The new layout for the games section (both released and upcoming) is excellent. The joining of it all into one iPhone and iPad section, rather than the previous iPhone iPod section and further iPad section along with the further sub distinction in the thread of being universal or not is a great addition in my opinion Thanks a lot for that improvement. It has made things substantially quicker, more streamlined and much more convenient so genuinely well done.
I agree. Excellent change. What's the protocol when there are an HD and non-HD version of the same game (i.e. Angry Birds and Angry Birds HD)? One thread for both games? Separate threads for each version?
I must be an odd one out then, I dislike it and much prefer the old layout. It annoys me somewhat when sites I really enjoy using and use frequently, change their layout for the sake of it.. It was fine
Im with you, I hate the new layout. I don't see the point or practical use of having ipad only games in an iphone forum. As someone who owns both I prefer two different forums.
Yeah and iPad only games are just going to get buried under all the iPhone games. I don't care for the merger. If TA wants to merge iPad and iPhone game forums then they need to upgrade their search engine as any search word that is shorter than four characters will not register a result.
Guys, read this- http://toucharcade.com/2014/02/11/we-combined-our-iphone-and-ipad-games-forums/ Specifically: edit: Arn's solution is even more elegant VVV
The vast majority of games are Universal. iPad games won't get buried by "iPhone" games, since there aren't that many iPhone-only games. They might get buried by Universal games, but Universal games are iPad games. Am I missing a scenario? There is a way see only iPhone or iPad prefixed games: http://forums.toucharcade.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2&prefixid=iPhone http://forums.toucharcade.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2&prefixid=iPad We can link that more prominently somewhere. arn
Thanks for the info Eli and Arn, it might be nice if there was another prefix for iPad only and iPhone only games. Other wise they will get buried under the universal games. Also any chance that the TA search engine is going to get upgraded anytime soon? It really is the weakest part of this site.
I'm still confused. We have those prefixes: Universal - Both iPhone and iPad iPhone - iPhone only iPad - iPad only
Currently if you select the iPad only option it still brings up all the universal games and still some iPhone games. I am asking for it to only bring up iPad only games when I use the iPad prefix, not iPad only and universal as it is currently.
Are you using the right link? http://forums.toucharcade.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2&prefixid=iPad Separately, why don't you want to see Universal ones? arn
I was using the right link but was not hitting the show threads button like an idiot. I don't want to see universal ones because there are lots of iPad only games that are board game apps like Quarriors and Suburbia that I am not familiar with ahead of time and might miss if I had to sort through 10 to 20 pages of threads to find during the Wednesday and Thursday release flood. Sorry to sound like a broken record but is there any chance the TA search engine is going to get an update so we can search one and two letter words.
Not right now but I do enjoying searching and I always end up doing it on the AppStore, then the google with TA trick but I would really just like to be able todo all my searching here. I really like RPG's and when I want to do a generic large capture search I will simply search rpg but that doesn't work here on TA. Anyway, I've taken up enough of your valuable time. Thanks for all your hard work behind the scenes and for taking the time to help me out. Have a good one arn!
I wonder what was wrong with the old layout that warranted a change? I still think it's stupid to dump ipad and iPod/iPhone games together, would it really hurt to keep them separate? Now ipad only games are going to be instantly swamped by the flappy and other mediocre clones that flood the forum. I know my opinion doesn't matter but still, I think it was a mistake merging them.
Did the user review section get deleted in this shuffle? If so, that's a shame. Otherwise, I like the changes and I think it streamlines the apps very nicely.
hate the change agree ipad stuff will just vanish (even if you can search for it) also when just browsing, you think interesting game, and then notice oh only iphone or ipad why ? what was the problem having them seperate ? - dont mind the upcoming thread being merged. But for releases, i think its horrible
iPad/iPhone combined forum? Was there a discussion at some point about combining the iPad/iPhone forums? I don't really like that at all, because I'm more interested in iPad games. It was much easier to check out stuff of interest when it was narrowed down. Now, you have to wade through pages of posts about little junky apps to find the meatier things of interest for iPad. Big step backward for this site, IMO.
There was - http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=160532 You can still sort the forum by just iPad games. Use this link for strictly iPad only threads: http://forums.toucharcade.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2&prefixid=iPad Or this link will give you Universal games, which are also iPad games: http://forums.toucharcade.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2&prefixid=universal