does anyone else hate the new EROS.com look ?

[tsluva]

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http://www.eros-dallas.com/files/da-savannah41.htm



does anyone else hate the new look of EROS .com ads ?


Just seem too choppy and non-appealing to me
and there's nothing really on all the Bio info that cannot be
put on the old EROS ads.


i wonder how most of the girls advertising feel about
the new EROS look.

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[*Kiely_Marie*]

Im not on EROS yet but I kinda think it looks better!

[canihavu]

I think it will take some getting used to, but I don't see anything wrong with it....

[tsntx]

it looks a whole HELLUVA lot better... its finally looking professional

[xxMelania4uxx]

No i honestly Hate it..it looks More like those M4M website's...B4 i think looked like Personal ads...It Looked Better B4 Should this b a Poll?

[Sidney]

Ugly

[Sinister]

i actually just noticed it recently, but i think it looks 10x better than what it used to

[Ecstatic]

As often happens, they made some needed improvements but screwed up other features. The better ad option is the VIP ad, which is much nicer and not much more $, but depending where you are there's a waiting list to get on it. I just helped a friend rewrite her ad and she doesn't like it at all, but she likes the VIP version. She said that she immediately called Eros to get a VIP ad, but they said they were all taken up (this is NYC, btw)--and all by GG escorts! Discrimination!

I like the larger, popup window photos, I like the consistency of the stats box (but it takes up too much real estate on the screen), and I like the tagline (the 2-3 lines under the escort's name). I don't like the scrolling Bio section (just as I can't stand Flash sites that use this feature). The VIP ads don't use a scrolling Bio; the ad is longer, includes two photos on the page, and has more space for a full Bio on the page.

I wonder if they beta tested at all--looks to me like they made some decisions and just pushed it out. Their stylesheet could be tweaked--too much white space and separation between paragraphs, too limited in background color choices...I could go on....

[AllanahStarrNYC]

Hmm- I think there are some good new things- and some bad things.

If you have a pop up blocker- the pics might not work right away and now a lot of people won't read all the details first because they have all the contact details direct. I think I am going to opt for a shorter more consice-bio. As in the other format- alot of text seemed to be appropiate and now it does not.

[BigTime]

The only think I don't like is the pop-up larger images. They could have provided a Next/Prev button and place the larger image on the left. Other than that, it looks nice.

[Ecstatic]

Allanah, that's just the conclusion that my friend and I came to -- keep the text brief (200 words or less). Which I think is a shame. Besides, I think a lot of guys like me don't like to scroll through a tiny text window like that. Poor layout, though with some good choices (like the stats being consistently placed: however, did I miss something, or is it so GG-biased that there's no stat for a TS's endowment? Similar to reviews on TER, which are heavily biased to GG escorts in format.)

Did you look at the VIP ads?

[brickcitybrother]

No sir - don't like it. But didn't like the older one either. lol

[Looking 4 Now]

It sucks

[hillbilly]

bad bad functionality.

the scrolling and the pop up. open window close window open close open close open close open close. from a designers perspective you are suppose to be reducing clicks for the user not making more work. thumbs down.

[pinklace]

I don't particularly care for it on my PC, but the added bonus is that I can now browse Eros on my phone. Never could before.

[Realgirls4me]

The older version had its shortcomings, but the new version sucks. It sucks I tell yuh!

[OoWnyFinest1oO]

i just checked it out
i did not like it all no sir!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flabbybody]

one thing hasen't changed.

All the NYC girls who live in Queens are still "visiting"

[robb007]

There is a survey eros has provided on their site so everyone can voice their opinion. Maybe it will help them adjust the new format to make it more user friendly if enough people take the survey.

[InHouston]

Eros sucks major ass now, and I emailed them about it. Of course, like they're gonna stop mid-stream and revert it back to the way it was just because:

:soapbox
I'm right and they're wrong.

Before, when you click on an escort's thumbnail picture, the entire profile and all pictures would appear at once. Walla! I could browse through all the ads in the categories of my choosing in no time. Now Eros has greatly improved the user experience on their site by requiring you to put years of wear and tear on your mouse in just one visit. Stupid assholes.

Now there's thumbnail previews for each image of the escort as well. Brilliant! Why not take the full ad theme that was convenient for users, has worked for years, and lets invest thousands of dollars on some macaroni and cheese eating punk HTML authors straight out of first year community college, and reface the website with a user interface that's cumbersome to navigate, and will compel our users to want to personally visit our home office, and rip our nut sacks off.

I wonder what idiot manager at Eros paid some HTML author(s) $20 to $40 an hour to reface the site resulting in an ergonomic disaster for users like me who don't have the time or patience to click on an average of 3 to 5 thumbnails per ad.

Say I want to look over all pictures for 44 TG’s in the Houston area. Let's assume they all have 3 pictures per ad. Now for those of you who weren't very good with word problems in math, the problem is simplified mathematically as follows:

44 ads multiplied by 3 pictures per ad plus 44 initial thumbnail clicks to see the 3 embedded pictures per ad … whew.

or

(44 X 3) + 44

Now let's solve this problem. Pull out your calculators.

click ... click ... click ... click ... click ... click ...

That comes to … 176 FUCKING mouse clicks for that one FUCKING visit to their lame ass site. Not to mention that now you have to scroll through tiny sub-frames in the ads to read their profile. Oh yeah, really smart. Take a full page ad, squeeze it into a 1 by 1 inch pane that requires me to wear out my mouse wheel as well, only to find that the information that used to be there is missing. Guess you’re little XBox generation programmer there was so fascinated by the genius of his new user interface, that he was too consumed to put in the actual content of the ad as well. Good thing you’re only charging an average of $100 per ad to the escorts. Guess that won’t bother them too much when they wonder why there’s been a sharp decline in clientele. Perhaps they’ll think they’re too ugly or something and it’s not your site. Perhaps all the escorts will quit their line of work, and get jobs tossing pizzas to make ends meet and Eros will have ironically cured America’s problem with prostitution once and for all.

If you didn't come to the conclusion that Eros now sucks, then you should be banished from the Internet, charged, convicted, then subsequently killed, and sentenced by God to eternal damnation in hell with the crack-whore-ass TG’s from BlackT-Girls.com.

Does this mean that I will stop using Eros?

:D Hell no, there's hookers on Eros.

Do people avoid driving their $40,000 and $60,000 vehicles, while carrying loads of cold cash, to troll for hookers because the neighborhood is bad? No. So, I'll keep browsing Eros, (the site should be renamed to Errors.com) even though I want to decapitate the HTML author who changed it, and have his head on a stake in my front yard so pissed off Eros users can lob their used condoms at it. There's no choice. I'm off to CompUSA to buy a case of spare mice for my computer, and Ibuprofen and a splint for my debilitated index finger. Figure with the new user interface on Eros, a case of 24 mice should last me at least two months. Only have 9 good fingers left though. Well I could always resort to using my toes. Then I could have my legs hiked up on the keyboard while the Eros Information Technology manager licks the crust from my ass while I masturbate on his thick cranium.

If someone from Eros reads this, how does it feel to know you spent a load of money on some snot-ball HTML authors out of junior high school who convinced your naïve ass on how to upgrade and improve your site that resulted in users concluding, "Yep ... they fucked the site up." Money well spent yo! Do you guys offer personal financial portfolio management services as well?

Other than that, the change didn’t bother me much at all.

:banghead :thumbsdown

[aTsLiKeN0oThEr]

YES, the new Eros SUCKS.

[InHouston]

Yeah, it suckee long time.

[Harrys Boy]

Its a bit clinical now is'nt it, not that i ever read it.

[Hugh Jarrod]

Don't care for it myself.

[BeardedOne]

I took their survey.

To paraphrase Richard Dawson and Richard Karn:

"And the survery says...!"

Bleah! :puke

[Realgirls4me]

I never measured it in terms of its "user friendly" aesthetics and number of clicks as InHouston detailed upstream, but yeah, I agree, it still comes down to one thing -- the new version sucks! It has an all boxed-in feel to it. The old version was a copy of Life magazine circa 1968. The new version is a miniaturized Maxim.

[fiftyfin1]

either way is good