Earlier this year Affect3D.com redesigned our website to be more mobile friendly and support our Bloodlust: Cerene launch event. We received a lot of feedback at the time about the magazine-style layout, and have been exploring ways to improve the user experience since. Today we’ve rolled out a few small changes which restore the blog feed-style homepage and sidebar. We’ve also added an additional feature area, to highlight site content we don’t want you to miss.
These changes are intended to be an interim fix until we can carry out another redesign which will hopefully offer similar functionality but with a better presentation. Please let us know how you feel about these changes using the poll below. If something is broken on your browser, please let us know in the comments so we can look into fixing it.
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borsten
September 10, 2017The new additional feature area feels a bit unnecessary. Everything that is displayed there is already visible above it (in the top slideshow) or below it (where the features are listed chronologically). There’s no need to have the same item pop up three times within one scroll. I would ditch it and instead put a little window there – or in the side bar – that shows stuff like “most discussed” or “newest comment” (just links to the respective feature, no pics). Maybe that would encourage more people to get involved?
Marie Fasolt
September 10, 2017Yeah it looks a bit redundant at the moment because I didn’t want to go back and feature a bunch of dated content. Long term there shouldn’t be a lot of crossover between the two sliders other than Miro’s update (since we want to ensure people always see those) as the main slider is primarily for featuring store releases. The feature section is for featuring the site’s best written content. We’ll be calling for more writers to apply later this week, so we can offer more editorial content. The features section will let us showcase those so people who aren’t checking in daily don’t miss it.
borsten
September 11, 2017Sounds aight
Tylarth
September 7, 2017side bar is forced to bottom or page, under all articles when not Full screen
Marie Fasolt
September 8, 2017What’s your screen resolution and browser? The behavior you described is that of our mobile site, so we may need to adjust the threshold.
Tylarth
September 8, 20171920 x 1080 and chrome
Tylarth
September 8, 2017browser window is usually 3/4 the screen resoluton
Marie Fasolt
September 8, 2017Thanks! I’ll pass this onto the devs and see what’s possible.