Posted by Layout Critique (WIP)
attenuasis (#54522)

King of the Jungle
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Posted on
2015-04-17 15:22:06
First off, thanks to the admins for making a great game! I really do appreciate all the effort that goes into Lioden. :3

There are some good things about this update--I'm noticing a lot of the site is loading faster for me--but the layout is about as bad as it can get on my (only) device without the site being literally broken.

It's getting fairly late over here and I'm trying to keep it short and simple; I hope this doesn't come across as rude/bashing. Apologies in advance if it does!

(1) Complete screenshot (1280 x 720)
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This is my entire screen. I'm using a fairly old laptop. This is FF, but I use Chrome for my side and it looks p. much the same.

(2) Website display window only.
17184060335_b2eccfb5b9_o.jpg(3) Actual site content.
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This is the actual important stuff. Here, I think I'm being generous. I don't think we need three links for "Wiki" and "FAQ" and "I Need Help"; the energy/hunger/exp/imp bars are about twice as wide as they need to be. "News" and "Events" overlap, too, and as great as the stuff in the Oasis is, I don't think most players spend enough time there to justify that huge button up there--especially when the Branch (which I use an awful lot!) has been removed. Beetle count, site time/season/date, and players/friends online is taking up an unreasonable amount of screen real estate.

HUGE TRACTS OF LAND ^^;; Ahem:
(4) Empty/Wasted Space
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None of this space is being used for anything. At all. The slivers of the new, nifty background barely show at all--and while there's room for art on the sides, that little bit of art between the main header and the main window is Not A Good thing, because...

(5) This screenshot is everything wrong with how Lioden looks on my computer.
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I'm in the habit of keeping the chat open in its own tab while I play. When I go to the chat page, THE ONLY VISIBLE CONTENT UNIQUE TO THE CHAT PAGE IS TWO LINES OF CHAT AND THE INPUT BOX. And EVERY TIME I HIT SEND, the page reloads and drops me back at the top of the page in that wasteland of empty space and redundant links.

It's super-annoying, and the rest of the site looks the same way.

(Bonus) Lioness profile
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In a lion profile page, the option to chase and the option to kill take up an entire SCREEN, and that's just silly. If I can scroll down, I can see the name I've given them, and I'm very, very careful at naming, but I would so much rather be able to see the lion--or at least see their age/stats/base/marking info--before I give them the boot. It'd make me a lot less nervous about mass chasing.


TL;DR--the size and spacing of elements in this layout is absolutely insane on an older computer please please please work on this please and thank you for the work you've done already I like how fast hunting goes now <3



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Toska (#19637)

Deathlord of the Jungle
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Posted on
2015-04-17 15:27:04
Support, but I'm having the exact opposite problems with speed, pages take a lot longer to load now.



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DarkLordDickle(Fite
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Posted on
2015-04-17 15:42:32
The spacing was probably my biggest dislike of all the update- Definite support from me



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