We will soon be launching a new home page for SnowBoardingForum.com. This will include more editorial content and also be run on the wordpress platform to make the home page way more mobile friendly. This should be added to the site very soon and hope you will tell us what you think.
I hope it doesn't jack up the current layout of the front page being all the recent posts. It's pretty much all I ever look at. I rarely open the individual forums.
If that layout changes, the forum will probably have to be redesigned with a lot fewer sub-forums. There simply isn't enough traffic to justify all of the current sub-forums without the current recent posts home page. As is, it's nice to have them to keep older posts better organized.
I always open to Active topics, I love reading up on whats going on in other areas other than my own so viewing all the threads at once seems like the best way.
Experience is pretty terrible on the iPhone. Anything to improve that would be welcomed. Even though posting pictures is simple through there at least for me.
I noticed it first thing. Not that anyone that administers this page cares but I like and dislike it... I like the info that is available on it. I do not like that I now have to make two key strokes to get to the active topics of the forum instead of just seeing them first thing. I mean come on, the website name is SNOWBOARDING FORUM..... Maybe next to the "forums" button you could put an active topic button? It just doesnt make sense to me to click on a web page that says snowboarding forum and find the new home page. Probably why I didnt get caught by tgr or any of the other forums out there because you have to dig through BS to find the forums....
I guess all I am saying is that a page called Snowboarding FORUM should have a bigger FORUM presence on the opening page..... I will just use a short cut to active topics which is great for me but sucks for new people looking for a user friendly forum that are not familiar....
Also agree with Argo that the actual forum(s) should be more prominently displayed at the top of the home page.
Another forum I am on has a button called "What's New" which lists the threads with the most recent posts. I believe this would meet the requirement to have quick access to recent posts. (I would call it "Recent Posts" myself.)
I also like the added content on the home page, and the new look.
For anyone who does not wish to view that stuff, neni's suggestion of bookmarking the active threads page would be a good tactic.
Edit: I've read about four articles on the home page since I first posted above.
I guess I really like the new content!
Not sure if I'm just overlooking it,.. but on my mobile, there's a prominent menu dropd own to link to the forums page. On my laptop I don't see anything like that on the home page. Had to go into my bookmarks to access the "active topics" page!!
Honestly have to say that at the moment,.. Not diggin it. I don't come here for your typical magazine style editorial/ad based content. I come here for the Forums.
I do visit Angry snowboarder, and a few other online content sites for boarding, but they are infrequent. The attraction here was the community participation, feel and new & expert boarders that belong to said community! Not to read comments fron the shallow, impersonal twitter/FB/snapchat generation participants. :shrug:
I may het used to it. May not. Right now, it feels a little like I lost a friend who moved out of town! :embarrased1:
Can't help but wonder if this is why BA seems to have gone MIA. It seems to be heading a bit towards his realm.
I actually always assumed that the snowboarding forum was nothing more than a boiler plate to get revenue from generic 'users', regardless of their interest.
Now it seems to be evolving into an actual snowboarding centric destination. A bit surprised, not in a bad or good way, just in a didn't see this type of content coming way.
Also this did not improve the website on the phone one bit like you claimed :/ if anything it made it worse. It takes me for ever to get to threads I want to see that landing page sucks
Sorry to hear BA, as I said it was just speculation based on the timing of your brief disappearance. However, I was pretty much spot on in what I figured your opinion of this would be.
Time will tell where things head here. I'm not against change so will just hope for the best while maintaining my pessimism. That said, people who use something that is for free for the most part don't have much ground to ever complain about where things go.
Wrong approach. Users drive traffic to the site, they go - site goes. You're a money maker, not a liability. You could and should complain. And if the site owners got any brains they'd do well to listen.
As for the "new look" on this site, my prediction is that people will generally do what several have already suggested-- bookmark the forum directly, and life will continue on as it did before the rework.
Existing forum members, yes. I doubt the site administrators realize how hard it's become for the new users to find active topics section which - let's be honest - not just attracts people to the forum but makes them stick around. I wonder how much this new change is going to affect participation and new user retention but I wouldn't hang any hopes on number improvements.
Wait. "Facebook groups are growing in relevancy?" Seriously? I don't think this forum is indestructible, but Facebook?????? If there is a venue that is less likely to take anyone down, I can't think of it. Facebook has possibly the worst user interface I've ever seen. It's not even "archaic", it's just plain crappy. If Facebook was to re-engineer their site concept, they might make some kind of a comeback. Failing that, they're mostly good for local groups-- and even that market segment is being eaten by sites like meetup.com .
I'm on Facebook and non-Facebook snowboarding sites and writing sites. And in neither case does the Facebook site hold a candle on any measure you want to make.
As for the "new look" on this site, my prediction is that people will generally do what several have already suggested-- bookmark the forum directly, and life will continue on as it did before the rework.
As to whether snowboardingforum (or any other such) has a long-term future, IMO global warming is going to be a lot more relevant. Start regularly getting seasons like the last couple in Vancouver, and people will just start finding other things to do with their winters. Like jogging and trail-biking.
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As for the "new look" on this site, my prediction is that people will generally do what several have already suggested-- bookmark the forum directly, and life will continue on as it did before the rework.
Not sure if anyone is familiar with NSMB.com (North Shore Mountain Biking), but it has a forum of a similar size to this one. The site founder has stated that the forum contributes negligible traffic compared to the frontpage.
Of course they have original videos (e.g. Matt Dennison collabs 'Shit Mountain Bikers Say' and 'I Only Ride Park'), photos, reviews, interviews, etc...
Let me say this. I like the new home page. Why? When I first joined here it looked quite bland, Im a little more adventurous/old school than some so I gave it a shot, saw there was an active community and was pleasantly surprised.
Im sure plenty of enthusiast snowboarders stop buy, see the blandness, and by the look assume its dead.
Might bring more people in with a more up to date look.
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