Possibility to revert gamedev.net to old design?

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37 comments, last by khawk 4 years, 4 months ago

Just wanted to say I liked the old design a lot more. Not only esthetically, but more importantly, for ease of use. If not revert, wouldn't there be a way to choose between the old design and the new design?

Just my 2 cents.


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I am not a fan of the fixed position elements (top, left, right), making the usable area of my screen tiny. (⇀⁔↼) It's like playing a bad arcade conversion on a 1980s computer, with massive borders, and the actual game like a postage stamp in the middle. (◜⌓◝)

I don't think it will be possible to use the old design, the whole platform has changed. On the bright side, the new platform is not completed yet, so there will be further improvements.

It is still early to compare ease of use with the old platform. We all got used to the old one, and we're not used to the new one yet. So it makes sense that the old one feels easier to use :)

It's not practical to maintain 2 parallel versions of the same site. But if there are specific requests you have, especially for ease of use, put them in the feedback thread and we can take a look at them.

https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/704916-welcome-to-the-new-gamedevnet

Before you do, make sure you've visited the Settings page (click your user icon at the top right), click Content, and try both themes, and also with the Full Width Layout option, to see what suits you best.

I think, it might take time before you get used to it. Give it some time, and you'll eventually accept it.

Probably because the old design would be already gone by then :-).

http://9tawan.net/en/

If it's not possible to revert to the old platform, could you just please fix that supposed-to-be CSRF protection thing?

It literally worth nothing, and it is very annoying that I have to hack http referer lines into the requests every time I log in. Thanks.

Also I got many times 502 Internal server error and/or Bad gateway since you switched to this platform. Could you check on these? Today (in the last hour) I had at least 5 times this issue, you can match the time with the logs.

Cheers,
bzt

bzt said:
If it's not possible to revert to the old platform, could you just please fix that supposed-to-be CSRF protection thing? It literally worth nothing, and it is very annoying that I have to hack http referer lines into the requests every time I log in. Thanks.

I'm not clear what you're asking. Are you wanting to bypass CSRF protection?

bzt said:
Also I got many times 502 Internal server error and/or Bad gateway since you switched to this platform. Could you check on these? Today (in the last hour) I had at least 5 times this issue, you can match the time with the logs.

These are being worked on. Apologies for the inconvenience everyone has had with 502s today.

Admin for GameDev.net.

aganm said:
Not only esthetically, but more importantly, for ease of use.

Could you expand on what you find difficult to use? The goal is to simplify use of GameDev.net, not make it more difficult, so if the site is more difficult it would be helpful to understand where/why.

Thanks!

Admin for GameDev.net.

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