TinaK opened this issue on Jun 24, 2014 · 243 posts
DavidGB posted Tue, 24 June 2014 at 2:30 PM
I have - and have always had - my browser at less than full screen width on my laptop. Not far off - well over 4/5 screen width - but not quite full so i can keep an eye on other things while browsing. And this new shop layout - like the new freestuff - only displays TWO items per line with my brower at the width I use, as against 4 at full width (why it doesn't display 3, when the gap i leave alongside is less than the width of one shhop item under this new shop display scheme I don't know). This is not acceptable to me - FAR too much scrolling to see the new items only two at a time. Nor will I be dictated to by this one website alone to have to use full screen on it when I don't - and don't have to - on any other site.
Every major change to the Renderosity website and in particular to the display of the shop over the last ... three, I think, has been a major step backwards for me in terms of design and user friendliness. This one is the final step right back over the edge of the cliff, for me. It is unusable, so I won't be using it. Each previous change has made things worse for me, and I've bought less after each change. Less has now reached zero.
I'll keep browsing in to look at the top of the 'new items' page to see if a change has happened to make the display usable again (i.e. 4 items at least per line at my chosen browser width), but unless and until I see such a change has happend, I won't be looking at the items or buying anything.
I'm not holding my breath. It is my experience over many years browsing many sites, that after a site redesign, no site designer, and no executive who approved the new design, will EVER, EVER admit they were wrong and roll back the change. After all, that would be admitting responsibility for a mistake, and for wasting time and money. They will NEVER admit that, and just hunker down, ignore the criticism and bank on the users to eventually give up complaining and just get used to the new mess they've created. I expect that here, now.
Well, not this user this time. Unless and until the shop (and freestuff) display arrangement changes to something that is usable for me, I'm done here. What used to be a pattern of frequent buyiing here by me has already been reduced to 'infrequent' by previous changes; now it's zero. Of those of my favorite sellers who also have their stuff at other stores: I may buy from you there. For those who sell only here: thanks, good luck, and sadly goodbye.