Annoying Pop-UP Side Bar on road.cc

I’m sick of the pop up/ slide

I’m sick of the pop up/ slide out. The close button doesn’t work all the time and it’s too close to the  next article . I’ve lost track of the number of timesaver actually clicked on that and gone to where I don’t want to be.

Sorry you don’t like the

Sorry you don’t like the slide out next/previous tab – we are going to change the design to see if we can make it less intrusive when viewed in the desktop version of the site (it’s a static block on mobile or tablet), and to change the way it behaves so that it slides back in when you scroll past it and/or after a certain amount of time. Hopefully that won’t take too long.

Doubt we’ll be getting rid of it though because the reason we put it in in the first place was long time users asked us for next/previous navigation – what we will do is to keep changing it until we get it right. 

Sorry you don’t like the changes to the design of the site as a whole mithrasm. I don’t know whether it’s any consolation but we will be re-introducing many of the features we had to take out when we moved platform, but we can’t change back.

There are a number of reasons for that. First, by any of the standard measures of web success it’s worked, and second we didn’t have any choice about changing it anyway. Our old platform was as near as damn it obsolete and increasingly buggy – not a good place to be when you’ve got a site with a fair amount of custom coding in it. The old site was also not at all mobile friendly at a time when the people who use it were doing so increasingly via mobiles – something that both users and Google were taking an increasingly dim view of. So even without our platform issues we’d have had to change to a more stripped down, fully responsive design.

Now that we’re free of the old platform we’re going back to the approach we took in the early years of road.cc – one of continuously evolving the design of the site to try to make it better. Back in the day the way road.cc looked used to change often, some bits changed very often.

What didn’t change then and hasn’t changed since is our approach to news, reviews, blogs, and features that remains a constant.

Road.cc doesn’t seem to think

Road.cc doesn’t seem to think I’m it’s core reader.

It’s obvious to me why all the recent changes are detrimental.  It’s obvious why they should all be got rid of.

Road.cc must see this as well and have their own reasons why they persist in spoiling a previously good site.

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Please stop it. It’s really

Please stop it. It’s really poor design and will just put people off using the site. I know it’s already putting me off 🙁

If the side bar thing hadn’t

If the side bar thing hadn’t been obscuring it, you’d have seen that there is already a thread complaining about the side bar thing.