you opt out of following them?
GG for Crossfire selling out.
You might want to go to your account settings and change the comment system to flag-based fyi.
i like it so far, also not having performance issues or the likes.
and don't mind the bright design at all, the contrary :)
e: an explanation on the awards could come in handy. at what point you get which.
oh and the awards need a redesign, they look french xD (j/k)
Things I like:
* Movie section
* Preview for comments, really nice!
* Logo lookin' sleek imo.
Suggestion:
I don't mind avatars in posts at all, but as it is, it looks kinda bad. I reverted back to flags. If you're going to have avatars as an option, you should force people to upload an avatar in the correct resolution or fix a script that allows you to crop your avatar imo. Something like this (quick mashup) would be my ideal way of displaying avatars. Anyways, I think you guys did a pretty good job this time. It's very hard to please everyone, but add a select-able darker template and some minor tweaks here and there and it's all good.
Also as i said before, the font is not really helpful :(
That avatar mashup is quite slick :)
This centered layout looks also a bit strange according to the fact that most of people are using widescreens nowadays. Here, I have something like 50% of the screen not being used at all. A floating width would have just been perfect for this kind of content imho.
-Minor annoying thing: This 'recent/event/polls' keep switching itself, it's really eye attracting and not user friendly at all.
Good job anyway.
Oh yeah!
And why does it keep logging me out?
changing or flashing boxes (recent/events/polls) on right panel = braincancer (is this 1999 or what? web 4.0? who the fuck though it's a good idea)
as constructive as you can get
won't bother with small bugs, but these things are really annoying
Almost everything I click on I get a Redirect Loop Error, then I can't get back on the site for awhile.
I try to send a PM and it tells me I need to log in. I AM logged in, ffs
My good friend Kaoss.. his profile doesn't even exist anymore. Do a search, then click on his profile and you get "No such user: '21803'" Same thing happened to him in the past.
No offense, I know you want to make it better, and I know there will be bugs, but seriously, this sucks
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PROFIT
cant logout
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ok i figured it out after like 10mins or so lol :D
new feautures+old look=win
imo
Indenting of comments for instance is a lot harder to following as there is no visual reference on the sides anymore. Comment collapsing (not hard to do at all) would've been a good addition, and also making it visually easier to follow the tree structure of comments.
What I also dislike for a 2012 site is that you still go to the bottom of the page to post a comment. That would be ok for wanting to put a comment at the bottom, but how about replies? You should've put the comment form underneath the comment you want to reply to. Much better UX.
The "Recent/Events/Polls" slider takes up too much space. It should be put on the homepage as something apparent, but not so apparent on every other page.
Oh fuck it, I could go on and on with pointers that could improve the UX of this site, but I will not. Also because I'm not on this site as much anymore, or at all actually. But seeing CF4 makes me miss CF3 imho.
This is "modern design" in a bad way.
FAIL
I don't really like the new layout, not saying it's bad but the old one was somehow original and unique.
Something that I really miss from the old layout is when you could see a flag in front of the name because it gave the person a certain "feel". Most of the people here I recognized based on the flag and now it's just confusing.
[edit] Commenting is also a bit confusing, don't know why.