New Website - Issues the definitive list

[Kraxis]

Hi All,

Due to the website being updated, and the huge amount of discussions going on about it, mostly disliking the new layout, i wonder id the development team and admisitrators wouldnt like a thread which specifically is NOT discussions, but ONLY for issues both escorts and clients see with the new site. This being a list of sorts that they can take away and discuss themselves or even post some updates to us, the community and address some of them. Either they plan to "roll back" to the previous version of the site, make additional changes(Furture updates), or leave things the way they are. I invite anyone to add their genuine user issues though.

I'd also appreciate it if people didnt chime in with general chat, or slagging eachother, I want this to be a list, easy to review and discuss. So that the EI team get direct feed back from their community about how they want to use the site, at the end of the day the site of for the community, not what they want to develop, supporting the users must be the end goal, or the whole point is lost.

1) The massive layout - When I navigate to https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...n-escorts.html, the first thing I notice are these huge buttons dominating the header section of a page, "Escorts", "Erotic Massage","Domination", "Other". While these may be nice in some way, that are huge buttons way over sized to allow good page view on a laptop.

2) The massive layout - When I navigate to https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...n-escorts.html, the second thing I notice is the insanely large interractive map, while a nice feature, i cannot see anything until i scroll down a full page length. The map shows only numbers of escorts in an area, not the escorts themselves, which to my view is a bit pointless. As a client, I want to view those in the area im looking not know the count of those in the area. I can click further on each individual, but by comparison, the way the dublin map used to be laid out, i opened an area in my browser and could review all escorts.

3) The massive layout - When I navigate to https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...corts.html,the third thing i notice is the "New arrivals" "arriving today" "coming soon", still oversized buttons there, also, they are not fully in line with eachother. I'm not sure what the difference is between New arrivals and arriving today is, it does not show the same escorts lists in the same fashion, but to me it should mean the same thing.

4) The massive layout - When I navigate to https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...n-escorts.html, the third thing i notice is the "Search" features and the individual advertising, this is a blocky, ugly layout, but again, its far oversized for easy use.

5) The colour scheme, who thought this one up? Its like development coloured items to identify objects onscreen, then never changed them to be uniform before making the site public, neon pink, blue, and the good old EI green we are used to. There is no white space, so there is no relaxing for the eye, it is hard to rest on any one area, the screen is just so "Busy" its difficult to distinguish between sections of the page for what a user wants.

6) Escort Thumbnails - yes its a nice feature, but it has its drawbacks.
- I cannot right click and open several escorts and review which one i would like to call, i must open one at a time. Frustrating
- Did anyone in dev do anything called "profiling" using google chrome of firefox, you can view the page and its resources, images, css, javascript etc... The sheer size of the page when loading up "more" is unreal, its into 7-9mb for a page, where it used to be about 2mb. The page is so much heavier, meaning slower to get to, harder to access. People on mobile devices as standard keep their connections open longer than desktop users, so it must be slowing things down a lot.

7) Performance, has anyone notices the entire site is slower, well could be down to the pages being a lot larger now, downloading more information take longer, also means the EI servers are busier doing more work, which means server less people faster.

8) Headers, pink writing in the bottom section on a white back ground was a poor choice for readability for users.

9) The Community link - https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...n-escorts.html, in the second level navigation menu, click the community link, it no longer takes users to the Forums as it once did, im now earing blog entries and interviews, this behavior has changed and its confusing for users, why did this change, i want to go to the forums, from there i can read the interviews and blogs if I want, but please dont force me to go there, then click to where i wanted to go. Its wasteful heuristics, and your resources on servers, and my time, its frustrating for users.

10) Search - This is a big one.
- Search used to allow you to search for your fetishes, which you cant do anymore
- search used to allow you to select mulitple counties if you were intested in travelling, or search the whole country
- The search age range...thats a drag and click, ok good...BUT, the numbers are displayed under your finger or cursor, so you cant see what you are dragging it to until you lift your finger or cursor away. the drop downs were far better.
- The entire search feature is just downgraded from what it used to be
- i can no longer specify to only show escorts with genuine phots
- i can no longer specify to show escorts with or allow reviews only
- search displays a very limited selection of escorts, it shows perhaps 20, where before it could show everyone and display it on multiple pages if needed.

11) Viewing an escorts page - lots here to discuss.
- scrolling phots, reminds me of a long since dead escort website, a nice feature perhaps, but slower would be nicer.
- The introduction text is now at the very end of a page, and appears to be more of a foot note, however, i always found this to be very important, when reviewing an escort if i wished to meet this introduction came before anything else, stats, favorites, price etc...It is the escorts was of displaying their personality on which i based my decision heavily.
- clicking to see a number ir pure insanity, it used to be displayed easily and readily diallable from mobile with a single click, its not now.therfore less accessible.
-Messageboard identity and last online times, I know several escorts who did not want to display their message board ID's publically, seems now they dont have a choice. and the last online time is 1) useless as it does not guarantee response 2) none of our business.
-the 4 heading images, communication, rates and average ratings, completely unnecessary. huge blocky in the way images, a heading text would suffice and make the page easier to read. eyes are drawn to these images, but they serve no purpose, what a user wants is the information below those images, its distracting and consuming space. white space is better.
-The sections themselves, the old layout was far more readable, i get that its the same information, but its in a much more difficult to understand and instantly read at a glance. it now requires more time to revise to understand. several fields of information have changed, such as Waist, hips used to be one set of measurements.
- The Average ratings, its actually a very nice feature, i like it, but its implemented badly, its a huge section for a very small amount of information.
-Incall rates and outcall rates, two large sections for what used to be on the old layout one small section well laid out in a single table
- Fake photo reports are gone, i cant report anyone anymore if i wanted to
- Gallery, fine, though i would have expected to be able to zoom photos here, given the rest of the sites feel.
- Diarl, what a mess, a few simple lines of text used to tell us when escorts would be available, what dates. Now we are limited to one week, and in a terrible and quite unreadable colour scheme. just because you can make a gant chart, doesnt mean you should. The key information someone wants is when they are available from and to, e.g. 10am-11pm. but now the eye must scan the width of the whole page for that small piece of information.
- Reviews, 1 page of stats information, then I have to scroll down.
- I can no longer right click and open multiple reviews at a time, its now view one, go back, view another, go back...tedious. i want to read what other clients have to say, but this is so much more effort for the same task it used to be.
- The sections now displaying what a user wrote appears a a side note, less important than their stats it would seem, but as a client, reading the experience of others is what is more important to me.
- Email Me - on an escorts page, doesnt work, perhaps thats just some escorts that dont want emails and they disabled the feature, or maybe its all of them. but as a client i cant know that, to me it appears to be a button that does nothing, which is frustrating, if i see it i want to use it and cant, its useless.

12) I went to the EI site, I saw a button for a mobile app, i went to the link and was told, "its coming soon", quite frustrating, there is no point in offering something that is not yet available to users, it would be better to say "mobile app coming soon" as an image, than have a user go through a process to be told that, expecting a mobile app and being let down.