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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 #122 Friday, February 15, 2008 12:02 PM
When replying to a PM . .any characters work.
Yep, but create a new one and you it always take a second try.
As if the system tries to overcompensate. 
Reply #123 Friday, February 15, 2008 1:06 PM
Click the edit link on the sidebar gallery list
did that and it was not in the list, I just see CursorFX
thanks for this link as for I do not see the one at the bottom of the forums
Link at the bottom of the forum pages: https://www.wincustomize.com/sites.aspx
Reply #124 Friday, February 15, 2008 1:13 PM
Reply #125 Friday, February 15, 2008 1:23 PM
That I'd like!
Reply #126 Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:07 PM
Reply #127 Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:13 PM
Look at your last post and there should be an edit button at the top right next to Reply * Quote. Only works if you use it before someone else posts to the thread tho.......
Edit....see!
Reply #128 Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:35 PM
Reply #129 Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:46 PM
~ ~ may be it could be a bit faster to load pages ...
I second that. This site takes forever to load and I'm on an 8 meg connection as well.
Reply #130 Saturday, February 16, 2008 6:48 PM
The posts that follow are in reply to those that went before. If I posted #10 and you post #13 in reply to something I said then I later completely change my post, yours may become either nonsensical or off-topic and then you would need to edit and the person who replied to you in #20 would need to edit and so on, so on......The way it currently is gets my vote.
If you have spelling concerns (Zubaz) try Firefox.....it has a built in spell-checker.
Reply #131 Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:46 PM
I can't agree Bebi.
The posts that follow are in reply to those that went before. If I posted #10 and you post #13 in reply to something I said then I later completely change my post, yours may become either nonsensical or off-topic and then you would need to edit and the person who replied to you in #20 would need to edit and so on, so on......The way it currently is gets my vote.
If you have spelling concerns (Zubaz) try Firefox.....it has a built in spell-checker.
Hence my suggestion about people who have worked up the ranks get to edit their posts. I just find it really sad that we can't be trusted to be mature adults when we post. At sites where the user base is much younger I haven't seen any problems like that.
Reply #132 Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:51 PM
Reply #133 Saturday, February 16, 2008 7:54 PM
Hence the need for Moderators.....
Reply #134 Saturday, February 16, 2008 8:57 PM
Better to post again with "corrected" text than to have teh possibility to abuse.
Reply #135 Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:08 AM
The problem with editing posts is that history gets rewritten 'too easily'. I don't think it's an issue of 'trust' as much as it is an issue that it can be a temptation or at least too much of a safety net for the preferred option....that people think enough about what they post before they post.
The real world doesn't come with an eraser, so I don't see why these forums should...
BTW....other sites with the edit feature....how can you really be sure there IS no issue....when the comments can be/have been edited?
Handy to eradicate proof....
Reply #136 Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:04 AM
Now having said that, why can the author of the original post go back at any time and be able to correct, add, delete or totally change their origianl post that people are repling too? Most of us have gone back and changed the title to see if it will generate more replies. Come on admit it, some of you have done it. I'm not sure if there is any kind of limitation apply there, but in my thinking it should be similar to chaning your reply. Once the first reply is posted you shouldn't be able to go back and change or even edit anything in the original post.
Oops, now I can think of many situations where that may well cause a problem.
Reply #137 Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:10 AM
I third this, this page which is just text, avatars and the odd smiley, just took 17.5 seconds to load on a 5 meg ADSL, with it being cached. Cleared cache and it took 29.562 seconds to load. FF 2.0.0.12. Fasterfox set at Optimized. It is even slower using IE7.
Reply #138 Sunday, February 17, 2008 11:42 AM
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Reply #140 Monday, February 18, 2008 7:25 AM
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Reply #121 Friday, February 15, 2008 11:25 AM