Like bala, I wanted to experience the new site for a few days before posting, so this is gonna be really long! I've read several comments saying ppl don't like change, so they don't like the new site. Personally, I don't have a problem with change, as long as it's not change for the worse. The reason ppl are complaining, and the reason for my complaints, is that many of the changes to the site are for the worse. There are a few improvements, but ... I'll just say, I hope the admins can take this opportunity to make this site even better than it was before.
-as far as actual episode viewing goes, I'm glad I haven’t gotten any “time out” or “invalid” msgs.
-I don’t like that if I log into the site on the homepage, it still asks me to log in when I click on an ep to view
-I REALLY miss drop-down menus for free & vip shows!!!
-as many others have mentioned, I too miss the old way of organizing the show list at bottom of the homepage by genre
-about the show list at the bottom of the homepage, hisredhead said, “if you insist on leaving them in alphabetical order now could you please put the shows into columns instead of having them all left to right, it's really irritating when trying to find a show now.” I agree. but I think this problem would be solved by listing shows according to genre.
-I miss the old way of organizing episode updates, altho I'm glad you're once again color-coding. If you don't want to make the updates list at least as long as the traffic ranking list (there IS enough space for you to do this), perhaps you can create a page devoted to the episode update list, so we can see more than 12. It would also be cool if we could see the date the episode was added to the site.
-I miss the “newly added” shows list. I’d rather see that than the “playing”, “promoted,” and “latest updated” shows list.
-I miss the old system for seeing our viewing history, and I didn’t even like the old system! Now we can’t see what ep # we watched, just the name of the show - inconvenient. Also at the bottom of the page, to the left of the search bar are the numbers “1234567” so you can go directly to those pages, but they’re all mashed together, instead of “1 2 3 …”. It sucks that we lost the last few months of our viewing history, but since I kept track of that on my own (using a word doc), it didn't trip me up much.
-for the viewing history, I’ve never liked that the shows you’ve watched most recently are on page 1, so that the location of these records is constantly changing. Why can’t we have a system where the first ep we ever watched on this site is on page one, and our most recent shows viewed is on the last page? you can (and should) display the viewing history the same way, with the most recent show appearing when you click on "viewing history", just reverse the page order.
- in the viewing history, I DO like the “cost” column where it tells us how much we’ve paid to watch each ep.
-I don’t like that the episodes in a single season are spread out over several pages.
-I do like that the most recent ep is at the top of the list; it would be a bummer to have to go to page 2 or 3 every time there was a new ep for a show!
-I like that you've included the episode titles; that makes it easier to remember what happened in each specific ep.
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Bleach: since you added the name of the episodes, can you also add the episode #? what I mean is, instead of starting the episode numbers over at 1 each new season, the numbers have been cumulative. so the most recent ep added to this site was ep #219 or so, and that's how the eps are referred to everywhere else on the net.
and finally, a question: are we just coming to the end of seasons for certain shows, or has crossing over to this new site slows down the episode updates?
thanks for all your hard work!
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Last edited by Mercuriel1 at 5-28-2009 21:30 ]