I have no issues with trying to update this website, but man this new layout is hideous. Like really hideous. It looks like the website, JustWatch.
The new layout is ugly as hell
Not only that, but the inaccurate casting suggestions are still stuck in negatives! The same for when casting characters in stories!!!!
That still hasn’t been resolved!!!!
I still so wish for a permanent delete stories & characters so I don’t have to live seeing them in the bin all the time without a permanent option.
Even deleting profiles that aren’t needed.
That’s not really what I mean, the layout just looks rough imo.
dude, I hate this new fucking layout, I can't restore my recently deleted stories
This layout looks very rough and hopefully the mods/admins can fix the bugs that are going on with it too.
The bugs have ticked me off too much. They better fix all the celeb & character profiles too.
This layout better be good otherwise something else!
yes
Fingers crossed that they were just "testing the waters" with this and fix it. Otherwise, I think the new layout is messy and disorganized af, especially on individual stories.
https://www.mycast.io/talent/taylin-campbell
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kenya-rodriguez
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aariana-weber
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kiley-plemons
https://www.mycast.io/talent/sydney-riebel
https://www.mycast.io/talent/lindsay-riebel
https://www.mycast.io/talent/brionna-johnson
https://www.mycast.io/talent/chloe-wheadon
https://www.mycast.io/talent/quinn-dessert-payne
https://www.mycast.io/talent/olivia-smith
https://www.mycast.io/talent/bridgette-lefebvre
https://www.mycast.io/talent/cecelia-panek
https://www.mycast.io/talent/grace-mehl
https://www.mycast.io/talent/elizabeth-wittekiend
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kylee-williams
https://www.mycast.io/talent/sierra-bickel
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aaria-buckley
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aniyah-kramer
https://www.mycast.io/talent/amiya-wilson
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kianna-steffen
https://www.mycast.io/talent/madison-gehrt
https://www.mycast.io/talent/katrina-crawford
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kylah-jane
https://www.mycast.io/talent/neeti-gandhi
https://www.mycast.io/talent/mya-porter
https://www.mycast.io/talent/jennie-brown
https://www.mycast.io/talent/trinity-wand
https://www.mycast.io/talent/olivia-neff
https://www.mycast.io/talent/sophie-westerman
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aniyah-kramer
https://www.mycast.io/talent/mary-balangue
https://www.mycast.io/talent/romi-gardner
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aaliyah-johnson
https://www.mycast.io/talent/pati-rodriguez
https://www.mycast.io/talent/taylin-campbell
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kenya-rodriguez
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aariana-weber
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kiley-plemons
https://www.mycast.io/talent/sydney-riebel
https://www.mycast.io/talent/lindsay-riebel
https://www.mycast.io/talent/brionna-johnson
https://www.mycast.io/talent/chloe-wheadon
https://www.mycast.io/talent/quinn-dessert-payne
https://www.mycast.io/talent/olivia-smith
https://www.mycast.io/talent/bridgette-lefebvre
https://www.mycast.io/talent/cecelia-panek
https://www.mycast.io/talent/grace-mehl
https://www.mycast.io/talent/elizabeth-wittekiend
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kylee-williams
https://www.mycast.io/talent/sierra-bickel
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aaria-buckley
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aniyah-kramer
https://www.mycast.io/talent/amiya-wilson
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kianna-steffen
https://www.mycast.io/talent/madison-gehrt
https://www.mycast.io/talent/katrina-crawford
https://www.mycast.io/talent/kylah-jane
https://www.mycast.io/talent/neeti-gandhi
https://www.mycast.io/talent/mya-porter
https://www.mycast.io/talent/jennie-brown
https://www.mycast.io/talent/trinity-wand
https://www.mycast.io/talent/olivia-neff
https://www.mycast.io/talent/sophie-westerman
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aniyah-kramer
https://www.mycast.io/talent/mary-balangue
https://www.mycast.io/talent/romi-gardner
https://www.mycast.io/talent/aaliyah-johnson
https://www.mycast.io/talent/pati-rodriguez
Again, this isn’t the issue. The issue is the layout.
Tbh it kinda looks like a different website, it looks like one of those movie new website that show you the poster, the release date and the cast
new layout not great. my biggest problem with it is the character names appearing overlaid on top of the portraits of the actor being cast, since a lot of the portraits have half their faces cut off by text in this new layout.
Also, the character roles on individual stories are huge as hell unlike the simplified layout before.
Plus, it seems that it ignores your story settings, so other people can upload images even if you've only set it for yourself (the More Character Images section). Also, there's no ways to actually delete/change them.
I'm worried that some randos are just gonna upload a bunch of random images on the character roles of my stories (like porn/NSFW photos/images for example).
Report to the admins your dislike of it and show proof that others as well don't like the redesign. Companies will very usually just revert something if it's met with a lot of user backlash.
I was in the middle of adding new roles to Fast Times at Ridgemont High when the website changed. It looks big, clunky, and disorganized. I don't know who's in charge, but can they PLEASE change it back already??? Not everyone likes change.
This new layout suuuuuuuuucks
How do you access older stories on other user’s profile? The character images are all screwed up now. It’s all obscured by the text and cropped weirdly. Half the image is missing now. This really just added extra scrolling necessity to the navigation of the site.
For accessing older stories, you'll have to add "/stories" to their username's URL. The rest of the stuff... yeah this is just weird and idk what they're trying to accomplish here.
If you click on a character on mobile, you gotta scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page to make a suggestion.
Agreed
holy sh**, please change it back, is horrendous
it looks so bad, the text and layout is smaller and harder to read, everything is the same color. i'm concerned about this from an accessibility point. if it's hard to read i feel like people are gonna want to use it less.
just noticed this: new layout has made casting suggestion pics blurry/lower-res.
i was looking at a casting suggestion i had made and saw that the image appeared blurry in the gallery with all the other suggestions. i'd uploaded that photo myself and made sure when i did so that it was a good quality and resolution. when i went to the actor profile, the pic was the normal, high-res version that i'd remembered uploading.
i went looking and realized that this seems to actually apply to every suggestion on every story when you click on the name of the role and view all the suggestions for it. these pictures look normal when viewed anywhere else and i have no idea why they'd do this.
<blockquote>Also, the character roles on individual stories are huge as hell unlike the simplified layout before.
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It does look disorganized and clunky af on mobile.
Individual stories' main page displays the character roles like that and it's like that as well on the roles, with the character image replacing the story's poster/thumbnail.
Also, YouTube links are not present on stories or roles even if you've entered them before. And you cannot delete role or restore deleted stories. I'd say that this new layout is more "complex" if anything.
However, I kinda like that we now have a stories watchlist and favorites. Seems to be one of the good things from the recent updates. Hoping for some good news, announcements, improvements, anything. We just have to wait and see.
yea this looks worse on mobile i concur.
The moral of the story is... Change is Bad.
More like change that no one wanted is bad.
Copied this from another post, but here's what one of the admins said:
"We had several issues we were working through with the past system and our advertisers wanted to see the site cleaned up from a content standpoint. We’ve worked with them and made the changes in order for us to start generating revenue again.
We are going to have an open work session with any super users that can make it next week to discuss in a positive way a happy medium of user experience and the new updates".
Idk if this is a good news or not. But just keep the forums updated for awhile. Hoping for some new announcements or smt.
it sounds very corporate speak ngl. doesn't surprise me that advertisers pushed this, they just want constant upward growth
No but seriously, I hate it too. It's just f**king ugly! Whichever corporate shill redesigned this website has no taste! I will not get used to this!
more like they just changed how things look (made them uglier and less efficient) and didnt add any of the stuff people were asking for.
That's Disney evil!
Well I just hope these were all just "testing the waters" type of sh*t and they'll probably fix and improve it somehow.
EDIT: idk what happened, but I can't even edit a profile! The edit profile option is gone! It was there when I logged in and edit a few stuff, but then POOF! It just....gone!
<blockquote> It looks like the website, JustWatch.</blockquote>
Although the yellow bars on the new layout reminds me more of IMDb lmao.
<blockquote>idk what happened, but I can't even edit a profile! The edit profile option is gone! It was there when I logged in and edit a few stuff, but then POOF! It just....gone! </blockquote>
Well, the bookmarks and the option to restore your deleted stories are back at least.
But I still have problems with editing all profiles, especially inaccurate casting suggestions!
Has anyone thought of making a browser addon that restores the layout in the mean time?
<blockquote>Has anyone thought of making a browser addon that restores the layout in the mean time?</blockquote>
i would love that, bur i don't know enough about making browser addons to do it myself.
i'm honestly concerned about the readability of this site in the new layout. the text size for the title, subtitle, and plot summary on stories is <i>tiny</i> - i think the words "story plot" are bigger and easier to read than the title! the font is also very thin, and that plus the subtitle being grey against a black background is NOT a good combination for readability. on browser, i need to zoom in to at LEAST 150% for it to start to feel comfortable to read, and this is coming from someone who doesn't have significant vision problems. i can't imagine what it's like for folks with more severe visual impairment.
the tags on a story don't stand out at all, either, and like everything else they're much too small. when i'm browsing stories, they stand out because their little bubbles are bright blue - but then we run into the problem of the text contrast. there's a few websites that offer free text color contrast checkers. i used one on webaim dot org, and the blue background (#00b3e5) with white text (#ffffff) only had a contrast ratio of <b>2.44:1</b>, which is considered a "fail" for readability.
as for the roles on stories, having the text overlaid on top of the images looks....bad. it's cutting off actors' heads (in fact, the images of suggested actors all seem to be cut off at both the top and bottom, meaning a lot of pictures that have been uploaded don't look very good), and, despite the small gradient, the text is hard to read on any images with a white background.
tldr; the new layout not only looks bad but it seems to be something of an accessibility nightmare.
Why can't I like other comments?!
For some reason, you have to refresh the page to see if you liked a comment. Also, it doesn't show who else liked the comment, unlike the old layout.
Also, speaking of actor profiles, country flags are now not visible on actor profiles. Previously, country flags are usually present on the profiles of a actors from a specific country/nationality. Now, they're not visible anymore.
And I can't even edit actor profiles for SOME REASON smh.
<blockquote>And I can't even edit actor profiles for SOME REASON smh. </blockquote>
You and me both! I’m ticked!
Same for the flags!!!
I have been exchanging emails with an admin, they are aware of the backlash.
Funny how the admin said the advertisers wanted the site cleaned up, but all they did was make it more messy.
I've noticed the new layout and I just wanna say, the new layout is to me rather nauseatingly ugly
Paris Vega posted this to the official Mycast subreddit (r/mycastio) four days ago. (www (.) reddit (.) com/r/mycastio/comments/1lbgzn6/mycastio_updates/)
<blockquote>We're going to be making weekly updates to MyCast to keep it more stable than before and also to try and improve the design. We appreciate your patience. It's been a wild year. The platform is much more stable than it used to be, but we've got a lot of work to do to make it easier to use. Thanks for all your suggestions and keep them coming! </blockquote>
I do wish they'd like. Actually post these updates onsite. Especially now that you can't post offsite links anymore so it's ten times harder to show them here.
Still nothing’s changed. I can’t edit all profiles!!!!
It’s not fair we only edit profiles that we currently made.
Why not past ones too!?
links to actors social medias and imdbs no longer appear on their profile pages, along with country flags.
yea nothing about the new layout is superior to the old one in any way. its ugly, im sorry to whoever designed it, its really not good. its harder to read. the mobile version is a disaster. the photo resolution is terrible. the text of a character's name now takes up real estate over the photos. long names don't even show completely. alias names dont even show up now. half of all the photos are poorly cropped now too. everything about the changes is bad. again, im sorry to whoever designed the new layout, but as blunt as this criticism is, it is still constructive criticism.
Also YouTube links not showing up on stories and roles anymore. And then the fact that we normal users cannot edit actor profiles for some reason.
<blockquote>Also YouTube links not showing up on stories and roles anymore. And then the fact that we normal users cannot edit actor profiles for some reason. </blockquote>
And I'm not happy about that. They gotta fix that or else! The same if they would like to add YT accounts as well as TikTok accounts
Update for those who didn't know: social media links on actor profiles and stories are now showing up, tho YT links still aren't showing up on stories and roles. Plus, country flags on actor profiles are showing up as well.
EDIT: the YT links are back now on stories and roles.
And finally we can edit them again!!!!
But still no YT & TikTok links....
Whatever I cast, the profiles get big instantly!
Though I do have to admit that I like the More Character Images part. I can add more pictures of characters in my stories. For example in my Marvel stories, the characters wear more than one suit. I can show all the suits they wear.
Pls bring back add a role for casting an actor for a character!
They keep updating the site to fix issues people have with it. I think we should just make it clear we want the old one back...
Two more issues I've noticed about the new layout:
1. The comment button on fancasts/roles that allows you to directly jump to the comment section without scrolling through all the roles is gone now, which is a pain because if I want to comment on something (or heck, even just jump to role submissions without scrolling through several hundred casting suggestions) I have to scroll through everything single casting suggestion.
2. For some reason, profile text is broken and no longer supports paragraphs anymore, meaning I have one big block of text that's a headache to read on my profile.
I also notice my confirm casting button gone! PLS BRING IT BACK!!!!!
I hate to be a nitpicker but the front page for logged in users now has a video to the most recent episode of the podcast that I think would be distracting to some.
Yep, was just complaining about this to friends earlier. It's a lot less obtrusive on mobile, so I'm guessing they forgot to test the formatting for desktop users or something.
<blockquote>I hate to be a nitpicker but the front page for logged in users now has a video to the most recent episode of the podcast that I think would be distracting to some.</blockquote>
Also, does anyone else think the Trending Trailers section is also another distraction or that it could even spoil an upcoming movie sequel or the new season of a TV show which someone on the site wants to watch before getting into the sequel/new season?
Honestly yeah, could be a problem. Not to mention, it seriously bothers me that THIS is the most updates we've gotten to the site since the mass overhaul. PMs are still broken and we still can't access our old ones and we have no word on when that'll be fixed, there's still plenty of site improvements that could be made, but they... Want to turn the site into a vehicle for the podcast. Okay.
Does anyone else notice the bugs with some images now that the image size requirements have now been removed. Or is it I am I the only that has noticed this?
... They finally removed image size requirements?
<blockquote>... They finally removed image size requirements?</blockquote>
It still shows the this image is too small message when I try to add an image but they removed the pixels (thinking it was somewhere of wanting a photo with pixels more than 400 for both dimensions) requirement and likely has become misleading in the process.
Oh yeah, that's been a weird boundary for a while now? I think if it's just close enough to 355 x 500 you can squeeze it in even when undersized, even before the site revamp. I don't think anyone bothered to bring it up though.