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2014-09-23 11:50:00 / Author: Woutery
Fix the site. Now. I swear, i can't stand the site any longer, it has such an awful design.

- The background is GIGANTIC. It's cool for a desktop background, but oh my freaking god, it's such an attention killer for a forum. Go to the forum homepage. What do you see? A ginormous image of Sackboy, Iota and Atoi (who, by the way, i don't know if you noticed, are NOT LBP characters!!! OMG!!!) filling 75% of the page, and a half-cut off overly wide forum activity bar. I hope that well-placed nuke goes off and destroys the entire background so that everyone can actually access the forum in a whim.

- Speaking about the forum activity bar, it is SO wide! EVERYTHING is too wide. Everything. The activity bar stretches out on my whole screen, only it's left half gets filled with text. Why keep that unfilled, ugly wide whitespace section to the right? You could insert, i dont know, something useful there. But you don't. Why.

- WHITESPACE AAARGHRGHFHGDAHFGAFJALSF. As i said, everything is too wide. Every single bar on the website is too wide and large, and gives a ton of white space. Fill it up with something. Make it smaller. Don't leave my poor eyes with all these glowing white pixels.

- Background doesn't work on 16:9. My monitor is 16:9 and the background image isn't big enough. Instead, there's two white bars on the left and the right side of my screen. Yet another example of poor webdesign.

- HOW IN THE WORLD DID YOU MANAGE TO MAKE AN ENTIRE BAR FOR THE NOTIFICATIONS AND THEN NOTIFICATE WITH A TINY 5X5 GREEN DOT!? WHY. HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THIS...

...now that that's out let me explain. NO-ONE is going to see that there's a notification when the notification icon is a super-tiny glowing green dot at the top of the screen. No one. Also, why the hell do you need to use a gigantic black bar for only the notifications and user options!? They only take up like 15 percent of the entire bar! Put them somewhere else. Now.

- Same story with the chat. You've stashed an ugly transparent button in the corner of the screen. Well, easy guess to why there is no-one in the chat: no-one knows there's a chat, because they completely overlook the clashing-with-the-site-theme button that gets you to it! Put the chat on always open, and put it somewhere else. Please. I want people to talk with, not... this.


Take a look at Sackinima Forums. They nailed their site design. Unlike having one gigantic vertical clusterf**k of white bars, they kept everything small and tidy. The header is 5x smaller than LBF's and still catches the viewers attention. The chat is placed in the middle of the screen and is always open, and always manages to get people to use it. The notifications are placed in a more centered section of the screen, and give a brighter and bigger red icon when something happens, to actually make people see it. The latest posts are sectioned right besides the actual forum sections, instead of having it all vertically placed like LBF. I'd choose any forum over LBF anytime, until this site gets a gigantic overhaul. It's just no fun to navigate through.



Just a quick edit before everyone will complain about this: i am not saying LBF is atrocious, nor it's content. I'm just saying that the website's design is absolutely awful.
2014-09-23 11:50:00
Author:
Woutery
Posts: 211

2014-09-23 11:54:00 / Author: Sound Friction
Go and make your own forum then. Writing in HTML5 is not easy and they cleary don't have the time to make a mobile version.
2014-09-23 11:54:00
Author:
Sound Friction
Posts: 437

2014-09-23 11:54:00 / Author: Deleted User
Yeah Its never changes I Need CHANGE! OH GOD PLEASE!
2014-09-23 11:54:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 11:55:00 / Author: Woutery
@Sound

Would it hurt to center a few things and make things smaller? No. It surely wouldn't.
2014-09-23 11:55:00
Author:
Woutery
Posts: 211

2014-09-23 11:57:00 / Author: Sound Friction
A "few" things.
2014-09-23 11:57:00
Author:
Sound Friction
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2014-09-23 11:57:00 / Author: Deleted User
...
2014-09-23 11:57:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 11:59:00 / Author: Deleted User
I Sense an augment coming on!

SoundWave VS The W Man!
2014-09-23 11:59:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:00:00 / Author: Woutery
Sound, do you even webdesign?

I've built HTML and CSS websites that have better and more navigateable design than this in only hours. Not saying i'm good at it, and i don't have a clue on how to build a forum, but i'm SURE i can make sites more navigateable than this.

If someone comes to the site, he'll be confused. Confused by all of the reasons i mentioned. Websites should be simple to navigate through, this website has problems and it just isn't good.
2014-09-23 12:00:00
Author:
Woutery
Posts: 211

2014-09-23 12:02:00 / Author: Sound Friction
Cool story bro.
2014-09-23 12:02:00
Author:
Sound Friction
Posts: 437

2014-09-23 12:02:00 / Author: Sound Friction
@Green Bear, Friction and soundwaves are two completely different things.
2014-09-23 12:02:00
Author:
Sound Friction
Posts: 437

2014-09-23 12:04:00 / Author: Deleted User
I Know its your Fighting Name SoundWave? W-Man?
2014-09-23 12:04:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:04:00 / Author: Woutery
W-Men and Wouterys are completely different things.
2014-09-23 12:04:00
Author:
Woutery
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2014-09-23 12:10:00 / Author: Deleted User
(X) You two are impossible!
2014-09-23 12:10:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:13:00 / Author: Sound Friction
Congrats mate, you discovered it.
2014-09-23 12:13:00
Author:
Sound Friction
Posts: 437

2014-09-23 12:14:00 / Author: Woutery
Are you still going to add anything useful to the topic? Just saying "WEL IAD LIEK 2 SE U MAIK A SIET!111" doesn't cut it. Explain why you like getting your eyes burnt by whitespace, then.
2014-09-23 12:14:00
Author:
Woutery
Posts: 211

2014-09-23 12:15:00 / Author: Deleted User
Here my PSN:

https://lbp.me/u/EsEv1

I don't have LBP.Me

Discovers need hearts!
2014-09-23 12:15:00
Author:
Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:18:00 / Author: Deleted User
Read this out loud It might help with the site Maybe...
G,U,R,A,Q,T!

Gee You Are A Cutie!
2014-09-23 12:18:00
Author:
Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:19:00 / Author: Sound Friction
pHU(|< 0PhPh
2014-09-23 12:19:00
Author:
Sound Friction
Posts: 437

2014-09-23 12:21:00 / Author: Woutery
@Sound


Thanks for your useful contribution to this topic. It really helped us all out.
2014-09-23 12:21:00
Author:
Woutery
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2014-09-23 12:22:00 / Author: Deleted User
how TO HELL DOES THAT...
2014-09-23 12:22:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:23:00 / Author: Sound Friction
No problem.
2014-09-23 12:23:00
Author:
Sound Friction
Posts: 437

2014-09-23 12:28:00 / Author: Deleted User
?y?E_?E??z
2014-09-23 12:28:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:31:00 / Author: Sound Friction
I said something in Leet.
2014-09-23 12:31:00
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Sound Friction
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2014-09-23 12:36:00 / Author: Deleted User
Oh
2014-09-23 12:36:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:38:00 / Author: RedPanda
You are not being forced to use this website. If it does not meet your ever-so crucial needs, leave. If however you are being forced to use this site, leave if possible. Negativity is not appreciated here.
2014-09-23 12:38:00
Author:
RedPanda
Posts: 293

2014-09-23 12:38:00 / Author: Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:38:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:39:00 / Author: Deleted User
Oh hey Alex it's me esev1
2014-09-23 12:39:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 12:39:00 / Author: RedPanda
I am aware of who you are
2014-09-23 12:39:00
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RedPanda
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2014-09-23 12:44:00 / Author: gurren009
i agree with repanda. and their are kids on this sight, so whats with the cussing?
2014-09-23 12:44:00
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gurren009
Posts: 617

2014-09-23 12:46:00 / Author: Woutery
Guys... really? Do you even understand how important webdesign is to a website? That's like being commisioned to do a website and then instead of building a website, you deliver a bag of poop to whatever person asked you to build a site.

A website needs to be easy and fun to navigate through, and LBF ultimately fails. It's absolutely frustrating and i don't get how you can all stand it.
2014-09-23 12:46:00
Author:
Woutery
Posts: 211

2014-09-23 12:52:00 / Author: RedPanda
I'm finding it incredibly easy to navigate the site so I see no reason to change, maybe seasonal backgrounds would be a nice touch ;D
2014-09-23 12:52:00
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RedPanda
Posts: 293

2014-09-23 12:57:00 / Author: Sound Friction
Better working than not working.
2014-09-23 12:57:00
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Sound Friction
Posts: 437

2014-09-23 12:57:00 / Author: Deleted User
Yeah
2014-09-23 12:57:00
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Deleted User
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2014-09-23 13:03:00 / Author: Ayneh
It's relatively easy to fix some of the issues you raise by injecting a few lines of custom CSS.

Drop the following code into Stylish under Firefox or Chrome. Alternatively, install it from userstyles.org here: https://userstyles.org/styles/105666/littlebigforum-tweak


Preview:

http://i.imgur.com/kfy4DtE.png
2014-09-23 13:03:00
Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 152

2014-09-23 13:34:00 / Author: nerd_dog
That looked pretty good Ayneh. I think it's perfectly fine for Woutery to have his opinion. Personally, I find the site very easy to navigate. The backdrop looks ok to me but i'm far less concerned with that. I've never used this site from a mobile phone, so I haven't seen this issue with the wideness. I think it would be nice to fix some things for mobile users. Not everyone is as tech savvy as Ayneh. But I really like this site. One thing I've noticed about some other lbp forums ( LBPC for example ) is that my old laptop has a bit of trouble loading the pages. I can appreciate that I don't have to wait as long on this site.
2014-09-23 13:34:00
Author:
nerd_dog
Posts: 1483

2014-09-24 07:25:00 / Author: Ayneh
Yeah, this site is comparatively fast. I brought that up on LBPC a couple of times and offered help (back when Aya was still around) but nothing came of it.
2014-09-24 07:25:00
Author:
Ayneh
Posts: 152

2014-09-24 10:31:00 / Author: DeKa1357
Thanks for the feedback!
2014-09-24 10:31:00
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DeKa1357
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