Some Issues with the main Site

[optoisolated]

Hi; I hope this is the right place to post this info. I've noticed a couple of issues with the site.
1: In Dark Mode, the reply text box, the text is invisible and can't be read while typing. The text is there as you can see it when you highlight it. It works fine in Light mode.
2: The images on the homepage are taking a long time to load, apparently due to them loading larger images than the image box requires. Thumbnail generation may be required here.
3: When posting replies, I am getting timeouts. I haven't been able to confirm this outside of my experience, but its definitely repeatable. (replying to the home page AA gaming article).

[Aidy]

Type text here...Also the text in the comment box doesn't act like a placeholder, you need to delete it which is inconsistent with the single-line boxes for the other fields.

[Saskia]

Type text here...Also the text in the comment box doesn't act like a placeholder, you need to delete it which is inconsistent with the single-line boxes for the other fields.

I would just remove the placeholder text in those boxes as it's not really required anyway since each text box has a label - Comment, Name, Email, Website - which are all self explanatory. Placeholder text is really only necessary if you don't have room to put a separate label, like the way they've put "Search here...." in the Search box.

If they insist on keeping the placeholder text, a quick fix to the code would also suffice.

Currently the code for their text area input is:

<textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true">Type text here...</textarea>

It should be:

<textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true" placeholder="Type text here..."></textarea>

[Saskia]

Good point.

[hugonun]

The only browsers that don't support it are the ones that don't support HTML5, which is IE<10. I don't think that's our audience nor should we care about users still using it.

[Aidy]

Yeah, that's the only browser that doesn't support html5 *rolls eyes*

You have to remember that while Jeremy talks up the process by discussing developers, there hasn't really been any actual development, everything he is using is off-the-shelf including the comments feature. That comments feature was probably written years ago and just not updated.

[optoisolated]

Agree that would be the ideal fix. Is anyone else having the issue with the posting on the articles?

[Scarran]

I have a few minor issues/suggestions with the site.

1. When looking at comments it would be nice to have the name of the person commenting to be colored/bold or some way to distinguish it more than it being the same font/style as their comment.
2. I heard Jeremy say that currently there is not going to be ads on the site, but I am seeing what looks like an ad. Not sure if it's a leftover placeholder but on the main site and news listings I am seeing this ad (https://www.exclusivelygames.com/wp-...8/12/ad-sb.jpg).
3. It would be nice to get some cohesion with colors, when you are on the main page the authors name is white but when you go into the article or subsections the authors name is red/pinky red.
4. Within the latest articles section, the big article in the middle for me should be the latest article. Right now the video games section is showing an article that is 2 days older than the latest article posted in that section, instead the latest article is displayed in a little box on the top left.
5. It would be nice to have a counter alongside comments on the thumbnail of the article to show total comments. I know you do it when you click inside the article but it would be nice to have it on the article preview/thumbnail like is done with the view counter.
6. Google Plus is becoming defunct, it's a waste of time having the button there as they are closing it down.
7. On the Gaming drop down menu. The tabletop link is pointing to the wrong location, it is going to exclusivelygames.com/category/tabletop/ instead of http://www.exclusivelygames.com/cate...ming/tabletop/.

[optoisolated]

He said they might have sponsors though, didn't he?

[Saskia]

There appears to be some links which were still trying to load things from the old server and causing a few slow downs or timeouts.

The website originally launched at exclusivelygames.com which was hosted at Liquid Web (Jeremy's old host for his other sites), but has now been moved to the correct domain www.exclusivelygames.com hosted on Cloudflare.

>>> https://exclusivelygames.com


> --------------------------------------------
> 301 Moved Permanently
> --------------------------------------------
   
Status:
301 Moved Permanently

Code:
301

Date:
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:35:00 GMT

Server:
Apache

Upgrade:
h2,h2c

Connection:
Upgrade, close

Location:
https://www.exclusivelygames.com/

Cache-Control:
max-age=3600

Expires:
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 07:35:00 GMT

Content-Length:
0

Content-Type:
text/html; charset=UTF-8


 >>> https://www.exclusivelygames.com/

> --------------------------------------------
> 200 OK
> --------------------------------------------
   
Status:
200 OK

Code:
200

Date:
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 06:34:55 GMT

Content-Type:
text/html; charset=UTF-8

Connection:
close

Set-Cookie:
 expires=Sun, 16-Feb-20 06:34:55 GMT; path=/; domain=.exclusivelygames.com; HttpOnly; Secure

Link:
<https://www.exclusivelygames.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.exclusivelygames.com/>; rel=shortlink

Cache-Control:
max-age=3600

Expires:
Sat, 16 Feb 2019 07:35:01 GMT

Vary:
Accept-Encoding

Expect-CT:
max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"

Server:
cloudflare

CF-RAY:
4a9dfdbc1b346ac7-LHR

Also I believe this might explain the reason the website couldn't handle the traffic when it first launched because it was on the old server.

Update: Looks like some of the links to the old server are working again which should resolve a few problems.

[Proxima]

Good stuff in here, folks!

[optoisolated]

Looks like since switching to the www, the performance issue has resolved itself, and the form now lets me submit. Excellent Now just need to get that placeholder fixed up.

[Caladors]

I still haven't been able to load it since soft launch

[Saskia]

Check your DNS settings. Is this on a PC?

[Caladors]

it is on PC... laptop but, now it seems to be loading I have been trying but until I wrote this comment it never loaded after the soft launch... I don't know what to say magic internet fairies must have fixed it.

[optoisolated]

I was having all sorts of issues using https://exclusivelygames.com but https://www.exclusivelygames.com works for me. Performance is drastically improved; sounds like Cloudflare has finished distributing the cache.

[optoisolated]

I did find several of the category links still link to https://ex... instead of https://www.ex... sounds like some of the forwarders arent working correctly &&|| they may need to implement relative linking instead of absolute.

[aileron]

Timeouts yesterday for me and I couldn't load it at all but today it's fine except it does seem to hang up posting comments. 2 out of 3 of my comments worked and I had to manually refresh the page to see them. I have no idea where dark mode is, others have mentioned it, but I cannot find the button to turn it on. Otherwise, it isn't too bad for day 2.

[optoisolated]

Top left of the page. Red box with the word "Theme \/" in it.

[Tonic]

Things should be smoothing out and going quicker now, the other issues we're looking into