New Design
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The cleaner layout is nice, but it would be helpful, I think, if you provided the ability to control some aspects of the search page.
- choices of how much description to display, and an option to provide it via hover popup or a click-to-expand button on the item listing instead
- choices of displaying the category thumbnail image or perhaps a primary uploaded image related to the torrent.
- perhaps choosing from a selection of column styles where there are full scrollable description columns as well as shortened minimal description columns; expand this to even having individual columns for things currently combined into one, like the "Info" column, which could also allow for a category image column and a torrent image column.
For my use, the current new version is exceedingly too spread out and too noisy. I intend to keep using whatever the default is as you develop this, though, just in case it's just something I need to get used to.
Also, just to mention, I have never really used the "Browse" option, but I think it would be more useful to me if it offered a way to easily indivicate what I've already downloaded, perhaps like "Freeleech" is overlaid as a banner, or dimming the image until it is hovered over.
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The cleaner layout is nice, but it would be helpful, I think, if you provided the ability to control some aspects of the search page.
- choices of how much description to display, and an option to provide it via hover popup or a click-to-expand button on the item listing instead
- choices of displaying the category thumbnail image or perhaps a primary uploaded image related to the torrent.
- perhaps choosing from a selection of column styles where there are full scrollable description columns as well as shortened minimal description columns; expand this to even having individual columns for things currently combined into one, like the "Info" column, which could also allow for a category image column and a torrent image column.
For my use, the current new version is exceedingly too spread out and too noisy. I intend to keep using whatever the default is as you develop this, though, just in case it's just something I need to get used to.
Also, just to mention, I have never really used the "Browse" option, but I think it would be more useful to me if it offered a way to easily indivicate what I've already downloaded, perhaps like "Freeleech" is overlaid as a banner, or dimming the image until it is hovered over.
there will come configuration options of this view… at the moment, you see also pics in that view.. i would call this EXTENDED view...
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New design is much, much, much better that previous one.
:cheesy2:
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The link to Search has now been moved out of the Torrent drop-down menu and put back on the menu bar. That inconsistency is confusing. If you are going to use drop-down menus, commit to them. It took me a few seconds to realize that Search was really missing from the drop-down menu and then to spot it in the new location.
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I have two problems with the new design and both are about usability.
1. Showing pictures on search by default makes it more difficult to navigate, and not easier. There's too much information on screen, I'm bombarded with thumbnails of torrents I'm not necessarily interested in until I get to find the ones I want to see. 2. Then the new way to zoom in the images to check more than the thumbnails is not intuitive. In the end I get to see less of what I want and way more of what I don't care about.
Not everyone uses browse as primary way to find their files.
I like the new fonts, but about the new color scheme at first I thought somebody had died and the site was mourning… -
I have two problems with the new design and both are about usability.
1. Showing pictures on search by default makes it more difficult to navigate, and not easier. There's too much information on screen, I'm bombarded with thumbnails of torrents I'm not necessarily interested in until I get to find the ones I want to see. 2. Then the new way to zoom in the images to check more than the thumbnails is not intuitive. In the end I get to see less of what I want and way more of what I don't care about.
Not everyone uses browse as primary way to find their files.
I like the new fonts, but about the new color scheme at first I thought somebody had died and the site was mourning…I for one like having pictures in search. Looks a bit cluttered atm but there is potential for it to look better (limiting number of visible photos, uniform sizing, better placement…). Still wish the search is less wide though.
Also when you scroll if there is an entry with super long description you have to scroll though the whole thing before it continue to scroll down the page. Please limit the description length to fit the container height and put ... at the end. -
The search page is very loaded.
Try to make it simple:
The images in the category - The name of the file - <text icon="">(Positioning the mouse over or clicking on, opens a window with the description) - (Positioning the mouse over or clicking on, opens a window with the images side by side).</text>
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In case there is someone like me who like the (just a bit cluttered) new search but want it to be thinner like the the old one:
1. Download Stylus extension for whatever browser you're using.
2. Write a new style
3. Follow the 1st image
4. Result (2nd image)Or if you dont care about having pictures in search just disable the new style in profile setting.
This is just a temporary solution you wont need this once the size picker feature is added in the future.
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I just tried the new Search page again.
All I can say is… wow! Just wow.
You fixed all the problems and now I like it much better than the older version.
Thanks a million! Just adding the exact file size to the description, and getting rid of the page title change for new messages, makes this site much more usable. But you've done so much more than that. Very impressive! Thanks again!!!
:cheers:
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I think, in the effort to please just about everyone, the new search page is…a lot. It's busy.
Two considerations:
1. Perhaps limit the thumbnails on the search page to one and people can navigate to the others by the usual means of passing the cursor over the title/hotlink or by clicking on the camera icon.2. Long descriptions that require scrolling interfere with overall page scrolling. Perhaps provide as the additional space for text as you've done then use the old way of passing the cursor over the ellipsis.
You're obviously working hard to make the site as effective as possible. Thanks!
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New design looks great and trimmed down. I don't personally use it on a mobile device, but I can see where it would be more user-friendly now on one. I really liked the addition of hovering the mouse over the title brought up the pictures. So it confused me when I saw the pictures actually show up in addition to that. Then I saw the redesign was in part for mobile devices, so I guess that's why the static pics were added. I'm not sure I like having the static pics there as it seems to have made the columns larger, therefore, cause more scrolling. But if it helps with mobile devices, so be it. Again, it looks great! Awesome job! Thanks for everything ya'll do!
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browse.php
i liked the new design, until i had noticed i can not reach the link which shows the browse.php with a button;
only picbrowse.php - and this i do not really like. -
Couldn't switch it back fast enough, takes much longer to scroll down on non-mobile. I don't need to read every full description unless I decide to click on something. Not better for me, not sure why it's assumed to be better for all.
A shame this doesn't offer something like a desktop version (old display) plus mobile device version (new display), depending on what is being used, like FB.
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I like the new design, except of one thing. When I use the "search" option, I dont like to see all the preview pictures at every torrent, it makes everything more complex. Because of all these pictures it takes longer to load a site when searching. There are to many pictures now when I use the search. I can have a look at pictures of a movie when I choose a file, so I dont need to see them in the overview. I would appreciate it, if there would be the option to turn of the pictures when searching.
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This issue should now be fixed.
sure is, you rock! :cheers:
It seems the search bar is back again at the top of the picture browser covering the controls.
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Extended view for search results being tested
Almost a shock when the new style popped up when I was doing a specific search in response to a reload request. The search I was doing was
Searchresults for "Eric From Paris "What confuses me are the scroll bars that appear on some of the entries.
on EricVideos - Eric From Paris 06 it scrolls just a bit and will not show the description
on Eric From Paris (Video Series Part 3 of 3) (12-17 +20) it shows a couple of lines but not the full text. Switching over to the old view I can hover on the text and see the full description.
On ones with lots of pictures example Eric From Paris # 5 Amateur Bareback or Eric From Paris # 16 (mp4) Amateur bareback (ericvideos) I can only see top cut off of the description but not readable.Maybe limit pictures to one row. and show description below. If the description too long then similar to the old interface show the three dots (…) at the end where I could hover and see the full description in pop up box.
Speaking of Pop Up boxes I have noticed and issues with some of the descriptions I have seen on the new main search format pages. Most pop up ok and are readable but some are popping up like they are left justified and run off the window to the left and are not viewable. but not be a problem for other entries. It does not appear that the "..." being close to the left side of the screen is what causing the issue.
The first attachment snip is example of a cut off
Yet this one with the "..." even closer to the left pops up correctly (2nd attachment snip)
Also just a comment, I am using the new panels as my primary search. The set of changes you made in the last day or 2 for improved readability Really helped me a lot.
Thanks for all your efforts!!!!
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It's fantastic that your team is tkaing the time to consider improvements to the user experience. Here are some things I've noticed today. For reference, I'm on a 40 megabit connection and have tested speeds to servers hosted in a number of countries today.
Search Page Load: I've done this multiple times today, and the average page load time is more than a minute. I see a couple of errors in the browser console, but nothing that should cause the slow times. The console is telling me that no individual asset is taking more than about 4.5 ms to download, but there are gaps between requests and responses. Overall, page loads are much slower with the new design.
Computer vs Phone: The new design might be more phone-friendly, but it's the opposite for computer users. In search results, the new design uses a very wide column that holds the description and preview images. This goes across most of the page when the window is wide, such as on a computer. It makes the description text more difficult to read (long lines of text are not easy for human brains) and the mouse makes a long journey left to the right in order to click anything.
The descriptions are also worth talking about. For really longs ones, the text is now in a scrolling region. For computer users who use a mouse and finger-scroll, this catches on those scrolling fields and the page scroll stops in order for the field scroll to continue. This is frustrating and is not how people normally approach a page.
I wonder if it would be possible to have CSS that lays out the page differently for mbile, tablets, laptops, and wide screens? This seems fairly common for websites these days. Could it work for everyone here?
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In Browse, a lot of the preview images are obscenely long, taking up 3+ pages. I switched back to the old layout, which is more compact and truncated the previews to a reasonable maximum height. Having some previews take up pages of space makes it VERY difficult to navigate and be able to tell the Browse results apart.
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I appreciate the new extended view of torrents!
Some general feedback: My critique about the new design is the number of clicks has increased to get to Browse, which is nested under the new "Torrents" menu, and requires an additional click. In my opinion, it would be better to have Browse to the left of the Search button, or instead, have the Torrents menu expand when the mouse hovers over it. Overall, I think the new redesign is great! :love:
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plz go back to the original format.
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