[Locked] FAKKU Redesign

Just noticed at least on the main page book/doujin you can buy regardless of if you bought them or not have "In Library" next to it, which is quite misleading. Also at /books everything has a 'Purchase' icon next to it, regardless of if it's been bought or not.

Really all them say "In Library", for me?

Yup! What I see on the /books page and this is my library. I own all the books but Super Dimmensional Love Gun and Legend of the Overfiend.

EDIT: This is my main page. I don't own any of these.

Liking it so far.
Keep it up J.

Overall, I like the beta design with some caveats.

Likes:

• I like how the navigation bar is one clean consistent line across the top and doesn't take too much space. It makes for easy browsing.

• The overall look is cleaner and helps make the content more noticable.

• The "In Library" and "Purchase" tabs is something quite a few of us ask for rather than just "Books". It's something quite a few of us asked for.

• The repution buttons are bigger so there's a smaller likelihood of downvoting someone I mean to upvote (or vice versa).

Caveats:

• The forums has too much "white space" between the "topics" and "last posts". Alternating color contrasts between each forum topic can alleviate this.

• The front page looks nice but can get pretty barren below the fold with just the new releases there. Placing some "news" or "announcements" in encapsulation somewhere can help fill the void, catch some attention for content you might want to push and organize the page a little more. It doesn't have to be detailed and can link to official forum posts for complete information.

Take for example, the "Today we are proud to officially release.. Tiny Boobs Giant Tits History! MEGA MILK IS BACK!" banner. It's so small I almost missed it. You can expand that just a little by adding an "announcement" bar to the left or right with maybe an image to catch the eye. People who recognize Mega Milk are more likely to get excited and click the link if they can see what's being announced. And who knows? This might help drive more purchases by attracting more attention that way, metrics will tell.

• I think I've already found a bug while testesting the upvote/downvote system. I upvoted Jacob's top post and then downvoted to see if I can reverse the decision. I tried adding back my upvote only to have it downvote again.

• In the end it went from +4 (starting) -> +5 (my upvote) -> +4 (my "takeback" test downvote) -> +3 (my trying to "add back" an upvote) It looks like pressing the upvote twice will also "take back" the vote, but the system didn't recognize that I have already already done that when I pressed downvote.

Suggestions:

• In so far as surfacing previous conent, you can place a "recommended" box in the whitespace beside newer releaes that pushes older content that shares the same on tags/authors you've already read.

• Showing us that we can search multiple tabs can be simple. What if I search "harem" in the bar, below the first suggestion (harem) there can also be the suggsted list such as (harem vanilla dark skin etc..). This will subtly suggest "hey, multiple tags!" and users will naturally search their desired tags together.

• As you've said, you want FAKKU to look like more than just a scanlation site. Look at any other publisher's site and what do you see? Not just new releases but some form of interactive content such as announcements/recommendations/polls. The more you interact with users, the more professional it feels. Don't just throw content at users on the front page, engage with us on content.

For the most part, I like it. There are obvious signs that you've taken some criticism to heart and implemented some solutions. Some are great, others may need a bit more attention. Anyway, this is just my five minute review with the beta, I might make some follow up posts as time goes on but I appreciate the effort to make the site faster and user-friendly.

Could 'Read Later' finally easier to get to? Like include in My Account droplist?

Also, lot of spacing/padding in comments under stories. More scrolling, harder to read for me, but maybe easier for others.

I don't notice much else different, but I am a casual user. The one thing I would love, is if the covers of the magazines got their own entry. Some of those covers are amazing and just so hot. I would buy a collection of them, but until then, it would be nice to be able to add them to favorites or something.

Made several more fixes over the weekend, most bugs from this thread should be fixed!

Let me know if there are any new ones found

Voting down on comments seems to add a point instead of subtracting one.

Fixed! It wasn't actually causing the upvote, was just a visual bug.

Interesting comment, I actually feel the same thing. However the design of the comments was one of the few things that didn't change between the current design and the redesign, they are pretty much identical.

One immediate change I disliked was that there are no longer preview pages underneath the chapter description. If I'm checking out a new artist I really like to be able to get a quick look inside.


:(

I kind of liked the previews too. Can they be an optional feature?

Not sure if this is something with my iPad or with the beta, but when I am on google chrome on my iPad I can't go full screen anymore.

Edit: it seems this is a problem with all iOS devices, you can't go fullscreen through the chrome app, whether in beta or not in beta.

When I try this on android devices in chrome it goes fullscreen just fine.

I don't think the contrast between the white and gray is big enough not to have borders. It might just be me but while I can see the border it's not that clear and they blend together in the sides where I'm not directly looking, making it kind of irritating to look at, like some optical illusion video. Looks fine otherwise.

I miss notification numbers in tab title.


Also Twitter embedding on forum.

I don't know if I'm just blind but I can't find the "Read Later" button in beta mode. Without it I can't put new content into my list nor remove chapters I've read.

Should be fixed! And Tweets should still work properly on the forums, are you having problems?

Thanks!
As for Twitter I checked post history and yeah they still work, there's just no button for it on toolbar during post writing.