New WinCustomize 2010 Comprehensive Bug Thread

Seems to me that the old site had easier navigation and better speed and fewer bugs, even at it's worst.

Agree!

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DaveBax

Join Date 10/2007

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Quoting Island Dog,

reply 147

Quoting LightStar, reply 146
Forums and the new WC site are really separate.

While unfortunately that is true in the case of WinCustomize ID, it should not be. Forums should be integrated into a site seamlessly, there should be no need to do something extra or different just because you are in the forums.

Forums are "integrated" into the site, however, the new site bugs and the forum issues are typically handled by different devs, hence the reason I posted.

I don't agree at all. If the Forums were "Integrated" you wouldn't have to log into each one separately.

Integrated: organized or structured so that constituent units function cooperatively or combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole:

Believe me I understand the amount of work that has been put into making the new site but if there are different people involved in making the new site and getting it to work than they need to get together more often and work in a straight line. I also think to many things are trying to get completed to quickly and without a plan as to what will get fixed next and get fixed correctly.

Just my 5 cents worth.

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DaveBax

Join Date 10/2007

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I must say I logged into the main site and was actually logged into the 'forums. Doesn't happen all the time but did this time. Usually the case right after you do or say something the opposite.

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In the "Views" department...I keep ticking the 60 per page and when I go to another site it is gone. Should there be a a box to tick on the My Account page so that it will be done automatically?

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

+2223

Then there is the age old problem we've had forever. I am signed in.

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WebGizmos

Join Date 09/2003

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just been into 'My Skins' page for first time.... think this is really a page that needed to be left alone...

don't need that stuff on the right hand side....it's elsewhere if we want it...

Author ? ....well...it's 'MY' Skins....so that's a waste of space column...

Gallery .....well that was well taken care of previously with icons.......so waste of space there...

Last Updated ....can be obtained from the uploaded gallery page...so more waste of space columns...

Ratings......doesn't need to be the stars..numbers are fine....so can reduce space there...

....and give us back Comments....and Referrals....

also....the tick for new comments is not showing...

I'm actually beginning to wonder if the designers ever actually had a go at using this site....to get a user's point of view of what we need..

many new features I like...but this page misses badly...

Yup...just checked this once useful page out...now it's as useless as tits on a guy.

All the most used information is gone...comments count...individual downloads...overall downloads...ratings (in numbers). Referrals were useless to me since they mostly led to some email account or some rip site or right back here to WC...so no loss there for me anyways.

Everything that's on there now I can get by just going to the submission itself. Epic fail on that one guys...not very well thought out.

And based on the downloads I see now on the new site as opposed to the old one....traffic seems to have dropped off...or people can't find things as easily as they once could. I know you guys said navigation was going to be better...but it's not nearly as easy to find things as it once was...and I even "know" where things are...after some hunting of course.

Even the forums seems to have lost traffic.

....and I've had a sex change in my Profile page...

Pics! We want pics!

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vStyler

Join Date 11/2004

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now it's as useless as tits on a guy.

Better get rid of mine then oh and, about that formerly useful page, couldn't agree more, def. needs some tlc.

As far as the rest of your post, unfortunately, it's pretty much dead on as far as I can see.

Btw, i REAAALLY miss not having the recent posts list on the side of the page.

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Frankief

Join Date 09/2003

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Any updates on when the personal pages will be available? For a subscriber perk, I would think we would get some priority in being able to access the features we use most. As of now one cannot access the settings or much of anything else for that matter. Know you are aware of all this, just an estimate on when we might see our stuff back. Thanking you in advance!

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Vampothika

Join Date 07/2006

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alot of things still arent working, most stuff i click on turns out to be something totally opposite.

i also want the notifications of new comments on skins back PLEASE, otherwise how are we meant to know if a new comment has been made other than email (and im not watching every skin) so its almost impossible.

can we also please lose the drop down list when you click on forums? its extremly annoying, i dont find a list of the 'latest' posts very helpful, id rather just do my own seaerching for what i want to see ect.

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retiredmaster

Join Date 03/2001

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Ditto the comments about 'My Skins' - really would like to be able to see a new comments flag.

Also - Master skins sales. It's something essential as it's kinda a contract between the master skinner and Stardock, so we need to be able to track sales.

Thanks.

Tim

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

+296

I like the "recent posts" idea however I think that "recent threads" would be more useful. sortable by catagory maybe?

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vStyler

Join Date 11/2004

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I sorta meant that, Recent 'activity'

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well so you guys know, the My Skins page I've been working on as a replacement for the old one is pretty much completed. I'm working out some bugs now and it should be ready to go tomorrow hopefully. Also the storing of number of skins in your view will be released at the same time. The way it will work is when you manually change the number of skins per page in any gallery it should hold on that number until you manually change it again. Right now it's just holding skins per page, however, it could potentially save some other options as well if people really want that.

and gmc2, the only flash content I cant think of on the skin details pages is in the ads we pull in from our adserver, however, I'm guessing you are a subscriber and don't see ads. Thus there is no reason having flash off should have killed anything on that page... It's possible the skin sharing plug-in uses flash, but again I'm 90% sure it doesn't.

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WebGizmos

Join Date 09/2003

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well so you guys know, the My Skins page I've been working on as a replacement for the old one is pretty much completed

So this replacement you speak of will have the stuff we actually use back in it? That would be nice.

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The last two days page loading,mainly in the forums but occasionally the home page as well has slowed to a crawl. I have a very fast cable connection and the site used to fly.(Old and new) Nothing changed on my end that I can think of. Win7 64bit/IE8

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gmc2

Join Date 11/2003

+296

and gmc2, the only flash content I cant think of on the skin details pages is in the ads we pull in from our adserver, however, I'm guessing you are a subscriber and don't see ads. Thus there is no reason having flash off should have killed anything on that page... It's possible the skin sharing plug-in uses flash, but again I'm 90% sure it doesn't.

I'm just saying......

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Frankief

Join Date 09/2003

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Thank you Kestrel for the update. It will be great to have our skins page back.

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Z71

Join Date 08/2001

+76

The galleries aren't updating. I just changed view 9 to 60 and then they show up.

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WebGizmos

Join Date 09/2003

+735

And any idea when Journeymen will get their uploading privileges back and not have things go to moderation?

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Disturbedcomputer

Join Date 02/2007

+137

April 25, 2010 4:30:38 PM

Thanks LightStar, I was just coming back to say I found it. I'm on IE8, you get it back by going into Windows Explorer (as opposed to Internet Explorer) tools/folder options/file types/"advanced button" for the wba file type. Pffft, piece of cake. I wasted more time poking around the Microsoft Knowledge base search and not finding it. I think the last time I did it I must've done it "the hard way" somehow or other, pretty sure the registry was involved.

Do you know how to do it with Windows 7 in IE8? OR anyone

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Disturbedcomputer

Join Date 02/2007

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Can't use Robo Form to log in ... is this going to be fixed ?

The steps I have to take to log in

click on Robo (Wincustomize 2) then it takes me to the site then I have to right click on robo (Wincustomize 2) then click on Fill form...

Should just have to click on robo then (Wincustomize 2) and it should log me in ... but i guess this post too will be ignored as with my Reply #37

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WebGizmos

Join Date 09/2003

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Can anyone tell me what the deal is with the galleries? I still have 6 broken images in there plus 3 that I just uploaded as well are broken...not even sure if the uploads took or not since they are still in limbo.

And the forums seem to be broken again as well.

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Quoting DisturbedComputer,

reply 171

Activity Stats

Last Active: April 28, 2010 4:09 AM

Status: ( Offline ) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ??
I can't be Cause I am Typing this right now
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EDIT:
Can't use Robo Form to log in ... is this going to be fixed ?
The steps I have to take to log in
click on Robo (Wincustomize 2) then it takes me to the site then I have to right click on robo (Wincustomize 2) then click on Fill form...
Should just have to click on robo then (Wincustomize 2) and it should log me in ... but i guess this post too will be ignored as with my Reply #37

I read your previous post and it's not being ignored, however, there are a lot of things being asked for from a lot of people and I'm trying to focus on the fixes/features the majority of people are requesting. When in the middle of implementing changes nothing will get done if constantly changing gears every time someone posts something new.

For Robo Form: we cannot guarantee compatibility with 3rd party plugins... We don't try to break them, however, if something happens there is nothing we can do about it, you are probably better off contacting the makers of the plugin honestly.

For the Offline issue: are you seeing this on the forums? If so I will inform Bara about it.

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Quoting WebGizmos,

reply 172

Can anyone tell me what the deal is with the galleries? I still have 6 broken images in there plus 3 that I just uploaded as well are broken...not even sure if the uploads took or not since they are still in limbo.

And the forums seem to be broken again as well.

Which galleries? The ones on the new site in the explore menu? We are currently having some caching issues with those, which could mean you are seeing old data (and thus things may look broken). If you are talking about your personal page, the preview images on there will be broken for the time being.

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I think the new site has actually scared some people away, a lot of posts from the same folks are no longer around, is it me or am i just that observant and too much free time, just my observations, i just notice a different "feel" here as of late, anyone else notice this as well???

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