We hope that you have been enjoying your stay here at the new CyberNet! After a long day of traffic analysis and monitoring we’ve been able to work out most of the kinks that may have been slowing the site down.
One of the biggest improvements lies within the commenting speed which has been re-worked and improved for those of you with JavaScript enabled. Don’t believe me? Try it out in the comments below…you should notice that the “Posting Your Comment” notification only sticks around for a second instead of the several seconds it previously took!
Aside from that we have optimized many different portions of the new site, and fixed some of the bugs that had been reported to us. If you see something else that isn’t working quite as planned, make sure you shoot us an email because there’s bound to be something we have missed or over-looked.
That’s good, speed was a little bad (especially when commenting)
Yes, we finally figured out the problem. Should be much better
I thought that testing was able to catch 100% of the bugs! That’s what I learned from Mitra…
I have to refresh to comment again?! That’s a feature right?
Nope, you just happen to catch the site at a bad time. I was fixing a bug and had to temporarily disable the AJAX commenting for 2-minutes. Next time, have better timing
The font looks terrible. Sorry.
We kind of had the feeling that some people wouldn’t like the font, but it is kind of a lose-lose situation when it comes to that. It is hard to make a design that everyone will love because we all have different tastes. Maybe it will grow on you though.
after posting 3 new comments in the new design, i think its not very clear as to what happens when you post it:
1. first comment was flagged as spam, so i used the link given (to contact you) to report it. and although its the same solution u had in the old design, i wonder if there should be some automated button to do this. although the negative side for this is that real spammer will use it to bug you even more. but maybe a simple solution that will copy the comment text the contact page will help.
2. beneath the posting window, u have an option to track new comments. but isn’t it the same as the footsteps button?
3. i posted a new comment, and got message about it that it is waiting moderation. after couple of minutes, both message and my comment disappear from the post page. i think it might b better to leave the comments which wait moderation on the post, with the msg about it/different color. cause at first i didn’t know if i imagined it or not.
Yea the Speed has definitely Improved. Good Work.
From the home page I’m logged in but from this page I’m not.
Also from the Login area if you type in a a user name and hit tab the cursor is positioned on the “Website” text box instead of the “Password” text box.
@Jack:
1) We can’t make it too easy because of spammers, and as it stands right now we receive thousands of spam comments everyday.
2) If you’re talking about the checkbox next to the Submit button that is only used when you are submitting a comment, the footsteps button can be used even if you don’t submit a comment.
3) We have setup advanced filters for spam that put a lot of spam into moderation for us to flip through, so we don’t want to show moderated comments on the page. Otherwise there would be a lot of spam showing.
I’ll go ahead and fix the tab, but the login thing sounds really weird. What browser were you using and was it just the one page that you didn’t appear to be logged in on?
Reminds me just a touch of [arstechnica.com]
I mean that in a good way.
I’m not seeing the HTML code helps for the comments. Am I missing something?
Good luck! I’m sure you will be tweaking it for a few more weeks but it is a nice change.
I’m assuming that you’re referring to the buttons to insert links and such? We thought about using those but we asked a lot of people whether they used/knew what they were, and the response was quite enlightening. Most people were more confused by them, so we wanted to keep it plain and simple.
If you still wanted to insert a link or something you could use the HTML, but generally it is just easier to paste the link right in the comment. We shorten it up and automatically hyperlink it to the site.
Thanks for the clarification, Ryan!
Actually, I also find it easier to just type the code in there myself then use the “help” buttons.
Nice to know that hyperlinking or URL’s is now automatic.
Maybe you could add a tiny mention of that in the comments area to clarify for non-HTML coder commenters? Above or below the smilies?
That’s a good idea Claus…I might have to do that.
Looking good!