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  • October 15, 2015 at 9:25 pm #24930
    CXR94Di2

    Needs more work

    Edit      My problem is mainly I read the forum posts so jump straight to the bottom of the page, with a quick flick now. The sales articles blur so I don’t read or see any of them. When the forum comments were on the front page I would a least glance over the these before reading what people are posting

     

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    The full website has a better layout than the mobile version, with headers for several sections.  On the mobile version there is 3 lines beside Roadcc header, usually this is a drop down icon. I suppoose it will come.  

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  • October 19, 2015 at 6:30 pm #861991
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    giff77
    mattsccm wrote:
    How the hell do you find your way around the site. No way to select various pages. Surely a list of sectiosn, eg forumn, reviews etc should be on the front page. Had to search for the forum via google to get here to moan.

    Less news on that page but big enough to be read from space.

    Cycling weekly here I come. Sorry.

     

    there is a box with a number of lines on it towards the top left. Click on that and a drop down menus appears. It’s on both the mobile and desktop versions. 

    October 19, 2015 at 12:12 pm #861989
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    edster99

    Oh dear.   I only ever vist

    Oh dear.   I only ever vist on the desktop site :  Messy, messy, messy.  The ‘quote’ marks are very odd.  Losing the edit button is bad.  There’s excessive quantities of white space everywhere.  Advertising is ‘effective’ – i.e intrusive.  Definitely missing the ‘latest posts’.  Not much liking the fonts, but that might just be a user setting I can sort out.  Yes it’s quicker, probably, but that never bothered me much anyway. 

    If this is a solution to a speed problem, I’m a bit disappointed.

    October 18, 2015 at 8:39 pm #861987
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    mattsccm

    How the hell do you find your

    How the hell do you find your way around the site. No way to select various pages. Surely a list of sectiosn, eg forumn, reviews etc should be on the front page. Had to search for the forum via google to get here to moan.

    Less news on that page but big enough to be read from space.

    Cycling weekly here I come. Sorry.

    October 18, 2015 at 8:36 pm #861985
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    mattsccm

    Hmm interesting.

    Hmm interesting.

    Take a perfectly good news page , remove most of the news and pretend its better.

    Its bloody awful.

    October 18, 2015 at 6:34 pm #861983
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    bikecellar
    bikeboy76 wrote:
    Agreed with all above. With ads and product reviews all mixed in together, the ‘News’ items on the front page get swamped. There will be less comments and less traffic, panic stations will sound. It looks more like an overblown shop not a community website. Well it is free, but expect further evolution.

    Yeah too BikeRadar 4 me aftr 5+ years maybe time to move on 🙂

     

    October 17, 2015 at 5:18 pm #861981
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    jova54

    Where has the Fantasy Cycling

    Where has the Fantasy Cycling gone?

    October 17, 2015 at 1:50 pm #861979
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    3wheelsgood

    Please bring back the Forum

    Please bring back the Forum latest comments feature.

     

    October 16, 2015 at 7:18 pm #861977
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    sm

    The site no longer loads in
    The site no longer loads in my RSS feeder, feedly. I guess you want me to see your new site!

    October 16, 2015 at 6:05 pm #861975
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    AJ101

    I’m liking the good work I

    I’m liking the good work I would recommend a darker font against the alternate grey background in the forum list of topics, the contrast levels are just wrong, ie there’s not enough contrast.

    Also it feels like there’s a lot of white space in the bottom half of a lot of the pages. Plus the menus don’t quite feel right, like they need either a bit more content or a bit less padding.

    Other than that the load speeds are great, hopefully you’ll get a good solid SEO boost instantly.

    Cheers

    Tony

    http://bikesy.co.uk

     

    edit: saying that I’ve just done a pagespeed insights and you’re only scoring 49 which you could easily raise. Give me a shout if you need our help. Mark’s got my details.

    October 16, 2015 at 5:39 pm #861973
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    Nat Jas Moe

    In the forum why does the new

    In the forum why does the new comments indicator not disappear when you goto that page and why are you not taken to those nerw comments? A tad annoying to say the least. Yes speed is good but come on tech guys it can’t be that harrd to sort this issue out after all it worked on the old platform.

     

    October 16, 2015 at 5:34 pm #861971
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    Carton

    Hate to be harsh on what

    Hate to be harsh on what surely has meant a lot of work, but I do agree with the style over substance sentiment espoused by others here. On the flip side, it does look very pretty. Maybe this is a carbon brake track situation, an upgrade that has some advantages and some disavanges and you kind of learn to deal with as it gets better over time.

    On a more specific note: a little more shading would be nice, particularly for stickies, sidebars and stuff with in thin baby blue fonts; I definetely miss the promimence of news and comments in the old site; and while it is much faster for my desktop laugh the layout has caused some issues for my iPad particularly on Chrome.

    October 16, 2015 at 2:11 pm #861969
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    matthewn5

    And another thing. All the

    And another thing. All the ‘likes’ have reset on the ‘Pictures of Your Bike’ page. They’re all back to zero.

    and although I have an ‘edit’ button, when I go to edit a post there is a message saying “This field has been disabled because you do not have permission to edit it”.

    This website suddenly got a whole lot less compelling. Not all change is better.

    October 16, 2015 at 2:03 pm #861967
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    matthewn5

    You used to be able to use a

    You used to be able to use a photo that when clicked on linked to a larger photo hosted externally. Now the photo in the forum is just a tiny link arrow.

    This change has ruined a lot of the ‘Pictures of your Bike’ forum.

    I really miss the ‘latest forum comments’ section on the front page.

    So many websites are going this way, mobile optimised and look terrible on a PC or laptop. Is it beyond the wit of web designers to adapt to the device on which the site is viewed? Plenty of websites do that now.

    It feels sad 🙁

    October 16, 2015 at 1:51 pm #861965
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    Leviathan

    Agreed with all above. With

    Agreed with all above. With ads and product reviews all mixed in together, the ‘News’ items on the front page get swamped. There will be less comments and less traffic, panic stations will sound. It looks more like an overblown shop not a community website. Well it is free, but expect further evolution.

    October 16, 2015 at 9:41 am #861963
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    notfastenough

    I don’t mind the layout on my

    I don’t mind the layout on my full web browser (not tried it on mobile yet), but losing the comments isn’t a good move.  When I come to the site, I first scan the headlines, then the latest comments in the side bar, clicking on the interesting ones.  Without the comments, the site doesn’t feel as accessible.  I’m presented with a series of articles, but lack the ability to engage in the conversation without dropping into each article and scrolling down.  Sure, the number of comments against the story will tell me if anything is being posted,  but that doesn’t tell me if they are worth reading – I don’t know, for example, if an article about infrastructure has descended into a helmet debate! 

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