I Hate The New Instructables Layout.
I can understand you are trying to make the site more user friendly for people who are brand new to the site, but i am afraid to tell you it has been a disaster. The changes have left instructables with a very messy layout. A clean cut site is wheat people are looking for, and new people can easily settle in because of the simplicity. Undo your mistake and find a better solution to making the site more user friendly. I have an idea!
After you put the front page of instructables back to its original format, Place ( in a cool box )
A Big Exciting Link That Says "Take a Quick Tour Of Instructables.com!" And that will take new users to Ewilhelm's Tour Instructable. Hell, if you want, make sure the link can be clicked from any page on instructables, keep the link somewhere at the top, on the orange bar . Just remember to keep the link that is on the the Front Page Big And Exciting.
Thankyou Www.Instructables.com staff for listening
-Kevin C.
After you put the front page of instructables back to its original format, Place ( in a cool box )
A Big Exciting Link That Says "Take a Quick Tour Of Instructables.com!" And that will take new users to Ewilhelm's Tour Instructable. Hell, if you want, make sure the link can be clicked from any page on instructables, keep the link somewhere at the top, on the orange bar . Just remember to keep the link that is on the the Front Page Big And Exciting.
IF YOU AGREE SAY PLEASE TRY AGAIN IN A COMMENT.
Thankyou Www.Instructables.com staff for listening
-Kevin C.
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I love your site. I visit nearly every day. I used to be able to catch up on all the latest and greatest instructables quickly, but now with the shuffling features, contests hidden away, icon size changed and names hidden until rollover, I can't. I can hardly even visit anymore. Instructables just... isn't even itself anymore.
Just change back. At least have the option to change back. I was extremely happy with the layout we've had for the past few years.
I didn't look at the posting date. Oops.
I hope there's a thread for hating the new layout.
Thanks for the heads up.
Personally I was angry with the new layout at first, but then grew to like it.
Ummm...eight months isn't quite years. It isn't even long enough to be born.
Disingenous means dishonest.
I agree with your initial point that the comment was disingenuous, though I think it hardly worth calling out. I offer this clarification only so that any future policing of community discussions can carry the full didactic authority you intend.
What? Let me scroll back...aw, crap. Yes, you're right. I misspelled it three out of four times. Good catch :-(
Thanks Heaps
-Corrugated
I used to enjoy seeing lots of new instructables - it was also really nice to watch your instructable go from 'recently submitted' to 'featured' work its way down then goto 'popular' - though I agree it seems a bit silly to make it drop down the page twice, but it did wonders for your page views.
Unfortunately the new layout doesn't play nice with IE6 which I use at work - so if I want to search for something, I can't easily because the system just doesn't work (buttons all over the place).
I did prefer it the way it was - it looks so empty now I look at it and I seem to be endlessly scrolling down.
I won't disappear off from instructables, but I will be awaiting the next layout which will perhaps fix some of the problems I've highlighted.
Easy Truffles, Mothers Day Ideas, Sew a Custom Bag? What's going on inside Instructables? Have you been taken over by Martha Stewart, or Real Simple magazine?
There is a place for "Easy Chocolate Truffles" and a "Guys Guide to Buying Flowers" it's called Sunset Magazine (which I love), but I loved Instructables because it was edgy, and distinct and it filled a unique niche that needed to be scratched. it was an outlet for the citizen inventor, a bulletin board for the creative geek, an idea museum for the designer, and a laugh out loud for all of us who combed through silly projects.
Please Instructables, don't be another promising, unique web venue that abandons their roots. We want to learn about 10,000 things to do with LEDs, how to make a bamboo bike, or a PVC bed, or how to hack a Moleskine notebook. Let Eating Light magazine stretch its readership by instructing its audience on how to make Double Chocolate Cheesecake, and let Craft Magazine teach us how to Sew a Custom Bag.
Come on folks what do you think? Am I wrong here?
There are plenty of categories out there that you can use to narrow the focus of what you see displayed, if you are disturbed by the sight of truffle recipes and sewing patterns. Restricting content to niche subjects would just decrease membership and traffic, which could cause the whole site to fold for lack of revenue, and then there would be no content at all.
my notice : the footer needs some changes , like the line under the link , it's in orange :| also the divider , oh no it do have a black background
If you want to use the old search interface (which is known to miss some information on site), follow the Graphical Search link right next to the big orange Search button.
To quote " I'm looking for cool projects, I don't care what some ***** doesn't know how to do".
me? meh, I never use the front page, or categories.
. I think many of the ppl complaining about the changes are forgetting that how new visitors view the site (is the layout appealing, is it easy to navigate, can I find what I'm looking for, &c) can have a big effect on signups and signups have a big effect on subscriptions (pro) and subscriptions have a big effect on whether or not the site survives.
. Yes. Having to change some of my Ibles surfing routines is a bit inconvenient, but I'm a 50+ yo, old fart who is set in his ways and doesn't like any changes. All these youngsters shouldn't be complaining. ;)
www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/
www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/
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We might disagree with that direction, but that's a separate issue :-)
I decided to search for an instructable by using the username of the author who wrote the ible, and none of the ibles he actually posted showed up on the first 3 pages. Not even by keyword did the instructable I wanted show up. I had to type the exact title of the instructable in to get a real result.
Can you explain what you mean by "Metric"
With these two search engines, there are different metrics that could be used -- number of results, relevance (however defined) of results, presentation or order, number missed, number of extra (irrelevant), and so on.
In this case, the Google search apparently is more complete -- fewer missed results that "should have been found." But the old search was more relevant -- the results it did find matched your criteria.
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coz i really prefer the graphical search
but each time you have to change it over
AND go back to the old search engine
didnt you like my sweet revenge mod???
I've been offline for a week, missed Sunday's roll-out, and walked smack into the new layout this morning.
Seems fine to me.