miles73128 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Heads up. New Hornby website! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulleidboy100 Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Not fully up and running yet, but certainly a lot quicker to navigate the shop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Needs more work, methinks. When I selected Era 3, it showed 10 pages and 115 items. As I progressed through, from page to page, the number of total pages reported dropped to 9, then 8, and finally 6. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Hilux5972 Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 Wow love the new look Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete the Elaner Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 A massive improvement over the previous one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robmcg Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 I just had a browse and am very impressed. Excellent! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Presumably no logic whatsoever to the ordering of service sheets as yet 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 21, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, Butler Henderson said: Presumably no logic whatsoever to the ordering of service sheets as yet Was there one before? I never found it easy to navigate the service sheet listing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfsup Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 9 hours ago, truffy said: Needs more work, methinks. When I selected Era 3, it showed 10 pages and 115 items. As I progressed through, from page to page, the number of total pages reported dropped to 9, then 8, and finally 6. Have to say I agree. I've just had a look before reading this thread and I noticed how glitchy it was - a simple search for FGW & First Great Western brought up several links to pages, none of which bought me the FGW models I was looking for (including bizarrely a link to the 2018 range announcements). I then look through the ordering of the 2021 range era wise, it started off giving me the 2021 range then gave up and said no products matched my search. It's alright, but it's certainly not without it's teething troubles! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 9 hours ago, newbryford said: Was there one before? I never found it easy to navigate the service sheet listing It was in service sheet number order. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium newbryford Posted January 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Butler Henderson said: It was in service sheet number order. Which was a pain if you just had an R xxx catalog number. There was no cross reference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 22 minutes ago, newbryford said: Which was a pain if you just had an R xxx catalog number. There was no cross reference. True but at least it had some logic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyKarl Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 The new web site seems a bit glitchy (see screenshot), so perhaps early days, and I also find it rather slow. Rather than updating the web site, surely updating the hardware would have been more in order. Personally, I would have said that the key to a successful on-line retail shop is to use a fast web server so that customers don't get bored and browse elsewhere. A minor point, but I also noted that a single style sheet has been applied to all old editions of the Engine Shed, which has the advantage of making them appear with the same typographical style and headers, but is to the detriment of some older pages (though perhaps this is not important). Just my initial reaction... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PeterStiles Posted January 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 22, 2021 (edited) Definitely "not yet production quality" if you ask me at the moment. If this was tested by my team of crack System Testers I'd have expected there to be more things working on the day it went live. I dread to think of how many JIRAs are outstanding on this. Some of the selection criteria seems incorrect on some pages - which is probably just bad data set up, but giving the option of filtering by "locomotive" (which returns 1 result a B17) and "steam" (which returns 18 results not including the B17) seems just.. bad data. I also like the way that it gave me a picture of a BR-marked H-Class for "Era 3"... The "Out now!" page ( https://uk.Hornby.com/catalogue/out-now?page=1 ) is full of things that are marked as "Available to pre-order"... The forums are taking for ever to convert, but then I'd have expected that to take some time, we've got some long conversations on there. We want it done right.... For instance - if The Duke's main thread gets lost I may never buy another thing from Hornby again... Edited January 22, 2021 by PeterStiles 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 The ordering of the service sheets seems different just now compared to yesterday and it seems to be, unhelpfully in terms of trying to find one, in the order of release hence their are a couple of updated sheets then the ones for the new 91 and Rocket... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredo Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Hi, is there a product suggestion section on the new website, I can’t see anything. Thanks Fred Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
9402 Fredrick Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 There's another glitch on their new site showing that they're planning to produce a collett 81xx large prairie, but they haven't annoucned it but I see it pop up occasionally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
truffy Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 39 minutes ago, 9402 Fredrick said: There's another glitch on their new site showing that they're planning to produce a collett 81xx large prairie, but they haven't annoucned it but I see it pop up occasionally. I wonder what odds William Hill are offering on Hornby announcing a Collett 81xx Large Prairie? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 On 21/01/2021 at 13:32, truffy said: Needs more work, methinks. When I selected Era 3, it showed 10 pages and 115 items. As I progressed through, from page to page, the number of total pages reported dropped to 9, then 8, and finally 6. It did that with me, as well. Initially, I thought that it was one of those 'what's the next pair of numbers' sequences, so beloved of TV quiz shows, but there didn't seem to be any logic to it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Butler Henderson Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Seems to be a work in progress that should not have been made live 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted January 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2021 On 22/01/2021 at 14:22, PeterStiles said: Definitely "not yet production quality" if you ask me at the moment. If this was tested by my team of crack System Testers I'd have expected there to be more things working on the day it went live. I dread to think of how many JIRAs are outstanding on this. Some of the selection criteria seems incorrect on some pages - which is probably just bad data set up, but giving the option of filtering by "locomotive" (which returns 1 result a B17) and "steam" (which returns 18 results not including the B17) seems just.. bad data. I also like the way that it gave me a picture of a BR-marked H-Class for "Era 3"... The "Out now!" page ( https://uk.Hornby.com/catalogue/out-now?page=1 ) is full of things that are marked as "Available to pre-order"... The forums are taking for ever to convert, but then I'd have expected that to take some time, we've got some long conversations on there. We want it done right.... For instance - if The Duke's main thread gets lost I may never buy another thing from Hornby again... There'd be at least 1 Jira raised for the wording of that error message alone if I was testing it. Wouldn't have even got through UAT in my book, but then I'm a stickler for detail. Not sure the reason to rush it out to live, the old site was working fine, unless the new site allows them to deal with the changes B****t have brought along much easier. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steamport Southport Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 4 minutes ago, Geep7 said: There'd be at least 1 Jira raised for the wording of that error message alone if I was testing it. Wouldn't have even got through UAT in my book, but then I'm a stickler for detail. Not sure the reason to rush it out to live, the old site was working fine, unless the new site allows them to deal with the changes B****t have brought along much easier. Was it? Every time I tried to use it, it went down. Been happening for months. Not just the Hornby one, but the Airfix part as well. It was even down the day AIrfix was going to do their announcement which had to be put back a day or two. So to say It was working fine isn't correct. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Geep7 Posted January 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 23, 2021 Just now, Steamport Southport said: Was it? Every time I tried to use it, it went down. Been happening for months. Not just the Hornby one, but the Airfix part as well. It was even down the day AIrfix was going to do their announcement which had to be put back a day or two. So to say It was working fine isn't correct. Ah, yes, when they made the announcements, but I would say that was down to volume of traffic, rather than the actual site. The new site is definitely an improvement, and it seems to have settled down now, no doubt there was some database building going on in the background. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestRail642fan Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Has anyone else had issues with recent orders on the new site? For me, its showing an order i made last year, not the order i made a few days ago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
atom3624 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Forum's been down for 2 days now ... Plenty of friendly banter on there ... Al. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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