[Locked] FAKKU Redesign

Jacob · 2017-02-18T00:10:28-01:00

For the past few months we've been working on a redesign of FAKKU and we're finally ready to make it public! You can turn on the new design, and other beta features, by visiting the following page in your account settings. This will turn on beta features across the website (right now though it's mainly just the redesign). But beware, this is basically my playground for whatever random thing I happen to be working on in my free time. So expect things to be a little broken... https://www.fakku.net/account/beta In the coming months this redesign will be the default FAKKU design, so I want to make sure it's 100% solid before it goes live. Current Design Problems As time goes on our library of content is going to keep increasing. We need to surface content from our back catalog to users that may not be aware of everything available, we want you to get the most value out of your subscription. It's on us to design ways to surface that content to users, so that you can easily view the massive library FAKKU has rather than just the latest content on the front page. There's lots of little things we'll be fixing as well. As an example, right now the process of buying a book or doujin is a little wacky and we don't have it built into the main site in a friendly way. We'll fix that. Or did you know you can search for multiple tags at the same time? We do a bad job showing how to do that. This redesign gives us the freedom to fix these problems and add a lot more features to FAKKU, and we have a long long list of new features we are planning to work on. Why redesign FAKKU? FAKKU was designed over 10 years ago and honestly, our design hasn't changed much in that time. That's a good thing, it means we were able to achieve the goals of our previous (existing) design. That goal was to help bring hentai to a larger international audience and to give scanlators a platform to do so. Now that we are both a publisher and a service, our design needs to change to reflect that. FAKKU can't, and shouldn't, look like a scanlation website. We owe it to ourselves, our users, and our partners in Japan, to make FAKKU look and feel like something more (because it is). This is our first step!Let me know what you think of the design in this thread or join our Discord channel and talk with us directly. If you run into any bugs or have any suggestions (not feature requests), let me know!

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luinthoron High Priest of Loli

7 years ago

I see you've also followed my suggestion to move the Read Later list higher in the dropdown list. Thank you, that is quite helpful!

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Jacob wrote...

luinthoron wrote...

Post anchor links point to post content, not post header (up-/downvote arrows, username, post number, quote/edit/delete links, etc.). A minor annoyance most of the time, but it is a bit silly that you need to scroll up to quote a post or quickly edit your new post after noticing a typo.

These issues have been fixed!

Now it seems to go to the end of the post instead.

luckydog001

7 years ago

I just realized that with the redesign I have no way of gifting someone a book.

luinthoron High Priest of Loli

7 years ago

Found another interesting issue - posts in forum search results lack any indication of which thread they're from.

Taz_9000 Cafe Regular

7 years ago

luinthoron wrote...

Found another interesting issue - posts in forum search results lack any indication of which thread they're from.

plus if you click on a user and goto their profile, and click on post, it will show their post but not the thread the posted in.

Dr Shaneman

7 years ago

The old bug from last year where the first post of a new thread page is invisible has returned.

GODsHandOnEarth (Not-so-)Grim Reaper

7 years ago

Using html in the comment section still makes problems as often the code is not recognized...

Gravity cat the adequately amused

7 years ago

Gravity cat wrote...

I don't really see much point in the Create Poll button anymore. Would it be easier to have a tick box on the Create Topic page on whether you want a Poll on it or not?

I've just noticed this is now a thing.
Neat.

AustKyzor HNNNG Patient Zero

7 years ago

Apologies for the necromancy, but...

I have one, and only one issue with the re-design

The read later function.

The old design I could go straight to it with the menu - but now there's no link to it from the account drop-down.

I can live without the button, but having the extra navigation step is annoying at best, and mood-killing at worst :/

Jacob

7 years ago

AustKyzor wrote...

I'll look into making it easier to access, still tweaking things all over the place with the new design

Smuggins Just Some Guy

7 years ago

Just noticed I can follow tags now (or could I before and never even noticed?)!

Since some chapters have many tags, I think sorting tags so that 'followed tags' (green) sort to the front of the tag list (thereby showing on the main Fakku scroll) would be a good UX feature. Otherwise, the user is going into every story anyway, just to see if their followed tags appear in green.

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