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What's Wrong With WinCustomize?
Yes, we want your complaints!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
This March, WinCustomize turns 7. For seven years the site has grown in terms of visitors, bandwidth, quantity of skins etc. And the site itself has gone through several revisions in that period. Today, we're on the 5th iteration of WinCustomize, and on the whole it still bears a striking resemblance to that first site launched back in 2001. For good or ill, a lot of the decisions that went into that first site determine direction to this day.
While there have been a lot of improvements, there are probably a lot of places where we've failed to meet expectations. WinCustomize 2007 was focused on a solid foundation, code that was stable and expandable. Now we're in a position to focus on the UI and the presentation more, to improve the user experience dramatically. This is where you come in.
About a year ago, we sought your opinions on how Stardock had failed the community. Your comments on what you felt we could be doing better has helped us make a lot of changes and improvements to our products. Well, we want to try that again, only this time specifically with WinCustomize. We want to know what doesn't work, what sucks, what you hate, what you want fixed about WinCustomize. We are looking for very specific critiques of the site, it's functionality, layout, user interface etc.
This thread is about critiques, it's not about defending the site, it's not about telling us how much you like the site. If we are going to improve the site in the future, we need a very clear picture of what is broken and needs to be fixed.
A week from today, I will be going through the comments on this thread and compiling a master list of complaints and critiques. We will use this list when we start the requirements and design work for the next WC update later this year.
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Reply #62 Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:10 PM
Reply #63 Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:52 PM
If you are concerned about the speed of loading the site, well those who want a fancier skin will have to make due with it loading slightly slower, though with broadband around that shouldn't be a big impact really.
I agree also with the frustration mentinoned above with the OD icons. Someone makes several and releases them separately I assume in order to increase their visibility. I find it hand if I want just one but they flood the updates, there must be something that can change there.
To go along with this some skins come zipped when they shouldn't be. They should have the proper extension as in .wba. They are zipped because they include wallpapers, etc but these should be separately linked so I can download the windowblind and easily install it like its meant to work.
Reply #64 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:08 AM
Hankers - Thank you for quick response, but I was misunderstood. If I am looking at Wallpapers for example, I start at page 1 of 322 ... I've seen the first 50, now I want to come back later and be able to find 51 without clicking through the first 50 again.
Reply #65 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:15 AM
Reply #66 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:17 AM
Sorry, but what I mean is, in Wallpapers for example there are 322 pages, if I've looked at the first 50 I would like to come back later and be able to pick up at 51, not click through the first 50 again.
Reply #68 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:26 AM
Do you mean the first 50 wallpapers or the first fifty pages? If it's the first fifty pages then what Hankers and Bebi says works. If it's the first fifty wallpapers then no go.
Reply #69 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:28 AM
That's done already. The number of threads I [for one] post 'redundant' to and subsequently hide/delete is quite significant...
Reply #70 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:35 AM
Reply #71 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:34 AM
NO! Replace the stars rating with favs+...
...we are all tired to read threads about the low rating people are getting.
Reply #72 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 1:47 AM
Thanks
Reply #73 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 2:53 AM
I've never had a problem with degradation. If one is careful about it, it is possible to upload a SS as .jpg with unnoticeable loss of quality. I always save as as .bmp/.png then convert it to .jpg before upload.
Reply #74 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:15 AM
Give clearer descriptions of your software, ie; icon packager cannot resize icons larger than 72 pixles.
Reply #75 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:14 AM
Reply #76 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:25 AM
Come on! We are good! Let's show people we are good! Not slower than a wet week!
Reply #77 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:36 AM
Can't agree more. Odd thing is it is designed to match Vista Aero perfectly yet we are here to change that look.
Reply #78 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:09 AM
I think 2of3 said this also but that's exaclty what I do. I take a SS and save it as png. Then I resave it in Photoshop as a jpg at a 12 quality. You can't tell the difference. No loss of visual quality at all.
Reply #79 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:40 AM
I installed the ActiveX control and all that but I have never been able to upload photos.
I have Vista now but this also used to happen when I had XP.
I don't know if I would use this feature much but I have never been able to try it to see what it's like without IE crashing.
Reply #80 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:55 AM
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Reply #61 Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:09 PM