GroundCtrl Forum

[Fully]

Grndctrl's lack of attention to detail is beyond the pale. They need to be fucking fired.

ya don't say?

Too harsh? 

Count me in on Team What Crispy Said.

To be fair, if one reduces the zoom size of the main page to 75% so that the article text is unreadable, the social media section shrinks enough so that all of the big scrolling image and part of the first headline can be seen. Solution!

Just absolutely awful design and execution. At 100% zoom, there are 50 pixels of totally unused space in that social section.

True! And you never know when you're gonna need those 50 pixels of unused space. Like when Jim fell off the stage, had he had a space in front of him the size of that banner, it never would have happened.

Also if anymore Anthony Weiner photos surface, some, not all of that space will be needed for lil Mr. Danger. Althought I will admit that when I was looking at them I wondered for a moment why there were three legs in the pic.

[rjlemons]

Rarely go on the main site now that we got this lovely forum back, but was looking for info on past tour dates and it seems the banner is back to a glorious size and blocking most of the info I'm trying to read. I guess someone somewhere finds this pretty, because it sure isn't practical or functional. Just the fact that the banner means I have to scroll down to be able to view the drop down menu... I complained in the roll call forum, but not sure if anyone reads it.

Hey Sara.  I spoke to the powers that be at ground(ctrl) a few weeks ago, as the size of this social media scroll is absurd.  I was told it was a design change out of their control.  I also haven't heard back from management on another matter.  I fear the newest management team is less interested in our opinions, or perhaps just mine. 

Wait? The company that powers their website can't control the size of a banner... On their website? I think you got the ol runaround

No, no, no.  They say the expansion of the banner's real estate was a management decision, not a design change by ground(ctrl).  Anyone with eyes can see it doesn't work, never did.  BAN the BANNER!!!

Via the main site MessageBoard:

Hello- We're updating the banner at the bottom of the site. Recently, Twitter changed their api and the widget now takes up 3x as much space. Should be updated shortly.

-GroundCTRL

Thank goodness! 

[Tracy 2112]

There's another site?

[rjlemons]

There's another site?

Haha.  There's a login for the forum as well as the main site so they've always seemed separate to me. They even still call it "Forums" over there in MessageBoard land.

[Fully]

There's another site?

One tends to forget.

[ericm]

Rarely go on the main site now that we got this lovely forum back, but was looking for info on past tour dates and it seems the banner is back to a glorious size and blocking most of the info I'm trying to read. I guess someone somewhere finds this pretty, because it sure isn't practical or functional. Just the fact that the banner means I have to scroll down to be able to view the drop down menu... I complained in the roll call forum, but not sure if anyone reads it.

Hey Sara.  I spoke to the powers that be at ground(ctrl) a few weeks ago, as the size of this social media scroll is absurd.  I was told it was a design change out of their control.  I also haven't heard back from management on another matter.  I fear the newest management team is less interested in our opinions, or perhaps just mine. 

Wait? The company that powers their website can't control the size of a banner... On their website? I think you got the ol runaround

No, no, no.  They say the expansion of the banner's real estate was a management decision, not a design change by ground(ctrl).  Anyone with eyes can see it doesn't work, never did.  BAN the BANNER!!!

Via the main site MessageBoard:

Hello- We're updating the banner at the bottom of the site. Recently, Twitter changed their api and the widget now takes up 3x as much space. Should be updated shortly.

-GroundCTRL

Thank goodness! 

Man, they've got more excuses than a class full of 1st graders.  nothing ever seems to be their  fault, and the excuses are always at the ready. If they spent half the time of explaining away their  fuckups  towards actually getting something right from the get go, they might have a shot at being efficient.

[vespachick]

Finally going to re-up my Roll Call for 2014-2015.  Surprisingly, there is a glitch in the machine I cannot check out.  Thanks GroundCtrl, yet again, for your stellar service.

[CountSA]

Finally going to re-up my Roll Call for 2014-2015.  Surprisingly, there is a glitch in the machine I cannot check out.  Thanks GroundCtrl, yet again, for your stellar service.

I had the same issue, I think it has to do with t-shirt sizes being permanently out of stock (L & XL).  I emailed ground control and these will not be re-stocked, even though the package runs through all of 2015.

[vespachick]

Finally going to re-up my Roll Call for 2014-2015.  Surprisingly, there is a glitch in the machine I cannot check out.  Thanks GroundCtrl, yet again, for your stellar service.

I had the same issue, I think it has to do with t-shirt sizes being permanently out of stock (L & XL).  I emailed ground control and these will not be re-stocked, even though the package runs through all of 2015.

That's hilarious because that's not exactly what I was told in my fb msg to them, about them not being restocked.  In fact, they said it would:

"Currently we only have Small and XXL in stock. XL should be back in-stock within a business week or so. Thank you for your patience."

Still, being out of stock should not be an "error"; it should just say "out of stock".  So lame.  So it worked when I just ordered a XXL since I rarely wear the tshirts anyway it doesn't really matter. Typical GroundCtrl.  To be fair, at least they responded quickly via fb.