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Originally Posted by Phanx Just noticed Minion was a thing again (actually Seerah pointed it out) and decided to try it out. Here's how it went:

Thanks and I appreciate the feedback!

Originally Posted by Phanx #1 - The download button doesn't work when Google Analytics is blocked. I can honestly say this is the first time I've ever encountered a website where something actually didn't work because Skynet was blocked, but okay, right-click and save the file works too.

We use that to keep track of download stats, I'll see if there is some alternative way. I wasn't aware this was happening so thanks!

Originally Posted by Phanx #2 - Okay, installation complete. Low contrast. Low contrast everywhere. I can't read half the text in the app without squinting and leaning in toward the screen.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into either making a higher contrast theme or change some things. I see you've listed some areas you are not happy with further down but are there any other areas? Thanks.

Originally Posted by Phanx #3 - There's a button at the top that seems to be two semi-transparent buttons stacked on top of each other, labelled "Update All" and "Auto Update". See attachment.

Thanks, I'm aware of this and it happens when no games are detected. Since we switched to the "Installed" tab as the default its much more apparent then when the "home" tab was the default. I have a low priority ticket in to get it fixed.

Originally Posted by Phanx #4 - Upon entering my username and password I got a "Login failed. Please check your userid and password." message. After clearing the field to try re-typing my username with a capital P in case it was case-sensitive, I noticed the field was actually labeled "Email" and not "Username". Okay, after going into my settings to see which email account I used on here, I was able to log in. #4a - Do you guys have any plans to support username-based login in the future?

Minion uses ZAM's global login system so email is required since usernames are only unique to each site. Some one else could have Phanx on our esoui.com site so we need to use email addresses to login. Right now during the beta there are no featured enabled that require an account. You can use the "Guest" mode too if you like. Future releases will have some features that will require an account due to the nature of the feature.

Originally Posted by Phanx #4b - Please use persistent form labels. I know these in-field labels that vanish as soon as you focus the field are all the rage these days, but when I'm tabbing through form fields (I guess the iPhone generation don't know what the tab key does?) I'm not scanning ahead, and if I get distracted for a second after focusing a field, I'm not going to remember what that label said. Hopefully this trend goes the way of the Under Construction gif soon. Also, dat low, low contrast. Too dark, can't read.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look at updating the design to add labels above the fields instead. I'm not saying I'll make the change for sure but I will revisit the design.

Originally Posted by Phanx #5 - Stuck on "Detecting WOWGame Installs" for about 15 minutes. The app updated itself after I logged in, so I'm pretty sure it's up to date. Build ID at the bottom says 02b2a4ed106cf3bc8d6a9394c917568c6f1654b and again -- guys, seriously, I can't read that. I literally had to screenshot and paste into GIMP and up the brightness and contrast to be able to see it well enough to type it out, and even then it was difficult due to the microscopic size.

I've read you've finally got it to detect your Wow install. If you ever un-install (and opt to delete your settings) then re-install and have Minion re-detect Wow and it hangs again for 15min+ please send us your minion0.log and minion.xml which is located in a folder called ".minion" under your windows or osx user directory (Win: C:\Users\<your username\.minion\ OSX: ~\.minion\).

You should be able to copy and paste the buildid. In the future we will have the version number displayed. The buildid is just for this beta period.

Originally Posted by Phanx Closing thoughts: Overall impression was not positive. I'll try it again in a few days, because I understand it's still in beta, and all else being equal I'd rather use a WoWI app than a Curse app, but without some major UI changes to fix the low contrast and tiny font sizes, it's just not usable for me.

Thanks for your feedback and we will certainly revisit the design. If you have any more feedback on specific UI elements that would be greatly appreciated.

I will comment on your 2nd post shortly.