discussion [Site News] Latest Updates V4 is Live for Public Beta

[hugh mungus]

Feels and looks so much better now

 

[Oakbender]

The close button for the tag list of a game doesn't work if you open it fully by clicking the +# button

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[xamuk]

Hey. You probably already know this but a number of games don't have thumbnails:

V4

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V3

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Presumably since you've used a new set of thumbnails generated from the full-images. Where there are still many games that don't have full images available. Perhaps fallback to the old thumbnails until the images are restored?

 

[Jack Of Blades]

Hey. You probably already know this but a number of games don't have thumbnails:

V4

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V3

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Presumably since you've used a new set of thumbnails generated from the full-images. Where there are still many games that don't have full images available. Perhaps fallback to the old thumbnails until the images are restored?

its cause the threads on those games have broken images.

 

[Darkrift411]

My thoughts so far, if you are still looking for feedback:

Overall, I think it looks better. Mostly I think because it actually looks like part of the forum, not its own page.

I dislike how it is forced to fit into the smaller section in the middle like the rest of the forum is though. This is probably only an issue for the still-rare 4k screen people though.

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VS

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These are approx the same height of my screen (just under 50%) because the forum seems to choke sometimes when I paste full 4k screenshots. (It starts the "uploading....." thing and then it gets stuck spinning and I have to refresh to fix it and start all over with my post, but that has nothing to do with this post, so moving on.) But as you can see, in the old version, it uses almost all of the avail screen width and I can get a lot more games per row which means more per page with less scrolling. Also, I can have it show larger tiles/cards since there is more space for it. This is NOT a gamebreaker for me, but I def do like the old layout better.

I miss the little "what filters you currently have" thing that V3 did at the top right:

This was really helpful because sometimes I do tests and mess up my usual filters. Like the other day. I filtered out ALL animated games, because I noticed a lot of games were missing the animated tag. So I needed to see only games that didn't have that tag. Then last night I was wondering why there were no games released and saw that oh, shit... I forgot to remove that tag from my exclude list.

I am also noticing that the yellow (PLUS) faux-tag is missing on V4. Not so sure that matters all that much, but I did like having a visual indicator that it was different.

You explained the missing images, and I get it. But its annoying. Sooooooo many threads are missing images still. I think something needs to be done about that. I made a thread a few days ago with a suggestion. Those images are an important tool when deciding to play a game. For most games, when I am here and it looks interesting, but the images dont work, ive found myself going to google and searching for the game name with "f95" to see if the game is listed there, because their images work. Sometimes they are non-f95-able games, so I end up going to ryuu or kim...ochi? I cant remember the site but I can usually find it on a quick google. So the lack of images is potentially sending your visitors that you are trying hard to keep here to other sites.

The [+] to see addtl tags. It's kinda confusing until you play with it. Hovering shows you the list, which is fine. But if you click it instead of hovering, you get a popup that doesnt go away when you stop hovering. IT stays up, but then gets hidden behind other tiles.

Then, when you try to fix that, you think "Oh, just click the X on the popup dialog". So you click the X, but it stays. What you dont see is that clicking the X DID work. Kinda. IF you move your mouse away now, it will go away. But while your mouse is still hovering over the popup, the X seemed to have done nothing. Just... unintuitive.

 

[Jack Of Blades]

My thoughts so far, if you are still looking for feedback:

Overall, I think it looks better. Mostly I think because it actually looks like part of the forum, not its own page.

I dislike how it is forced to fit into the smaller section in the middle like the rest of the forum is though. This is probably only an issue for the still-rare 4k screen people though.

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VS

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These are approx the same height of my screen (just under 50%) because the forum seems to choke sometimes when I paste full 4k screenshots. (It starts the "uploading....." thing and then it gets stuck spinning and I have to refresh to fix it and start all over with my post, but that has nothing to do with this post, so moving on.) But as you can see, in the old version, it uses almost all of the avail screen width and I can get a lot more games per row which means more per page with less scrolling. Also, I can have it show larger tiles/cards since there is more space for it. This is NOT a gamebreaker for me, but I def do like the old layout better.

I miss the little "what filters you currently have" thing that V3 did at the top right:

This was really helpful because sometimes I do tests and mess up my usual filters. Like the other day. I filtered out ALL animated games, because I noticed a lot of games were missing the animated tag. So I needed to see only games that didn't have that tag. Then last night I was wondering why there were no games released and saw that oh, shit... I forgot to remove that tag from my exclude list.

I am also noticing that the yellow (PLUS) faux-tag is missing on V4. Not so sure that matters all that much, but I did like having a visual indicator that it was different.

You explained the missing images, and I get it. But its annoying. Sooooooo many threads are missing images still. I think something needs to be done about that. I made a thread a few days ago with a suggestion. Those images are an important tool when deciding to play a game. For most games, when I am here and it looks interesting, but the images dont work, ive found myself going to google and searching for the game name with "f95" to see if the game is listed there, because their images work. Sometimes they are non-f95-able games, so I end up going to ryuu or kim...ochi? I cant remember the site but I can usually find it on a quick google. So the lack of images is potentially sending your visitors that you are trying hard to keep here to other sites.

The [+] to see addtl tags. It's kinda confusing until you play with it. Hovering shows you the list, which is fine. But if you click it instead of hovering, you get a popup that doesnt go away when you stop hovering. IT stays up, but then gets hidden behind other tiles.

Then, when you try to fix that, you think "Oh, just click the X on the popup dialog". So you click the X, but it stays. What you dont see is that clicking the X DID work. Kinda. IF you move your mouse away now, it will go away. But while your mouse is still hovering over the popup, the X seemed to have done nothing. Just... unintuitive.

i think i fixed and added everything you mentioned

 

[Darkrift411]

i think i fixed and added everything you mentioned

Nice.

 

[xamuk]

its cause the threads on those games have broken images.

Yep. I also suggested a workaround.

 

[Darkrift411]

i think i fixed and added everything you mentioned

So, I didn't actually check before, because it was almost 4am. But I woke up today and was like let's see this shit. Go to the v2 tab from yesterday and hit f5. No games listed. Odd. Also nothing on the sidebar seems to work.

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Just in case, I removed everything in the URL after the v2 so there were no filters/settings being passed this way at least. Still nothing, even after a ctrl+f5. Did the URL change? Is there something simple I am missing (Im still only partially awake, so Ill keep that as my excuse if its really bad).