Post by Icefanatic on Nov 2, 2014 8:01:08 GMT -5
I need to know what is working for you with the things I am adding to the site, or doing with the site, and what isn't. Put plainly, what you like and what you don't. Working on the site, I'm increasingly feeling like I'm sitting in a pitch-black room and throwing things at the walls to see what sticks, only since I can't seen anything, I don't know what is sticking and what isn't.
In the past month:
I spent many hours gathering source images and editing and creating a TMNT banner/background/theme.
Two people commented on it.
I found a code in the support forum for our forum host to embed image uploaders for Photobucket and Tinypic. Instead of simply adding them to the Global Headers for the forum as the person who supplied them instructed, thus having them appear at the top of every forum page, I figured out how to edit them into the forum template so they would only appear on the pages needed and in close proximity to the reply areas. I replace the hard-to-see text links with custom images I made including the logo's for Tinypic and Photobucket.
No feedback.
I found a cool image I liked of the silhouettes of four kids out trick-or-treating and decided to try to build a Halloween banner around it. I spent hours looking for suitable PNG format silhouettes with transparent backgrounds to use for the banner before even starting work on it. I found a cool font online to use(Poultrygeist, yes I spelled that right) with it. I built a Halloween theme around it.
Only one person, a staff member, commented they even liked the Halloween theme.
I finalized and fully implemented the Monetary System for our site, including making adjustments manually and individually for every member. I added a related shop, set it up, spent hours scouring the internet over the course of a month looking for suitable images for Halloween items, editing them, hosting them, writing (hopefully) clever copy to go with them. I spent real money to be able to add the shop(Our forum may be hosted for free(the adds are placed by our forum host to offset the hosting cost, I make nothing), but a lot of the functionality I have added to it has come from 'plugins'. A free forum gets space for 40 plugins, 10 memory keys and 2 'Super' memory keys) We were one space away from filling all our plugin spaces and our two super keys were already taken before adding the shop, which required both plugin space and a Super key, so I shelled out the cash to get more of both.)
I have so far seen only one other person displaying one of the shop items and have gotten no feedback from anyone on any of it.
There's other stuff, both large and small, just in the past month alone; but I think you get the idea.
Also, every Wednesday for the past couple of months in edition to posting a 'new comic releases list', I edit that list down to put new comics from the top publishers into our news 'fader' at the top of the forum. It takes a minimum of an hour of time and effort every Wednesday for me to do that and I have yet to have even one single person comment on it for good or ill.
I don't need a lot of back-patting and ego stroking, but if you don't like something or don't want something; then please let me know so I can avoid exerting time, effort and even money on it. If there is something that you do like, and do want for the site, or even from me personally, please let me know; because I feel like I'm largely and increasingly working in a vacuum of information as far as to what the posters here would like or want.
In the past month:
I spent many hours gathering source images and editing and creating a TMNT banner/background/theme.
Two people commented on it.
I found a code in the support forum for our forum host to embed image uploaders for Photobucket and Tinypic. Instead of simply adding them to the Global Headers for the forum as the person who supplied them instructed, thus having them appear at the top of every forum page, I figured out how to edit them into the forum template so they would only appear on the pages needed and in close proximity to the reply areas. I replace the hard-to-see text links with custom images I made including the logo's for Tinypic and Photobucket.
No feedback.
I found a cool image I liked of the silhouettes of four kids out trick-or-treating and decided to try to build a Halloween banner around it. I spent hours looking for suitable PNG format silhouettes with transparent backgrounds to use for the banner before even starting work on it. I found a cool font online to use(Poultrygeist, yes I spelled that right) with it. I built a Halloween theme around it.
Only one person, a staff member, commented they even liked the Halloween theme.
I finalized and fully implemented the Monetary System for our site, including making adjustments manually and individually for every member. I added a related shop, set it up, spent hours scouring the internet over the course of a month looking for suitable images for Halloween items, editing them, hosting them, writing (hopefully) clever copy to go with them. I spent real money to be able to add the shop(Our forum may be hosted for free(the adds are placed by our forum host to offset the hosting cost, I make nothing), but a lot of the functionality I have added to it has come from 'plugins'. A free forum gets space for 40 plugins, 10 memory keys and 2 'Super' memory keys) We were one space away from filling all our plugin spaces and our two super keys were already taken before adding the shop, which required both plugin space and a Super key, so I shelled out the cash to get more of both.)
I have so far seen only one other person displaying one of the shop items and have gotten no feedback from anyone on any of it.
There's other stuff, both large and small, just in the past month alone; but I think you get the idea.
Also, every Wednesday for the past couple of months in edition to posting a 'new comic releases list', I edit that list down to put new comics from the top publishers into our news 'fader' at the top of the forum. It takes a minimum of an hour of time and effort every Wednesday for me to do that and I have yet to have even one single person comment on it for good or ill.
I don't need a lot of back-patting and ego stroking, but if you don't like something or don't want something; then please let me know so I can avoid exerting time, effort and even money on it. If there is something that you do like, and do want for the site, or even from me personally, please let me know; because I feel like I'm largely and increasingly working in a vacuum of information as far as to what the posters here would like or want.
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