New Design

[bearbearbear]

@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.

[AndyPandy]

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!!

[bru4ea]

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

[Joker]

@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.

[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.

[Joker]

@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

[RectalTemp]

@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!

[newsbite]

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.

[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?

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.

[newsbite]

@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?

[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

[Grendel]

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.

[antivrs1]

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.

[urx585]

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.

[SuitAndTieX]

@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.

[Tigre99]

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.

[turlough]

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!

[nbea]

Good point:
It is the first time ever in many years that I notice a green color for Torrents I already downloaded. It did not exist for me previously.

Bad point:
When browsing a page, let's say freeleech for page, it takes around 30s to 1min to load the page. Am I the only one? I am using Firefox, and I'm having some addons like "Close Tab by Double Right Click", or "visitedlinkenabler" or "Snap Links". I don't know if they are responsible for this very slow loading.
I don't have any issues with any other forum-like website. This slow down appeared maybe two or three weeks ago already. And never ever before since years.

[Joker]

@SuitAndTieX:

@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.

im not a fan of this either.. but judge yourself. those colors bite me if they would maybe 0.5 alpha… ?

@urx585:

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

Thanks for your detailed feedback. You've been heard.
you will get reverted some more times the next days or weeks until there is no way back to the "old" and "more efficient" or "not so poorly made" layout. If you don't like that, i suggest leaving (for at least some weeks) and get used to it, what you gonna find after it.  :blind:
don't get me wrong, but the future gonna happen. And some of it you might not like !

[SuitAndTieX]

@Joker:

@SuitAndTieX:

@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.

im not a fan of this either.. but judge yourself. those colors bite me if they would maybe 0.5 alpha… ?

In your preview, looking together it was very light, try this:
Not complete: #407934
Complete: #0b3502

The letters in the file name and description should be white, only the header should change to yellow (#FFD700)