So, what do you think of Gleemax?

[eleran]

Yeah because I want to call you my "favourite" even though I might not particularly like you?

right, so it makes much more sense to call them a friend.

 

[eleran]

So far I am not overly impressed with gleemax, but I have been able to pretty easily enter a few blog posts and keep track of the developers blogs, and read some very interesting and creative posts from other users. I am getting a little more adept with it each day.

 

[Bagpuss]

right, so it makes much more sense to call them a friend.

Yeah I don't even talk to some of my friends.

 

[helium3]

I don't like their lame "it's an alpha" excuse for every single problem. I wonder if we'll still be getting that two years from now.

I'm not a huge fan of it's organized. Way to clunky and difficult to find things.

 

[Thunderfoot]

Nice guy, but watch your girlfriend...(he's a bit of a cad.)

 

[Goken100]

I'm a bit confused by it all. Is Gleemax owned and operated by Wizards? If so, what is the business relationship with non-WoTC companies and content?

My complaint (like so many others) is that there aren't enough good categories (the obvious being various groupings of WoTC blogs).

 

[Khairn]

I'm a bit confused by it all. Is Gleemax owned and operated by Wizards? If so, what is the business relationship with non-WoTC companies and content?

WotC's plan (hope) is that Gleemax will eventually become THE home for all gamers. A central place where all gamers can gather and share opinions, idea's, plans etc.

It appears that WotC's original thinking about their competitor's involvement in Gleemax, was that just by announcing their intent to open Gleemax, along with some idea on the sites functionality, would be enough incentive for other companies to join in. Thanks to the 2 gamers who are now members of the Gleemax Advisory Board, it looks like WotC may be putting some actual effort into convincing other companies that Gleemax will have value to them. Time will tell.

 

[Seeten]

From my experience, it is more graphic-laden than before, thereby slower to load, thereby crap and making me less likely I'll ever go there willingly. I've avoided the DDI page like the spellplague because it was chalk full of slowloading junk.

Why do companies believe they need to tart up their webpages with transfer-speed-choking eyecandy junk? *headexplode*

Not everyone is on 1.5 Mbps broadband! *breathe* *breathe* *breathe*

You got that right. Some of us are on 15 mpbs broadband. And appreciate the eyecandy. Maybe we can make a special forum area for dialup subs so that my 15 mbps connection isnt bottlenecked by people on hardware from 1933?

 

[Aus_Snow]

You got that right. Some of us are on 15 mpbs broadband.

Yeah, or 24.

Not that I get all of that, mind you. *grumble, grumble* Whole 1km from exchange. *grumble, grumble*

 

[helium3]

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?

The user interface definitely leaves a lot to be desired.

The one thing that hands down leaves me speechless is how awful the list of designer and employee blogs is. Seriously, give me one hour with the base html file for that one page and I could make it SO MUCH BETTER.

Stuff like sorting the various blogs by the employees function in the company. Using their actual names for the link rather than their wotc_$*%(@! handles. Actual formatting to make the stupid thing reasonable nice to look at.

Sure it's an alpha, but the stuff I'm talking about can be done by any chump with a text editor and it's the main freaking interface between their likely heaviest source of traffic right now and the content that source really cares about.