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Read moreWhy don't you advocate for this issue to be pushed up the ticket list? I'm sure you have some say in the matter as a senior dev. From a user and player's perspective, the web side of Runescape is in an embarrassing state. The useability of the website and forums are terrible, making users flee to third party websites and apps to do the things the forums were made to do. A lot of the projects you guys seem to prioritze and spend a lot of time and effort on (Runefest PWA, runefest websites, promotional micro-sites, Jagex corporate site, runelabs, polls, ..) are either temporary projects and lose their value quickly after the event or promotion is over, or just DoA because third party websites do it better (thank god you made the wiki official). I don't know what is going on at jagex and can only give you a player's take on it all, but with the companion app going down and your APIs being almost non-existant (and the part that does is a burning pile of shit), I see very little actual,...
Ok a fair few points there to pick apart so I'll explain this as best I can.
We are actively improving the platform and we are looking forward to sharing some updates with you in the near future on this. The Jagex site is our test project for this as we can make large changes without impacting the player experience. Recently we shaved seven seconds off the homepage load for users on 3G in California visiting Jagex.com so early signs are positive. The animated svg takes nothing but a few seconds to implement whilst overhauling the platform - it's a simple but clever css stroke trick.
The RuneFest PWA was a test implementation of a service worker to see how we can integrate one of these in conjunction with CMS driven content. Again we do not want to negatively impact player flow on the main sites so RuneFest was a logical place to try this out.
I accept your point concerning marketing sites but they are essential to getting the word out for things like Twitch ...
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