Improved Loading Bar Suggestion

**hi19hi19** · 03-22-2018, 10:14 PM

"Loading User Data" tends to take 5-10 times longer for me than before on the R3 Air client, usually on the order of 10-20 seconds.
It's not a terrible problem, but sometimes the fact the other 4 factors have loaded instantly but User Data is still waiting makes the loading screen look like it's frozen.

One of the cardinal user experience rules of designing a loading screen is to include something animated to indicate to the user that the program has not frozen and is still "doing something."
Even something a simple as making the loading bar have an animation on its texture, or have the ellipsis at the end of "Loading..." cycle from . to .. to ... as many programs do will help.
I strongly suggest adding this.

**Velocity** · 03-22-2018, 11:03 PM

k, next update. We already do this for the leaderboards in the sidebar, so this is easy to add elsewhere.

Edit: Prawnskunk did something, it looks good. Will be in next update.

**hi19hi19** · 03-23-2018, 01:47 AM

I saw PrawnSkunk's work.

Thanks for being so prompt on this minor QoL thing <3

03-22-2018, 10:14 PM	#1
hi19hi19 lol happy Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: DESTINY Age: 33 Posts: 12,193	Improved Loading Bar Suggestion "Loading User Data" tends to take 5-10 times longer for me than before on the R3 Air client, usually on the order of 10-20 seconds. It's not a terrible problem, but sometimes the fact the other 4 factors have loaded instantly but User Data is still waiting makes the loading screen look like it's frozen. One of the cardinal user experience rules of designing a loading screen is to include something animated to indicate to the user that the program has not frozen and is still "doing something." Even something a simple as making the loading bar have an animation on its texture, or have the ellipsis at the end of "Loading..." cycle from . to .. to ... as many programs do will help. I strongly suggest adding this. __________________ Last edited by hi19hi19; 03-22-2018 at 10:15 PM..

03-22-2018, 11:03 PM	#2
Velocity Doing the wrong thing the right way since 2010. Site and Game Administrator Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,812	Re: Improved Loading Bar Suggestion k, next update. We already do this for the leaderboards in the sidebar, so this is easy to add elsewhere. Edit: Prawnskunk did something, it looks good. Will be in next update. Last edited by Velocity; 03-22-2018 at 11:44 PM..

03-23-2018, 01:47 AM	#3
hi19hi19 lol happy Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: DESTINY Age: 33 Posts: 12,193	Re: Improved Loading Bar Suggestion I saw PrawnSkunk's work. Thanks for being so prompt on this minor QoL thing <3 __________________

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