And @ ‘James T’ your Avatar is SEAN MICALEF? Um.. excuse me sir, but did you know you’ve got a Beret on your head?

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Frankly I couldn’t give a toss how it looks as long as the wordage is of the usual high calibre. I started following you lot a good ten years ago in PCG and I just hope you maintain similar high standards here.

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James = Hero

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The “free” tag link in the “Play: indie, mods and webgames” box is now AWOL. I’m lazy & prefer to be able to click that when I want to skive here at work instead of copy & pasting another tag off the site & typing “free” in where needed.

I have re-added this.

The link has returned but it doesn’t do exactly what it says on the tin. It links to http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?page_id=1509 which loads a page giving me a right royal rollicking about RSS feeds (even though I’m not using a feed reader just plain old IE7).

The comments have now resumed their linear off centre march down the page however. Many thanks =)

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I like the change, it looks vereh nice!

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Numerous other small fixes have been made.

The Flash headings are dead. Resume your middle-clicking, peons.

2) The contrast between the dark site background and the light post text blocks is too great. It makes the site hard to look at, as if a flashlight was shining into my eyes while trying to read. I feel like squinting all the time. I don’t mean this as an aesthetic critisism, but purely an ergonomic one. The previous background colour did not have an effect like this.

Adjust your monitor. It shouldn’t matter if I draw insulting pictures of your mother on the screen, it shouldn’t be able to hurt your eyes.

Also keep in mind that I am a lowly serf and must obey the wishes of the hivemind. As such, the site is made to their specification, and some things are x peggles in size, others are colored y and that’s not my fault.

Continue to report bugs.

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A rounded-corner rectangle speech bubble would be ace, as devlocke may or may not be getting at. I’m pro-bubble myself, but I love improvements that unify the design of things.

In terms of functionality, are you taking requests? I’d really love some sort of mechanism for direct replies between individual comments to be easier to track. Nesting replies with an indent might do it, or perhaps something like that crazy auto-linking thing that the Gawker sites use. This may be blasphemy, but I hate trying to follow the lines of conversation up & down the entire comments thread.

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1) The new site layout does not work very well with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 (in widespread corporate use). The actual posts are shown below everything else on the page. I have to scroll down three screenfuls before getting to the first post. There’s just a large, empty, dark grey space under the three picture linked posts at the top of the page.

Also, there’s a narrow, vertical, text-background-coloured sharp-cornered bar on the right side of the round-cornered post blocks.

2) The contrast between the dark site background and the light post text blocks is too great. It makes the site hard to look at, as if a flashlight was shining into my eyes while trying to read. I feel like squinting all the time. I don’t mean this as an aesthetic critisism, but purely an ergonomic one. The previous background colour did not have an effect like this.

The effect is not so bad in the beginning of the page, when there is stuff on the right, but delving further into the comments leaves one with wide dark margins on both sides of the text. I don’t even have the browser window maximised. My screen resolution is 1600×1200.

Thanks for actively improving the site! It’s always a good sign, although it’s content over form for me every time so I don’t care so much about how the site look like as long as it’s reasonably usable. How’s that for a run-on sentence?

About the speech bubble graphic: Kieron is a comic book writer. Surely this alone is reason enough to keep it? Let there be a small pictorial connection between the two entertainment media on this site. Very many gamers also read comics. Also, it’s a very clear symbol for the functionality.

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Other than that, it looks fine, though the rounded corners seem to add nothing but a bit of delay in how long it takes to load. And the front page seems to take a second or two to load now, when it didn’t before.

I’m not actually complaining in any real sense because you you could go with a feces-and-semen theme that was filled with brokenness, and I’d just learn to block out the visuals for the good readin’. It’s your site, do what you want with it, as long as you keep posting fun text. :)

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edit: Oh, and I just got a ‘You are posting comments too quickly’ error on the Crysis thread. Actually saying what constitutes ‘too quickly’ would be nice. 10 seconds, 30, a minute, five?…

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