New Website Bugs/Feedback

@marcspector you need to press enter, they aren't meant to be selectable (even thou that would be a good idea)

I must say i hate the "description" of the factions. I get that you wanted to be kinda funny there but imagine reading that as a new player. Sounds like some sort of meme game

@eternal said in New Website Bugs/Feedback:

@xiaomao literally "We cant afford it, but BAR can do whatever they want"

I can say this from user's side as well, I despise websites that force videos and especially gifs (which should have been banned from existence ever since million+ times more space efficient video formats started existing imo) into them, even large pictures sometimes, because they cause website to take long to load and completely incapacitate you from using internet for anything else during it, not only because of server's bandwidth, but mine too, not everyone has cheap terabit internet speeds to waste on fancy trivialities that add nothing

Oh, I see that people think it's problem with the website, that is regarding to what I wrote. No it's not. It's exactly as Mach wrote, just cuz we can drop there a 50mb video that will play in background doesn't mean we should. The website should be fast, responsible and good looking.

Unfortunately we didn't manage to get a good looking video that would also be small enough not to chog up the bandwidth of the end user, especially ones with slower connection. Then there is also scalability issues etc.

Though if you are willing to pursue it feel free to do so, I'm by no means expert so most likely there is someone who can whip us a good video, that's small in size while still good looking. In that case I think Javi wouldn't be against having one on the website considering he(or maybe someone else) was looking into it.

@nuggets said in New Website Bugs/Feedback:

I must say i hate the "description" of the factions. I get that you wanted to be kinda funny there but imagine reading that as a new player. Sounds like some sort of meme game

We are aware of that, and are fully open to changing them when someone comes up with something good. Cuz not gonna lie, some of them were but a placeholders. cough cough sera one.

@xiaomao How about something like this:

• UEF - Unite the galaxy using overwhelming force and powerful defences
• Cybran - Liberate the galaxy with ambushes and trickery
• Aeon - Cleanse the galaxy with highly specialised units each excelling at a particular role
• Seraphim - Annihilate the galaxy with smaller numbers of advanced technological units

I think we've lost the page to change your username..?

@serpentor if you log in, you can rename, just need to hover your mouse over the nick

@magge as others have said, its hard finding a video that's sweet and short for this. I'm not opposed to having a video but I would need someone to create something of good quality and export it into something very tight (8mb tops). Making it a very difficult mission

@javi I only got FAF downloaded a few days ago and linked my account (to steam) at about the same but every time I try and launch it, it asks for me to link my account and takes me to a 404 error link on the website. Any help would be appreciated.
https://www.faforever.com/account/link specifically that link is giving me a 404.

@randomm3rc2781 yes Im sorry, there was an issue with it, now it has been fixed

@javi I'm actually still having the same issue, any advice? have cleared cookies but that's about it.

@randomm3rc2781 forget my last its working thank you!!!!

@randomm3rc2781 yeah it was just not released yet lol, don’t worry

@javi said in New Website Bugs/Feedback:

@magge as others have said, its hard finding a video that's sweet and short for this. I'm not opposed to having a video but I would need someone to create something of good quality and export it into something very tight (8mb tops). Making it a very difficult mission

Just as a benchmark did a little background video for work, 23 sec long in 1920x1080, no problem with H264 even to get it to 1.7 MB, 3 MB and 7 MB for diff quality levels. Depending on the client connection it chooses the best quality level.

Even a MB isn't trivial considering most website elements are measured in 10s of KB

@xiaomao said in New Website Bugs/Feedback:

@nuggets said in New Website Bugs/Feedback:

I must say i hate the "description" of the factions. I get that you wanted to be kinda funny there but imagine reading that as a new player. Sounds like some sort of meme game

We are aware of that, and are fully open to changing them when someone comes up with something good. Cuz not gonna lie, some of them were but a placeholders. cough cough sera one.

How about not talking about how the factions plays itself but rather it's story background? Kind of boring compared to actual information about the gameplay but would be easier

@nuggets why not both?

Also for anyone here, I'm way too busy to focus on faction pages by myself. But if someone wants to write down descriptions, make a draft, etc. I can help them implement their idea into the website.

@sheikah an image worth 200kb is what I consider very expensive lol. Whole website is optimized to be as light as possible (which tbh could be way lighter than right now)

I understand the drive to have low bandwidth items and to get the fastest response time out of a website. It has clearly huge advantages, and it pleases a lot of surfers.

But if a user has issues loading a <4 MB website in a few ms in 2023, then he will likely have network problems with that game anyway.

An action packed, crisp presentation - that makes the random surfer to want to play this game - A short gif/video that is showcasing such action sequences is the only thing to get the itchy "I want to play this now"-effect.

If people do not like autoplay videos in the background, then abandon the idea. If we need a test video in the first place, then I am sure here in FAF are many talented people who have some video editing skills.