Hi Guys,
Following on from last weeks blog where lots of you gave great feedback, we've rolled out an update today with a number of different changes and fixes to the site as promised.
Firstly this is the first of a bigger update in which we will offer you more things to keep you occupied and test your mettle against other UGAME users. So this update was predominantly about fixing some issues we found across the site and updating the graphics.
Some things you will notice:
- New Header, background, tabs and Main pages design: The new header is transparent so will do nicely alongside another update we will roll out next week if you can guess what that will be!
- We have now added Steam ID to the list of gaming identities you can add, something that has been requested and we listned.
- New Uploader: with the release of Flash 10 it somewhat broke our picture and file uploader, so with this release everything should be in order again.
- New combo box: Now you will notice a much improved version of our combobox complete with icons, its not something which will slap you in the face but these little things really help! ;)
- You now have the ability to turn off NOTIFICATIONS FOR NEW MEMBERS OF GROUPS, which should stop a little of the notification spam. Find this here: http://ugame.net/dashboard/privacy/
- Finally quite a lot of bug fixes we encountered across the site recently, and as per usual be sure to use the GOT FEEDBACK button on the top left of your screen to keep us informed!
Anyway thanks for playing games and being awesome etc.. :D If you still want a chance to win a UGAME tshirt all you have to do is give your feedback in the previous Development blog about what YOU would like to see on UGAME!
Cheerio my friends!!
THE UGAME TEAM // The best thing since sliced bread..
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it looks SW33T ! lovely transparent header and awesome black footer! <3 IT !
EDIT : i spotted a bug, if i fill in my steamID and click save nothing happends if you click it there comes a '#' behind the page url. so it does nothing ^^
kboy
great job Sam - and removing that really annoying ad :) <3
swine
thanks for sending me the mail twice again! :(
SAM - zr0
No way..! this time it only went out once, maybe you have two accounts on UGAME which link to similar addresses? They couldnt be the same but it could be like sam@ and sam.mathews@ which forward to the same thing.
swine
hm, i should not have two accounts and im getting those mails on the same adress
LINKAGE
much better :D
zai0s
so can you change the gears of war pic to something different somewhere? or is the background not user controlled - only just got up probably being a r-tard :x
SAM - zr0
Can't change it yet, next week :D
zai0s
kk :)
kevin
REALLY NICE! :)
Phunky
Always nice to be keep in the dev loop, now we just need a list of the lowest Steam IDs on UGame :D
mAson
good work
Geepak
I think its a step up indeed. I think it might be avisable to look at the "wmode" of the flash ads, or use the position/z-index fix if you cant edit the flash so your hover over elements don't appear under the ads. I am very happy you have fixed the overflow issues on the titles on homepage (explore).
One small thing that bothered me is the use of an RSS icon on the news feed. Technically its not an RSS feed and you cannot use it as RSS, so I don't think its great usability to use that icon. Unless of course it is RSS and I have missed how to grab that feed, if that's the case it would need to be a little more obvious.
What would be nice is an ability to put in your gaming history, similar to how Linkedin do their CV, style profiles, just in a smaller, component level way.
This site is really progressing well, I don't think you are getting the most out of it yet. I think some other user generated content would be useful and possible quite fun. Such as users being able to post news (which can be moderated) or tag news from other places on the internet.
Phunky
I like the idea of the Linkedin approach for how you know people, could be taken advantage of within the Team/Guild sections of the site.
Lither
Very nice !