No option to see upcoming scenes yet. Thatβs something I use a lot.
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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.
petermc Thanks for your message! There is upcoming section right on the main home page:
https://new.sexlikereal.com
If you just scroll down the page.
Or you usually interact with upcoming content from some other page (e.g. studio page)?
Appreciate your comment! Yes, we use Astro and Solid in our frontend
As for the clickable link for actors name β totally makes sense, we will add it in our next builds. Let us know if you notice something else please!
Your suggestion is already in production by the way:
https://new.sexlikereal.com/
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kingwizard Thanks, I can see that now but noticed that the upcoming section disappears if you sort the scenes into βNewest firstβ 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 canβt find any upcoming option there. I also canβt see a way to filter the upcoming videos so you canβt 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.
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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
Cool!! Great stack combo!! Would love to work with a dream stack like this!
kingwizard
WOW!! Saw it! Great work! Congrats to FE team! Was a simple change, but was a very fast implement and deploy.
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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
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!
Jenlov1 This one is also in work. Should be delivered soon. Thank you for the comment.
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It definitely looks sleeker. Though I don't like all the icons over the preview thumbnail videos. Can hardly see the preview. Also I'm really missing the new sandbox and upcomming tabs you had. That's basically 90% of the navigation I do on this site.
Hopefully it can default to Newest First, and also need to see a Sandbox link for my Fantastica scenes (which by the way is showing on the main page of the new site).
kingwizard Glad to see this rebuild. I hope you will look at this post, as these issues seem to carry over into the rebuild. Currently within the gay niche, filters are not working. It would also be great to use cookies or profile settings to keep users' preferences for a niche like trans or gay the default.