What would you like to see from EHW in 2022

[Avacado]

18 hours ago, iamjanco said:

bant for oops, this isn't the ban thread.

 

I'd like to see a section for technically inclined old people, one that only allows entry to those who are at least 65 years of age.

 

 

That way my peers could ask me things like who's that guy in the spoon, and why is he upside down?

/sarc

Note: also see 45 Older People Failing At Technology So Terribly It’s Hard Not To Laugh

So you want a room where you would be the only participant, talking to yourself?

[iamjanco]

43 minutes ago, Avacado said:

So you want a room where you would be the only participant, talking to yourself?

 

Naw, I already got one of those that gets a lot of regular use. 

 

I just wanted the infighting to stop (seems like it worked, at least temporarily) 

 

 

[Avacado]

1 hour ago, iamjanco said:

 

Naw, I already got one of those that gets a lot of regular use. 

 

I just wanted the infighting to stop (seems like it worked, at least temporarily) 

 

 

People were fighting? Who?

[The Pook]

1 minute ago, Avacado said:

People were fighting? Who?

 

I fought you so hard you don't even remember. 

 

Pook: 3

Avacado: 0

Edited December 24, 2021 by The Pook

[Avacado]

32 minutes ago, The Pook said:

 

I fought you so hard you don't even remember. 

 

Pook: 3

Avacado: 0

I still am BB

[iamjanco]

5 hours ago, Avacado said:

People were fighting? Who?

 

Yup, you're right, those weren't the droids I was looking for.

 

Have a MERRY XMAS all!

 

Edited December 25, 2021 by iamjanco

[Bastiaan_NL]

The first thing that comes to mind is the following:

I use the discover page as my home page, but if a topic is very active it fills the whole page with just that single topic.
Maybe it would be nice to have an option to show only the latest activity on that topic or something.
Here is an example:

 

More members is always better and I'll never like mobile browsing (so that's impossible to fix )

[Avacado]

2 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

The first thing that comes to mind is the following:

I use the discover page as my home page, but if a topic is very active it fills the whole page with just that single topic.
Maybe it would be nice to have an option to show only the latest activity on that topic or something.
Here is an example:

 

More members is always better and I'll never like mobile browsing (so that's impossible to fix )

Looks good to me

[Bastiaan_NL]

1 hour ago, Avacado said:

Looks good to me

I knew you would reply something like this

[BWG]

5 hours ago, Bastiaan_NL said:

The first thing that comes to mind is the following:

I use the discover page as my home page, but if a topic is very active it fills the whole page with just that single topic.
Maybe it would be nice to have an option to show only the latest activity on that topic or something.
Here is an example:

 

More members is always better and I'll never like mobile browsing (so that's impossible to fix )

 

Looks like you have a stalker. unfish ban

[The Pook]

don't mind him bb, he's just jealous 

[ENTERPRISE]

On 26/12/2021 at 10:52, Bastiaan_NL said:

The first thing that comes to mind is the following:

I use the discover page as my home page, but if a topic is very active it fills the whole page with just that single topic.
Maybe it would be nice to have an option to show only the latest activity on that topic or something.
Here is an example:

 

More members is always better and I'll never like mobile browsing (so that's impossible to fix )

 

Have you tried using the Create New Stream ? Enables you to be a little more particular about how the stream is managed however I am unsure that the scope of this feature would filter out multiple updates on the same topic. In reality that is why the "Latest" section in on the homepage. 

[ENTERPRISE]

Further from my last message, I have put together a new layout for the "Latest" section which I will soon put to my developer.  What do you guys think ?  

 

 

FYI, I have also expanded the latest section to display 10 topics by default based on other feedback given.

[BWG]

Is it too late to suggest a 25% staff pay increase?

[UltraMega]

4 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Further from my last message, I have put together a new layout for the "Latest" section which I will soon put to my developer.  What do you guys think ?  

 

 

FYI, I have also expanded the latest section to display 10 topics by default based on other feedback given.

Looks good but I wonder how it will scale on mobile. Putting the thread title and the "started by" on the same line could cause issues. 

[ENTERPRISE]

2 hours ago, UltraMega said:

Looks good but I wonder how it will scale on mobile. Putting the thread title and the "started by" on the same line could cause issues. 

On mobile interface, it's likely the "Started By" would be set to the second line.  

 

My dev is available from the new year, so I will be able to get this in soon for works which will mark off at least one 2022 improvement already haha. Thanks for the feedback guys !

[Sir Beregond]

On 22/12/2021 at 04:15, Avacado said:

The site already is enjoyable and where I spend most of my free time. We could stand for a few more active members. You stated that you would be focusing on marketing and such this year so it should self resolve. 

100% agree. One of the things I really liked on OCN back in the day was just the volume of quality postings and threads each and every day that one could engage with.

 

Overall, I think EHW is great, just needs more activity.

[ciarlatano]

On 30/12/2021 at 12:23, Sir Beregond said:

100% agree. One of the things I really liked on OCN back in the day was just the volume of quality postings and threads each and every day that one could engage with.

 

Overall, I think EHW is great, just needs more activity.

 

Agreed. The light activity here is a bit of a downer. On the flip side, it's all quality activity. I've been reading for 20 minutes without coming across a bad post. Need to up the quantity but retain the quality.

[ENTERPRISE]

36 minutes ago, ciarlatano said:

 

Agreed. The light activity here is a bit of a downer. On the flip side, it's all quality activity. I've been reading for 20 minutes without coming across a bad post. Need to up the quantity but retain the quality.

 

There in lies the challenge for any forum. Back in the day it was much easier to retain a good ratio with quantity:quality 

 

However as the internet is now far more accessible these days than it was before, as well as Tech/PC's becoming a larger part of the younger audience, I tend to find that there is an increasing chance that you will have less mature users. Now that in itself is not an issue necessarily, however you can sometimes see an uptick in less quality posts as a result. As always I prefer to go the route of education should something go wrong. It is better to build people than to ban them. wherever possible.

[Supercrumpet]

6 hours ago, ENTERPRISE said:

 

There in lies the challenge for any forum. Back in the day it was much easier to retain a good ratio with quantity:quality 

 

However as the internet is now far more accessible these days than it was before, as well as Tech/PC's becoming a larger part of the younger audience, I tend to find that there is an increasing chance that you will have less mature users. Now that in itself is not an issue necessarily, however you can sometimes see an uptick in less quality posts as a result. As always I prefer to go the route of education should something go wrong. It is better to build people than to ban them. wherever possible.

 

Ding ding ding! This is super important. I was a wee little lad (sort of) when I joined OCN back in 2013 and I'm sure I made plenty of dumb posts, but I learned an obscene amount about PCs and more during just my first year there. The teaching vs banning thing is huge.

[ENTERPRISE]

Just as an update, we have the revised latest section completed with the reviews replacing the podcasts and slimming it a little. When expanded each section is not inline with each other at the moment BUT this will change overtime. This is caused by overly long thread titles, so I have limited thread titles by 10 characters to avoid this issue moving forward.

 

[The Pook]

1 hour ago, ENTERPRISE said:

Just as an update, we have the revised latest section completed with the reviews replacing the podcasts and slimming it a little. 

 

 

 

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so I have limited thread titles by 10 characters to avoid this issue moving forward.

 

inb4 a new suggestion to increase thread title character limit 

[iamjanco]

Looks good to me; you can also read the full title of a post by hovering your cursor over the link to the post (title attributes are being added to the links in each column). An example of that follows:

 

[ENTERPRISE]

5 minutes ago, iamjanco said:

Looks good to me; you can also read the full title of a post by hovering your cursor over the link to the post (title attributes are being added to the links in each column). An example of that follows:

 

Good catch

[Supercrumpet]

Another tweak I thought of today, and this may be better suited for another thread: reformatting the rig listings under posts to show more than 8 parts in less space. Just could be a little more space efficient, but that's a pretty nitpicky thing.