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Re: Official Website Is Launched!
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lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:03:27 GMT
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In lugnet.build.ancient, Richard Marchetti wrote:
   In lugnet.build.ancient, Jeff Byrd wrote:
   It might be your computer. This site requires updated flash stuff. Well, that and a decent modem speed.

Great! Blame the supposedly welcome and would-be customer...

Things that suck about your site:
-snip-


While he could have been more tactful, he is right. The pop-up is annoying, and websites that require the user to have the newest software and/or hardware are poorly designed.

My initial experience (dialup/windows 98/newest version of flash)...

It takes me a little over 2 minutes from the time the pop-up comes up to the time the loading graphic appears, if I’m doing nothing else over the connection. If you can’t speed this up, you should have a warning in your main warning that it could be several minutes before the ‘loading’ text appears in the new window.

After clicking on ‘Medieval Weapon Set’, I get the loading image graphic... and that is all. Wait awhile, nothing happens. Go away after 20 minutes, come back 2 hours later, and its still loading the image.

After trying some other things, I eventually discovered that some of the images will not display for me until I click on “View Details”/”See Insitu”. Once I figured this out, and started clicking on “View Details”/”See Insitu” regularly, it took only about 10 seconds per image, which is much more reasonable.



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  Re: Official Website Is Launched!
 
(...) I'm on dial up here, and I can't slam the site cuz it doesn't load. I have the newest flash and 98 too. It starts the loading progress bar and then stalls out. I'd love to see it when it gets changed. (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)
  Re: Official Website Is Launched!
 
(...) Almost similair experiences here (cable instead of dial-up and Linux/KDE instead of Win98) ... Please either also do a non-flash site or tweak the Flash pages to load better. Although we're perhaps a minority, there are people that don't use (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: Official Website Is Launched!
 
(...) Great! Blame the supposedly welcome and would-be customer... Things that suck about your site: 1. You have a useless portal page that forces a pop-up (and therefore forces me to change my "quick preference" browser settings to see your stupid (...) (21 years ago, 25-Jun-03, to lugnet.build.ancient, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming.brikwars, lugnet.space, lugnet.starwars, FTX)

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