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Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:35 am
by Brian Peace
Open this up for discussion:

Why change a good thing? The way it was was awesome, on one page you could see the pilots, easily see if they had a flight booked, and also see the last 5 flights landed... and even what airlines were partners.... all on one easy to find page. Now the user has to navigate to a bunch of different pages for this? Not good.

also will the CEO have to check the pilot page for new applications now? So many more clicks and pages to foget about. SIMPLE is better!


some bugs as well

1 - cant see pilot NUMBERS anymore
2 - the booked pilots are showing a green dot
3 - the pilots take up a huge amount of room on the page, hard to see them all and who is booked/who isn't... and last activity date is harder to see (the previous was so much better for this).

I hope this can lead to some positive discussion...

Thanks for all the work you guys do... but I really think this wasn't a good change.

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:15 am
by Vjacheslav
Brian Peace wrote: Thanks for all the work you guys do... but I really think this wasn't a good change.
+1 :( :( :(

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:17 am
by ferreser
I agree with what was written above and I join the debate

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:38 am
by flightsimer
ya i have to agree also... like the old page alot better

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 1:55 am
by alasizon
flightsimer wrote:ya i have to agree also... like the old page alot better

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:58 am
by alemaobaiano
Me too, the old layout was better IMHO.

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:54 am
by Azorean
Hi Guys
Wel,i agreed,th old page was better in any ways.
Now to see the pilots and who is online and flying,we have to chech the profiles of every pilot ,its to much complicated.
Leave like it was,simple and easy.
Stay well

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 6:51 am
by Alky
LOL, I thought something went wrong with my browser!!
Please go back to the way it was :?

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:20 am
by Myrm
Hi

No! What have you done? The old layout was so much easier. As others have said, you was able to see pilots, flights etc on one page; now we have to make 3 separate views to see what we could see before in one.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Change it back please.

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:19 am
by DaKurt
Well the reasons why I changed this are:

1. You guys might think that putting all the data on one page might be an "easy layout". But my thought is that new users that join are just overwhelmed by the amount of information on one page.
2. Our servers are struggeling to keep up with all the server-load. And on the VA page a lot of data is loaded which is never really looked at...just because it is the startpage. So the idea was to just load the data when it is actually needed.

Well there are more or less two options:
- link the VA-page to the style (classic-style users see the old-vapage & new style users see the new one)
- or somehow a system that every airline can configure which data is displayed on its va-page

cheers
dakurt

p.s.: the bugs are going to be fixed soon. So far I'm going to revert the change.

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:32 am
by Myrm
DaKurt wrote:... But my thought is that new users that join are just overwhelmed by the amount of information on one page ...
What? There was not so much information on that page as to "overwhelm" new users. Stop treating people like they are idiots. The old way was well laid out and not overwhelming in the slightest.

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:39 am
by DaKurt
Myrm wrote:Stop treating people like they are idiots..
Oh I wasn't aware I was doing that...but maybe I should start NOW ;)

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 9:49 am
by DaKurt
To make things clear. I made this change because I personally hate homepages with too much information on it. And I think a lot of users think the same way.

There are certain "rules of thumb" like: If a homepage needs longer than 5 secs to load people are not going to use it.
And I do think that if a user doesn't understand a page at first view he might not use it (that happens to me quite often as I want things to be as clear as possible). SO this was a first step to structurize things and furthermore to decreases our server-load...we are not going to be able to use our current server for too long if the FSAirlines keeps expanding as it currently is.

I think we are facing the same problem here, that we had with the introduction of the "new icons" (some people like them some people don't)...and I'm sure we will find a way to satisfy most of you guys :)

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 10:01 am
by Myrm
DaKurt wrote:
Myrm wrote:Stop treating people like they are idiots..
Oh I wasn't aware I was doing that...but maybe I should start NOW ;)
:lol:

Re: Changes to Overview Page - discussion

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 12:23 pm
by Quantum
Hi DK,

I much prefer the old/original page and am glad to see it back and hope I will be able to select that if it becomes an option.

Regards

John