On November 01 2011 18:07 Plasmid wrote: I don't know if this thread can be used for suggestions or not, but since I pretty much rely on the tl homepage to pick a stream several times a day, there are two things i would like to see some day, if the web development effort was doable:
Since I also only care about SC2, the language used below is sc2 centric, so feel free to adapt to other games as needed.
1- an option to be able to see the listed race for a stream. I do not want to filter out races, I actually watches from all 3, but it would be useful to have the race icon(s) besides each stream name. Of course, after a while you know most featured streams' races, but when i decide to pick a non featured which is fairly frequent, seeing a race would be helpful to me.
2- picking a handful of "personally featured" streams, that would just show up in the featured section just for me, independantly of the ones currently featured by TL. There are a number of people I care about that are not featured but I often pick them first, so having the ability to extract them from the ever growing list of online streams without searching would help me. To keep things manageable, TL could impose a limit on the number of "personal features", like 5 or 10. I know I would probably personally feature like 4 right now for my own use.
Just ideas though. TL is already a great place and whether those 2 ideas ever see the light of day wont change that basic fact
Why don't you guys allow for full customization of streams? Like have a check box beside all streams and only the ones you check show up for you? If you want to prevent featured streams from not showing, then just disable that option for those and force those to show, but allow it for non featured streams, so the list isn't a mile long when you click on non featured streams on the side bar.
Love the changes guys. The widening of the site was a little weird at first but I've adjusted to it. Also it means I'll be able to create wider banners for LR threads :D
Love the calendar and stream customisations too, doesn't feel cluttered anymore. Great work
I was cool with the smaller ad banner at the top (before the change), but now there is a significant larger top banner as well as the new one on the right side and this means return of the adblocker.To make one thing clear: I hate ad banners. And Teamliquid.net was the only website I had adblocker turned off. That small ad banner was bearable, but switching through the livestreams was a pain (already). With this change I just have to turn adblock back on, because I can`t stand the random color changes and all the animations that do nothing but distract me. I`m sorry for TL, but I will order a t-shirt to support you guys in a different way.
The customizable sidebar is nice though (especially the race icons for the streams).
Honestly this is really bad for those of us with small screens... I am on my macbook and have 1280x800 and I have to scroll left and right I have honestly never had this problem before on ANY website..! and I can't save my settings on the sidebar, as people have mentioned before. It just cuts off at the bottom...
I must say the customization of the sidebar looks awesome tho, just wish I could use it
On November 01 2011 18:07 Plasmid wrote: 2- picking a handful of "personally featured" streams, that would just show up in the featured section just for me, independantly of the ones currently featured by TL. There are a number of people I care about that are not featured but I often pick them first, so having the ability to extract them from the ever growing list of online streams without searching would help me. To keep things manageable, TL could impose a limit on the number of "personal features", like 5 or 10. I know I would probably personally feature like 4 right now for my own use.
This is something we would like to add but its a little more complex to enable, so it was pushed off the list for this update. Hopefully it will happen soon.
Cool changes, the widening of the layout seems awkward to me right now but it'll fix many problems and that's great. We can also have larger pictures which'll be a great bonus when looking at screenshots/etc or even the sfw funny images thread.
On November 01 2011 17:34 J1.au wrote: TL is too wide for me now.
I only have a 1024x768 resolution.
Unfortunately, you are the 1%.
Haha too funny. Sorry for those that are in this situation though.
I really like the new changes so far. Especially how we can label each player with their race icon. And now when I view TL it doesn't have like 4 inches of white on each side lol.
Something I have notice though is that it doesn't seem to want to load it to the wide version when the page is first loading. It is in the original form and then 1/2 a second later it's in the wide form. Any ideas why that is the case?
The sidebar settings "popup" extends over my screen so I can't see a close/accept button and probably a few options aswell. Should I open a thread in tech support? not sure if I should provide also a screenshot and what other technical details besides chrome.
Haha, I'm almost getting vertigo from this wider layout. Guess it shows that I was just really used to the old one. But I do believe that wider is better, so I guess it'll pass in a fairly short amount of time
Also, yay for more ad revenue! My brain has learned that there are designated ad locations that are fairly standard and safe to ignore, so I didn't even notice the ads until they were pointed out in the OP. I don't mind at all spending a couple extra bytes loading teamliquid if it helps out with the economy
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