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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 4119006" data-attributes="member: 5675">My two penn'orth:1. As someone said above, the 'tour' is rubbish. It doesn't tell me what the site is about. It doesn't really like me or excite me about anything. The text needs a substantial overhaul and the little icons in the tours are thoroughly un-inspiring.2. The system should be able to cope with me hitting the 'back' button on my browser, which should be a pretty common one, as I'm running Internet Explorer...3. Big green bubble backdrop which seems to be the loading page because I see so much of it. I thought it was a lizard pattern for ages, but that might be just me. Still don't see what it's got to do with the subject, though.4. The logos on the front page, which are essentially the 'tour' buttons. They're HUGE! And weird. A big head with a cog in it? What's that got to do with anything?5. Arrgh! Darn it - my browser keeps crashing at the moment, and the load times mean I don't get the gleemax page up (apart from the aforementioned green bubbly / lizardy thing) about half the time. 6. Nothing personal to the guys from Gamer Radio Zero, but why in their little icon are neither of them looking at the camera, and in fact both looking in opposite directions? Just bugs me, is all...7. As referred to above, the blogs are inaccesible, and feel like they're buried in the depths of the system. I've tried to find things two or three times on gleemax, and simply given up and stopped using it. Already. I know it's the alpha, but am I likely to go back to it as a regular resource on current usage? I'm an internet person, which makes me fickle and with a very short attention span!8. The method of picking the forums is interesting and different, but it's ultimately a huge selection of yet more very-large icons. I'm used to forums, and nobody else uses them like this and I'm just not comfortable. (Did I mention fickle?)9. The further I get into the forums, the more it feels like a WotC proprietary brand. Which it is. But considering it's been pretending not to be for the last 4 or 5 mouse clicks, I just start to wonder if I've left gleemax and moved onto the WotC boards. The logo on my tab has changed, for instance, and the icons at the top have as well.10. To my immense amusement, I click on the menu path to take me to gleemax's forum on D&D. I then decide to look at 4e stuff in there, having not noticed there's a separate 4e icon a layer up. The 4e section's got a 'locked for posting' icon. I click on it anyway. The top sticky thread says 'new 4e forums open!' I select it. It's got a link. To a gleemax 4e forum. Which appears to be completely different to the 4e forums I was just in. What's that all about?11. The 'Events' page is very dull indeed.12. Last thing. Having an option to change the date format from US to UK would be useful. I get confused easily by having dates in an 'unfamiliar' format.I reckon that's got to be enough to be going on with.</blockquote>

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