Do you have an RSS feed? I couldn't find it.
They do http://www.polygon.com/rss/index.xml it's advertised in the head, your browser should've caught it.
Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
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Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#12Oof, look at this Rails controller code from the video in their blog post: http://cl.ly/image/2j1O2q152r0c
What a mess that code base must be.
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#13I have to say the layout is pretty unusual and I'm not sure I like it. Maybe I'll get used to it however.
I find it pretty horrible for actually reading content on the site. When I try and read a review[1], I find the flow of my reading constantly broken by huge images and the copy jumping all around the page. It's a pretty site, I just don't know if the design is right for the content in certain cases. [1] http://www.polygon.com/game/medal-of-honor-warfighter/2686
Am I crazy for actually liking that page you linked? I much prefer a site to carefully craft an article much like a paper magazine would, with the presentation given a great deal of thought as well as the content. You get to see high-quality images, visuals, and typography, instead of a Markdown document thrown into a Wordpress template with the article squeezing into a 40% width justified column and taking a backseat to navigation columns, ads, related articles, "share this!", survey popups, and pagination to make sure you see it all 4 times.
Besides, if you really hate original layout, you can reduce both extremes to something palatable with Readability and friends. That page happens to look great with it, though it does get rid of the image gallery and rating: http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//www.polygon.com...
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#14Look at their review scoring policy[1], I'm a little underwhelmed. A score of 5:
>indicates a bland, underwhelming game that's functional but little else. These games might still possess quirks or aspects that appeal to certain players.
So what's the purpose of scores below 5? The description for a score of 5 is the lowest possible baseline for a game I might want to play. It seems like a full half of the scoring space is essentially purposeless when viewed from the perspective of recommending games to people who might want to buy them.
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#15The website is absolute performance nightmare. It hanged my browser for 10+ seconds before I was able to do anything. Less Javascript, please.
Was absolutely fine for me on Firefox.
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#16Oof, look at this Rails controller code from the video in their blog post: http://cl.ly/image/2j1O2q152r0c What a mess that code base must be.
Most sites have messy codebases, news at 11.
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#17The website is absolute performance nightmare. It hanged my browser for 10+ seconds before I was able to do anything. Less Javascript, please.
Website was fine loading for me in Chrome.
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#18This site has the same issue 98% of all websites with a big overlay at the top have - every time you scroll using the page down key, the page jumps too far and you miss one or more lines of text. I hope this gets fixed quickly. Interestingly enough, it's better on the iPad, where the top scrolls normally with the rest of the page. This idea of having stuff fixed on the page goes back to the late 1990s, when frames we…
In the age of infinite scrolling / non-pagination it's a huge pain to scroll back up for menu. Especially on mobile. Polygon obviously uses the fixed bar for improved user experience. It takes up precious screen space - but that's the tradeoff.
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#19This site has the same issue 98% of all websites with a big overlay at the top have - every time you scroll using the page down key, the page jumps too far and you miss one or more lines of text. I hope this gets fixed quickly. Interestingly enough, it's better on the iPad, where the top scrolls normally with the rest of the page. This idea of having stuff fixed on the page goes back to the late 1990s, when frames we…
In the age of infinite scrolling / non-pagination it's a huge pain to scroll back up for menu. Especially on mobile. Polygon obviously uses the fixed bar for improved user experience. It takes up precious screen space - but that's the tradeoff.
You do are aware that on iOS you can tap the top bar and scroll back to the top with 1 tap? And on non-mobile, there is a scroll-to-the-top key that does the same thing…?
Re: Welcome to Polygon. It's a website (finally)
#20Look at their review scoring policy[1], I'm a little underwhelmed. A score of 5: >indicates a bland, underwhelming game that's functional but little else. These games might still possess quirks or aspects that appeal to certain players. So what's the purpose of scores below 5? The description for a score of 5 is the lowest possible baseline for a game I might want to play. It seems like a full half of the scoring spa…
They seem to consider a score of 7.5 or 8 "average", much like the rest of gaming publications. Sad, really.