This section is dedicated to your feedback. We want to hear of your experiences of the site good and bad so that we can continue to improve your experience.
As a development team we are always looking for ways that we can improve your use of this website and would appreciate your feedback including as many images of issues as you feel appropriate.
The website is tested in Firefox and Internet Explorer and all bugs are ironed out as far as my personal experience at home goes, however I am not naieve enough to think this is the exact same experience everyone else is having.
For example, at work in IE6 I come across minor visual errors on the front page which you can see in my first attachment below.
Please post your feedback from using the site and feel free to attach as many screenshots that help you to explain the issues. To do this just follow these instructions:
1. Press "Print Screen" on your keyboard (normally above your number pad on the right hand side)
2. Open up Microsoft Paint
3. Click Edit --> Paste
4. Click File --> Save as. Save the image as filetype .PNG or JPG please.
5. Click "Add new comment" below this post to create your follow up and notice the "File Attachments" link just above the "Save" and "Preview" below.
6. Click browse, locate your image and click attach.
Thank you all for your continued support.
Shaun
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I dont have any annoying bugs
I dont have any annoying bugs or anything like that. Everything that I have experience and seen I have informed you and in a short space of time they have virtually all been fixed and I am now very eager to get more people involved, haha, involved!
Well done and thanks for all your hard work, its going to pay off.
Congrats.
Hi there, Well first of all
Hi there,
Well first of all well done on getting the site up and running and consistent, it's a huge undertaking and the whole thing seems to run pretty smoothly so good job!
I've got a few general feedback/suggestions so here we go:
1 - Regarding content, be it photos or games or such, it might be a good idea to incorporate all of this into the forums. Rather than having a separate place to go to submit content, it might be a better idea to actually have a forum dedicated to this. For example, if there was a forum for photos, I could start a new topic called, I dunno, "Funny Animal Photos" or whatever. Then I could actually put photos in the body of my post, and others could do the same, and comment on them et cetera. This might be complex to implement as far as the forum code goes, you'd have to limit resolution and re-size each photo automatically, but it would make things a lot easier by consolidating two sections of the site into one place.
2 - Regarding the polls, it might be a good idea to have a Poll of the Day right on the front page. A lot of sites do this, as it's a fairly reliable way of determing "active traffic" (people hitting the site and actually doing something, as opposed to looking at the front page then buggering off). Again, a link to a forum to discuss this might be an idea.
3 - Also regarding the front page, it might be an idea to stick something up there every now and then, some news or an article about something random, and again have a link to a forum discussion beneath it. Like the poll, it's just a way of stimulating discussion and participation in the forums, and a lot of sites do this. You already have a news feed, but to have this as something people can immediately comment on makes it easier for people to get talking.
4 - If anyone has time, it might be cool for people to contribute original articles to the site, just writing about whatever they feel like. Again, this can provide users something to look at and maybe take an interest in. Though I don't know how many people actually run the thing so this might be impractical.
5 - I've uploaded a couple of photos to the Members Gallery fine, but when viewed in a larger resolution they get very blocky and pixellated. This may be unavoidable, but I've nabbed them from my Facebook account and I can view them larger on there without them pixellating so there may be a workaround.
6 - The one thing the site needs is more people posting stuff really. It's murky territory, but if you could maybe email people when the opportunity arises, perhaps encourage more people to contribute, that might help. For example, there's an option to "watch a post", well it might be an idea to have everyone who posts on a thread AUTOMATICALLY watch the post by default, and only stop watching it when they manually select that option. Stuff like that just keeps gently reminding people to drop by the site and chip in. Actually, I've been thinking about posting stuff that's really offensive, just to try getting a reaction from people, but that may well do more harm than good...
7 - I've been using Safari entirely and the site seems to run fine with no obvious problems. I've tried to skim through pretty much everything the site offers, so I haven't been 100% extensive, but there don't appear to be any obvious compatibility issues.
I think that's about it. It's a good site, it's really solidly designed, and the feedback system is great. I've suggested things and seen them implemented within hours which is fantastic! I'll keep dropping by and posting things when I can.
Cheers,
Mark
Actually, there is one thing
Actually, there is one thing that may be Safari-based. When I look at someone's profile page, the "EXTRA INFO" text appears overlapped in the background of their details and make them hard to read. Screen grab attached.
Good catch, that looks awful.
Good catch, that looks awful. No problems on IE or FF.
Another one
Good idea for random stuff on the front page, but make sure you spell "random" right... ;o)
Many thanks for your
Many thanks for your constructive feedback, exactly what we need from members.
I had to agree with some of your suggestions and over the weekend I have put some of them into place.
The frontpage is now content rich. Random forum posts are generated with links to try and provide new members with an easy way to get involved.
The polls section is something I havn't bought into myself yet and I even forget it's there. I implemented it as a BETA for soemthing I have planned for later in development so maybe I will develop it further now or just take it behind the scenes. Still, a valid point on showing one on the front page.
Your suggestion on watching topics had been considered but felt "spamming" users with emails may not be the answer. I have changed it now so it does automatically watch topics to test the reactions. The "topic watch" can be turned off from the emails so may not be too bad.
The numbers have been kept low purposely at this early stage. Rolling the site out to everyone we know would have been a mistake without a LOT of testing first. The site would have ended up with lots of members who could have been massive contributors, not bothering to come back because of visual/code bugs.
I feel we are pretty much at a stage now were we can roll it out and start working hard on attracting new members.....and keeping them. Once word of mouth takes over I can get back to developing phase 2.
Thanks again.
Forum Display in IE6
At work using IE6 the forum displays as attached. I don't think this is how I should see it.
Hope this helps.