• Categories
    • Recent
    • Tags
    • Popular
    • Users
    • Groups
    • Torrents
    • Login

    New Design

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved GayTorrent.ru Discussions
    443 Posts 287 Posters 6.8k Views 3 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • RectalTempR Offline
      RectalTemp
      last edited by

      The new layout is absolutely beautiful, and even seems more functional. I immediately noticed the cleaner look the moment I logged in. No complaints / Just praise.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • JokerJ Offline
        Joker
        last edited by

        @ursur:

        I have to agree with flox38 above. I don't know know if it's related to the redesign or just something I noticed coincidentally for the first time today, but in "Browse" some torrents have ridiculously tall vertical-banner type main images that are just way too big. One of them forced me to scroll down nearly two pages to get to the end of it to get more torrents to load and then scroll back up to see them. A maximum image height in browse would be amazing.

        Other than that I mostly like the redesign a lot. I'll have to get used to the new menu (specifically the Torrents drop down), but I realize I'm a creature of habit and I appreciate the work that went into this. It's looking good!

        i saw this myself..  there will be a maximum height of pics. if they are higher, the system cuts the rest. i dont see any other solution. i dont understand why people upload such strange format pics  :crazy2:

        @RectalTemp:

        The new layout is absolutely beautiful, and even seems more functional. I immediately noticed the cleaner look the moment I logged in. No complaints / Just praise.

        I want to respond to this positive message on behalf of all the other positive comments:THANK YOU  :love: :love: :love: !! I am glad that you like it so much. The new layout is not yet perfect. You can see that from the comments of the others. But I think we all notice that this update will bring fresh wind into our site. Your feedback motivates me to go through code that is more than 10 years old. A very rocky but necessary road. It opens the doors to some completely new features you wouldn't even dream of. You can be curious. But first the layout has to be adjusted to our satisfaction. After that I have to take a look at this forum. Its a mess. No search and destructed design.  I'm afraid of it because it's very complicated (it even needs db downgrades before it can be updated..) and the forum will be offline for several days. Just a warning: Not everything will be the same as before. I ask for your understanding in advance. But after that I can finally unleash my creativity. No doubt: you gonna freak out !

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • SuitAndTieXS Offline
          SuitAndTieX
          last edited by

          Also all suggestions of SuitAndTieX make sense and will be implemented. Also here in search-mod a lot will happen depending on the window size.
          There were already suggestions for a new icon design above. What do you think about it? I really need help there. and someone who prepares photoshop files for me. There are always some new categories (like trans) coming up from time to time. And if the designer is gone, someone else has to do it. I'm not so good at it (as you can see).

          I'm very good with photoshop and I can even prepare a file to be used as a base for future categories, so if a new category comes up, it would be easy to create a new icon to match the others.

          It would be a little difficult for me to select images to use, but if there was a small group or a specific forum for suggestions of these images, it would be very nice and I would offer to help in editing.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • B Offline
            bearbearbear
            last edited by

            @oxdel:

            I keep getting 'plugin blocked' in chrome. what's with that?

            That notification is because Chrome is blocking Flash.  It's annoying but is not specific to this site.  You can click on the little jigsaw puzzle piece in the address bar to read it.

            Might be a good idea to look at getting rid of any Flash on the site, though, because Chrome no longer supports it.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • A Offline
              AndyPandy
              last edited by

              I use only desktop PC. I would appreciate, on search main menu, instead of jumping to end, please can you give more page option; for example, now it is:

              «Previous 1 - 50 51 - 100 183101 - 183150 183151 - 183186 »Next

              Instead if you don't mind

              «Previous 1 - 50 51 - 100 101 - 150 151 - 200 183151 - 183186 »Next

              That would be very helpful!

              Thanks!!

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • B Offline
                bru4ea
                last edited by

                Looks clean, however, the light grey font on the main page (search) is nearly unreadable for me…. maybe just a bit less shadowed font / background combination?  Thank you

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • JokerJ Offline
                  Joker
                  last edited by

                  @SuitAndTieX:

                  I'm very good with photoshop and I can even prepare a file to be used as a base for future categories, so if a new category comes up, it would be easy to create a new icon to match the others.

                  It would be a little difficult for me to select images to use, but if there was a small group or a specific forum for suggestions of these images, it would be very nice and I would offer to help in editing.

                  Thank you for the offer. Maybe You put up a new Topic for this to discuss. Maybe those icons should not even use pictures. Instead those icons like metioned earlier in this topic.

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • E Offline
                    EthanCN
                    last edited by

                    I switched back to the old design as it's just way nicer to have one bar with all the information instead of all the different tabs with all the information.

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • JokerJ Offline
                      Joker
                      last edited by

                      @EthanCN:

                      I switched back to the old design as it's just way nicer to have one bar with all the information instead of all the different tabs with all the information.

                      you got a point.. i try to put those infos back into the menu. im not sure how - yet. be patient and give it another try

                      and to the rest of you, what do you think of my recent color tweak in the search results ? now you should be able to read it good. nice constrast

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • RectalTempR Offline
                        RectalTemp
                        last edited by

                        @Joker:

                        I want to respond to this positive message on behalf of all the other positive comments:THANK YOU  :love: :love: :love: !! I am glad that you like it so much. Your feedback motivates me to go through code that is more than 10 years old.  Its a mess. No search and destructed design. Not everything will be the same as before. I ask for your understanding in advance. But after that I can finally unleash my creativity.

                        No doubt: you gonna freak out !

                        Happy to be the spark that further propels your creative process. I know it's tedious work. Plan carefully, then go wild! I look forward to freaking out!

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • N Offline
                          newsbite
                          last edited by

                          Hi, the colors of a non-downloaded and completed torrent need to be changed. It is very difficult to ascertain what is which with the new color scheme.

                          For the old layout, it was:
                          Non-downloaded: Grey
                          Downloaded, but not completed: Light green
                          Completed: Dark Green

                          For the new layout it is
                          Non-downloaded: Dark Grey
                          Downloaded, but not completed: Green
                          Completed: Light Grey

                          Please can you change the light grey to something easier on the eyes and easy to identify.

                          Screenshot 2020-06-07 at 23.24.36.png
                          Screenshot 2020-06-07 at 23.24.51.png

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • JokerJ Offline
                            Joker
                            last edited by

                            @newsbite:

                            Hi, the colors of a non-downloaded and a downloaded but not completed torrent need to be changed. It is very difficult to ascertain what is which with the new color scheme.

                            For the old layout, it was:
                            Non-downloaded: Grey
                            Downloaded, but not completed: Light green
                            Completed: Dark Green

                            For the new layout it is
                            Non-downloaded: Dark Grey
                            Downloaded, but not completed: Light Grey
                            Completed: Green

                            Please can you change the light grey to something easier on the eyes and easy to identify.

                            i agree
                            well im color blind and would like to get some help here.. could you please supply 2 color codes you think are the best here?

                            edit: now we have "light green" for "downloaded"
                                                      "dark green" for "completed"

                            hope this is better..
                            but i still dont like the green tone … so if someone please supply 2 better greens, i would highly appreciate it.

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • N Offline
                              newsbite
                              last edited by

                              @Joker:

                              @newsbite:

                              Hi, the colors of a non-downloaded and a downloaded but not completed torrent need to be changed. It is very difficult to ascertain what is which with the new color scheme.

                              For the old layout, it was:
                              Non-downloaded: Grey
                              Downloaded, but not completed: Light green
                              Completed: Dark Green

                              For the new layout it is
                              Non-downloaded: Dark Grey
                              Downloaded, but not completed: Light Grey
                              Completed: Green

                              Please can you change the light grey to something easier on the eyes and easy to identify.

                              i agree
                              well im color blind and would like to get some help here.. could you please supply 2 color codes you think are the best here?

                              Hi, which colors would you find most comfortable? If you're color blind that shouldn't exclude you either - colorblindness and visual fidelity loss with age mainly affects the red/green tones (i've attached a picture). Maybe it would be best to go with blue for complete (0A84FF) and teal for downloaded but not complete (64D2FF)? I'm not 100% sure since I haven't looked into UX design for a while, but there's a reason why most websites are blue (Facebook, Twitter, etc). Or we can go with another color set of your liking?

                              1_vEU5WV7Ho3FqQRcL2n5BEw.png

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • JokerJ Offline
                                Joker
                                last edited by

                                i dont like this colors together with the existing rest.. this would need a complete redesign of all colors.
                                for that, someone would need to edit the CSS and supply a complete new skin

                                GTRU.png

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • G Offline
                                  Grendel
                                  last edited by

                                  It isn't so easy to make a side-by-side comparison of the look of the site in the old and new format, but I think it's the darker background (on the search page) that gives the impression that fonts are smaller now.

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • A Offline
                                    antivrs1
                                    last edited by

                                    The search results no longer show the date that the file was posted.  It was also easier to get to the search and browse button before.  Now I have to make extra clicks to find them in a drop down menu.  Sure the new colors look nice but the functionality went down. For those reasons I will try to stick with the old design.

                                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                    • U Offline
                                      urx585
                                      last edited by

                                      The new design is inefficient to use and difficult to read.

                                      Instead of clicking on one thing to see the Search page, I have to click on a menu then click on another.  Same with messages – I get 10 reseed requests per hour and multiple clicks to clear the stupid pop-up warning message make this much more inconvenient than it already is.  In general, everything that used to take one click now takes two clicks.  it really adds up.

                                      On the search page, when I mouse over a title, the images appear, but they are confined to a very small box, so I only see two or three images even if the torrent description has dozens.  Also, the text is tiny.  I understand how to use the browser zoom function, but every other site I use has readable text, without needing to zoom.

                                      I turned off the new page as soon as I had tried it for a few minutes and realized it was basically unusable for the way I browse this site.  A few minutes ago, it turned itself back on.  This is really poor UI design.  I chose the older interface because it is much more efficient and easier to use.  Please do not automatically revert me.

                                      If you really want to improve the site, turn off the reseed button for any torrent that has at least four seeders, then offer 2x upload bonuses for the last two seeders of a torrent.  That would tremendously improve retention.  We have torrents that die after just a few weeks, despite being snatched by dozens of people.  This torrent site has the worst retention of any I've used.  Plab has fixed this problem by offering bonuses for the last seeders, so people are motivated not to delete torrents from their clients if there are just one or two seeders.

                                      I appreciate the effort, but UI is not this site's problem.  Poor torrent retention, overly rapid deletion of popular torrents, and overly slow deletion of torrents containing malware are all much, much more serious problems.

                                      Some very popular sites have interfaces that look like they were designed twenty years ago.  The older UI is not a problem.

                                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                      • SuitAndTieXS Offline
                                        SuitAndTieX
                                        last edited by

                                        @Joker:

                                        i dont like this colors together with the existing rest.. this would need a complete redesign of all colors.
                                        for that, someone would need to edit the CSS and supply a complete new skin

                                        OK, let's see how it would look:

                                        #FFD700 - "Show Freeleech torrents", "Freeleech!", The search header (Category, Name/Short, Description, Added, Size/Infos, Snatched S/L and Functions) and the Stars of Rating.

                                        Non-downloaded: Okay, keep it up!
                                        Downloaded, but not completed: #99FF99
                                        Completed: #00b300

                                        I will make an icon for Replaces "Wish List", it will be colorless and when clicking, it will be colored and I will make an icon for the Download shortcut too.

                                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • T Offline
                                          Tigre99
                                          last edited by

                                          I like the new fonts.  However, I am a bit disappointed that there doesn't seem to be a way to find the new torrents.  I used to be able to change the font color of the torrent I looked at last during the previous session, but I can no longer do that.

                                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                          • T Offline
                                            turlough
                                            last edited by

                                            I like the new design!  Very clean and tight, and about time for some vaginal rejuvenation around here!  😄  
                                            HOWEVER … I really, really miss being able to see how many torrents I'm uploading and downloading (and ratio, and bonus balance) at the top of every page, rather than having to click and drag every time I want to check.  So I will be using the old version (which is still quite good!) until it is snatched from my grasp.  If there is any way to add this info to the new version, that would be just fantastic!
                                            Thanks for the lovely new design, either way!

                                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0

                                            Hello! It looks like you're interested in this conversation, but you don't have an account yet.

                                            Getting fed up of having to scroll through the same posts each visit? When you register for an account, you'll always come back to exactly where you were before, and choose to be notified of new replies (either via email, or push notification). You'll also be able to save bookmarks and upvote posts to show your appreciation to other community members.

                                            With your input, this post could be even better 💗

                                            Register Login
                                            • 1
                                            • 2
                                            • 3
                                            • 4
                                            • 5
                                            • 6
                                            • 7
                                            • 8
                                            • 22
                                            • 23
                                            • 6 / 23
                                            • First post
                                              Last post