Our old friend "Yiffstar" is no more, and good riddance. The name was appalling.
In its place we now have the snappy web 2.0 friendly SoFurry. It's run by the same people, so we can't really expect too much. Indeed, that's about what we get: something completely unnavigable, prone to failing gracelessly, and all-in-all, amateur.
http://clanspum.net/~pi/sofurry/ contains screenshots of how this thing looks under two different browsers; it's completely bonered in both.
<Kindrift> also maybe this is just me using a standards compliant browser but you can't actually click on any of the text in the results, you have to click on the border
<Kindrift> here's a story result
<Kindrift> don't click on the title, doesn't work
<Kindrift> click on the space around the title
<Kindrift> and how in fucking hell is this sorted?
<Kindrift> this means I actually cannot view any art on the site in the default mode for listing art
I had a different problem from Kindrift. I just can't easily select any text in the list modes; it's either select the whole cell or select nothing.
For all of the hype they're kicking up about groups, that's probably the most horrifically fucked part of the site:
<Kindrift> I've noticed that pictures in groups might not load for no apparent reason
<Kindrift> oh pictures in groups are often just uh not found
<Kindrift> Not Found
<Kindrift> The requested URL was not found on this server.
<Kindrift> Servage.net Clustered Webhosting running enhanced Apache Webserver
<Pi> there is no useful way to sort groups apparently?
<Kindrift> none at all
<Kindrift> once you are in a group's forum, there is no link to go back to the main group... or even see what the group is called
<Kindrift> "rooms" and "users" have no icons for them
<Kindrift> there are FIVE groups for "Intersex Males" created by one user
If something is tagged mature, you can't upload it until you tag it with 'a gender tag', which isn't well defined. It takes a long round-trip to find that out, unfortunately. You couldn't maybe, i dunno, check it on the client side like you're doing everything else?
The URLs are almost right compared to the old site, but it's kind of stupid to carry information like the user's selected tab around as part of it.
Long story short: SoFurry is so fucking furry (whereby I mean "SoFurry is a completely mediocre effort unnecessarily hailed like it's the second coming of god") it hurts. Good to see the
users have their priorities straight, too:
Im confused I don't know how to just view M/M any hints? xP
Oh yeah, and all of the comments have #msgWHATEVER direct links, but no way to get to them except by viewing the source.
The
twitter feed for #sofurry is a general bitchfest. There's also
their Mantis install, which is pretty much the worst possible interface for taking user complaints.
Great job, guys. You deserve a pat on the back.
