Is there a way to change this new website design back to the normal one? I don’t like it at all.
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as further proof they despratly need someone who understands user interface design. its been awful in game all these years. their website was pretty awful as well but somehow the new one is worse though it looks cleaner. perhaps it will just take getting used to be good user interface should be intuitive.
a good example. season progress. you have to hit a drop down to then see a singular link to season progress because you cant view past seasons
Personally, I don't like the changes on the website at all, but I guess I'll get used to it.
However, it would be great to update the link to the wiki to the good and updated one (instead of the old and outdated wiki):
Sea of Thieves Wiki
The Sea of Thieves Wiki, the best community-generated resource for every pirate planning to set sail in Rare's shared-world adventure game!
The issue is that it's designed to work well with the main website, not the forums. So it clashes completely here.
There are too many different fonts (Manuskript Antiqua, Burlesk, and BrushTipExe, I think) that don't work together, and the fade looks awful with the light mode theme here.
If they can cut down the number of fonts used and change the forum style to dark mode, I think it might be a lot better. I'm not a big fan of Burlesk (doesn't fit the pirate theme as well, IMHO), but it's not so bad on the main website - and they only really use the two fonts there.
When writing a post the text box preview isn't correctly styled (it's light text on a light background now), so I think they're still tweaking the CSS - or at least I hope so because it's pretty awful to look at.
@realstyli said in New website design:
The issue is that it's designed to work well with the main website, not the forums. So it clashes completely here.
There are too many different fonts (Manuskript Antiqua, Burlesk, and BrushTipExe, I think) that don't work together, and the fade looks awful with the light mode theme here.
If they can cut down the number of fonts used and change the forum style to dark mode, I think it might be a lot better. I'm not a big fan of Burlesk (doesn't fit the pirate theme as well, IMHO), but it's not so bad on the main website - and they only really use the two fonts there.
When writing a post the text box preview isn't correctly styled (it's light text on a light background now), so I think they're still tweaking the CSS - or at least I hope so because it's pretty awful to look at.
There is also a lot of dead space at the top. Why does everything have 30+px of bottom margin?
@musicmee I’m going to be submitting an accessibility ticket about the website refresh. The font chosen right now, especially with the color scheme, is hurting my eyes horribly. I have a fresh prescription but I will never see 20/20 even with my glasses due to my condition and the pain that’s coming when trying to read the font makes me just not want to use the website.
I’ll be looking into if there’s a plug-in for my device that can override this font, as I don’t use a computer to access online content. But they should add a Reader Mode if they are going to be doing fancy things to the UI.
@realstyli my issue is the site itself, not the forums, i really like how the forums are right now, but getting here is Really confusing, getting anywhere is confusing, tried to raise a support ticket but i had difficulty finding it as everything is now just bright white text with a black background and looks the same instead of the helpful images and stuff.
@killzone1401
Yeah, I imagine a lot of people are going to have issues reading that font. Just one reason I don't like Burlesk. It's not reader-friendly and shouldn't be used outside of logo design and graphics.
Here's the direct link to submit a support ticket, just in case you are still struggling to find it: https://support.seaofthieves.com/requests/new
@abjectarity Agreed. The new font in all caps is particularly difficult to read. I used to be able to read this site on my mobile without glasses. Now I have to put my glasses on.
@musicmee said in New website design:
@realstyli Agreed! Forum still needs a fresh lick of paint too!
Oh thank god, because I do not like this. Everything feels smashed to the left or off somehow, the fonts are clashing along with the colors, and also the preview window text is messed up. It is straight up invisible.
Hey Damien, poke them about a dark mode while you are at it!
Yeah, this new look is not pleasant. Feels like we are back to the early 2000 when people still wanted to add everything to their pages, and there was too much "decorative" stuff on them.
I would much prefer the newer more clean look, that most pages use today. I had my fill of "funny" and "interesting" webdesign in around 2005, and this is not a good nostalgic feeling im having.
Also more clicking to get to the actual forum, why?
@lem0n-curry said in New website design:
Is there a way to change the colour of the font, specifically in the post preview as that is illegibale ATM for me.
This got fixed 👍
If you have Firefox (this might work in Chrome also?) I created a custom userContent.css for this site that condenses the forum header a bit, removes the fade effect from the top, and changes the fonts in the dropdowns back to Windlass.
@-moz-document domain(seaofthieves.com) { div.global-header.global-component { background: black !important; } div.global-header--top-level { padding: 24px 0 0 !important; } #main-content.content-wrapper { padding-top: 10px !important; margin-top: 10px !important; } #main-content .container.topic-listing { margin-top: 0.5em !important; } nav.forum-navigation { margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-top: 0.5em !important; } #main-content h1 { margin-bottom: 15px !important; } nav.breadcrumb-container { margin-bottom: 10px !important; } section.control-bar div.listbox div.listbox__current { font-family: Windlass !important; font-size: 0.9em !important; } section.control-bar div.listbox ul.listbox__options li.listbox__option { padding: 8px; } section.control-bar div.listbox ul.listbox__options li.listbox__option span.listbox__option__label { font-family: Windlass !important; font-size: 0.6em !important; } section.control-bar div.listbox ul.listbox__options li.listbox__option button.listbox__option__label { font-family: Windlass !important; font-size: 0.6em !important; } }I haven't tested it at any other resolutions than 1920x1080 though, so YMMV.
@killzone1401 yeah unfortunately the mobile app doesn't support user content (technically the desktop version doesn't either and you have to enable a legacy config flag).
At least it has fixed some issues with the top part of the layout for me on desktop, so I thought it might be useful for others who are also using Firefox.
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