October 2019 Site Update

RE: October 2019 Site Update

luigimorelli — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:28:54 GMT

I don't know if it's related, but here's what happens to me.

First of all, I use Firefox, not Chrome.

I have the bad habit of using the "open in a new tab" option when visiting a forum or blog, to avoid losing myself among the threads.

Well, for instance, I go to the "Places" page and open all the subpages at once (i.e. RoadTest, Project14, Embedded, Members and the other 12 places I usually interact with).

I see the first section of each page loaded, while the rest of each page stays blank, for a (relatively) long time. Slowing the responsiveness of the browser, and not responding to the internal links.

I *suppose* this could have to do with the "lazy load" of the pages (the top of the pages is often crowded with offers and advertisement images), and this is why I decided to report the behaviour here.

Please forgive me if I went totally off-topic: I'm an old C programmer that never loved too much web (ouch!) design.

RE: October 2019 Site Update

Sean_Miller — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:04:22 GMT

Very Bootstrapesque. I like it.

RE: October 2019 Site Update

Jan Cumps — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:53:17 GMT

Big improvement on mobile devices indeed. Thank you.

RE: October 2019 Site Update

Matt — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:23:23 GMT

Thanks for the positive feedback [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-ca4ef8a9-85ce-46b3-96ef-305f66439137/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16] I hope the site loads faster on mobile / slower connections too! Lazy loading images should really help. There are more changes coming in our November site update.. it'll add lazy-loading of iframes (usually used for embedded videos) and practically all images on the site overview pages will be set to lazy load.

RE: October 2019 Site Update

xeonaj — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:26:18 GMT

Thanks for Update!

RE: October 2019 Site Update

vimarsh_ — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:09:52 GMT

The mobile browser layout is a huge improvement!

Great work!

RE: October 2019 Site Update

shabaz — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:15:50 GMT

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the update! Nice to see the mobile updates too. I was used to turning the phone 90 degrees to get the better view, but now it will be much easier on-the-go.

RE: October 2019 Site Update

Matt — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:12:48 GMT

We've been made aware of a few problems following the site update last night. We've identified an issue which I'm progressing with our operations team. I should have an update on this shortly.

RE: October 2019 Site Update

14rhb — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:12:17 GMT

Great work going on behind the scenes, and much appreciated thank you.