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ukb:
The annual insect overlord strategy meeting is again approaching. Any feedback on the site, however spurious, would be helpful. We'll be upgrading the forum software to the long-awaited SMF 2.0 in the summer/ autumn - that will also be a good moment to change anything that needs changing.

A few issues on our minds:

- a quite well-known climber recently told Shark that he didn't use UKB as he found it too confusing. Obviously he should be using the unread posts view - but generally does the site need  more explanation?

- dire photoshopped cartoons on the front page: funny? lame? not dire enough? talking of which, does anyone actually click through to the front page?

- integrating the UKB Vimeo and Flickr groups more tightly with the forum: good idea or not? it needs some bespoke programming so tends not to move off the "nice idea" list.

- should we have Borg style news/ articles/ etc? if so, any volunteers?

andy popp:
Too confusing to use? Was it Ralph Wiggum?

slackline:
Rarely look at the front page myself as there's not masses of content on there that changes regularly enough with new information. If however there was a news section that was kept up to date regularly I might do (but then again I might just read the "news" sub-forum instead).

You've got people's blogs being pulled into the log-pile, why not have a twitter section on the front page pulling in posts from various twitter accounts, e.g. @moonclimbing, @Team_BMC, @VertebratePub, @Planetmountain, @kjorgenson, @SenderFilms, @stevehouse10, @davemacleoud09, @psychovertical etc. etc.

Quite enjoy the photoshoped picture competitions, but rarely look at them once there.  Not sure what impression they give to new-comers.

Perhaps a "Getting started" section prominently linked from the front page for people, could even reside on the Wiki.  Quite what it should contain I'm not sure, perhaps feedback on what is confusing would provide insight.

What tighter integration is possible with Vimeo/Flickr?  One thing might be to embed the Flickr UKBouldering group as a slide show, although Flickr don't provide easy links for embedding slide shows any more, but I worked out an easy way around that (will be slow loading I'm afraid).

Can't think of much else at the moment, although I do think the Wiki is under used.

tomtom:
Yeah, the twitter thing was something I talked about a few months/years ago... It would be easy to set uo a window that displays all tweets with the #ukb hashtag etc..

News items are good for the occasional visitor..

Cartoon figures good.keep it up

Thought about some flashy way of integrating the most recent posts graphically on the front page.. Have a look at how flipboard integrates twitter, fb and news feeds on the iPad/tablets.. Very swish.

Does ukb have a fb page? If not why not? I hate fb, but plenty of people love it  some sort of mirror/cross feed between the two?

Serpico:

--- Quote from: ukb on June 14, 2011, 05:45:39 am ---
- dire photoshopped cartoons on the front page: funny? lame? not dire enough? talking of which, does anyone actually click through to the front page?


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There's a front page?
Just keep in mind when making changes that many of us come here because it's not UKC.

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