usability engineering problems?

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  1. lichdeath

    lichdeath undead meatbun ^^

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    basically for school i have to take a site and point out their usability flaws and then suggest solutions
    however they have said it needs to be a site where i can get feedback from other users

    they also said its better to choose a site that you know well so you can easily reach out to the users

    and thus i got rather limited options
    royalroadl.com
    novelupdates.com
    kongregate.com
    steam.com
    pathofexile.com

    so can you guys give me what you think is annoying about those sites? (e.g. i have to click 4 times to reach there why cant i just go there instantly??, you cant do x or y on that site)
     
  2. MangoGuy

    MangoGuy Rambling Mango

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    NUF has too many traps.
    I recommend you to add the no hijacking tag.
     
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  3. Airye

    Airye Hermit Water Elementalist

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    i feel like there are not enough colors on NU :p
     
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  4. arrogantyoungmaster

    arrogantyoungmaster 20 Nuf = 1 face slap to make your day better

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    if i want to move a bunch of novels from list to list ( in my reading list ) i need to check them all :sweating_profusely::sweating_profusely:
     
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  5. Nyamsus

    Nyamsus Life is full of shit and we live in it

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    Do not reinvent the wheel,
    Reallign the wheel.
     
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  6. LightOrNot

    LightOrNot Gr8 b8 m8 I r8 8/8.

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    When in the reading list I accidentally hit the "I've read the latest chapter!" button for the series above or below the one I wanted to hit because of my clumsy fingers(on mobile device), at that time I go to the reading list's logs to see what chapter I need to put the check mark back at.
    Every time this happens I shed a little tear for the lack of an "undo" button on the log page.
     
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  7. Serendipity

    Serendipity No one, nothing

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    Don't forget nhentai.com.
     
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  8. Charles83

    Charles83 Well-Known Member

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    The only suggestion i could give you is about NovelUpdates, and it is about several functions, this site has very nice tools like the reading list and color coded list and even a priority list, (i do have 3 reading list with 3 priority orders for reading, some are for binge reading some i keep day to day eye on them and some ocassionally i check them) the problem is that there is no guide anywhere here or at least is not easily accessible where it does explain about the reading list and several other functions (I did discover them mostly on my own), so yeah the only improvement i could suggest is to find a way to make this information about the different options you have here more available to the users that come here to keep themselves up to date about the novels they like.
     
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  9. Belgarion_V

    Belgarion_V 『The Supreme Chuuni』『Explosion Loli』

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    I want to be able to search using more than one tag at a time. We can do it on hentaihaven why can't we do it here on a normal site.
     
  10. ninish

    ninish ✿Fujoshi✿ [#224~] [Dʀᴀɢᴏɴɪsᴛ] [Lᴜʀᴋᴇʀ Lᴇᴇᴄʜ]

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    I wanna have a dark pink header and a soft lilac background but noooo it's dark blue with white background *sighs*

    NU also needs an UNDO button, where you can press it and it will undo the latest change you did to a reading list, like when you are checking out a novel you are stacking chapters to read, and accidentally press that you've read the latest chapter, but don't remember exactly which one was the last you read. (,,•́ . •̀,,) in other words, nu only lacks age. Most of the areas that can be improved are due to the site being fairly 'young'. ╮(╯▽╰)╭
     
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  11. JadeWhiteSkin

    JadeWhiteSkin please rescue~

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    try checking the suggestions threads? pretty sure there should be a list of things people want.
     
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    Pyrenose Well-Known Member

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    Not enough blobs on NU
     
  13. Stealth

    Stealth Elegant Lady

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    royalroad
    yeah i need to choose "show all" in every novel page to know if they have updates

    novelupdates
    we need easy method to cultivate our beloved nuffies farm
    i need a follower!!
     
  14. KurouDaijuji

    KurouDaijuji Well-Known Member

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    RoyalRoadL.com : Disabling/Blocking [Ctrl]-[Tab] to open new tabs... (seriously, it bugs me enough that I have assigned one the buttons on my gaming mouse to send [Right Click]-[t] when I have my browser window active).

    Also, the previous posters issue.
     
  15. AMissingLinguist

    AMissingLinguist [Not Here][Blank Sect][Nuffian #N]

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    Oh! Maybe @Tony should implement a tutorial button on NU for easy access to new users. I hope someone remembers to suggest this on the suggestion thread, unless it's there already.

    Edit: Also, mods don't like homework threads. Profile, blogs, and conversations are A-OK, I think.
     
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    xTachibana Wincest King

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    for kongregate...if you have 2 FB accounts (1 via email 1 tied to your FB), it automatically logs you into the FB one, you have to log out and then manually log into your other one every time :v
     
  17. Lokumi

    Lokumi 『The second greatest trash of society』

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    RRL lack a reading list option like from NU (multiple reading list, checkbox to see if the ch is read...), 'cause just the bookmarks one is quite lacking.
    NU lack of multiple reading list color (one colors per reading list), it lack a undo button (already mentioned, though I'm still happy of the log function :D).
     
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    ronueda Well-Known Member

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    This one is really needed. @Tony
     
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  19. KurouDaijuji

    KurouDaijuji Well-Known Member

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    I wish RRL had a Blacklist/"Not Interested" list amongst it's bookmarks, currently I dump those under "Favorites", though I do use "Bookmarks" & "Read Later" for what it says on the tin.

    Even better would be if the aforementioned blacklist was a search exclusion option (I currently have such a list on NU, & whilst it doesn't block stuff from search results, I do have it set to exclude them from my front page/new releases, & I have assigned the gravestone icon so I recognise them when they do show in search results).
     
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