EPTYou guys also need to uniformize your top links. For example, LiquidHearth does not reference LiquidDota. Plus, you need distinct colors like the ones used at TeamLiquid.
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fezvez
France3021 Posts
You guys also need to uniformize your top links. For example, LiquidHearth does not reference LiquidDota. Plus, you need distinct colors like the ones used at TeamLiquid. | ||
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Floobie
England296 Posts
Then i refreshed and saw the update. Wow its been 2 years already since TL started covering Dota2, i still remember that day. Long live LiquidDota! | ||
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Mattes
Germany1116 Posts
I spend most of my time in the community forums as well as the dota forums. While its certainly not the end of the world, as someone used to jump from one thread to another this is highly inconvenient and will certainly promote further separation of the community. Happy with the new site features. Absolutely displeased about no linked community forums. | ||
Liquid`Zephyr
United States996 Posts
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teapoted
United Kingdom24425 Posts
Overall this seems like a poor solution to a design issue with the sites. It's by no means an easy thing to solve, but this seems like it would only reduce the amount of users, especially since in Dota we have so many sites dedicated solely to it. And while things like wanting to add functionality to the events area is an understandable problem, the LiquidDota events area is still not exactly at the level of other sites either. And to be honest I don't believe it will ever be on the level of the joinDota one because they have actual staff to take care of it. | ||
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Hrrrrm
United States2081 Posts
On May 12 2014 06:33 BobMcJohnson wrote: Meh, not sure how I like this, I mean I visit TL for dota/sc/the general sections and what I liked was having everything on the same website, having things split between two websites will be more annoying than anything imo. Especially not having all the forums on the same left sidebar! :/ I mean, I dont even read the HS articles since they've been moved to LiquidHearth for example, because I'm not a diehard HS fan, but reading an article about it every now and then was still enjoyable, but now I dont bother opening the LiquidHearth page so i dont read any. I hope it wont lead to similar behaviors for people who read mostly SC/Dota stuff but still enjoy a bit of the other once in a while. I feel exactly the same. There is zero reason for me to visit teamliquid anymore since I barely care about SC2 and honestly minimal reason for me to visit the new site since the general forums and the "community" are basically splintered. I basically check TL 4-5 times sometimes even more a day to keep up on events. I hope this works out for them but, I've been a regular visitor since 2008 and this is just a huge turn off for me. Sad day for me. | ||
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Lonyo
United Kingdom3884 Posts
I don't even care about Dota 2 or HS, but I see zero reason to split them off. I could just turn them both "off" entirely on the regular TL website, but still have Dota 2 or HS people contributing to general threads. Now it just means fewer people in the general areas, and no difference to my TL experience of browsing TL with no Dota 2/HS. A better idea would have been, IMO, to make pre-configured settings where someone could click "Dota 2" and have a regular TL website which was preset to show only Dota 2 and general community stuff, with a Dota 2 theme/banner. If they then wanted to add back other games, they could do that by customising things in more depth. Now you're just ripping apart a community that might be a somewhat decent size, but isn't large enough to be fragmented in many areas. Seems pointless, and doesn't really help users in any way. And OH MY GOD what is wrong with people these days. Changing the way user information is displayed. What's the point? "Hey, this is the area we have to work in, less reduce the amount of stuff displayed because then we can have more empty space, and if you're a touch user, screw you". Seriously, it's like the whole internet (it's not just TL) is going backwards. | ||
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Galaktus
Germany33 Posts
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Asha
United Kingdom38143 Posts
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Zocat
Germany2229 Posts
On May 12 2014 06:53 FiWiFaKi wrote: I don't think teamliquid is large enough to really support two sites like this. Before LiquidDota, teamliquid was averaging 3-6k users online at once... This number of users makes threads relatively active for discussion pertaining to many topics. If one of these sites is going to be down to 1-2k users, it's just going to feel more and more dead. I would totally understand the choice if teamliquid had 15k online users at all times and there was just too much stuff happening, but it's not like the threads are that active. New threads don't pop up that frequently, etc. The advantage is growth. For almost every non-TL member if you mention "teamliquid" they think of "Starcraft site". So if you mention TL to a Hearthstone, Dota2, ... player he think of Starcraft and will likely look for something else. If you fragment the site you will have those people thinking "Oh that awesome SC site now has a site specialized in X? That's awesome! I should visit it". This leads to more growth and growth is important. TL is a business which needs & wants to make money. More exposure is more money. With a potential LiquidLoL, LiquidSmash, LiquidStrike (plz CSGO plz!) or other games in the future you would have way too much spam for one site. While existing users can filter it easily, you have to register to do that. Quality of life options behind forced registering are bad (since a lot of users don't register, thus have the bad quality and won't use the site enough to feel that registering is worth it). Basically for existing users this change is bad. We're used to it. Change is always bad, since we lose the option to glance at other eSports we don't really follow . I basically ignore Dota2 for the last 6 months but here and there clicked on a Dota2 article. I won't do this in the future (except that my Dota2 interest is peaked again thanks to TI4). | ||
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Ayaz2810
United States2763 Posts
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NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
On May 12 2014 06:50 Garnet wrote: I think "Recent" should be "Recently completed" so as not to confuse ppl. This has been changed, the change may not be apparent immediately. | ||
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Slardar
Canada7593 Posts
*Side inquiry: Although I do enjoy LiquidHearth, it kind of didn't make sense for ALL the HS streams to be completely removed from the MAIN Teamliquid.net page. Would Dota2 Streams suffer the same consequence? | ||
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Shikada
Serbia976 Posts
I made a switch to dota 2 from starcraft, and I mainly follow dota now, but I still like to see what's happening with SC. Plus when I visit the dota 2 site I don't feel like I'm on team liquid. Where are the community forums? The blogs? This makes me visit two sites and it's just much worse. Too bad we can't have a dedicated dota 2 site without removing it completely from the main one  | ||
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Lord Lunga
Sweden33 Posts
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Mambo
Denmark1338 Posts
If that is the case I will miss a lot of Dota news | ||
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zev318
Canada4306 Posts
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
edit: nope | ||
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NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
On May 12 2014 07:12 Mambo wrote: Is there still gonna be Dota news here or will all things Dota go to the other site? Everything will be on the other site. | ||
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Slomo
Germany7196 Posts
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