13 minutes ago, YukonPete said:

People who don't like change never progress. 

If you can not see what is wrong then I do not know what to say.....

14 minutes ago, YukonPete said:

People who don't like change never progress. 

Changing to something worse isn't progress.

5 minutes ago, carlanthony24 said:

If you can not see what is wrong then I do not know what to say.....

or you just have different ideas of wrong. 

It's subjective, not a fact.

Edited July 11, 20232 yr by Tuskin38

6 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

or you just have different ideas of wrong. 

It's subjective, not a fact.

Its fact 98% I would say judging by the comments saying the same. You can tell it has not been tested. In this day and age you don't release till tested or have been given feedback and you would also have a back up and not get rid of the backup.

If it's true, that they didn't save a backup of the original site, then I'm pretty much at a loss for words. I guess, if that is indeed true, I never knew how amateur these guys are or who they hired for their web development. It's dumbfounding. For the people saying "those who don't like change don't like progress", thats laughable. Cruise around the usual flight sim sites and you'll see nearly everyone is outraged. This isn't progress. It's a giant leap backwards. There was no need for a change this big. The previous iteration worked reasonably well. If they had just worked out the kinks there, we'd be in a much better position. Unfortunately, they've gone the complete other direction. 

Edited July 11, 20232 yr by Bdub22

Some of the comments here...And the circle jerk begins. Instead of saying 'update bad hurr durr', maybe provide with actual feedback so they can improve and fix the shortcomings. They didn't purposely do this you know. Stuff happens and it's not always good. 

4 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

Some of the comments here...And the circle jerk begins. Instead of saying 'update bad hurr durr', maybe provide with actual feedback so they can improve and fix the shortcomings. They didn't purposely do this you know. Stuff happens and it's not always good. 

Submitted feedback but never heard anything back. If they could at least roll back and fix everything during that time plus test it. Then people would be more happy.

Like a lot of us are saying why break something if it is not broken. I would be interested to know who asked for a complete revamp.

Edited July 11, 20232 yr by carlanthony24

I most definitely do not like the new site overall - not nearly as user friendly as the old one.

However, I do like the dark theme. 

chaos/confusion

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From what I can gather from reading the last part. They don't want to own up to the mistakes and would rather us just accept what Its like and let it grow.

Like I said they should use the back up if they still had it till they resolve the majority of issues.

Edited July 11, 20232 yr by carlanthony24

6 minutes ago, carlanthony24 said:

From what I can gather from reading the last part. They don't want to own up to the mistakes and would rather us just accept what Its like and let it grow.

Like I said they should use the back up if they still had it till they resolve the majority of issues.

Definitely the way it sounds. I don't like it, I think the redesign massively undercuts the user experience and despite their saying that most of the functionality may be there eventually, the UX changes and hiding things behind menus are really ill-conceived. I have already said it on this thread, but I am simply not going to be frequenting them much any more and not looking for mods. If I see a mod referenced somewhere that resides as fs.to, I will click through the link and download it. Using their tools to look for things with the new - awful - picture layout makes it too difficult to scan for what you might be interested in.

I find that with the very high percentage of negative feedback (98%+), it is remarkable that they are doubling down and telling people to adapt rather than listening to the feedback. They locked the thread down just so that they could stop the negativity. That's not listening to your customers.

It only took me a couple minutes to get used to the new design.

17 minutes ago, carlanthony24 said:

Many of the missing features some of you have mentioned here have not been removed; they are just located in different places due to the new design. For example, features such as wishlists, new updates, changelogs, and individual feeds are still available. Once found, rest assured, your familiar functionalities remain intact, just a few clicks away in their new location.

They then go onto say:

17 minutes ago, carlanthony24 said:

Missing features will be available again as usual in a few days.

They didn't even say where the missing features are. Just that...they're there....somewhere.

Edited July 11, 20232 yr by Bdub22

2 minutes ago, Tuskin38 said:

It only took me a couple minutes to get used to the new design.

It's not about getting used to the new design. It's about whether the new design it functional/helpful/easy, especially as compared to the previous site.

We can all admire a Rube Goldberg machine - it doesn't mean it's the best implementation of a particular function.