To all:
The whole reason for this design change is that you can focus less on accessing everything from one page with minimal information and access tons of information from a few open pages. You focus on specific, relevant sub-sections.
For example:
People say they want to have a lot of information on one page so that you have to reload less, but how about we put every future GosuBet on the front page, every result from the last 100 days, we make a box for the top 10 rankings, we put a blogs box on the front page, we make a section having to do with tournaments on the front page and we put the shop on the front page? Too much information, right?
Mazor has experience in this, and that's why the site has been organized like it is for so long. The front page has a little demo of everything on it. To read news comments, you click the news. To read the actual forum thread, you click it. To check out replays, you click it. To check out a GosuBet, you click it. There is no need to put every single bit of information on the front page because it will be cluttered and insane, along with vastly increasing the load time.
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Forums and Blogs
Let's say you like to check the Forums and Blogs. When you open the site, you can open the Forums page in a new tab and open the Blogs page in a new tab. Please, do one favor for me. Open each of the links in a new tab and look at the vast amount of information displayed. Since we don't have to waste space with news etc. on a Blogs page, you get a ridiculous amount of information very specific to what you want - Blogs.
Note: I personally think that from the forums page each of the separate forums should collapse/expand so you get a lot more information. This system could be improved with your feed back!
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GosuBet
When you open the site, open the GosuBets page in a tab. There is more information on that page than you could ever want, and every single thing on there is relevant, specific information pertaining to your interest - GosuBets. Notice how much more information is displayed than the old system on the front page.
Note: I agree that the pop-up box with relevant information was great, you're right! I think we should find a way to integrate it into the new design, but we need the users' constructive feed back and suggestions!
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Replays
Open up the replays tab! It shows the players, races, maps, events, ratings, number of downloads, the date it was uploaded and, more importantly, it has a download button right there! What more could you want, honestly? Also, since the pages are optimized to contain only the content you want, the pages load much more quickly than the site ever did before, so there is no reason to complain about having to wait for pages to load.
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Has been Crew tested
The Crew has tested this navigation out for a month or so, and I hated it when I first tried it. Hated it. But once you take the time to realize what the reason for it is and give it a chance, it becomes much more efficient. Instead of looking at the front page once, seeing that it isn't the same, not testing it out and saying it sucks, try it!
I know that it's hard to break habits and preferences, but at least try it for yourself. The site is built for our users, and we strongly believe after testing this thoroughly that this is a better system. Trust us, we won't force a system onto you that we think sucks just to make you feel uncomfortable.
Google's example
Look at http://www.google.com - when you open up that site it doesn't have the ten latest images, the ten most popular videos, Google news, your latest Gmail, Blogs, books, calendar, documents, finance, labs, reader, scholar, products photos all on the front page. Instead, it has a simple and efficient home page that also allows you to navigate to sub-sections with relevant information. Click on News from the Google page. Look, it's exactly what you want, and it was one click away with a tiny load time.
Specific user experience
Content overload and chaos affects the site's performance and the user's experience. We are hoping that our users will have a more personal experience because they are only seeing exactly what they want to see with this new system. The engineers have done almost everything they can think of under this system and now we need you, the user to provide useful and constructive ideas.
Please, do one favor for me. Open each of the links in a new tab and look at the vast amount of relevant and specific information displayed. |
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