Last Call: Arena Feedback (Updated Friday) !3

[itsybity414]

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[iiCR4ZY B1TCH]

yes i whould like to provide feed bak

[midnightlight123]

Panagrammic

Updated Friday December 12th @3:30pm
Based on feedback from this thread, we've pushed out some changes this week.

- We are now offering a "skip" option and randomizing the spotlight. The first phase of this was pushed out today, and we'll be tweaking it over the next week or two.
- avatar arena - should not show stars for in-progress contest
- Remove PM for user-deleted comment

More changes coming in the next week or two:
- An updated landing page that loads faster.
- Tweaking the tabs so that they are more random and don't fix on one particular page

Please keep the feedback coming, it is appreciated.

Updated Saturday December 6th @5:05pm
Some strong reactions in the thread. I just wanted to point out that the very reason that we posted this thread was to try and get your feedback about what needed to be done in arenas; this our attempt to be open and transparent about our plans. So, please keep the feedback coming, but if some of you could tone down the "omg you are so stupid" comments, it would be appreciated.

Some comments about issues raised:
- anyone want to point to an example of the "3.99" glitch?
- people are mixed on 5 star vs. 10 rating for entries, but to be honest I don't think we'll go back to a 10 point rating scale.
- lots of complaints about the current tabs in arenas. Previously, we had tabs that highlighted the highest rated entries -- and what we saw was that only popular entries were getting votes and there was a good deal of downvoting.

So, we changed the tabs, but it looks like the new scheme is making it possible for entries to fly through without many votes, which is even worse.

My inclination at this point is to go to one tab, and on the tab is either a a) totally random selection, or b) random selection biased for entries that haven't received many votes yet. Suggestions welcome.
- reporting feature, especially for the cosplay and original avatar arenas, seems to be needed
- the gold payout was disabled for a number of weeks after the new arenas rolled out... but we went back and paid out everyone that had won -- or, at least, I think we did, because I asked a couple of users directly, and they said that they had been paid.

So, for anyone that thinks they haven't received the reward from arenas, if you could please post in here with your winning entry, I will take a look at it. If we haven't been paying for a period of time I would greatly like to fix that.

Original
Hey, guys --

We're going to be moving the developers off arenas pretty soon, so we wanted to do one last call for feedback to see if there's anything else we should adding. Based on your feedback, we reworked a bunch of stuff, added some new contests (cosplay), so on and so forth, but we'd like to make sure that there's nothing else major that we should be doing before we move onto something else.

Also: if you used to use the old arenas but haven't really warmed to the new arenas, what is putting you off? Why don't you like the new arenas?

All feedback is welcome! Thanks very much.

This topic will be unstickied in a week or so.

were is it

[Flanexmist]

[ R ]

Different backgrounds. Plain, white-grey-black scale backgrounds are kind of dull. Give the option of simple gradients, at least.

I agree... 3nodding
all things i want to mention was already mentioned by the others...huhu.

[The_Time_Cat]

This is for the Art Arena:

The top rated Painting and Drawing section needs to be straightened out. There are at least 2-5 duplicates of the same images and those duplicates are taking up space for art that should be in there.

Also, the character amount in the description should be increased.

EDIT: I also want to suggest possibly dividing the painting and drawing section into sub-sections. Like, Fan Art, Fantasy, etc. Sort of like how DeviantArt is.

[ninja monkey fist]

Panagrammic

Updated Friday December 12th @3:30pm
Based on feedback from this thread, we've pushed out some changes this week.

- We are now offering a "skip" option and randomizing the spotlight. The first phase of this was pushed out today, and we'll be tweaking it over the next week or two.
- avatar arena - should not show stars for in-progress contest
- Remove PM for user-deleted comment

More changes coming in the next week or two:
- An updated landing page that loads faster.
- Tweaking the tabs so that they are more random and don't fix on one particular page

Please keep the feedback coming, it is appreciated.

Updated Saturday December 6th @5:05pm
Some strong reactions in the thread. I just wanted to point out that the very reason that we posted this thread was to try and get your feedback about what needed to be done in arenas; this our attempt to be open and transparent about our plans. So, please keep the feedback coming, but if some of you could tone down the "omg you are so stupid" comments, it would be appreciated.

Some comments about issues raised:
- anyone want to point to an example of the "3.99" glitch?
- people are mixed on 5 star vs. 10 rating for entries, but to be honest I don't think we'll go back to a 10 point rating scale.
- lots of complaints about the current tabs in arenas. Previously, we had tabs that highlighted the highest rated entries -- and what we saw was that only popular entries were getting votes and there was a good deal of downvoting.

So, we changed the tabs, but it looks like the new scheme is making it possible for entries to fly through without many votes, which is even worse.

My inclination at this point is to go to one tab, and on the tab is either a a) totally random selection, or b) random selection biased for entries that haven't received many votes yet. Suggestions welcome.
- reporting feature, especially for the cosplay and original avatar arenas, seems to be needed
- the gold payout was disabled for a number of weeks after the new arenas rolled out... but we went back and paid out everyone that had won -- or, at least, I think we did, because I asked a couple of users directly, and they said that they had been paid.

So, for anyone that thinks they haven't received the reward from arenas, if you could please post in here with your winning entry, I will take a look at it. If we haven't been paying for a period of time I would greatly like to fix that.

Original
Hey, guys --

We're going to be moving the developers off arenas pretty soon, so we wanted to do one last call for feedback to see if there's anything else we should adding. Based on your feedback, we reworked a bunch of stuff, added some new contests (cosplay), so on and so forth, but we'd like to make sure that there's nothing else major that we should be doing before we move onto something else.

Also: if you used to use the old arenas but haven't really warmed to the new arenas, what is putting you off? Why don't you like the new arenas?

All feedback is welcome! Thanks very much.

This topic will be unstickied in a week or so.

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[Burn Tha Kush]

arrrrghhhhhhhhhh captien eye eye cao >.<

[xXigamerzXx]

wats up

[xXking_gothXx]

kool

[Kai Thorn]

This has some relevance to the Avatar arenas so I'm gonna say it, Why did you remove the community page!? I finally won and the only time I was supposed to be displayed on the winner's circle highlight on that page you guy screwed up and my entry wasn't displayed! And I find the next day it goes back to Ruby and Peyo and I think "damn I have to wait to see my entry show up" and later that day the community page is gone!

Why is that I finally even place for the first time you guys do that to me!?!

Could you please at least move the winner's circle displays to another main page or something if you're gonna replace community with forum page?

[rustybaby1209]

Panagrammic

Updated Friday December 12th @3:30pm
Based on feedback from this thread, we've pushed out some changes this week.

- We are now offering a "skip" option and randomizing the spotlight. The first phase of this was pushed out today, and we'll be tweaking it over the next week or two.
- avatar arena - should not show stars for in-progress contest
- Remove PM for user-deleted comment

More changes coming in the next week or two:
- An updated landing page that loads faster.
- Tweaking the tabs so that they are more random and don't fix on one particular page

Please keep the feedback coming, it is appreciated.

Updated Saturday December 6th @5:05pm
Some strong reactions in the thread. I just wanted to point out that the very reason that we posted this thread was to try and get your feedback about what needed to be done in arenas; this our attempt to be open and transparent about our plans. So, please keep the feedback coming, but if some of you could tone down the "omg you are so stupid" comments, it would be appreciated.

Some comments about issues raised:
- anyone want to point to an example of the "3.99" glitch?
- people are mixed on 5 star vs. 10 rating for entries, but to be honest I don't think we'll go back to a 10 point rating scale.
- lots of complaints about the current tabs in arenas. Previously, we had tabs that highlighted the highest rated entries -- and what we saw was that only popular entries were getting votes and there was a good deal of downvoting.

So, we changed the tabs, but it looks like the new scheme is making it possible for entries to fly through without many votes, which is even worse.

My inclination at this point is to go to one tab, and on the tab is either a a) totally random selection, or b) random selection biased for entries that haven't received many votes yet. Suggestions welcome.
- reporting feature, especially for the cosplay and original avatar arenas, seems to be needed
- the gold payout was disabled for a number of weeks after the new arenas rolled out... but we went back and paid out everyone that had won -- or, at least, I think we did, because I asked a couple of users directly, and they said that they had been paid.

So, for anyone that thinks they haven't received the reward from arenas, if you could please post in here with your winning entry, I will take a look at it. If we haven't been paying for a period of time I would greatly like to fix that.

Original
Hey, guys --

We're going to be moving the developers off arenas pretty soon, so we wanted to do one last call for feedback to see if there's anything else we should adding. Based on your feedback, we reworked a bunch of stuff, added some new contests (cosplay), so on and so forth, but we'd like to make sure that there's nothing else major that we should be doing before we move onto something else.

Also: if you used to use the old arenas but haven't really warmed to the new arenas, what is putting you off? Why don't you like the new arenas?

All feedback is welcome! Thanks very much.

This topic will be unstickied in a week or so.

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