JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
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- Full-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
- Salary: ¥200,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month Depending on your ability and experience
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- Part-time English Teacher - Osaka
- Epion English Language Schools, Osaka
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WhatJapanThinks
Surely some mistake in the last sentence:
"Another objective is to make sure that children are accustomed to being left to their own devices by their parents, which is expected to be increasingly common in day-to-day life in Japan."
There, that looks better now!
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Disabling JavaScript means that I can't view the Quote and the Have Your Say panels, and the Show All also doesn't work.
Oh, and when you post a comment and it gets inserted with JavaScript (unnecessary in my opinion, just reload the page), the Total Comments figure doesn't change.
Also, posting with JavaScript turned off doesn't work either.
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I did some measuring on the front page, and counting the swans as non-news, on my PC approximately 18% of the window is actual content, big enough for just one and a half stories to appear.
Indeed, the swans end up being the focal point of the front page, yet clicking through all I get is the same picture just 20% bigger.
Renaming the "Most Discussed" doesn't work - if a story drops off the lists at the bottom with less than 18 comments (as of now) it dies. We are asking for the old stories sorted by last comment post date, nothing else.
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eastokyo - that would be a good theory, except that we are seeing very few comments in the stories.
I see there's an RSS icon for this story, so in theory I should be able to follow this thread without visiting, but that doesn't help me find new stories.
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"Moderator: Readers, please bear with us during this first week."
Why didn't you test it out with a few random readers first, and get it tidied up before foisting it on everyone? We're not talking minor tweaks due to incompatabilities with obscure browsers; there's big usability gaps and missing functionality all over the place.
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Good to see in the midst of all the upheaval in the site design, the quality of the commentary remains unchanged.
However, since he's from the UK, why is he talking about sidewalks and kilometers, not pavements and kilometres?
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WhatJapanThinks
I knew there was something missing - visited links are not displayed in a different colour, so I can't tell what stories I've already read.
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Since you are revamping everything else, why don't you make moderators' comments in a different colour otherwise things like this might happen.
Moderator: All people complaining about the new design have been summarily banned.
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WhatJapanThinks
What happened to beta testing?
Surely you should have got some people to look at the design before foisting it on everyone then frantically changing things as we all moan in public, losing many readers in the process no doubt.
I see, for instance, that the footer has lost its grey background and the font size has been tweaked up a little, but now all the headlines wrap awkwardly.
Talking of the footer, KUCHIKOMI is the first listed, but it's by far the weakest section, with half the contents being rehashed press releases.
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Well, there doesn't seem to be much comment traffic...
Looking at the summary below, only one in four stories have comments, and few comments at that.
Perhaps your plan is to chase away commenters as you find moderation is more trouble than its worth, but if not, you need to reintroduce the "Latest Comments" that was available on the old site.
There's at least one site out there that collates newsfeeds from Kyodo and the newspapers in a more easily scannable form, so I'm sure they love this update.
PS: Having two side-by-side Google ads at the foot of each story is a bit intrusive.
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The category sections are a bit wonky - first you have the Latest, then Previously which includes the Latest as the first Previously, then the second column starts with Others, which is a repeat of the Previously list starting from the second entry.
Next, the Latest has the date stamp of Monday 24th March, 05:46 PM JST for example, but the Others have the format 02:01 PM JST - 24th March, which is rather inconsistent.
Finally, if you look at the footer, the order of the stories there is 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 4th, ...
(Oh, I notice the comment box is slightly bigger, but it's still not big enough! 15 lines at least, please.
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Follow-up about scanning - it's not that there is two imbalanced columns, as I read The Register and they have three, it's that there's so much space between each. I get only four bold headlines per page on JT (the others are too small to scan) but The Reg has 24 available for quick perusal.
Oh, and back to the weather - it says 8 degrees in Tokyo, but today's weather forecast is 11 to 19 degrees, so that data must be from the middle of last night!
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In a word, awful!
My JT homepage was http://www.japantoday.com/jp/bbs/last , but now I can't catch up with the latest comments.
This new comment box is a bit small at only five lines.
On the latest commentary bit, there's no tag line to say who's the writer.
Too much scrolling on the home page, and with two columns of equal importance, it's harder to scan-read.
Weather - for where? I don't live in Tokyo, and I've finally noticed the very grey "Tokyo Weather". And get rid of the fahrenheit!
Too much light blue and light grey - get some more contrast.
Fix double-quotes so they don't come out as two single quotes.
Oh, and if there is a new swearie-word detector, I only have one thing to say, "Nani wo sh!te iru?" Yup, the "-te" form of "suru" trips the detector.
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