New Website - Issues the definitive list

[DevTeam]

Would you take my comments into account too ?
Is the fact that I have proved a site weakness by unbanning myself not important ?
Why was I ignored ?
Do you care ?

What exactly are the security implications? You can post messages on the forums?

[werewolf]

The ability to sort & filter escorts by numerous criteria including age, ethnicity, hair colour or even nationality on the new site appears to have become either impossible or unnecessarily laborious.

As an example, it was previously a simple process involving just a couple of clicks to attain profiles of Mature Dublin escorts, Asian Dublin escorts or Redheads or Eastern Europeans etc.

You can sort by age on the new site, but you have to do so in increments, i.e. 30-40, 40-50 etc & each separate increment requires a new search to be performed.

Apologies to the Dev team in advance if I've simply missed these functions & they are in fact available on the new site, but if so they certainly ain't jumping out at the user as being easily accessible.

[Kraxis]

I have to thank the Dev team for their speedy response, it is greatly appreciated by the community at large i am sure. Certainly as a user I have seen that some issues are already being tackled, such as right click on an escorts thumbnail to open multiple pages. It shows they are committed to supporting the community and how users want to use the site. There are many features which I do think are great, so I dont want things to be overly negative, but i will post things that i see as degraded or perhaps could be refined for easier use for the community.

1) escorts profiles - no longer have videos on them, i had hoped this would become a more widespread feature, but now they do not appear for anyone who previsouly had a video. the community and escorts have lost a feature to showcase with this update to the site.

2) The Login section in header is inconsistently laid out, layout changes from page to page you navigate to. sometimes gold links, sometimes white, sometimes it has username and password fields and sometimes not.

3) The login section - "rescue" i assume was "forgot your password" from the old site. I've not tried it, but it is ambiguous. its not clear the intent of the link.

4) some profile display multiple price listings. eg. https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...le-escort.html
displays euros and pounds prices for the same incall listings.

5) user inteface query - if an escort opts out of reviews is it necessary to display the ratings column, it seems to take up valuable screen space but then serve no purpose as it displays no information.

6) Duo profiles - https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...uo-escort.html
there are columns fo each escort which may be good, previously it was one and they were merged, but in this format there are no ratings column anymore on this page.there is no space to display it even if they were open to reviews.

7) on any escorts page the introduction is at the bottom, but its supposed to introduce....
so that doesnt make sense, it should be the first thing a client see's if its an introduction, thats what introductions are.

8) diary
if an escort buys month, which we have seen in the past, will this display the month or only the next week? what if her tours were in different locations each week, as a client i'd not know until that week that she arrived in that location. previously an escorts profile would display all tour dates and locations, you might even plan to see an escort in her now location and not her current location. e.g make a booking via pm 10 days in advance if she was going to be somewhere new and more accessible to you as a client.

9) Mobile
Text is displayed right out the the outermost edges of the screen, which can be difficult to read, most websites would leave a few pixels at least spacing

10) mobile
I had to request the desktop site, twice, selected once, nothing happened bar reloading the mobile site version, selected a second time actually loaded the desktop site.

11) Had to pinch zoom out immediately, page was not resized to fit automatically as would happen with other websites.

In addition to the issues i have seen myself directly. I read one on the thread earlier which was of concern and will contact dev team direct via PM.

[Kraxis]

12) I see an example of what was taking mroe clicks to complete now was asked for.
- When I am logged in and reviewing the forums, i cannot do a single click to "My favorites", which used to be an option on the heading menus for a users pfofile actions. with this removed I must now navigate to "dashboard" then to "favorites", 2 clicks where it used to be 1.
- when i click "community" i am no longer directed to the foums. I must then click to go to the forums. 2 clicks instead of 1.
-when i navigate to https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...d-escorts.html, there are no longer links to select each county, so i cant get to "Dublin", i can search the interractive map but thats multiple clicks.
If i do a "search" on that page for "dublin" i must use the extremely long list of entries to find dublin, then select it. and search. at a munimum, 3-4 clicks for what used to be 1 click. using the map is excessive also, as it doesnt change from the "Ireland" as a while view, just zooms in on Dublin, it still shows stats for escorts country wide, regardless of zoom, the rest of the page is not updated to reflect.

those are but a few i spotted quickly.

[2camp]

The review system I find very poor, why not keep it simple like before, none of my friends like it either and only puts people off leaving reviews, its all a step backwards for E-I really I find this new site as going by the poll both Escort and Client don't like the changes so far

[hornyd]

hi im acessing the site through my games console and since the new site came on its very hard to get the pages to load.even to get a number is hard if the page wont load properly and im only getting a few profiles on the page im on

[cheyenne]

The lack of easily found sub-categories is extremely off-putting.

[Sherry]

13) Next up, https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...n-escorts.html, there used to be counts on all of the links on the page, either for arriving soon or arrived today, total number in dublin etc... these are gone, so i dont know where i want to spend my time looking first, i just have to look at it all. it may be that if there were few arrivals today, i'd look at coming soon instead first, or vice versa.

14) Profiling - https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...n-escorts.html
The absolute sheer amount of 302 redirect requests. the entire site appears to be loaded on redirections. what is going on here? in terms of page load times it takes longer than if it was loaded direct. and it costs more to host as it costs more power to run.

15) Profiling - https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...n-escorts.html
I'm on my laptop right now, but it clearly says im loading mobile.css among the resources. Is there no user agent string identification to serve targeted resources? as a desktop user, i do not need to receive mobile resources, its wasteful, im downloading more than i need to. also if the same is true for mobile, god knows what im downloading that i dont need to display there?

16) Recent Updates - https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor...rts.html#!feed
- the spacing on this page is woeful, what used to be a line of text on the old site, is now a 1 inch ordeal of taking up space to display...the same line of text, and a thumbnail which is really too small to see the escort clearly.

17) "Premium Escorts" - https://www.escort-ireland.com/escor....html#!premium
- what the heck is this? really....also, please do not display a link that has nothing on it, its frustrating to users. sure it might come in a "future update" but then there is no reason for it to be here, right now. users click it, it wastes their time and your resources to do it.

18) Blog - https://www.escort-ireland.com/blog/
I went here from another page, and had no way to navigate back, except for clicking back endlessly, where has all the rest of the navigtions menus gone on this page?

19) My "Dashboard" -Dear god! why!!?
-First up its nice to see my favorites, ok, i get it. BUT, The new size and layout is far oversized for the same information, i think the pictures are even roughly the same size as they used to be, but what we had was whether they were available or not below their picture. Not that its a box, it takes up about 4 times the space as it used to, so i see less information at a glance, its clukny as an interface. I only see 4 of them here, where originally it displayed 40 or so.
-I dont need to see my own list of latest forum posts, that used to be a link on my profile if i wanted to see it now i dont have a choice, but really, its just taking up valuable screen space which could be used for something else. even less clutter would be better.
- I dont see my email, anywhere, no inbox, outbox, archives....nothing, no popup for me having new mail.
- The favorites page, is now about 4 pages long to scroll down through, it used to be one...to look at in its entirely without scrolling.
-The favorites page, it used to divide out my favorite escorts from my favorite duo escorts, this was much better, i now have to "dig in" and search rather than review at a glance.
- From dashboard, i cant see my own profile, but if i go to the community forums, i can see those links, this is extremely confusing as there is no clearly defined site map to navigte, no flow to follow, its not intuitive or the same each page or experience.
- just found my email from earlier on the links in the community forums. that was an effort to find, it ws like where's wally.

20) The forums
- The are zero members in the chat room, yep, oh wait, i cant find a link to the chat rooms anywhere, so that might be why. cant chat to anyone anymroe.
- it jsut seems like so much is missing from the nemu navigations that were in place before.

21) view the old design -- https://2013.escort-ireland.com/
where do i begin. its like someone ran over it, its now almost roadkill. its not dead, but it is twitching, waiting to die. almost begging for it.
so many options are lost, missing, or no longer available.
- Dublin escorts, no longer has a map
- Dublin escorts no longer does a count for escorts advertising in certain locations e.g. Dublin 1, dublin 2
- its supposed to be the old site, but i cant use the old search features which were far more detailed and usable with better results.
- what i can do....i can search for female -> escorts. click the search button.
Then i am displayed a further option to search with favorites and click search again. BUT I get no search results, i am looped back to the same page i just clicked search on.
- I cant see who arrived today, who is coming in the next few days, i cant see duo's, coulples or tv's
- duo's and couples are now grouped together.


22) https://www.escort-ireland.com/
This page, really, the first menus, there are scrolling images of the esorts who are available, BUT, right in front of them on either side are two huge selection menus, blocking 50% of the scrolling images. quite wasteful, cluttered and frustrating.

-- underneath the thumbnails of the escorts is 5 new stats, escorts online, logged in, online now etc... except this is a massive waste of space, its not like i can click and see who is online and get more information, this is the extent of the information.
--underneath the thumbnails of escorts, is a very large section titled "Escort Ireland" with 6 large sections of text laid out, is this really necessary, its such a large layout for such a small set of information, grey writing against white is hard to read

23) I use firefox, when i first went to the site - https://www.escort-ireland.com/
I HAD to zoom out twice manually, CTRL + -. items just were not displaying on page and i had to scroll left and right on page to see everything.

24) user interface, the logout button "signout", as standard its on the top right where users expect to see it, it is now on the top left. quite an unusual design choice.

25) escorts i had bookmarked in my browser, those pages no longer work for a lot of them.

overall there are a lot of design flaws, difficult to read and poor colour schemes being the least of the worries. I wonder if how people use the site was taken into account in designing the new layout. I'm not knocking the developers, im sure they did what was asked and that it took a lot of effort to do. but what has been implemented is a shadow of the pervious version of the website.

In any upgrade or new release the goal should be to enhance the users experience. not re-train the users to do something new or force them into a new path for doing things, which by the way is a longer process for most. The options where the community used before should still be accessible, but many are just gone completely.

I wonder also if during design, website performance was taken into account while implementing the new options, developing on your own machine vs testing under user load and service level agreements on response times and agreed page weight. e.g not exceeding 3mb and take more than 4 seconds to load.

User interface or quality assurance testing has clearly been left off the table, or many of these issues should have been raised in house. e.g doing 6 clicks for a new process vs 2 in the old site. leaving out important features and key information, drastic changes to layout which make it harder to read and understand the same information.

Please, let this get passed to the Dev team, or someone reply to this.
And if community users add to this, please let it be only genuine issues, not chat or spam. lets get this to Dev and support and keep it easy for them to review and discuss.

just a 1 word
not nice not a good change
it wasnt a good idea to change on it
i dont know why was it nesessary?
the old one was much better

[airplane]

It might have been mentioned before but if a girl has a website it's not showing up on her profile.

Maybe it actually is there and I should search some more, but either way..........

Also has anyone ever purposefully viewed any set of pics as a slide-show?

It obvious the new version was designed for a mobile (big ass buttons), why not have mobile and desktop versions?

[nonpareil]

Onwards and upwards.