Front page animation/menu

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Should the new flash on the main page be removed?

Remove the flash animation!
10
16%
Keep it!
28
46%
Keep it, but when someone returns to the site a second time, show the real site.
23
38%
 
Total votes: 61

raynes
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Front page animation/menu

Post by raynes »

For the love of Ma-Duk get rid of it. It's not cute, it's cool once if you know the game, it's annoying, and pretty much makes it impossible for new players to easily find information about the game.

I know if I went to a site about a game, was confronted with that, I would leave.
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rushin
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Re: Front page animation/menu

Post by rushin »

just bookmark http://www.ryzom.com/news or use link at top of forums. I didnt know it was there until people pointed it out here...
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calel
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rushin wrote:just bookmark http://www.ryzom.com/news or use link at top of forums.
That doesn't work, it redirects me everytime. It's getting slightly on my nerves as well. Maybe a skip into button? Or disable it when you link through it from the forums?
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calel wrote:That doesn't work, it redirects me everytime. It's getting slightly on my nerves as well. Maybe a skip into button? Or disable it when you link through it from the forums?
There _is_ a skip button. Right hand side, near the bottom.

Only just noticed it today!
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katriell
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http://www.ryzom.com/home_page?set_language=en

^ That works.

I can't see the animation because only Flash 7 is (currently and as far as I know) available for Firefox on Linux... :/
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Post by thlau »

I use links that bypass the animation at all. I'm no big friend of flash at all, I really find flash annoying. It looks really nice, but reduces the usability of the site for me, because it takes 10 seconds to get to the real homepage, and I have click a link, before I am allowed to read the actual news.
Thats why I use this link http://www.ryzom.com/home_page?set_language=en to access the site, since Nevrax put the Flash on the main url. If Zahan hadn't mentioned the skip botton on the Flash I would never have noticed it.
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Post by sx4rlet »

Heh, good to read i am not alone!

Since the start of the animation, I changed my bookmark to redirect to the forums, and if i want to read the nems, i'll click the ryzom logo.
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Post by dakhound »

Raynes

do you spend 99% of your time looking for something to whine about man?

I know your looking out for whats "best" for this game but starting poll after poll after poll. I do wonder why you came back if you hate (from what I've seen over the past 4 weeks) Everything
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moyaku
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Post by moyaku »

Skip button was only added recently. ;) Still keep the animation I like it and as far as I m concerned I do think it s cute... Kamis rock !

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Post by philu »

I can't even VIEW the page at work on a Windows 2000 machine, I just get an error and the page doesn't load, so I have to go direct to the forums. So for me it's a no. It's kind of cool in that it reminds me of the old beta load screen but a real pain at work.

Needs some better error handling if it's gonna stay. Try testing it on things other than XP. :rolleyes:
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