That's 78 pages since we made the switch. It seems to be about a page of spam a day, so it's not unconquerable as long as we remember to keep an eye on it.
Seriously, y'all would not believe how much spam there is. DrSuperEvil is a hero for going through the queue. I'm doing some, but I have to admit I often forget.
I dislike the site as much as (most likely more so than) the next guy, but c'mon, don't say stuff like "this was clearly thrown together without any care or consideration." I guarantee you they considered it plenty, they just came to a crappy decision. That happens all the time, but you're not helping anything by insulting the process that you are completely ignorant of, versus the outcome, where there's plenty of room for critique.
Sorry for the heavy-handed moderation, but this thread is already very long and hard to get through, so it needs to stay on topic. I've removed a couple of posts and trimmed another. Please restrict this thread to discussion of the Mapster upgrade If you'd like to discuss other sites, please make a new thread.
Hopefully? It's unclear right now what will be able to adjust. I know that Curse is looking at the popular project issue right now, so hopefully we can just get our hands in there.
I am really glad to see the new site. Losing the brutal load times is such a boon. I really appreciate that Curse brought us here, and I don't want that to get lost in my commentary. I should mention that I'm a web development professional, for whatever that's worth. I'm wiling to work on the CSS for you pro bono, since I'm going to make a custom stylesheet for myself in the next day or so anyway. I'd do markup work, too, but that's probably more complicated.
First, I'm going to join the choir on readability issues.
I'm not entirely sure it's the color scheme. It's not unmanageable, and while I would prefer something a little gentler, it's livable. If I could change one thing, it would be the link color, which has the biggest contrast issue for me.
I actually think a lot of the complaints about contrast are rooted in character size and line length. The latter, of course, would be addressed by the former. I haven't picked the CSS apart yet a ton, but I'd say that 16px (a fairly common base) would be a much better font size in general. I also think you should constrain the maximum width of the posts—they top out at 1000px, but that creates really long lines that are hard to read.
Next, I have serious complaints about the front page.
First, it hides the content really far down the page. In fact, the news posts are the very last thing. That's a really ineffective content strategy. I am glad to see popular content on the front page, but I'd like to recommend reviewing the algorithm a bit, because right now it's highlighting multiple abandoned projects. Hopefully that's something the mods can maintain in the future?
Second, the "For Authors" section is egregious. There's no way that should be the first thing a visitor to this site sees—it's going to be a massive turnoff for people that come to see the maps. If you must include this section—and its benefits are rather unclear, honestly—then please put it somewhere else.
A small point, but on desktop widths, you could solve a lot of issues by making the sections 50% width instead of 100%.
Finally, I've lost my mod privileges, whenever you get around to it.
That's 78 pages since we made the switch. It seems to be about a page of spam a day, so it's not unconquerable as long as we remember to keep an eye on it.
Real spam that comes in droves and gets eaten by the filter.
Seriously, y'all would not believe how much spam there is. DrSuperEvil is a hero for going through the queue. I'm doing some, but I have to admit I often forget.
I dislike the site as much as (most likely more so than) the next guy, but c'mon, don't say stuff like "this was clearly thrown together without any care or consideration." I guarantee you they considered it plenty, they just came to a crappy decision. That happens all the time, but you're not helping anything by insulting the process that you are completely ignorant of, versus the outcome, where there's plenty of room for critique.
Sorry for the heavy-handed moderation, but this thread is already very long and hard to get through, so it needs to stay on topic. I've removed a couple of posts and trimmed another. Please restrict this thread to discussion of the Mapster upgrade If you'd like to discuss other sites, please make a new thread.
He did say that there's a 5 MB individual file limit.
Folks, I know it's long, but pleeeeeease read the thread before you post. We're on re-runs now and it's not helping.
Hopefully? It's unclear right now what will be able to adjust. I know that Curse is looking at the popular project issue right now, so hopefully we can just get our hands in there.
I am really glad to see the new site. Losing the brutal load times is such a boon. I really appreciate that Curse brought us here, and I don't want that to get lost in my commentary. I should mention that I'm a web development professional, for whatever that's worth. I'm wiling to work on the CSS for you pro bono, since I'm going to make a custom stylesheet for myself in the next day or so anyway. I'd do markup work, too, but that's probably more complicated.
First, I'm going to join the choir on readability issues.
I'm not entirely sure it's the color scheme. It's not unmanageable, and while I would prefer something a little gentler, it's livable. If I could change one thing, it would be the link color, which has the biggest contrast issue for me.
I actually think a lot of the complaints about contrast are rooted in character size and line length. The latter, of course, would be addressed by the former. I haven't picked the CSS apart yet a ton, but I'd say that 16px (a fairly common base) would be a much better font size in general. I also think you should constrain the maximum width of the posts—they top out at 1000px, but that creates really long lines that are hard to read.
Next, I have serious complaints about the front page.
First, it hides the content really far down the page. In fact, the news posts are the very last thing. That's a really ineffective content strategy. I am glad to see popular content on the front page, but I'd like to recommend reviewing the algorithm a bit, because right now it's highlighting multiple abandoned projects. Hopefully that's something the mods can maintain in the future?
Second, the "For Authors" section is egregious. There's no way that should be the first thing a visitor to this site sees—it's going to be a massive turnoff for people that come to see the maps. If you must include this section—and its benefits are rather unclear, honestly—then please put it somewhere else.
A small point, but on desktop widths, you could solve a lot of issues by making the sections 50% width instead of 100%.
Finally, I've lost my mod privileges, whenever you get around to it.