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Site UI changes: what do you guys want to see?
As you may or may not know, the phansite is already 3 years old! For a while i've been wondering.... If the UI could be reworked or updated! After talking with Mishiman i wanted to ask you guys some questions in order to see how you felt about it. First a poll http://poal.me/x8v4x3 Then are are the other questions: Are there any other additions or features you feel are missing as of now? Is there any part of the sites UI that feels outdated or you feel like should be changed? Or on the contrary do you feel like there is something perfect that has to stay? Lastly when we'll start working on this the first thing i'll so is see how Royal improved all the UI contents and start from there. In the meantime thanks for your contribution.
I feel like some minor changes could be beneficial, like slightly darkening the red in PMs because it can be blinding to some people after long amounts of time. Overall, the UI is easy to navigate and quite lively though personally, I have experienced some issues with the swap feature. Sometimes it is a bit buggy, for example, I've had issues when swapping my account on the Phorum and trying to enter PMs, it logs me in on the account before I swapped, even if I log out and try again.
The site is very well made I wouldn't change so much. When you come to the site it gives you a good feeling of "god, I'm inside of the phantom thieves website". Even after being a fanmade one, it is something I wanted to say first. Second: I feel the site has not so much activity, why is this related to UI? basically is a fact we have to keep in mind if we want the site to still be here and, after all this costs money, better interface can help people stay here and maybe they can help somehow, also, admin will feel more motivated to do changes if the site has activity becasue damn, I will change stuff and people will notice it. Anyways, I feel people discovers the site but they quckly forget about it because... is a bit dead latelly (I'm surprised it is still here, please don't think bad, I'm glad it is still here.), anways, UI is the first thing people see, we have to make it good. As for the UI I would mostly improve it a bit, maybe give somd additions we don't have or even an APP not only for PMs, maybe to check when people comments in your threads /threads you follow so you can answer quickly or follow a roleplay. Actually, we could try to get more tools to do RP because (speaking from old times) I had to constantly check the site in order to know if people had post or not. One last thing is the frontal page, basically I hardly ever take a look at it but most of the times is a mess, exactly like the game is NGL, but it can give you an awkard feeling because you can think the people in the forum are like that. Still, maybe we could make it more playable in some way. As last thing, Royale doesn't change so much as far as I know, but we could still use it to improve the forum, after that even Mishisma in the game says it has a forum. It is so sad it doesn appears in game. I'll do my best to come up with more ideas, but for now I leave that in case it helps you. Kind regards.
One minor thing I noticed is that we Could use a “next page” button for scrolling through forum pages like the individual threads have. I noticed this while scanning through old works but it’s pretty inconvenient to have to select the slider and scroll exactly to the next page and no further.
Only idea I got is for themes/customization. Like an option to change the red, white and black into different colors. Like a palette swap.
Guys this is important. They want to improve the site, they deserve some ideas. (Basically this is a bump)
(edited by Addalme)