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Ooooooo shiny! New website :)

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  • October 15, 2015 at 7:44 pm #24927
    tom_w

    Looks great, well done all!  A serious amount of work must have gone into the changes.

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  • October 29, 2015 at 9:07 am #861931
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    Mombee

    Before you updated the site,

    Before you updated the site, I was visiting Road.cc at least once a day, often more frequently… first visit was to see what new articles had appeared, but it was also easy to see new comments on the forum and in response to articles… all part of a dynamic cycling community.

    As with any niche news site,  you don’t post a large numbers of articles, so… now that it’s difficult to see the dynamic stuff being posted against content… I’m finding that I can drop by every couple of days to see if you’ve got a new article, which is a significant reduction in my traffic. Multiply that the rest of the community and you’ve demolished your site’s main internet credentials. I think that you (and your advertisers) will have real issues in the next few months as this drop in traffic is reflected in search engine ratings.

    Just a thought.

    October 27, 2015 at 4:01 pm #861929
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    CygnusX1

    Overall like the new site,

    Overall like the new site, but I have a couple of gripes. Here’s my two penneth worth…

    1. Subscription to comments – Needs a default account level setting. 

    I don’t want to have to disable each time I comment on a story/forum thread.  Tedious and disinsentevises comments, I want to waste time at work reading the latest flame war on the helmet debate not deleting 200 spam emails telling me there’s been 200 posts since mine 🙂

    2. Ordering of comments – Default to oldest comment first

    We like to read top down in chronological order.

     

    October 26, 2015 at 8:24 pm #861927
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    Man of Lard

    Where does one get to set

    Where does one get to set default preferences like “don’t subscribe me to a thread just because I replied to it”?

     

    This is getting to be really quite irritating.

    October 22, 2015 at 5:56 pm #861925
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    userfriendly

    ublock origin – free,

    ublock origin – free, available for all major browsers, and works wonders.

    If road.cc think pushy, epileptic fit inducing ads are the way to go … well. I’m not having them.

    October 22, 2015 at 5:44 pm #861923
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    Anonymous

    Right! Starting to get really

    surpriseRight! Starting to get really pissed off now!

    Shove the adverts to one side! I’ve got four adverts, all the same, where I would expect to find links to articles.

    That Lezyne advert is really starting to get on my tits. I am thinking of investing in some new lights – they WILL NOT be Lezyne!surprise

    October 20, 2015 at 4:10 pm #861921
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    balmybaldwin

    All I can say is it’s taken
    All I can say is it’s taken me nearly 20 minutes to get this page to load in a way I can work out where to type.

    I use the site on Firefox (Windows 10), IE 11 (Work), and Safari on Android.

    It looks horrendous on all my devices. Pictures in an article all stack on top of each other at the top. Minutes after loading the page randomly reorganises itself.
    Menu options just don’t work or fail to load, and links appear to have left the widely accepted default of changing a cursor into a hand.

    A more hideous user experience couldn’t be achieved if you tried.

    A real shame as I used to enjoy a lot of the content on road.cc… now I can barely get to any of it.

    Might try again in a week.

    October 20, 2015 at 4:10 pm #861919
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    balmybaldwin

    All I can say is it’s taken
    All I can say is it’s taken me nearly 20 minutes to get this page to load in a way I can work out where to type.

    I use the site on Firefox (Windows 10), IE 11 (Work), and Safari on Android.

    It looks horrendous on all my devices. Pictures in an article all stack on top of each other at the top. Minutes after loading the page randomly reorganises itself.
    Menu options just don’t work or fail to load, and links appear to have left the widely accepted default of changing a cursor into a hand.

    A more hideous user experience couldn’t be achieved if you tried.

    A real shame as I used to enjoy a lot of the content on road.cc… now I can barely get to any of it.

    Might try again in a week.

    October 20, 2015 at 7:11 am #861917
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    BigAl68

    I don’t like it on a desktop

    I don’t like it on a desktop or on a mobile device and where has the latest comments etc gone…. I will pop back in a week or two to see if it gets better

    October 19, 2015 at 1:50 pm #861915
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    DaveE128

    The flashing Lezyne adverts

    The flashing Lezyne adverts are sufficiently annoying that I am thinking twice before visiting the site. 🙁

    October 18, 2015 at 9:00 am #861913
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    joules1975

    Site looks great, but

    Site looks great, but scrolling on ipad is screwed up a bit. If you scroll and the touch the screen again before it’s finished moving up/down (whether to continue scrolling or stop at particular point) it jumps back to where you started scrolling from. Really annoying!

    October 17, 2015 at 6:58 pm #861911
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    levermonkey wrote:
    I also would like the default to be ‘Oldest First’ and the reinstatement of the ‘Recent Comments’ box. The adverts are also intrusive. Other than these gripes I quite like the new site.

    Yes. All of the above. Especially the “recent comments” box, seeing how new comments on older reviews have very little if any chance of getting replies now.

    October 17, 2015 at 6:00 pm #861909
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    Anonymous

    I appear to already like 6 of

    I appear to already like 6 of the comments and this is my first visit to this thread. I have noticed the same issue on other threads.

     

    I also would like the default to be ‘Oldest First’ and the reinstatement of the ‘Recent Comments’ box. The adverts are also intrusive. Other than these gripes I quite like the new site.

    October 16, 2015 at 8:56 pm #861907
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    Username

    Safari 9 on the Mac. 

    Safari 9 on the Mac. 

    When I click a ‘like’ button the page jumps to the top.

    October 16, 2015 at 7:26 pm #861905
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    brooksby

    Sorry but I don’t like it-

    (Edit) Sorry but I don’t like it- safari keeps crashing on my iPhone and firefox keeps crashing in the office; the site takes longer to load, too.  If this is it, I may have to take my pageviews elsewhere.

    October 16, 2015 at 3:28 pm #861903
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    James Warrener

    Is there a way to default

    Is there a way to default forum to oldest reply first rather than change on each thread. 

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