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Post by JMMREVIEW on Mar 1, 2016 14:06:35 GMT -5
WARNING THE IMAGES BELOW ARE PHOTOSHOPED (NOT REAL) Our Twitch Members area is complete and working 100% Our YouTube Upload form is 95% complete, I just need to apply it to the website somewhere. So where are we now? We have a website that is great for writers, great for Twitch users okay for YouTube users but with a really bad members area. It turns out the members area will be much more complex than I first thought. It will probably take someone to custom build almost the whole thing (at a large cost). Here are a few ideas for what I would like to add below. Really I just wanted to share my ideas, I sent this the web dev and he thought there would be a lot of work in creating this and it would cost a lot so I told him to wait before he starts anything and I would check with everyone to make sure we all get what we want. I will probably have to save for quite a while to pay for it so I might was well use the time to get it right.
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Post by Blade Runner 07 on Mar 1, 2016 14:47:22 GMT -5
Thanks JMM. Get back to you later!
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Post by Xargen on Mar 1, 2016 18:47:30 GMT -5
Your mock-up photo's look good to me, can't think of anything else atm, but if I do, I'll slap the ideas down here
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Post by frankwak on Mar 5, 2016 1:03:47 GMT -5
To Me. (Being the New Guy) the Forums part of the website almost feels like its being put into a dungeon. like we want to make people go looking for it. and I know that's not the case. I think a big button on the front page (Somewhere close to the top we should make a call to action asking people to join our community. I can understand that we want to showcase our Articles, Videos, and Streams but a website that has all of that with a focus on Community is what I believe we're searching for.
In terms of Profile Pages I don't see a point in having a section for Photo's or Followers... I really don't.
Lastly I think a presence of Unity could go a long way for us. a podcast maybe? or a collaboration video. Something to go "WE ARE GOLDEN EDGE GAMERS!" you know? just me. Don't take this as me trying to take over the site. I'm just happy to be able to help build this community which I wanna call my new home. so yeah
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Post by JMMREVIEW on Mar 5, 2016 8:39:07 GMT -5
Call to action
Yes I agree, the only thing I would say is the members area is still messy so that is part of the reason it isn't being promoted as much. One other thing I would say about forums is they are a dying art, I will always use the forum but I think young people what everything to be instant which is why I am putting a lot of effort into Twitch on the main page and the instant messaging.
Photos
I understand this wont be for everyone but under the games section there is an image tab so my idea would be people can upload images and tag them so they end up under the games in that section. There are all sort of beneficial reasons to host images on a website namely so we show up on Google when people image search a game.
"WE ARE GOLDEN EDGE GAMERS!"
I am really all for this, I think a lot of us are getting the new Doom game, I would love to have a few community night on it where we all meet up play some fun game modes while we stream it on twitch and make youtube videos about it etc.
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Post by frankwak on Mar 5, 2016 12:13:10 GMT -5
Well I won't be getting doom. Not buying as much this year because of life. But I'm so down for like a Borderlands night somewhere down the road.
I understand about the photos and now I agree with you.
You could try integrating Social Media into the post comment section of our articles. Facebook comments, etc. Social media has become today's forum page.
I'm trying to think of other things but I'm drawing a blank
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Post by Blade Runner 07 on Mar 6, 2016 12:47:22 GMT -5
Not to get off subject but if you mean the first Borderlands (on X360) that will be available to everyone with Gold later this month. Just wanted to point that out.
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Post by frankwak on Mar 6, 2016 15:45:31 GMT -5
Well it'll be another month or so until I'm able to stream, play online at all. My internet at my current residence sucks and I'm about to move, and May is going to be dedicated to Mega Man
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Post by JMMREVIEW on Mar 9, 2016 12:13:44 GMT -5
Just an update about monies, (full disclosure and all)
Here is a break down of cost for the new site so far (some are $ because that is how I paid)
Sever costs, Url, website theme, logo design = £150 Twitch plugin, web dev support (writing bespoke code to adapt it to our site) = $100 Frontend YouTube support (this isn't finished yet but nearly there) = $100 Vote plugin = $30 Forum Theme update = $40 Members Area plugin dev support (writing bespoke code to adapt it to our site) = $100
Costs are mounting and as much as I can't really afford the members area update right now I am really sick of how broken the members area is, members can't even upload profile images now and that is a big problem! So I have given the web dev the go ahead to fix this.
If anyone can support at all it would take the pressure off my bank account! Thanks
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Post by Blade Runner 07 on Mar 9, 2016 12:44:27 GMT -5
Hang in there JMM. You'll get by with alittle help from your friends.
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Post by JMMREVIEW on Mar 9, 2016 15:26:27 GMT -5
Hang in there JMM. You'll get by with alittle help from your friends. Well I already have a lot of awesome people donating on Patreon which is really helpful and doing real work in making the website and my channel better place
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Post by Revenant on Apr 7, 2016 15:16:34 GMT -5
as someone who's been here awhile I'd say all and all its an upgrade, except the backround color feels like it clashes with the header to me. I liked the old color scheme better, but as long as you can change the theme that shouldn't be a huge deal. Overall it runs a lot better too. For whatever reason i used to lag a little on pages and stuff but not anymmore.
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