With the new Curse.com, we've revamped some of the layout of the homepage.  You'll quickly notice that many uninteresting modules from the old homepage are no longer present, as well as a few other cosmetic changes.  The biggest changes are:

• The navigation bar has gone through a weight-loss diet and lost a lot of its bloat.  You shouldn't find redundant links or be overwhelmed with links to places that aren't really all that interesting.
• The news section is much more prominent now, and includes the following changes:
  • Two "featured" Headlines articles including a quick summary of what they're about, and an icon so you can quickly notice which game they're related to.
  • A two-column layout with links to the latest news and more.
    • The left column displays the latest MMO news, sorted by post date.
    • The right column contains two modules.  The first is a "Top News" module which contains the 5 most viewed recent articles on the website.  The second module is called "Other News" and will contain game industry news not specific to MMOs.  We'll tell you about the latest hardware advancements, and also update you on interesting non-MMO games here.
• We've removed the following modules: "Most Active Games," "Free to Play Games," "Games in Beta" and "Hot Downloads."

Please use this thread to provide feedback on the new homepage, and if you'd like, answer the following questions.

• Do you find the new "Curse Network Services" module useful to you?
• What are your thoughts on the new layout of the news module?
• Is there anything from the current Curse.com homepage that you feel was left out but should be included?
• What are your thoughts on the rotating "media box" that displays up to 6 hot MMO stories?
• Is the "Latest Images" module useful to you?
• What are your thoughts on the "Blogs" module and the information it displays?
• Do you find the "Forums" module useful in its current design?

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

1st?

haha.. well the new page is better than before.. but.. take a look on the js. i'm getting a virus warning from avira antivir:

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii241/wnieckarz/error.jpg

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Originally Posted by Shikhee

1st?

haha.. well the new page is better than before.. but.. take a look on the js. i'm getting a virus warning from avira antivir:

http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii241/wnieckarz/error.jpg

We're looking into why this is occurring. The js file has standard code, so it shouldn't be triggering AV software. Thanks for the report!

the forums are much more user friendly than before.  nice work.  however, the blog section could use a little help.  i have over 10 years of user experience with internet forums and journals and i cannot for the life of me figure out how to post a message in my already existing journal.  the only option i can find is to create a completely new one.  is there something i am missing?

edit:  also, i notice that hardware and character profiles have been left out as well as the option to display which games you play.  that was a rather nice feature on the other site, though i see that improved character profiles are on the way.

edit: another note...  it would be nice not to have to sign into the website with every visit.  it seems the cookies expire with each browser session and must be reset the next time the browser is opened to the website.

What about the video section? Gone?

this is getting a little more than slightly annoying.  in creating a new blog, i had to log in after i had already logged in when i first came to the website for this browser session.  then after i edited the post, it logged me out yet again, and one more edit after that, i was logged out within a few minutes of the last time.

The video section, as well as some of the profile options such as games will be making a comeback in the next major patch.  We had to cut a few features to get the new site out before the WotLK patch.  The traffic from that patch would have been too much for the old site to handle.

we can know why you remove the comment reply function? It's was very useful to keep up-to-date what going about the project...

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Originally Posted by mrbuerger

we can know why you remove the comment reply function? It's was very useful to keep up-to-date what going about the project...

I believe this was unintentional and a side effect of the limitations of Community Server.  We're going to go back through and fix some things that are missing from the new site which existed on the old site, as Prodigal mentioned above.

We had a tough decision: implement everything on the new site and wait until after WoW 3.0 releases to release it, or finish the core of the site prior to the patch and release it.

We chose the latter simply because we had to.  The old website could not support the traffic load of even normal patch days, and 3.0 is not just a normal patch day.  With this new website we're confident we can not only weather 3.0's traffic, but we can do so without putting any limitations on the website's usability or function.  Time will tell, but we're fairly confident it its stability using this new technology platform.

I just wanted to say thanks for the fix allowing Safari to view forums properly!