I released a concept to some users and... pretty much everyone hated it. And, the more I thought about it, I hated it too.
So I've gone back to the drawing board and come up with something different. This one preserves much more of the original front page.
Behold, the new front page concept:
Let me know what you think!
-Dan
I like that it doesn't change too much so experienced users don't have to learn a new layout. I also like that the spotlighted quizzes are relatively easy to discover since it's a short scroll down. I might not use them, but the useful links feature might come in handy for some users.
Nice work QM!
It looks nice. I'm curious: how are the quizzes under "recommended quizzes" chosen?
We look at the last 3 featured quizzes you took. Then for each one, we load the 50 most similar quizzes by tag similarity.
Out of that pot of 150 quizzes, we choose 10 randomly and then score them to choose the five "best" ones.
It does feel a little weird not having the top categories, browse, languages, and minigames, but it is difficult to fit all that on the front page. Maybe the sidebar is a little too quiz-centric (jk, jk) great work so far!
I know toowise has mentioned it a few times and would probably agree!
One more note, I find the slogan kind of dumb. It's not horrible but I feel like it could be better
Being able to customise the front page is a brilliant idea.
A blog panel with maybe the five most recently added blogs would be awesome, or even just a permanent link to the RUB that is visible to anyone?
My main request is to allow a language filter for people we are subscribed to so we have the option to keep the front page to quizzes in languages we speak.
(Small thing, but I feel like the daily quiz and crossword sat better above the date. It's clear from their names that they are daily things. Maybe it's just what I'm used to.)
Also, I would prefer if the customized things were also in the same type boxes there is now there.
I feel not having language as automatic option will not let user know there are other languages right off the bat.
I'm absolutely loving it on desktop, but the mobile version is a bit of a pain