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Re: Is it me, or does nobody comment on gallery images any more?
« on: September 14, 2009, 07:51:05 AM »
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I think the lack of comments is a direct result of layout changes. If the default location of the random gallery image(s) changed to an area of the page that didn't require scrolling or resizing to reach, click-through and comment rates might be much higher.

On the new site, the only thing I see when I first browse to Amiga.org is the last ten active threads. (That's with Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari on Windows at 1920x1200, default system and browser font settings.)

On the old site, the latest posts, the first couple news articles, and a random gallery image were all visible without resizing.


Spot on, here is the problem.
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Re: Is it me, or does nobody comment on gallery images any more?
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2009, 07:12:47 PM »
You should not be so narrow sighted that you assume people do not comment because they wont accept change, that is not how internet habbits works.

In a way, you need to view traffic as customers (even though you do not make money on us), first task is, why do you want traffic on amiga.org?

Let us assume, (that partly), you want traffic on amiga.org because you want users to upload images other users can comment on.

In the situation we have right now, the earlier version from 2001 was better suited to that objective - to get users to upload images and to get users to comment images, I can only speak for myself, one of the reasons I posted images was to read comments. Now I tried it once and got zero comments so I am not likely to be so eager to upload images as often as before.

So in order to adapt the site to suit your customers better (if we asume that you want the gallery to grow both by uploaded images and commented images) the gallery part needs rework to make it more appealing for visitors to use it again.

That has got nothing with peoples resistance to change, or people upset over the move to the new system, it is just the way it is.

Isnt it great that amiga.org have users that can give you this input for free on how amiga.org can be improved to better suit the community?
« Last Edit: September 14, 2009, 07:15:39 PM by cv643d »
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