So, what do you think of Gleemax?

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Its no enworld.
Seriously I dont like Gleemax.

 

[mhensley]

No sir, I don't like it.

 

[WhatGravitas]

Erm... it's interesting? And confusing as hell? I cannot find the D&D blogs anymore... or I can find them, and I'm confuzzled, because it looks confuzzling. Yeah, right now, Gleemax CONFUZZLES the hell out of me!

Cheers, LT.

 

[GreatLemur]

EN World's Germans speak better English than Gleemax's Americans.

 

[Daniel D. Fox]

Gleemax is slow, slow and SLOW!

Besides, I love EN World; the users are more mature and folks are less likely to engage in e-peen fights here over who's opinion is better or more valid.

 

[(contact)]

Slow and ugly. It's poorly designed.

 

[Nifft]

Besides, I love EN World; the users are more mature and folks are less likely to engage in e-peen fights here over who's opinion is better or more valid.

Careful. If you keep touching the communi-peen, we'll all go blind.

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Anyway, yeah. They're slow, and that's annoying enough so I don't really go there any more. So I can't comment on the rest of their design. :\

Cheers, -- N

 

[KoshPWNZYou]

I don't like it for the same reason that others have mentioned. Too much emphasis on graphics. It takes a -really- long time to load on my dialup. The WOTC homepage has been the exact same way for a while now. The Gleemax forums, for instance -- picture links to the subfolders, a background picture, the usual WOTC topbanner. They don't really do anything positive for me, and they drag down the load times. :\

I think the type of person who would typically use Gleemax or DDI is a Google generation that prefers more plain-text presentation. Not totally plain-text; you do want some flavor. But every page doesn't need to be a photo album.

 

[Aeolius]

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

As I mentioned earlier, and others have reiterated, graphic-laden slow loads make it teh suck. Mixed with that the navigation is . . . incoherent. I can't find a damn thing. Before I could go to a single page for all of the designer's blogs, and the ones with the most recent updates were easily navigated to. Plus, each designer's posts could be seen on a single page in order, and in total. Instead now I must wade through a blight of other irrelevant bloggers to find the designers, then all I get are summaries of the designers posts enticing me to click through to yet another graphic laden page just to see the whole thing.

What the heck. Why?

Is this supposed to entice me to want to be a part of some social network at a site organized like that, that is so difficult to get around?

I don't know why this above nearly everything else is making me so upset. I guess because I can't see the sense in implementing poor user interface choices. It is actually functionally worse than before. Does no one on the Gleemax team notice this?