Ok moan time.
Does anyone else find the "New" Games Workshop site to be absolutely dreadful?
Ever since they launched it, it's felt like it's been broken and very much look over function in pretty much every way.
Things like:
Massive single page scroll on the front page, at 1080/x1980 you basically have to scroll down about two screens to start to get to the new product (it feels like it's been designed purely for mobiles in that regards, as it feels like it's a Portrait layout rather than Landscape or adapting), as the "welcome" banner alone is a full page at "Full HD".
The simple ability to add thigs to basket doesn't function easily - The stock indicators on the products take an age to update and will show "add to basket" icon but not tell you that it's not let you do that unless you happen to be at the top of a page (the "insufficient stock available" message only seems to appear at the top of the page, whilst the add to basket button can require scrolling down). It took something like 45 minutes after it stopped letting you adding stuff to the basket (and an hour after it had started removing it from active baskets) before it started display "out of stock".
Stock doesn't stay in your basket - I've had multiple friends who have added stuff to the basket and then gone to add something else only to find that the first item is now removed from the basket, BUT will still have the "add to basket button" that doesn't function, and this morning one of my friends got charged for postage but nothing else as the item he was buying was removed from his basket during the check out.
Possibly my browser, but the "Account" button in Chrome just takes me to the front page, on Edge it works fine.
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I think I've worked out the account button issue. It needs third party cookies enabled. All I can think is that it's because they've got the login shared with warhammer community etc now, no error message about it, just "back to shop main page".
It looks like i'm one of the users that chrome is trying the blocking of them by default with having had a google.[/edit]
For the size of the company and the rumoured cost of their new site I cannot believe that GW's site is so awful, it's less functional than stuff I remember from the 90's, it's badly laid out for actual desktop use, doesn't display vital information properly and just sucks.
I know there is always an element of "I liked the old one better" with any new site or forum, but by god the current GW site is almost unusable compared to even most of the tiny indie stores (and this is before the issues over the last year with GW's absolute shambles of launches etc).
I already didn't tend to use the GW site much except for exclusive/FW stuff, but it feels like the current one is barely functional and actively hard to use.
Sorry rant over, just fed up with trying to use GW's site.
just a wee bit of a tiddy up
