I was scrolling down the page wondering why it wasn't showing up. lol Didn't notice anything until I thought I was signed out and looked at the top corner to sign in.
@snide: Yo snide! Hope i can one day create a site as impressive as the whiskey sites. Just wanted to say you and the team are awesome. Keep doing what you're doing and give in to the peer preasure of the community! >_>
Not sure how I feel about it. I had gotten used to it being at the bottom. Now I have to get used to a big grey box at the top of my screen.
EDIT: Now I've made up my mind. I don't like it at all. When I'm scrolling through the forums, my eyes are naturally directed towards the bottom of the screen making it easy to see if I have a PM. Now I have to divert my eyes waaaaay up to the top left. It's buggin' me.
EDIT 2: Also, I now have to go the top of the web page to get to everything. Dislike.
" fuuuu, i liked it when they put it on the bottom... its easier to navigate back to your profile or the quest page than scrolling to the top "
I think the ideal for me would some sort of skinny top header that had search, profile/status bar and the section headers (possibly a dropdown) that stayed at the top when you scroll down. Of course, it is easy said than done and I appreciate GB's work regardless.
Hooray for it being back up top. It was especially frustrating at the bottom in Chrome with the "waiting for giantbomb.com..." messages covering it up so you couldn't see or interact with the links until all the hidden advertisement pages the site loads were all done loading >.>
"Hooray for it being back up top. It was especially frustrating at the bottom in Chrome with the "waiting for giantbomb.com..." messages covering it up so you couldn't see or interact with the links until all the hidden advertisement pages the site loads were all done loading >.> "
@greenblattsam said:
"Chrome makes it horrid at the bottom I LOVE it at the top :D! "
Theres your problem right there, you are using Chrome instead of Firefox :P
" Not sure how I feel about it. I had gotten used to it being at the bottom. Now I have to get used to a big grey box at the top of my screen. EDIT: Now I've made up my mind. I don't like it at all. When I'm scrolling through the forums, my eyes are naturally directed towards the bottom of the screen making it easy to see if I have a PM. Now I have to divert my eyes waaaaay up to the top left. It's buggin' me. EDIT 2: Also, I now have to go the top of the web page to get to everything. Dislike. "
This. I was used to it at the top, then the bottom threw me. I eventually got used to it at the bottom and ended up liking it waaaaay better. Now I can't even see my followed or new messages being on this section of the page!
"Hooray for it being back up top. It was especially frustrating at the bottom in Chrome with the "waiting for giantbomb.com..." messages covering it up so you couldn't see or interact with the links until all the hidden advertisement pages the site loads were all done loading >.> "
@greenblattsam said:
"Chrome makes it horrid at the bottom I LOVE it at the top :D! "
Theres your problem right there, you are using Chrome instead of Firefox :P "
I use Chrome and I liked the bottom 1,000x better.
@Symphony: if you put your mouse over/near the status in chrome it will flick to the other side >.> so it really wasn't a problem for me.
also while I do appreciate the site and how much of a nightmare coding something like this is I just used 4 css rules to put it back at the bottom #userbar{ position:fixed; width:100% ; bottom:0; z-index:1000; }
it doesn't change the popout being below but I'm pretty sure I could do it kinda easily, might make it a userstyle if they don't add an option to switch it =P
I like it much better back up top personally. Not a fan of distracting and permanently fixed information at the bottom of a webpage. Nahright.com just put a shitty scrolling bar at the bottom of their site it pisses me off.
I prefer it now, but I think that the font choice for level seems a tad out of place, and I would have preferred it had the bar been thinner and further elongated, so it further resembled the bottom bar, but remained static at the top and (maybe, would have to try it out myself design wise) didn't cover up the entire top of the site.
Either way, I think it's an improvement. Kudos to the web-design team.
I'm not sure which I prefer right now, this or the old one. Expect this post to have 49 subsequent updates informing you of my continually changing opinion on it before I finally decide that I like it.
Personally, I prefer having it at the top, as I don't have the most powerful PC to browse Giantbomb, and having the fancy overlay at the bottom was cool, but killed my page load times.
It's now much quicker at loading the site with the box at the top, so thankyou GB/Wiskey Media crew. :)
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