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  • 🚀 Exciting News: Alpha Version of the New SLR Web is Live! 🚀

We’re thrilled to announce the alpha release of the new SLR web platform! This is a massive step forward in our mission to unify the design, architecture, and functionality across all aspects of the platform. The migration to this new tech stack is crucial—it enables us to ship new features faster, streamline operations, and deliver an enhanced user experience.

You can check out the new version here: new.sexlikereal.com
❗️ Important Note: The new version currently works only if you’re logged in on the old version.

What to Expect:
The core website functionality is live and should be working. However, please note that some features are not yet implemented, and we’re actively working on enhancements and bug fixes. The old version of the site will remain operational during this transition, so you can continue to use it while we finalize the new platform.

Next Features to Be Delivered:
• Follow (subscriptions) page
• Filters update
• Drive
• Search update
• Video page (including files and scripts downloads)

We’d love to hear your thoughts! While this is still a work in progress, your feedback is invaluable as we refine the platform. Share your experiences here in the thread, report any bugs, and let us know what you’d like to see improved and shipped next.

📩 Feel free to also email me directly at max@sexlikereal.com with any feedback—I’m eager to hear your thoughts!

Thank you for being a part of this journey as we work to make SLR better than ever! 🎉

Max,
Product Manager

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    There is a lot of work still: fonts fixes, the whole pages re-work (PT, Scripts, Feed), Icons changes, logic of AI PT and just PT separation, positioning, header, spacing, etc.

    Feel free to make your proposals regarding everything as this is still Alpha in Development

    kingwizard

    Great job with the new UX/UI! Quick question: are you guys using Astro? I work as a FE engineer, I'm a real fan of these new frameworks like Astro and QwikJS. It's great to see big projects in production with these new tech stacks! Many big projects still prefer Angular (unfortunately like my job hehe) or are moving to React.

    One thing I'd add is a clickable link on the name of the actors in the "caption overlay" on the card scene, so users can quickly go to the actor/actress page.

        gatasplay2017

        Appreciate your comment! Yes, we use Astro and Solid in our frontend 🙂

        As for the clickable link for actors name – totally makes sense, we will add it in our next builds. Let us know if you notice something else please!

            kingwizard Thanks, I can see that now but noticed that the upcoming section disappears if you sort the scenes into ‘Newest first’ which is what I did before and what most will likely do when they get to home page.

            You mentioned going to the individual studio pages but can’t find any upcoming option there. I also can’t see a way to filter the upcoming videos so you can’t look for upcoming creampie scenes or upcoming anal scenes for example.

            Seems like the upcoming section is only available if you go to the home page and scroll down without touching anything.

                I like --its got a nice clean look.

                A couple of thoughts:

                You have to bring back the screenshots mosiac. "Photos" tell maybe 5% of what a scene has--we need the screenshots mosiac to preview positions, POV vs non, etc throughout the length of the scene.

                This new UI doesn't allow us to view the ACTUAL date a scene was released--instead you have the progressively inaccurate "1 week ago", "2 months ago", "3 years ago", etc. In the old UI, you could at least look in the page source and see the datetime. Why not have the actual date as a tooltip when you hover over "_ ago"? Or click to convert to true date?

                I personally don't find having recommended scenes very helpful in the regular web browser interface. In VR its great because I can switch to watching a VR scene that catches my eye. I'm not watching VR in web--instead, I'm going through the latest scenes (or actress, studio, etc) to mark what I want to watch when I switch to VR. The "recommended" deck of scenes doesnt change much so it just ends up a static display I click away from immediately.

                Also of not much use to me is the menu bar of recommended tags across the top. I honestly have no reason to click any of them. If anything, that should be customizable per user. Even the old style of New, Best, Upcoming seems a more logical choice for this prime navigation area.

                I noticed a significant lag when advancing through the pagination. I can literally count the seconds as the red "loading" bar progresses left to right across the top. That is not a very responsive webpage--needs some serious tuning.

                The Playlist page is a nice addition, but I'm disappointed that you still haven't enabled multi-select or bulk movement of videos within playlists--one video at a time is not user-friendly.

                I do not like that you have to hover over the scene thumbnail to see whether it has PT or script. I prefer a quick glance across all to hone in on the scripted scenes. Also, when I hover to see the animated preview, I want the minimum of menus covering that preview. I definitely don't want to see the preview covered by the stunt cock'
                s name.

                You managed to keep Trans and Gay hidden again--still have to search for those niches before you can navigate to those sections. You can't even use a tag/category to navigate.

                I do like the smaller banner marquee. The previous giant banner was such a waste of space that I avoided the default homepage at all costs.

                  I do not like that you have to hover over the scene thumbnail. I prefer a quick glance across all

                  Same. Btw, the hover-over elements do not show anymore once you increase the page zoom level above 100% (in desktop browser) which I usually do for larger previews.

                  Moreover, for some BGG scenes it says on the thumbnail like 'Melanie Marie and 2 others' while the male performer is not even visibly listed on the scene page. Maybe better to only show female performers on the thumbnail.

                  kingwizard
                  Testing this point, found the general upcoming videos down below, but I usually like to see the upcoming videos from SLR Originals only (or some studio), can't find a way to view it.

                      kingwizard
                      WOW!! Saw it! Great work! Congrats to FE team! Was a simple change, but was a very fast implement and deploy.

                        Sorting/filters are missing when checking any category, and that's something ppl really needs (at least, I do)

                          I'd still really like the long-requested ability to reorder our own playlists, either in a custom manual order or at least alphabetically by name. It'd be really nice to be able to look at the new Playlists page and just drag playlists around, but that would get weird once you get to multiple pages. Barring that, though, a dropdown for playlist sort would be great.

                          Within each playlist, the old dropdown to sort videos is missing currently. The individual videos are also missing their heart buttons for whether they're liked.

                          are the mobile functions going to return like the old site? The motion / smartphone button, also it doesnt go fullscreen on mobile 😟

                          fuccaneer

                          Greatly appreciate you for such valuable feedback! We have most of those comments in work already, they definitely make sense. Will follow up once they are live, meanwhile please let us know if you notice something else!