New site feedback

[Nerixel]

I feel as though that page needs a revamp in general, the layout (especially of those search boxes) looks pretty weird.

This may be too annoying to do, but it'd be nice if searching for, say, "IC2" or "EE3" brought up Industrial Craft 2 and Equivalent Exchange 3, respectively. I know a lot of people who might search for the acronyms.

 

[Wild1145]

It has been a while since i have actually visited the site. This site does look much sleeker and cleaner than the old one, and i do like it very much

 

[Greevir]

Just noticed the dark style need the code block retextured.

test code

 

[Greevir]

Also, the twitter feed area needs work on the dark style. It's pretty difficult to read.

 

[Syrinx]

Hey, it's me again. No, i'm not Mario! I did check the page again and here is some feedback:

• Home (http://feed-the-beast.com/)
  The contact link on that page is broken (Access Denied).
  
• Repo Status (http://feed-the-beast.com/repo-status)
  Broken, cross origin request.
  
• About (http://feed-the-beast.com/about)
  Still no pictures.
  
• Creators (http://feed-the-beast.com/creators)
  Still no resources.
  
• Support (http://feed-the-beast.com/support)
  The forum support section that is linked seems to be closed.
  
• Community (http://feed-the-beast.com/community)
  Really should mention the wiki. After all its part of the community.
  
• Launcher (http://feed-the-beast.com/launcher)
  It's a bit confusing that you have a changelog there but it works. It might be worth to remove empty lines and/or parse it to use HTML list items.
  
• Server FAQ (http://feed-the-beast.com/server-faq)
  The menu goes missing and a link to the server download section would be nice.
  
• Hosting (http://feed-the-beast.com/servers/hosting)
  The first paragraph is missing a full stop.
  The guide is pretty minimal, maybe link a guide on the forum which is a bit more extensive?
  
• Server News (http://feed-the-beast.com/servers/news)
  Remove it and re-add it if you actually got some server news?
  
• Mod Packs (http://feed-the-beast.com/mod-packs)
  Not all mod packs are listed and each mod pack has a incomplete listing of what's in it.
  Unleashed => Some items have the title and author reversed, Forge has a DW20 icon.
  Unhinged => Has only two mods.
  Direwolf20-1.5.2 => Has only one mod and not even a description.
  FTB-Ultimate, Mindcrack, Direwolf20-1.4.7 => Have only a name and a download link which actually just gets you to the overview. Why not use the actual link?
  Yogscraft => Has some screenshots which can not be zoomed.
  
• News (http://feed-the-beast.com/news)
  If there really has only ever been one relevant news message since 2013 remove the section.
  
• Mods (http://feed-the-beast.com/mods)
  I do like the idea of having that list but the current version doesn't make all that much sense. None of the items have actual content. A better version IMO would be to have three columns:
  • The mod name (which links to the wiki or the official MCF thread
  • Link to the MCF thread or wiki
  • The authors.
  The alternative would be to have the name not linked at all and have two columns for the thread and wiki link.
  
  Both search boxes should be labeled as well. Currently it's a red bar which might just be a design element and a search box for Author(s). Having the Authors matched on partial strings might also be nice e.g. currently "Covert" doesn't return "CovertJaguar". There also seems to be another bug regarding this, to reproduce it do the following:
  
  Search on the mod page for something it can't find (http://feed-the-beast.com/mods) change to the front page (http://feed-the-beast.com/) you will see a message that the term could not be found.
  
• Shop (http://shop.feed-the-beast.com/)
  Dead.
  
• Privacy Police (http://feed-the-beast.com/privacy-policy) and TOS (http://feed-the-beast.com/terms-of-service)
  Page not Found.

Marked in bold are things that i mentioned in my first post.

 

[Greevir]

Hey, it's me again. No, i'm not Mario! I did check the page again and here is some feedback:

• Home (http://feed-the-beast.com/)
  The contact link on that page is broken (Access Denied).
  
• Repo Status (http://feed-the-beast.com/repo-status)
  Broken, cross origin request.
  
• About (http://feed-the-beast.com/about)
  Still no pictures.
  
• Creators (http://feed-the-beast.com/creators)
  Still no resources.
  
• Support (http://feed-the-beast.com/support)
  The forum support section that is linked seems to be closed.
  
• Community (http://feed-the-beast.com/community)
  Really should mention the wiki. After all its part of the community.
  
• Launcher (http://feed-the-beast.com/launcher)
  It's a bit confusing that you have a changelog there but it works. It might be worth to remove empty lines and/or parse it to use HTML list items.
  
• Server FAQ (http://feed-the-beast.com/server-faq)
  The menu goes missing and a link to the server download section would be nice.
  
• Hosting (http://feed-the-beast.com/servers/hosting)
  The first paragraph is missing a full stop.
  The guide is pretty minimal, maybe link a guide on the forum which is a bit more extensive?
  
• Server News (http://feed-the-beast.com/servers/news)
  Remove it and re-add it if you actually got some server news?
  
• Mod Packs (http://feed-the-beast.com/mod-packs)
  Not all mod packs are listed and each mod pack has a incomplete listing of what's in it.
  Unleashed => Some items have the title and author reversed, Forge has a DW20 icon.
  Unhinged => Has only two mods.
  Direwolf20-1.5.2 => Has only one mod and not even a description.
  FTB-Ultimate, Mindcrack, Direwolf20-1.4.7 => Have only a name and a download link which actually just gets you to the overview. Why not use the actual link?
  Yogscraft => Has some screenshots which can not be zoomed.
  
• News (http://feed-the-beast.com/news)
  If there really has only ever been one relevant news message since 2013 remove the section.
  
• Mods (http://feed-the-beast.com/mods)
  I do like the idea of having that list but the current version doesn't make all that much sense. None of the items have actual content. A better version IMO would be to have three columns:
  • The mod name (which links to the wiki or the official MCF thread
  • Link to the MCF thread or wiki
  • The authors.
  The alternative would be to have the name not linked at all and have two columns for the thread and wiki link.
  
  Both search boxes should be labeled as well. Currently it's a red bar which might just be a design element and a search box for Author(s). Having the Authors matched on partial strings might also be nice e.g. currently "Covert" doesn't return "CovertJaguar". There also seems to be another bug regarding this, to reproduce it do the following:
  
  Search on the mod page for something it can't find (http://feed-the-beast.com/mods) change to the front page (http://feed-the-beast.com/) you will see a message that the term could not be found.
  
• Shop (http://shop.feed-the-beast.com/)
  Dead.
  
• Privacy Police (http://feed-the-beast.com/privacy-policy) and TOS (http://feed-the-beast.com/terms-of-service)
  Page not Found.

Marked in bold are things that i mentioned in my first post.

I may be wrong but I don't think there is much more work going into the current forums as they are being replaced by a forum system from Curse in the near future.

 

[Nerixel]

I may be wrong but I don't think there is much more work going into the current forums as they are being replaced by a forum system from Curse in the near future.

Website != forums. But even so, that website might not be in development anymore, so for all intensive purposes you're probably right anyway

 

[egor66]

I may be wrong but I don't think there is much more work going into the current forums as they are being replaced by a forum system from Curse in the near future.

One day we may be replaced by Curse..

 

[Nerixel]

One day we may be replaced by Curse..

... I don't think Curse is going to replace this entire community, if that's what you're saying.

 

[Greevir]

Website != forums. But even so, that website might not be in development anymore, so for all intensive purposes you're probably right anyway

Yeah, I should of stated website instead. It just kinda slipped my mind. I honestly can't remember the last time I even looked at the other pages of the site, haha.

 

[mk16]

what happen to the shop anyways? did it get shut down but the link never got removed?

 

[Darayavahus]

Server Promotion forum is almost completely useless, most of the servers listed are Dead & Gone, there is no way to determine server status unless you try to locate server webpage or try to connect, losing a lot of time and getting frustrated.

We clearly need a list of servers with fixed TAG's for modpacks, pack versions, rules (like: PvE, PvP, Factions, Raiding, Etc.) with a valid search engine, Server Status validation, Connected Players count.