![Cobalt Zin[cave]](https://skins15.wincustomize.com/0/1/1354/20/5/preview-20-5-100x75.jpg?d=991713824.453)
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.
 |
|
Page 6 of 8 | |
|
|---|
Reply #102 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:18 PM
Reply #103 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:36 PM
and List of all WC user names..
CursorXP back on the list of skins you can go to.
and when you go to someones gallery and on the left side of home gallery have ObjectDock, Objectdock Icons, Etc. in it;s own place like Desktopx is
and be able to delete your old post
Reply #104 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 9:49 PM
Reply #105 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:02 PM
1) an option to see how many skins you see in one page. I could go for a lot at once instead of releatedly clicking the next button
2) WC needs to be less picky on the skins it chooses and accepts. For instance, I did a background spinoff on combining the Leopard space background with the Vista background. they said "You need permission from Microsoft and Apple Inc. to upload this" or something like that. yeah..... there's a big button on their websites that says "may we ask you whether or not we can use our artistic freedom" I agree if you copy someone else's work, that's different but you're not going to call Bill and (insert creator of Apple here) to ask them to make a cool background based on theirs.
Reply #106 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:18 PM
Reply #107 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:46 PM
This is already in place to subscribers
Build the image from scratch and it might pass moderation. (mods are really critical of what gets allowed) Taking others images and reediting then and trying to upload them without permission wont.
Reply #108 Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:42 AM
While I realise most users go with IE and fx there are still people, like me which prefer Opera and still wants to use WinCustomize to browse skins, buy some master ones etc. (yeah I buy master skins)
Reply #109 Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:55 AM
Reply #110 Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:51 AM
Reply #111 Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:12 AM
Reply #112 Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:24 PM
1) I agree. I do always use Opera.
2) Diggs for skins. More diggs will show that more people want you to try the skin.
3) In the skin page show the list of people and number of people who have added the skin to the favorites.
4) Make the comments in the personal page more arranged and give options to organize them, like showing ten recent ones in the main page and for rest give a 'more' button.
Reply #113 Thursday, February 14, 2008 8:21 PM
"Rate this reply" uh, why? A bit worthless, doesn't do anything. And if it did, this could easily be abused like the rating system. "I don't like this twit, I'm going to rate all their replies 'trolling' muhahahah!"
Reply #114 Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:40 PM
Reply #115 Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:59 PM
Might have been mentioned before but the WC Photo Gallery is not nice to FireFox either. If you have IE Tabs addon, photos can be uploaded in FF.
Reply #116 Friday, February 15, 2008 12:04 AM
Reply #117 Friday, February 15, 2008 3:56 AM
Seconded!
Nice to see ya around, kitty! LTNS
Reply #118 Friday, February 15, 2008 8:00 AM
So far it always works the second try.
Reply #119 Friday, February 15, 2008 8:30 AM
It never works on the first try for me..... I thought it was a feature, not a bug
Reply #120 Friday, February 15, 2008 9:23 AM
All this time I thought it was me........
Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
Welcome Guest! Please take the time to register with us.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
- Richer content, access to many features that are disabled for guests like commenting on the forums and downloading skins.
- Access to a great community, with a massive database of many, many areas of interest.
- Access to contests & subscription offers like exclusive emails.
- It's simple, and FREE!
|
|
Page 6 of 8 | |
|
|---|
Reply #101 Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:40 PM
Damn! Forgot to include my aversion to pastels...........