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Tell us how to improve the blogs
3/5/2006 10:13 pm |
Grrr - see! I messed up, right up there, but there's nothing I can do about it now!!!!!
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Let's see... It can take up to seven tries before a comment takes. There's one thread in my blog, where I actually used the poll feature... most of the comments were made on Friday or Saturday, but weren't visible until today. There's also the problem of, it looks like a comment took, but when you look through the RSS feed, your comment isn't there. It has nothing to do with someone hitting the ban button, as it happens to me on my own blog and I sure as hell haven't banned myself from posting. Then there's the spider that looks for offense key words. I did a post this week on Lent, based on what a street preacher on the bus was spewing. There's no way to talk about this season without mentioning Christ was a Jew. I ask in the post why we eat ham on Easter to commemmorate the resurrection of an Orthodox Jew. I'm assuming that was the offensive word. After hitting submit three times and being denied, I had to write to Customer Service to get the post reviewed and approved. When a word sets off the censoring software, there should be some sort of human review. There are so many blog posts by desperate men that break the rule of no soliciting in the blogs. Yet the ads these people write in the blogs are approved, while a well researched and thought out post is denied for words that are programmed into the software. Also, the hosting company has to do something about the blog server. Who's hosting whom is a matter of public record, easily found in a variety of places. In two words, Savvis sucks. The blogs take forever to load, in general and when suffering blog jam, you can forget it. I even know the pattern to blogjam. First, only the German blogs load. Then the Japanese. I think they're Japanese. Then the Spanish, then the French. Then the English ones trickle in, in no particular order and posts get lost. The polls, I don't mind, they're typical of forum software and kind of cute. However, the voting? I can understand that in the magazine and the advice lines, but do we really need to know if random people agree or disagree with what we have to say? If they want to say something, they can leave a comment. One thing I'd love to be able to do is be able to delete or edit a comment I've made to someone else's blog, such as if I've misspelled something, or I got the HTML tags wrong. We don't have the option to delete our own comments, or even edit them. (yes, I am long winded.) Next, the main page of the blogs. The most recent posts list doesn't update everytime new blog entries are uploaded. To get to the newest posts most of the time, you have to hit "View All." We shouldn't have to do that. The newest posts should be listed when they're uploaded. But that list on the front page tends to stick. As I write this, the two pages don't match. The front page is listing posts from what seems to be two uploads ago. Now, on that subject, there doesn't seem to be a schedule on which posts are uploaded to the server and made visible to the public. It can be every 20 minutes for a while, then it will be a few hours. It would be nice to see them made public on a regular basis.
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what about having all pages load faster. Not just the blogs. but all pages
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Wow - great comments! There are so many things to add... will take a few days to sort out these ideas and come up with a game plan. For those wondering, I made my post show up "in the future" so it stays at the top of the list for a day. I'll try to do similar when adding new things.
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3/6/2006 1:11 am |
If you ask me, the system that was going on when I started a year ago, was the best and should have been left alone. If it aint broke, don't fix it. Fuck all those that need ratings. If they want ratings, they need to work for a Broadcasting company, or try Hollywood. Not here. This aint the place for it. All of us should have the same access and possibilities when blogging, whether we pay or not. If you haven't noticed, MANY people have left the AdultFriendFinder Blogs and joined other sites simply to get away from all the stupid rivalry that goes on here. You would think we were all in grade school here, by the way many act. The blogs are no longer a nice place to post, rather a damned pain in the ass.
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I've noticed an annoying bug. The spellcheck works when I post to my blog, but not when I comment. I think that might be what happened to tennismaiden too. I enjoy the blogs. They are my favorite part of the site. Wild Crosswords increase your vocabulary. Cross words increase your blood pressure.
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oh yes ban certain members from reading for sure boney is having a breakdown apparently cos I have an amazing sex life now and well um he knows of more than I am bloggin as he sees their cups or whatever out in the morning when he picks up his daughter bike... I would like to keep blogging but its causing him problems I need to stop him from reading it at least when he is signed in if possible  oh and his girlfriends reading it for him WyvernRose
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3/6/2006 2:59 am |
Ok! Andrew! I have to tell you that I am VERY impressed with the changes that I have seen in the blogs in the short time that you have gotten the feedback from the members here! Thank you VERy much for listening to what the members of 'Blogland' have to say, it is nice when a programmer listens to suggestions. I am fairly New to the blogs so I do not feel that there is much that I can add to the topic only that maybe an in-active blog be deleted after a period of 6 months. I like the changes that I have seen in the blogs so far with the highlighting on my watch list and with the paying members status showing. Thanks again and if you ever find yourself in Belgium let me know and I will be happy to buy you a real beer! Babel {=}
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3/6/2006 5:14 am |
I just found one very interesting fault in the poll thing. It's obvious that most members who have posted polls are just making them to test what they are about. It is possible to write a poll, and then after collecting votes on it, change both the subject and the answers. This can be funny of course but hardly the purpose of the polls lol
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3/6/2006 5:26 am |
Well, Sir... I for one (and from what I can see, maybe I'm in the minority) don't have any other suggestions for improvement! You and your team have done a fantastic job with these improvements so far, and I have no doubt that other tweeks here and there will be impressive. Bravo! Well Done!
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3/6/2006 5:30 am |
Okay, there is just one other suggestion... not sure if it's already here, but relating to the "Most Popular" list. Someone above commented that the way it's set up excludes a lot of good male blogs. So... how's this: set up two lists; one male and one female!
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3/6/2006 6:02 am |
I like the highlighted new posts in your watch list, new faces on the active watched list, but I don't see the need to show that members who visited your profile are premiun/standard. I also don't see the need for most popuar polls. Being able to add gif images into the body of your blog post would be nice. The popularity list should be divide at least into three groups women/men/couples.
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3/6/2006 6:57 am |
I've read through all the suggestions and comments, and I agree with most of them. I do NOT agree with disallowing nonpaying members to blog. There's already enough of a class system here, and if you don't want standard members to be able to do anything, why even bother allowing them at all? Just make the entire site paying only and be done with it. Ok...things I'd like to see, or suggestions I agree with stated previously by others: 1. Ability to delete my own posts to others blogs. 2. Save draft 3. Allow us to add our own mood to the drop down list. 4. Get rid of the unique posts and just allow us to see how many VIEWS we've had total for each blog entry, or for the entire blog. (That would be way cool). 5. Allow us to see EVERYONE who's visited the blog. Currently, if someone has the filter turned off so that they aren't listed as viewing someone's profile, then they also aren't listed as viewing someone's blog. I'd like to see if certain people (who I know have their profile tracks listed as invisible) have viewed certain entries. 6. Expand the newly updated blog list...it would be nice to see like maybe the last 75 or 100 blogs listed. 7. Allow us to have a blog filter that gives us options for viewing the latest blog listings. IE: allow us to sort by language, geographic area, cupid listings, etc. There's nothing more disappointing than seeing new blog listings and then realizing they're all in German. 8. Allowing us to post multiple pics in the body of the entry. 9.Instead of ranking blogs by comments...rank by total views. This will also allow the AWBggers to most likely remain at the top of the list, but it will allow those who are watched but not neccessarily commented on a lot to break into the list. 10. Allow us to select if we'd like to allow comments or not by individual entry. And my GREATEST desire: PLEASE add a VIEW MY BLOG link to the front page. Instead of having to sign in, then go to blogs and then view my blog, or signing in then "update my blog" and back to my blog. My computer constantly crashes, and having extra pages to have to sort through before being able to view the latest comments on my blog is annoying as...well, I'm sure you can guess. Wait....maybe even better would be to have a "view latest blog comments" on the front page. That would be way cool. Thanks for asking and giving us the opportunity to suggest. I've been thinking about emailing about the front page link for a few weeks now.
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3/6/2006 7:54 am |
I think that one should have more control with photos on blogs, more photos, control of size,. It should also be easier to change font color, style, size, backgound, without having to know HTML. Design formats .... Better help section Uniform posting time .... Quicker post turnaround
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3/6/2006 8:01 am |
Maybe have acyual voting for Favorite blogs instead of most popular by way it is now. Also, I liked idea that other bloggers photos would show up instead of same people all of the time. Maybe a list of new bloggers? couples? men? etc......
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3/6/2006 8:04 am |
Also one of the worst feature is the Bullshit censorship!!!!! This is supposed to be a sex and swingers site and stuff gets banned and censored more than a kids blog site. It is ridiculous!!!! What does AdultFriendFinder care?
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3/6/2006 8:54 am |
Hello. I don't know if this is a good idea, but I guess there's no bad idea, ok that's enough preamble. How about the ability to leave "private" or "personal" comments on a blog post? Included with that of course is the ability to "block" comments from certain or specific members. Aside from the occasional glitches and missing posts, you guys (and gals if there are any) are doing a great job on the blogs. It is definitely better! Thanks!
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3/6/2006 9:12 am |
a couple more brief and random thoughts re: the blogs....then i need to get to a meeting: - the stupid popularity contest of "Most Popular Blogs" - while customarily i detest popularity contests, i also recognize the need to grab people's attention and directing them to the best blogs, all in encouraging them to return and/or start there own. to me, the truly most popular blogs should be calculated, somehow, by counting the number of 'watched lists' they are on. afterall, anyone will get a lot of views and/or inane comments by posting a stupid question or a hot pic....however, the ones with true 'quality' will have return visitors....just a thought, but an extremely valid one. - thanks for considering our input - and thank you for the things you've implemented such as faster posting and i simply love the number of new comments being recorded at the bottom of each blog! that was an unexpected and priceless 'feature'.
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I love some of the new features....especialy the one that tells you how many comments you have, and how many new comments! Saves you a lot of time from opening up the comment section of your own blog just to see if anyone new has commented. Love it. Thanks.
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3/6/2006 9:46 am |
I love the changes to the Frequently Watched Blogs panel! It is great to be able to see if there are new posts. I also like the notation on the blog entry that shows the number of new comments as well as the total. As many have already said, I would love to see some more perks for the paying members. At this point the blogs are the only reason that my wife and I are still here on AdultFriendFinder. I get very frustrated with the delay between the time a blog entry or comment is posted and the time it becomes visible to everyone. I have seen it take several hours hours before the posts are visible. The idea of immediate visibility is great, I hope that it works out. You're headed in the right direction! Thanks for the efforts.
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3/6/2006 10:02 am |
I just discovered the blog not too long ago I did add a few things in the magazine first I wish that there was a way to go back and fix the oops but over all I enjoy useing the blog keep up the great work ty
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3/6/2006 10:06 am |
You might want to check out the counters on the blogs. Before the last blog update was posted I noticed that the total number of posts would need about 110 more posts to reach 1 million posts on the blogs. I refreshed the page, less than 5 new blogs show up in the recent blogs but now the total number of blogs is 1.000.162. Where did the other 250 blog posts go?
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3/6/2006 10:51 am |
Just because there are not enough opinions on the matter: I personally wish there wasn't the most popular blog list. I would rather have the space to show my entire list of watched blogs. I don't really care who is the most popular, in fact I will shy more AWAY from them. I would rather find a blogger that is lesser known. Seems if you took the suggestions of letting people customize the pages, this could resolve itself. Allow those to put the list up if they wanted it and by categories. Have fun coding that...lol!!!! Thanks
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3/6/2006 11:33 am |
Reading and rereading all of these responses I have found that there are alot of really great suggestions. Music, more html, graphics, backgrounds, more member priviliges, comment editability etc are all creditable. I would like to inject here some comments from a "standard member". While SensualKatey advocates more perks for members in blogging, I would like to inject caution in taking away from lesser member status. Your marketing style in this site is admirable. Your draw is the standard member who looks at the site first, tries it and then decides whether it is worthwhile to join. There are alot of areas to blog on the net now. I would hate to see AdultFriendFinder turn into one of those sites that ONLY allows PAID MEMBERS. Sincerely, Actlikeanimals
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3/6/2006 11:39 am |
now a few hours later.... total posts 999.465......... Is everyone deleting their blogs now?
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