The RPS Feedback Thread

soopytwist 2018-07-18 17:18:34 UTC #1381

I have a dark grey Firefox skin. The RPS logo on my favourites bar is dark purple. Can I see the RPS logo? No.

Viral_Frog 2018-07-18 19:25:03 UTC #1382

The site is too bright with no option for a darker scheme. Sucks for people like me with eye conditions that cause excessively bright lights to be physically painful (not worth changing my display settings every time I want to read RPS). Also, nothing aligns properly on any of the desktop browsers I’ve tried (Edge, IE, Firefox, and Chrome) and it looks generally terrible. It is only slightly better on mobile using Safari. Also, commenting on articles is entirely broken for me.

The age old adage of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” comes to mind.

Sarfrin 2018-07-18 19:28:11 UTC #1383

Or on mobile. I think it’s deliberate.

Ffrog 2018-07-18 19:55:57 UTC #1384

New site looks fine to me on Android. I quite like the green and purple, but then I like green and purple.

I also like that it shows the author of each article on the main page, without having to click through.

Internet 2018-07-18 20:15:44 UTC #1385

That was my exact thought. More sites need a dark mode like Ars Technica offers.

cvnk 2018-07-18 20:57:27 UTC #1386

I don’t mind the new look but I was really hoping they’d fix the problem where you’re taken to your profile page after logging in to comment. Such an annoyance.

And provide an easy way to track your comments.

Oh well.

Graham 2018-07-18 21:55:57 UTC #1387

We didn’t erase it, just hid it from the homepage. It’s still there but we’re not promoting it any further.

Graham 2018-07-18 22:00:21 UTC #1388

We do it pretty regularly these days. It’s called 301ing.

You take an old article and update it, but to bump it back to the top of the site, you need to change the date. That means changing the date in the URL. The best-practice way to do this is to create a new article, make the updates there, then 301-redirect the old URL to the new one.

We do it in the Best Games lists, the guides, a lot of the hardware round-ups, and the Black Friday/Prime Day coverage. This has been true for a couple of years now. (Most other websites do the same thing.) Eurogamer recently got the ability to transfer comments in order to maintain them between posts, but we don’t have that, because Wordpress is a leaky old boat and makes those things harder.

Hopefully this explains that there was no panic to delete comments or anything.

vinraith 2018-07-18 22:03:24 UTC #1389

Ah, I see that. Thanks for the clarification.

alms 2018-07-18 22:13:26 UTC #1390

On a partially unrelated note, I actually found this to be a bit annoying when done on Best {X} Games in {Genre} because the old post becomes inaccessible and there’s no way to read the original recommendations.

LTK 2018-07-18 22:52:14 UTC #1391

While I was reading today’s Yoku’s Island Express article, I actually completely forgot that I was reading RPS and not some other games news site. Not sure how I feel about that.

antelpe 2018-07-19 04:01:54 UTC #1392

I know Kotaku usually lists the changes on theirs. Kinda wish they’d do full changelogs instead of just the most recent, though.

Skyturnedred 2018-07-19 06:51:35 UTC #1393

Why do links from the comment section go through some weird site that my adblock warns me about? (go.skimresources.com)

Blackcompany 2018-07-19 11:33:22 UTC #1394

I am. Sure, I mean.

The new site, at least on mobile, is truly awful. The old site was clean. Easy to read. It was simple, it worked and the frequent visitors were happy with it.

And they went and “fixed” it anyway. It wasn’t broken, but that didn’t stop them.

Well now, its next door to unnavigable to me. Cluttered, busy and visually noisy. Honestly, I’ll just stick to the “cheery fanzibe” going forward. At least they know how to design a proper website.

ThatFuzzyTiger 2018-07-19 11:42:50 UTC #1395

The new site is bad. Not subjectively, but objectively.

I had to install a plugin (Dark reader) to make the site readable.

Who in the hell thinks that pure white with black text is a sensible idea when it’s a great way to turn your monitor into a giant freaking spotlight. Straight up, at night the second floor of where I work is now a lighthouse if I visit the site.

And yes, the place screams generic in ways I can’t even begin to describe.

BillButNotBen 2018-07-19 13:11:30 UTC #1396

This adage should never be repeated, but will always be repeated any time any change happens ever.
It’s weird that every time anything changes people say “if it aint broke don’t fix it” and yet progress keeps happening.

THIS.

Plus, we have a forum logo that now works on both Light and Dark themes!!! Hallelujah!
(not you just need to work out how to add a few links to the top of the forum so we can get to the main site!)

LTK 2018-07-19 13:20:18 UTC #1397

Maybe things weren’t completely broken, but many elements of the website were vastly subpar and outdated. I’m at least glad the comments are better and supporters get no ads.

Freekill 2018-07-19 15:51:53 UTC #1398

Hi,

For those of you who don’t like the new style, I have written an userscript to restore as much as the old RPS style as possible.

You can find it on GreasyFork : https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370428-old-school-rockpapershotgun

It has been tested with Waterfox and the Tampermonkey addon.

Grizzly 2018-07-19 17:09:54 UTC #1399

The Comment Section links to a forum thread about “The New Forum Rules”. This thread no longer exists, and it has been that way for a while now.

Det.Bullock 2018-07-19 17:15:45 UTC #1400

Uhm, I can’t see comments to the articles on the site, it asks me ho enable javascript to see them which I already have.
I’m using firefox and I keep adblock disabled for RPS.

EDIT

I posted a comment “blind” and now I can see comments, this is really weird.