Statto
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I quite like the new set up, it's a lot easier on the eye, only grip is the search function is now on the top left left, i prefered the old style set up when it was at the top centre.
What's the point in HSTS on a site that collects no personal data whatsoever?
One thing I wonder if you could consider tweaking @Tom is having delays go red immediately? Right now (and on the old RTT for that matter) if you say +1 or +2 it would stay in black but I've always found it more useful if as soon as there's a delay it shows that number in red.
I found this post actually an interestingly compelling read. I will do some further investigations in rushing this along.You've implicitly focussed on confidentiality and neglected the consider the other two-thirds of the CIA triad. These are integrity and availability respectively.
...maybe, although I think a delay of a few minutes, and likewise early, is too negligible for colouring. If there was a compelling reason for it then it's something that could be considered.One thing I wonder if you could consider tweaking @Tom is having delays go red immediately? Right now (and on the old RTT for that matter) if you say +1 or +2 it would stay in black but I've always found it more useful if as soon as there's a delay it shows that number in red.
Entertainingly, aesthetics have absolutely nothing to do with it. Indeed, I'm a backend developer by trade and literally couldn't give a toss about making things nice and fancy. I like to make things that are functionally useful. So, here's some backstory:I’m going to be very honest and say that the update has greatly put me off using the website. I relied on it more than any other site on the web, but it seems to me the new website is sooo purely focused on aesthetics that it’s actually become rather complicated and when you need quick information urgently, it’s harder to obtain.
It was broken (just read the bit about updating code on the blog here https://blog.realtimetrains.com/2019/09/physically-moving-realtime-trains-part-2/), I did fix it and kept it as close to what it was before while redecorating and making slight incremental changes.The old site was amazing - simple yet effective and I shall miss it greatly. The new one is very nice and it’s clear a huge amount of work has gone into it - but why fix what isn’t broken
The website discriminates based on browser width and uses some more recent standards from 2017 - which is still fairly old in web terms.
Standard and detailed views show up fine for me (Firefox 69.0.3, Arch Linux, Lenovo x250). The page layout is dynamic, however, and my browser switches to the mobile layout (for results pages) if I make my windows narrower than about 1200 pixels (on a 1366x768 display). It uses the whole width of the window however, none of this hiding on the left-hand side nonsense.
Is your laptop one of those fancy, dandy ones where you can hold the screen in portrait or landscape mode?
Much as I prefer E and L and always struggle to figure out +/- on foreign sites, I would say one of the most common questions I get on Traksy is "what do the E, L and OT" things mean. As far as I can tell neither option is even remotely obvious to most users, and most people just ignore the bits they don't understand, often foreverI was surprised how few negative comments I actually received (apart from about ± delays as I expected them, and they are just funny now - you'll all get used to it)
Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and I think that in that respect I've done my job well here. Other than @louis97 who helps out on a voluntary basis with train describer and mileage related items, the site is all on me. It is ultimately my livelihood at stake whenever I make a change like this, and I don't take the move lightly as it's a huge risk financially.
Maybe he could catch the North Pole International santa express.I think tom could do with a nice long getaway break before Christmas xD
Nothing has been removed.
Apart from a few Es and Ls.
*ducks for cover*
It's still there in the drop-down, it's just called "all day" now.Actually talking of something removed...can we have 0000-2359 back as an option for the time range? It's the one I use to look at a whole day's service. I know you can do it manually but it was easier to select from the list
I found this post actually an interestingly compelling read. I will do some further investigations in rushing this along.
I see the same behaviour on Firefox 70 under Linux.I noticed that if you type "York" into the Location, Previously or Subsequently box in Detailed search, you get a lot of options, none of which is York. To get York to show you have to type "YRK". This is on Chrome on a Windows 10 PC.
Actually talking of something removed...can we have 0000-2359 back as an option for the time range? It's the one I use to look at a whole day's service. I know you can do it manually but it was easier to select from the list
It's still there in the drop-down, it's just called "all day" now.
I've also noticed this and, whilst mildly irritating, I do find that typing York in the location box and ignoring the drop down list does work when you submit your enquiry.I noticed that if you type "York" into the Location, Previously or Subsequently box in Detailed search, you get a lot of options, none of which is York. To get York to show you have to type "YRK". This is on Chrome on a Windows 10 PC.