Greetings, and happy April!



This month the primary focus was on porting the graphical interface for game planning into the new UI. That was one of the earliest features and on of my favorite parts of the old UI, but I had initially removed it because I felt it was a little dated … however, you all pushed back on that, so it’s back!



Other updates in this month’s release:



* Player card attribute sorting and default view has been fixed to match the old UI

* Fixed a bug where spoilers being off during playoffs showed the wrong information in the home page schedule

* Fixed a bug where when a league expires accounts get locked out



As always, please let me know if you run into any issues! I’m planning to bring back the modal windows as the primary goal in next month’s update.

Thx!

This may have been discussed before but worth noting again.

Issue: visibility of the progress on the status bar for any individual attribute on a player card.

In the old interface, the color is bright red for achieved proficiency on the status bar for any individual attribute on a player card and powder blue for unachieved proficiency on the status bar for any individual attribute on a player card. The difference in colors, bright red versus powder blue, makes it very easy to see the status.

In the new interface, the achieved proficiency color is dark brown-ish and the unachieved proficiency is dark blue-ish. Very little difference in the colors and quite difficult to see the status on a quick glance. Hoping we can get a color change back to something close to the original in the old interface.

Whoa! I didn't even realize there were two colors in there! Very little to NO contrast between the two.

Noted! Thanks for the feedback. I'll make sure the next update has an adjustment here.

On a tangent, and not necessarily a high priority given the size of the community, but might it be an idea to look at alternate colour schemes to deal with the most common versions of colour blindness? Or even the option via settings to remove bars and just have numerical versions?

Doesn't affect me, tbh, but some places I've worked at it's had to be a consideration when developing UIs - a lot of places settling for clean white/black pages.

Oh, I just remembered another thing I noticed the other day. I get the notice that some of my coaches contracts are expiring. However, when going to my team page and viewing the list of coaches, there is NO indicator of which coaches contracts are expiring. Bring back the asterisk!! :)

On the old UI. Team standings is just forever loading and chat will no longer open. Anyone else having this issue?

Amending. I’m also unable to send trade requests without error.

Is old UI slowly being disabled?

P.s. I went to new interface because issues noted above. Notice when watching the game if I hit back button it went all the way back to first play of the game which seems incorrect. Also the scoreboard lost its sync with the sim when it went back to the first play I.e. it was still showing fourth quarter score, time etc.

In new UI there league Home Screen did at least load standings. However, this screen runs on. Suggest embedding a table with multiple tabs to view current week results, and the secondary tab to look at next weeks games. I think on the phone specifically it would make the league landing page more focused and not so forced or like a collage in appearance.

That brings me back to a prior suggestion. It these tables could be more expanded by not sitting right next to each other you could add a “player of the game” detail to each game result. Likewise for upcoming games you could add notable matchup comparison (team A 1st in rushing; team B 3rd in run defense). These are existing calculated values that could be used to create some type of simple display, possibly enhance user experience.

Further amending, I am now getting a 404 error when going to gameplanning menu in old UI.

JDB - how far away are we from game engine update? Realistic timeline?

I'm concerned that browsers are beginning to stop supporting the javascript in the old UI, or at the very least we're starting to see some conflicts with it. We may be getting the new UI done just in time.