Review: ReadTheScene.org (WarezBBs official magazine)

[LinuxTrance]

This has been completed for about two weeks, but would love some feedback on what you love or hate about the site. We are finishing up the newest issue of theSCENE and it should be released in a few weeks. Once we finish up the newest issue all new content will be posted directly on the website, and no longer in the PDF issue.

So anyways, what are your thoughts?

www.readthescene.org

Want reviews on accessibility, readability, etc. Does it flow well? Do you like the look of it? What can be improved?

LinuxTrance Reviewed by LinuxTrance on 8th May 2011. Review: ReadTheScene.org (WarezBBs official magazine) This has been completed for about two weeks, but would love some feedback on what you love or hate about the site. We are finishing up the newest issue of theSCENE and it should be released in a few weeks. Once we finish up the newest issue all new content will be posted directly on the website, and no longer in the PDF issue. So anyways, what are your thoughts? www.readthescene.org Want reviews on accessibility, readability, etc. Does it flow well? Do you like the look of it? What Rating: 5

[Daniel]

This is true quality. Very impressive. Rarely I see that. I like everything I see. Perfect. I just want to brag. A few things that can be improved are: Quality of some of the photos that appear in the slide lecture. Poor quality on a couple of pictures. I think I would have moved the date by posts, recent comments and follow us on twitter to the bottom. Changed the location of a couple of things.

Definitely top marks.

[LinuxTrance]

Hey man, thanks for the review!!

Do you mean the pictures for the article numbers? For theSCENE 23 and 24 I lost the font I was using for the others, so they look WAY WORSE, lol. As for the placement of the home page items, I'll play around with it and see which way looks best. Thanks again for the kind words,

LT

*edit*

I actually removed all three sections (recent posts, comments, and twitter feed) as these are on every page (sidebar). I think it looks much better that way, thanks for the advice! I'll add a dropdown menu for the posts by date, so people can still search that way.

[Phamous]

I love the magazine, but hate the site's design. The background is so irrelevant, doesn't even give me the professional feel that the magazine does. Everything should be brighter, but not too bright. Dark gray would be perfect for a primary skin color.

[QuickSand]

phamous its not like its a real company or som
its a warez magazine

the site and magazine is cool i read it now and then

[LinuxTrance]

Hmm, what would be a relevant background for a Warez magazine? I tried to find something that wouldn't detract from the text. If there's a better option for a background I'm open to it. We originally had a light design, but I actually like it a bit better darker. To Each their own though can't make everyone like it.

Thanks for the reviews so far.

[ace-uploader]

Site is awesome and unique, social icons in the bottom should have hover effect. Contact us should slide out on mouse over.

After every movie the tag remains the same

Tagged movie, reviews

I don't know, if it is right or wrong but it doesn't look good. Categories are not displayed on website.
You have used #FF6AA5 for links, use some bright variant like #FF10B3. It suites more. Just my 2 cents.

[BlaZe]

Well, I don't know why theSCENE focuses on Movies. I mean haven't you got any other niche to write about ? All I get in theSCENE is just Movie A review, Movie B review.. etc.

What as a reader I'd suggest -

Make the magazine an all-rounder and not any niche specific
Write about the new upcoming security threat, like; ways to protect your identity on the internet, secure your machine, etc. Interview with few Security Analysts, etc.
Write about a specific profession, for example, a life of a photographer, a life of a plumber.
Add some humour section so that the reader doesn't gets bored of reading the reviews.

etc...

[LinuxTrance]

Hey Ace, thanks for the review. I was planning on doing a hover effects, but actually forgot all about it. I'll make them transition to the site color once hovered. Yeah, we usually will have a lot more content but last issue was pretty much all movie reviews as our tech writers took off, we now have a new tech team so we should have more varied content and categories. Categories are under the Issues link on the menu, but for now there's only a couple of categories (I'm working on archiving all past issues of theSCENE, so we should have about 300 articles along with 10-12 categories, when I'm done. I'll check into the brighter color code, I was trying to match it as closely to the logo as possible, but I agree it might look better brighter I'll give it a go and see how it looks

Hey Blaze:
Actually we write about a lot more than movies, check the archive here for all our past issues:

http://readthescene.org/issues/

We have a lot of tech reviews, interviews, opinion-based articles, etc. The most recent issue of theSCENE was pretty much all movies, as a lot of our writers were on break, or had finals, etc. This current issue (we are working on) has 2 big interviews (TorrentFreak -- and a special one I can't mention yet), several tech reviews, etc. Should be much more varied.

[LinuxTrance]

Do you guys like the new download bar above the issues?

Example:
http://readthescene.org/?portfolio=thescene-issue-24

the bar at the top of each post.