Thank You Bob Beatty
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Yeah, I was going from Spiceworks for four months and it's not the same there but, lets no trash them over here.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Yeah, I was going from Spiceworks for four months and it's not the same there but, lets no trash them over here.
Absolutely not. Definitely not a place for that. Only pro-SW posting here please. We welcome links to SW that are positive (like hey, someone needs help on thread X, or look at this cool event going on over there.) But no links to problems there (it's their own community, keep their private stuff private) and no complaining about them. There is a natural tendency for that stuff to happen so unfortunately it has to be hard moderated. Although in the past ten months, it really doesn't happen since that policy was in place.
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I miss Nic.
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Here I am! /me waves at Slava
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Wow I spent over an hour catching up on SW and I still haven't read all the drama
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Many were quick to bash ML though. I would say ML has a MUCH smaller team than SW so its not a surprise there are less features.
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@IRJ said:
Many were quick to bash ML though. I would say ML has a MUCH smaller team than SW so its not a surprise there are less features.
There is bashing? I hadn't seen any of that. That's not cool. But, they don't have "be friendly" rules like we do.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
Many were quick to bash ML though. I would say ML has a MUCH smaller team than SW so its not a surprise there are less features.
There is bashing? I hadn't seen any of that. That's not cool. But, they don't have "be friendly" rules like we do.
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/825239-so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish?page=3
Mainly just comparing it to experts exchange. I don't call it bashing though. simply stating their opinion.
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@thecreativeone91 Oh, not bad at all. Yeah, the interface mostly sucks. Very true. Yeah, mostly a small group posting in circles, true of any community as it gets going. They're just stating how things are.
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Hopefully they have some insight on how the interface could be improved. I know it isn't great. But what I don't know is how to make it better. Which wouldn't be me to do anyway, but it's insight that I don't even have to give. I don't "know what good looks like" for that.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Hopefully they have some insight on how the interface could be improved. I know it isn't great. But what I don't know is how to make it better. Which wouldn't be me to do anyway, but it's insight that I don't even have to give. I don't "know what good looks like" for that.
I didn't like it at first, but its grown on me. I think its great for the current size of ML, but as the community grows it may become difficult to effectively manage posts. Waking up to 100 new threads every morning would be difficult. There isn't fine grained categories so you can sift through what you want.
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@IRJ one thing I know that is needed is having the ability to see recent, popular and unread in the existing categories rather than only as an entire site.
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When I look at the categories on the homepage I see 3 categories that have at least 10x more threads than the other categories.
Water Closet
IT Discussion
NewsWater Closet is fine because its just random junk, but it would be helpful to be able to sort by popularity. I realize you can do that by using the sort by on the right. I know you can also view popular threads for the entire community. I think it would be nice to have something clickable in this white area. MangoLassi is a very fast community and it slows down the speed when you have to to click the drop down box and sort. Not to mention that it saves your setting so you have to do it again to sort it back. Icons somewhere in the whitespace on the middle of screen may help streamline this
IT Discussion really needs sub categories. Its difficult to browse and I rarely myself searching for old threads to find useful information. Searching is difficult.
News is pretty much fine the way it is since you want it to display newest to oldest.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ one thing I know that is needed is having the ability to see recent, popular and unread in the existing categories rather than only as an entire site.
lol... look at my feedback
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@IRJ said:
IT Discussion really needs sub categories. Its difficult to browse and I rarely myself searching for old threads to find useful information. Searching is difficult.
That's the biggest two things to me. We need sub categories and much better search. Search is probably the worst part of the site.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@IRJ said:
IT Discussion really needs sub categories. Its difficult to browse and I rarely myself searching for old threads to find useful information. Searching is difficult.
That's the biggest two things to me. We need sub categories and much better search. Search is probably the worst part of the site.
I prefer quite a few subcategories. Maybe not as many as SW, but along those lines. When things are categorized nicely, its much easier to find stuff without using the search feature
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I think somewhere in this whitespace would be a good place to add buttons to organize within categories. Somewhere on the breadcrumb bar would be ideal.
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Subcategories exist in the platform but they are complex and would, I think, make the site really hard to navigate.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Subcategories exist in the platform but they are complex and would, I think, make the site really hard to navigate.
You have to think of the occasional users who just want visit ML to find information and may or may not contribute. They just want to find information while on the site.
