We’re planning to give road.cc one of its periodic makeovers and we’d like your input to help us get it right.
In our recent user survey we got a vast amount of really useful feedback from you about the content of our digital home now though we’d like to ask you about the fixtures and fittings – the way the site itself works (or doesn’t) on your mobile, desktop, or tablet.
We’ve already pencilled in some exciting changes we’d like to make to the site, and some long overdue ones too, but while it’s great if road.cc works for us the most important thing is that it works for you. That’s why we want to make sure that any plan for the site is shaped by you, and any inspiration you can spare, before we commit to writing it all down in biro (or the digital equivalent) and showing to our developers.
So, if you’d like to tell us what we can do to make your experience of using road.cc better then click here or follow that big link above to complete our short survey. (It’s much shorter than the user survey. Honest).
17 thoughts on “road.cc redesign survey – help us shape a new look road.cc”
Please, in the name of Bod,
Please, in the name of Bod, get rid of that rubbish “mobile” site and default to the “classic” view for mobile users
Yes, I agree your mobile site
Yes, I agree your mobile site is terrible. Half way through an article (if I’m lucky), it suddenly jumps to a different one.
The mobile site is right at
The mobile site is right at the top of the list of the things we’re looking at
I’ll just add that the mobile
I’ll just add that the mobile site is rubbish on a mobile and the classic version is just better.
Mobile site is unusable and
Mobile site is unusable and desktop site is lost amongst a sea of ads if you don’t block them.
I know, it’s free, but you did solicit feedback…
Mobile site simply terrible;
Mobile site simply terrible; comments still won’t load on Android, so I constantly have to switch to desktop when using my phone. Still getting problems with the data protection warning spawning all the time. Please sort it, fellas; I really like the content but the fucking awful execution must be losing you loads of traffic.
Better interface for comments
Better interface for comments. Being able to see your previous comments on your account would be useful.
Daily blog interface is weird – often I fail to see the stories that are in the headlines or being commented on.
Seems like stories are repeated on the front page. All content seems to get the same alocation of space – be nice to highlight the actual journalism stories over the press releases about new kit.
Quote:
Yes, a way of seeing previous forum and story comments.
The site is slower than a herd of turtles stampeding through treacle. Even on a hard-wired connection. The page begins loading then it starts jumping around all over the place as the ads load up, it can take 20 seconds before it all loads and then it’ll periodically reload again anyway.
Any chance of a ‘dislike’
Any chance of a ‘dislike’ button on the comments. Not aimed at any of these posts, but by St Chris, it would get some use.
davel wrote:
Any ad provider that uses ads
Any ad provider that uses ads that redirect you through thirty links to take you to some OMG YOUVE WON A IPHONE page should be killed to death.
Not sure if that counts, but seriously, it drives me nuts.
+1 for the comments on the
+1 for the comments on the mobile site.
Lose the banner ad above the title masthead / menu bar, it eats a huge amount of screen real estate, and the ad always seems to gets served up/rendered just as I’m about to click on a menu link (Grr!!)
LiveBlog – I like this feature, but not the implementation. Find someone who can deliver same functionaluty but with much faster rendering.
CygnusX1 wrote:
Spell checker would be nice too (especially if it was used by some of the journo hacks on this site – no names mentioned
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+1 for the mobile site
+1 for the mobile site redesign
I’d like to see more interaction opportunities in the forum, article comments, etc. Make it as easy as possible for people to start the conversation.
Maybe roadies just don’t talk as much but other fora like STW are way busier than here.
It would be great to be able
It would be great to be able to jump to comments far easier/more obviously – esp. on mobile. I’m all about the crac 🙂
Bin that ‘smartphone’ site
Bin that ‘smartphone’ site which totally SUCKS. Ok there are some nice elements about the UI which you could re-use in the classic version, but whoever undertook the non-functional testing should look for a new career.
Granted that no-one can expect every combo of OS/Browser to be tested (been there and bought that t-shirt..), but you should at least try it on a budget android phone (e.g. moto) running chrome.
Live blog – again good idea but implemention is way too code heavy with result that it renders like a slug.
Well let’s see…
Well let’s see…
Start properly mobile first rather than cobbling a UI on top.
Way too many ads on mobile UI – this is one of the few sites I have allowed ads on and on mobile it’s just too much
Three column layout is looking a bit dated now, as are type sizes. Layout looking cramped, the only site more cluttered now is bike radar. You could probably move to a more editorial/magazine format than a news format (eithout dropping the nwews itself, which I like)
I am pretty sure no one uses it but a filtered search would be useful about twice a year (and something drupal does falling backwards off a log) so ‘aero’ in bike reviews, or Castelli in jackets.
I accept the affiliate links as a price to pay for free, so like that they are obvious
Still like the ‘about the rider’ section and that you always state what size frame you tested and the height of the rider – simple stuff that works and that others are still, amazingly, not doing
Image gallery at top looking dated too, too fiddly, a simpler touch-friednly slider would be just as good
Liveblog – there are ways to do that in Drupal (8) without the effing plug in which is slow and odd.
Better integration with social – tweet from an image or quote directly rather than using crappy plugins – Sharethis is crap and essentially marketing spyware
And occasionally police the forums! They are entertaining but there are usual suspects who tend to clog things up with predicatable waffle – perhaps a boredom mute would be handy 😉
Still a great site, hate to think how many times I look at it a day….