What I wonder is: What was wrong with old Abandonia? Was the relaunch really necessary? Within a few days, a nice-looking, well-working page has been turned into an almost unuseable one. I also liked the old design much better, it was clean, well organized and easy to get used to. The new design (which is meant to be "simply elegant", I think) just looks unfinished and unprofessional (and be assured that I don't consider a design which is overloaded by Flash and animated GIFs "professional"). I fail to see any advantages of the new Abandonia, and all I notice is that everything works worse than before (game search is not working, forum is cut-off at the bottom of the page and must be "unframed" to be able to use it, forum has far less options - I hate it when I can only have 10 posts on a page, I also don't want to be subscribed for a thread I post into with no way to disable it).
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Originally Posted by dosraider
At least the site is fast, the forum is fast, and I don't have to download a whole bucket of Java shit to use it.
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That is true. But so was it before the relaunch, so this is hardly a favour of the new layout. Additionally, I actually don't remember that much boards which made me download "a whole bucket of Java shit"...
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Originally Posted by dosraider
Several people are working on it to improve it, to find solutions for the problems.
There are other sites where none would even care to maintain it.
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Right, there are Millions of non-working sites where no one cares to maintain them. But this does not explain why an already well-working, active community portal was rewritten, just to be buggy (up to being unuseable) and in urgent need of improvement.
Please don't geht me wrong: I do appreciate the work that is put into this portal and has been for years. But frankly speaking, I cannot say much more than that in my eyes, the relaunch has completely failed so far (or, in other words: I think it was not worth the hard work which has undoubtably been put into it).
If you care for my opinion: Please bring back the old Abandonia page, where everything was nearly perfect.