I think Scott partially covered this topic in this post in the pub members forum in case you missed it while you were gone:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/1873280-post34.html
I'll throw out some site data that may help to answer your questions...
SatGuys.us numbers:
In the past year more than 34,000 registered members have visited. (59% of members)
For comparison purposes DBSTalks numbers look like this:
In the past year more than 16,700 registered members...
Posts in the new "Dish Network - Technical Discussions" forum are not showing up for me on the front page's Recent threads list. Was this an oversight?
I'm not a big fan of this change... I'm not used to this behavior.
I do really like all the other changes that have been made around here lately though. The New server is running nicely. the Software upgrade today fixed a few annoying little glitches as well.
Thanks for all the hard...
I noticed today whenever you click on a thread in the "Recent Threads" on the front page it now open in a new window instead of simply going to the thread. The same is true if you click on the "last post" icon in the recent threads box. I was not paying close attention, then noticed that I had...
Scott,
I read all of the criticism before watching the video. I was actually quite impressed...I know it is not as easy as it looks. I agree that I'd like to see over the shoulder graphics instead of the brief graphics that slid in...too briefly. The only graphic that stayed up long...
There is no link to such a list on the site, but it is possible to get all kinds of information from the site by extracting it from the member list.
I use a program, that I recently sent to Scott, to extract some stats from 5 different forum sites.
For the top # of posters, you can see that...
Here are the first 20:
Scott Greczkowski
Anonymous
John Corn
scottct1
James
angiodan
ride525
DRGingras
marko
mikew
aboz
Hawkdad
sksatellite
Tim Hanthorn
thescrub
Dishdude
n0qcu
METFAN757
n1wbd
Mike500
I was #293...
@party Happy Birthday SatelliteGuys@party
Some interesting Stats:
New registered members in the 1st Year: 11,109
New registered members in the 2nd year: 13,803
The other site today has 13,694 members...less than the 2nd years growth here.
During those same 2 year periods the other site...
I highly recommend zooming way in before placing your location. I was able to zoom in to my actual street and accurately place the head. But back on the unzoomed map the heads do seem to show up a little above your actual location.
Scott,
I like the time and date on the news items. I also like many of the other small tweaks you've made to the front page. I like the expanded "Recent threads" section. I like that the Weather and sports sections are now missing...making the page load much faster. The annoying Auto-refresh...
Scott,
While your adding things... How about a link at the top of the homepage to the Voom homepage, and a link on the Voom homepage back to the main homepage. If there is already one, I have not found it yet.
Thank you,
Tom