Okay, this thread is probably going to wind up closed... and like there aren't enough "omfg i lyk hayte the new mt bcauz its 2 confuzeeeeeeeeeeeeeeng" threads out there, but...
First of all, I have a question about credits that I've brought up a bunch of times on the pinned thread about the new MT in this forum that no one has answered, which is, "what happens if you run out of credits?"
I've been told only, "You have to contribute to gain more." But what happens if you run out? Can you just not do anything? Does it give you error messages? I mean, you wouldn't be able to download or make threads and stuff... so would it just tell you, "Sorry, you don't have enough credits?" Does anyone know? I hope the mods know... it's just bothering me.
Another thing that I want to say is just basically to repeat what everyone else is saying, which is that the new MT is making people leave.
I don't want to complain just because I get high off complaining... I want to complain in order to suggest ways to maybe make the new MT a little more user-friendly. I mean, I'm sure that there are a whole bunch of really great things about the new MT, I just haven't found them yet. The Control Panel makes things easier, I suppose (see? I found one!). But there are some things I would like to suggest to keep users and stop the flow of complaints and hatemail I see the mods getting.
First of all, I don't really like the way the view pages for the wallpapers are set up. The info is bunched on the side instead of at the top, they've combined things like comments and favorites which makes it confusing to read, it's harder to find the favorite button so as a result less favorites are being given, and on the gallery and guestbook comments, you can't see avatars and signatures. I think it would be better if they changed the main layout of the gallery pages to look more like the old one, so things like favorites were easier to find and that you could see avatars and sigs in gallery posts.
Also, on the forums--and this may seem a little nitpicky, so I'm sorry--but when I reply to a thread, my text disappears on the side for a little bit so I can't see everything that I'm typing. However (trying to find positive things to say) I like the "box within a box" look, I feel that it makes things more organized. Just maybe fix the coding on the reply boxes.
And, of course, the ubiquitous submit button problems. Personally, I think that the "browse" section is a bit superfluous... although I do get the point of it, I think it would be slightly less confusing to have a "wallpapers" section, a "scans and doujinshi" section, and the "reviews" section, and be able to browse those by anime category similar to the navigation in the "browse" section, and to make the submit buttons there. I think "Browse" is just one more button on the navigation that confuses people more. I understand why the mods made the submit buttons this way, though, so I'm not going to bug them about putting it back the way it was--although I did like the old way better, I understand and respect their reasons for changing it--so that's not what this is about.
On the positive side, one thing I really like is that I can now browse only scans or only wallpapers, whereas in the old MT, whenever I wanted to find a scan of a certain character or anime, it was hard and confusing, so there's one thing that's better. (See? I am finding more good things. I'm not a total pessimist.)
Returning to the subject of favorites, and I think this has been brought up before--going to see someone's favorites page isn't as obvious as it was before, and basically brings no attention to the people whose submissions were favorited. I liked the "favorites" section of the old userpages, and the fact that that bar has been replaced with ads makes me quite sad.
And of course I have to bring up the common topic of the friendslist--what's this "watchlist", "hotlist", etc stuff anyway? Yes, I did read the thread, but it still confuses me. The nonfunctioning hotlist seems pointless and redundant, and why can you not recieve notifications for both threads and wallpapers? Did no one think of that? Did no one say, "if they're your 'best buddies', then why are we only thinking of their threads?" I suppose you can add them to both lists... can you? but it still seems pointless and like a waste of effort. If you're going to split up the friendslists, I think that your "watchlist" should be people that are not your friends, but that you want to watch, for their submissions, forum topics, or both--perhaps their could be a "watchlist/friendslist" section in the control panel where you could choose what you want to be notified about from each friend. And then there could be a "friendslist" of your 'best buddies', where you can also choose what you want to recieve (because hey, I think that's a good idea), and you would both be on each other's lists, and you could have the small pictures idea of the "hotlist". The friendslist could be limited to maybe 20 or so people--I don't know, I don't know how much the mods want to regulate that. This way, you could get the submissions OF YOUR CHOICE from the people you wanted to watch, and then also keep contact with your "friends" on MT.
One more thing is the "four-line feed" on the sig... my sig took up 6 or 7 lines in the little box, but exactly 4 in the forums. Perhaps the mods should take this into consideration, because that annoyed me a bit... especially because the box is small.
I could probably keep going on for a while, but I've run out of steam. I know that was a lot of text (wow...), and that the mods know how this site works better than I do, and that they will probably scoff at much of what I've written, and that by no stretch of the imagination will all of it happen. But I hope that they take it into consideration, and maybe if people agree with me and give feedback, some of it might actually happen. Who knows...
Also, please don't flame me for complaining. I'm not trying to complain. I'm trying to make sense of the new MT, and I'm trying to make real suggestions and be active on this site, not just sit back and complain. So that's pretty much it.
An answer to my credit question (in case you've forgotten about it by now) would stll be much appreciated. :)
