Comments on the New Spanish Dict Site

Question

It seems the new site has gone from Beta to Alpha... Anyway, I am being directed to it automatically in both Firefox and IE.

It used to be that you could see right on the Q&A page whether someone asking a question was new to the site, what their reputation was, etc. This was very helpful just to make a response. It would be great to put that back without having to click on their user name, get a new page to look at, and then having to go back to the previous page.

If anyone else has similar (hopefully positive) suggestions, please post them.

Thanks,

Jeremy

• I clicked on the vote button and it changed to -1. Bug? - Leatha Feb 3, 2012
• Why did I get a negative vote for this post? - Jeremias Feb 3, 2012
• it wasn't my idea, it just happened. - Leatha Feb 3, 2012
• Now you have negative 2. Bummer... - sanlee Feb 3, 2012
• Don't vote for Jeremias until they get the bugs out of this post..... - sanlee Feb 3, 2012
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Answer 1

Does anyone else not see the menu of icons for bolding, quotes, images, etc. in the new version? I am not seeing it in Firefox. I found out through experimentation, however, that you can still make links or post pictures if you do it manually since there are no icons to click on.

• Same here qfreed, can't do much without menu! Why did they change it??? - soytommy Feb 3, 2012
• No, it's gone for me, too. - KevinB Feb 3, 2012
• It's gone, how do you put in a picture or a link. Help. - Stadt Feb 3, 2012
• Seems like this got fixed, now. Still no emoticons window, though. - Gekkosan Feb 3, 2012

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Answer 2

Evidently they looked carefully at all the comments and suggestions that were made during the beta period, and decided to do the complete opposite!

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Answer 3

Sorry Christopher but this situation is N U T S.

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Answer 4

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the feedback. When you are browsing the Q&A, you can hover your mouse over the user's avatar to see their stats. We wanted to reduce some of the clutter when browsing, but still make it available if you wanted to see it.

Thanks, Chris

• OK, I see. Streamlining is good, but at some point we aren't smart enough to utilize all the clever features of the site! I will say I never found it unwieldy before, and I'm having trouble getting used to this; that could just be my resistance to change - Jeremias Feb 3, 2012
• That's not "clutter"... that's information I look at very frequently!!! - pesta Feb 3, 2012
• I think we all do, Pesta! - MLucie Feb 3, 2012
• Hovering does not work on my touchscreen. I can't see a user's reputation without exiting the screen. Boo! - MLucie Feb 3, 2012
• How about a "clutter free" right side of screen ? - ian-hill Feb 3, 2012

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Answer 5

I am on the new site. I seem to be having a problem with voting. When I click to vote on a question or answer nothing seems to happen.

• I'd vote for you, but it's dangerous right now. - MLucie Feb 3, 2012

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Answer 6

It's almost a little bit too streamlined... a little cold and unfriendly, would be hard to find certain things if I was a new user.

• Welcome to the forum, :) - Heidita Feb 3, 2012

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Answer 7

It took me out in the middle of an answer, too. I see nothing on the right side to do with the site. The votes are not sticking. . I just voted up Nicole, but it didn't stick. but the vote I gave to Jeremias did not register and he still has -1.

• Well, now I have -2 :) - Jeremias Feb 3, 2012
• Whoops, negative 3 now!! - sanlee Feb 3, 2012
• I am going to turn it off now for a while and I hope that it's better when I turn it back on. Thanks. - sanlee Feb 3, 2012

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Answer 8

TBH, I don't like it, it's buggy as hell! Fix the bugs before you put it into Alpha. Ill get used to it, but for the love of God fix the bugs first!

• I'm 100% in agreement. We should not be forced to use a buggy system. This will only chase away visitors to the site. I'll be back in few days. Hopefully I will then be able to use the site without all this unnecessary frustration. - NickDan Feb 3, 2012

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Answer 9

Further comments:

As noted, when one votes for someone it isn't recorded on the page, and sometimes shows negative.

When you select a special character from below, you get two characters instead of 1. A bargain, to be sure, but inconvenient. I like though that the characters are bigger

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Answer 10

Why do I get two instances of any tilde letter chosen using my mouse?

áá

éé

íí

óó

This site is not ready for prime time. Should have been tested a lot longer before trashing the old site. PLEASE restore the old site until this stuff works!

• Indeed it is not. F.i. , for non-geeks it's impossible to post a picture, because the former instruments in the answer part have disappeared. I second Pesta's request. - Castor77 Feb 3, 2012

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Answer 11

Voting isn't working for me, either. I also don't see any pictures, just little red X's.

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Answer 12

Well, some things seem to be working better now lol I can vote for people's posts without worrying that I am giving them negative reputation points

The menu of icons directly above the answer box, including bold, hyperlink and picture link all display correctly as do the accents below. It would be great to have the emoticons back again lol

Thank You Chris that you are working on some of these things to improve them! inevitably any new site has teething problems but in retrospect/with the gift of hindsight perhaps it would better not to get rid of the old before the new is working well lol

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Answer 13

HI everybody, please have a look at this thread:

Please find my thread on compilation of feedback and problems here, please add any thoughts or ideas there, thanks.

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