Is this a “bashing” group? my goodness, look at all of the negativities! here is another. I just came on to Viki today. _ got a surprise for sure. black background. I won’t say anything about it till I look at it._sure is different _ I will get back to you a bit later
Well, I was about to say that at least videos don’t spontaneously play, whether you want them or not, the moment you come to the site.
(kh-hm! Netflix… kh-hm!)
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Simple consequence for volunteers: stop working for free here when they don’t even care about a good desktop layout plus fix the bugs with the subtitling tool that occur way too often since the beta experiment.
Those who just watch VIKI with mobile aren’t the ones who create the subs (better start learning Asian languages now;)
PS:
When large parts of a community are done by unpaid volunteers they could at least offer a comfortable to use desktop version including also certain features that are necessary for organisation etc.
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I think there should be a version of the desktop homepage just for the volunteers. Same as you can switch from night mode to light mode, there should be a third mode - volunteer mode.
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what should it feature?
Better PM system.
Better overview for projects (drama channels) that are in need for certain positions.
Better tools for finding volunteers.
Better license request (e.g. a license request button at “fan” channels)
There is a volunteer tool that has a list of thousands of volunteers for certain languages but it does not show the active ones it just has a list of probably anyone who ever did something at any point in the past.
So a good tool would sort people by activity plus some additional aspects like prefered genre/language for example: romance/comedy;Korean/Japanese + native language (English, French,…)
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i like this
In the volunteer homepage mode I would like them to:
- Add direct buttons to
a. Projects
b. Inbox
c. Bugs&Issues
d. “New request” for the VikiSupport pages
e. Disussions
…above the slide show (where Explore, Community and More currently are). - Add a frame with last 3-5 posts from the VikiStatus twitter account - to see if Subbing tools are down or something technical is happening.
- Add a row with last 3-5 projects you are working on - to directly access what you’re working, rather than clicking 4 times to get where you need to be!
- Add a row with Coming Soon dramas - so that we find future projects more easily. But not “coming next week”. That is for the viewers. More like “Coming in a month or two”. So that we have the chance to plan or schedule.
- And perhaps add a new feature: Viki News. Similar to Viki blog.
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I would love for them to bring back the feature they had when you watched a drama/movie it would say WATCHED on the episodes you already viewed, and would bring you to the minute you left the last episode you was watching. I don’t know why they took that out in the first place!
‘‘If it ain’t broke don’t fix’’ applies here at this site. No one was complaining, why make changes on your own w/o viewers feedback?
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@angelight313_168 That feature is still working for me. 
But I expect it to be gone soon since you said it did for you. 
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I hate this design. It’s like Netflix where I can’t find anything without sideways scrolling. Netflix isn’t popular because of their UI, it’s popular because of its extensive catalog. Stop copying the bad parts of other companies and focus on the core. Making things scroll horizontally is terrible for desktop.
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this side is so big, it hurts in the eyes
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The ugliest layout I have seen… I do NOT understand the sense!! Or nonsense!
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Main page changed at least the first line is no longer the latest video I have watched.
@simi11
I don’t since last night I get logged out permanently and that is when the main page changed for me.
And the page will always turn back with my native language, even though I always chose English, it’s such a hassle, to many clicks last night and this morning too.
SORRY forget about it, I think I still lack some sleep because of the bot action of Viki. Anyway I might have had the impression that “watch history” was gone, since I was out/back in / out / back in … last night.
So, no change.
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I also had login issues, just like many others, I tried like 5 times to log in, who knows what they are doing 
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Oh goodness! I thought it was just happening to me, but I see I’m not the only one. I have to log in several times too, for at least 2 weeks now.
This site is a slap in the face to those who have for years offered their time and services for free. Shame on them if this is done on purpose talk about ‘‘bite the hand that feeds you.’’ If the bot fails for them, let’s see who will be there for them, they can count me out.
I agree with the other comments re the overlarge pictures, etc, but what I really miss is being able to see the show’s synopsis when I hover over the picture. If I am looking for a new series, I don’t want to have to click on each and every one of the dramas in order to find out what the shows are about.
Also, I tend to watch only one or two shows at a time. Do I really need to see the last five episodes of the same show running across my screen under “Watch History”?
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