The New Apolyton Civilization Site - Comments

[MikeH]

It's for security/accessibility reasons.

[Nikolai]

It's horrible user non-friendliness.

[LDiCesare]

The fact that the url with a trailing slash almost works but not the one without is a bug in my book. Forcing every user to change the bookmark is aksing users for work that takes as long for the webmaster as for the user, except it's not done hundreds of times.
The fact that even with the trailing slash it doesn't send you to the forum but the spotlight is very annoying too.

[Robert]

It is noted, and will be fixed one day.

[Fve Crathva]

That's what I'm talking about.

SP

[Quintillus]

Wow. Quite a change, and improvement in my opinion. The Spotlight is almost infinitely better than the old start page! I like the background image - the style in general seems more modern and smooth. I agree with the decision to go ahead and roll it out with a few rough edges left - much better that than missing Civ5's release, and for awhile it did seem doubtful whether a thorough revision would come out, which another year certainly wouldn't have helped with.

The only thing that concerned me was the favicon - as it loaded first, and looked like an orange barrel or caution sign, I thought perhaps the site maintenance had continued considerably longer than expected, and the favicon had changed to reflect that!

[Asher]

It's not cool to use DLs to plan seeds of confidence.

[Berzerker]

I'll look into that 'browsing the forum' thing, I agree, that's very interesting indeed.
For the record, I can see it

I can see some names, its just incomplete, ie more users online than are listed by name

[Asher]

Some people are invisible. They're counted but not named.

[EPW]

Can we put the Tag Cloud at the top or bottom of the forums? It's not very useful in its current form.

[Robert]

There's a tag cloud right now in the forums?
Not for me! I don't think it belongs in the forums, it's a blogs thing.

[Robert]

It's not cool to use DLs to plan seeds of confidence.

We started to plan this evil plan already 3 years ago!!
Every evil plan starts with creating DL's way ahead of time

@Quintillus: Thanks a lot!
LOL @ favicon, never looked at it like this

[Berzerker]

Some people are invisible. They're counted but not named.

doh! I remember that now

[MikeH]

The fact that the url with a trailing slash almost works but not the one without is a bug in my book. Forcing every user to change the bookmark is aksing users for work that takes as long for the webmaster as for the user, except it's not done hundreds of times.
The fact that even with the trailing slash it doesn't send you to the forum but the spotlight is very annoying too.

My bookmark straight into Off Topic still works. You bookmarked the wrong thing.

[N35t0r]

I was still getting some vBulletin favicons on IE yesterday on some threads. I didn't make a note which though.