Ang25 opened this issue on Jan 30, 2007 ยท 23 posts
Rayraz posted Wed, 31 January 2007 at 1:51 PM
It's the clutteredness of the interface i guess... I dont understand why nobody's doing anything about it over at 'rosity... I mean sure, there's those doing this for free as Zhann stated in another post. But I sure doubt theres no financial system behind running this site. Surely no programmer would be programming a site like this for free, neither would someone host a site like this for free haha. So... why's nobody telling the webdevelopers of the page to just have a looksie at the workflow of the interface, work out some improvements, and have the programmer(s) fix it?
Now lets consider that the php switch seems to have been an in-house project. This would means there's a new crew of people on a project unlike what 'rosity's normally used to. This naturally also means you cant expect the same quality you might expect from for instance a studio specialized in building complex large websites undertaking this kind of projects on a routined basis.
This fact became clear at the relase because there were quite a few bugs and glitches. However, for a project this size, and a crew not routined at it, it was quite a decent effort!
Unlike some sites i've seen the 1st release of the php platform wasn't total bugware.
However.. having said this, a webdevelopment project of this kind of size just can not go without an iterative process of refinement. Surely some bugs have been fixed over time and requested functionalities have been added, but interface and navigation design needs to be integrated in this process as well! You cannot just keep adding features without re-thinking your navigation architecture at least once.
One just cannot think of everything with a site this size, you can just not guess all the right associations, word choises, expectations an habits of your users. You just cannot predict exactly where people will look for features and which things on the interface will grab their primary attention. If you could, you'd be a genius and you'd be terribly misplaced not working at some place developing revolutionary interactive techologies.
I think that if the site is made easier to use, people will become less frustrated and eventually less people will leave
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