How's the website?

Syndicate replies to “How's the website?” topic Tue, 04/15/2008 - 23:59 — Patri

This site is brand new, so it's sure to have some lurking issues. Tell us about them here. Also, any features you think are essential to usability or that would be really awesome, keeping in mind that our time/site development budget is limited.

Thanks!

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Wed, 04/16/2008 - 06:04 — DanB

The web site looks great! I

The web site looks great!

I was going to post an introduction, but I got a message saying "you are not allowed to start a new topic"

Dan

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 20:35 — Patri

I think I fixed the forums

I think I fixed the forums issue, let me know if you still have trouble.

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 06:05 — DanB

It's kind of weird that the

It's kind of weird that the first line of the comment shows up twice like that.

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 18:22 — Patri

Weird and annoying. Will

Weird and annoying. Will pass it on to the developer.

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 11:21 — Michael Keenan (not verified)

The new website is

The new website is awesome.

I've found one little bug. When you click on the yellow Learn More heading (i.e. without hovering over it so it opens a menu of links under that section) it takes you to a "Page Not Found" page. That's because the link is to "http://www.seasteading.org/learn-more/intro" rather than "http://www.seasteading.org/intro".

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 13:39 — Michael Keenan

The new website is

The new website is awesome.

There's a few little bugs:

On the front page, under Key Areas, the link to the Intro section doesn't work; it's a link to "http://intro/".

Clicking on the yellow Learn More heading at the top of each page leads to a Page Not Found page. This is because the link is to "http://www.seasteading.org/learn-more", which I think is redirecting to "http://www.seasteading.org/learn-more/intro", when it should be "http://www.seasteading.org/intro".

On the old site (http://seastead.org/old_index.html), the Basic Introduction link to "http://seastead.org/new_intro.html" also redirects to "http://seasteading.org/learn-more/intro", and so it has the same Page Not Found problem.

On the About TSI page (http://seasteading.org/learn-more/about-tsi), there's links to photos of the board. None of those links work; they all display Page Not Found.

As Dan said, it appears that users don't have permission to start new forum topics in any section of the forum. We can only post replies to threads that already exist (like this one).

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 18:20 — Patri

Everything should be fixed

Everything should be fixed except the starting threads problem, thanks.

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 14:09 — wesley_Bruce

Ok log-in and password

Ok log-in and password change tested and works.
Our sea steads MUST float because I can't swim.

For everyone's information I was involved with the original Oceania Project in a small way. I'm also in several space organisations. And I have a Degree in Sustainable Development, Sustainable Agriculture and renewable energy, water and sewerage.

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 14:12 — wesley_Bruce

Forum posts need a title box

Forum posts need a title box where the title can be typed so we don't get that/this double up.

For everyone's information I was involved with the original Oceania Project in a small way. I'm also in several space organisations. And I have a Degree in sustainable Development, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy,water and sewerage.

Wed, 04/16/2008 - 15:56 — Eelco

It looks really nice and

It looks really nice and professional in my opinion.

About the title box: could you make it so that if no title is entered, the title line is simply left blank? The repeated lines break my reading pace or something, id love to have that gone.

Sat, 04/19/2008 - 12:39 — Jesse (not verified)

RSS link

The RSS link at the bottom of the left sidebar of the main page is broken (both the text and graphic links).

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 13:09 — Eelco

Found another bug: i get a

Found another bug: i get a 'the post you are replying to does not exist' message when trying to reply to a certain post, even though said post is quite persistant in existing, hours later still.

Wed, 04/23/2008 - 05:51 — greyraven_r

tags?

I've been using the html tags listed as allowed, but they're just coming up as text. Damn slacker tags! lol

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 17:11 — Revoid

great work

forums seam to work fine. i just find them confusing becuse im used to find the oldest post at the bottom not at the top.

also spacing for me does not seam to work

even tho i do press ENTER

the text just sticks togheter

Mon, 05/19/2008 - 15:00 — thebastidge

The book

The book should have a link either to STI home page or to the forums on each page of the book, so people can easily comment as they consdier the ideas presented to them.

Tue, 05/20/2008 - 10:07 — Carl Pålsson

The website looks pretty

  • The website looks pretty good all things considered. Personally I think the text could be a bit bigger and more easily readable though, although I´m aware of that many people like small text. The whole site appears somewhat slow for me as well. I guess that could be an internet peering problem or some such. Also, it´s not very easy to keep track of the activity on a forum with this many subforums. At the moment I find myself using the start page (seasteading.org) as the latest entries are found there and nowhere else AFAIK. All in all, no major complains, but if you want feedback, there it is.
  • lol I love how the forum puts words in my mouth (or whatever you call it) when it uses the first words as subject. That´s not a complaint though, I think it´s more like an entertainment feature.
  • And yes, line breaks are still broken.

 

Mon, 06/02/2008 - 06:16 — thebastidge

Drupal format

I'm with Wayne in experiencing some serious frustrations with the Drupal forum. It doesn't always show new activity if it is a post on an established thread, the way users often reply to an individual post on the thread makes it difficult to find the new activity (even if you click on the "new" link" it takes you to the end not to the new post.) 

  • The broken formatting is still a pain. The line breaks are not working except in plain text editor mode, and when you switch to that it screws up some of the auto-formatting which has alrady taken place. I can do the html to make it work, but it's not usually worth my time, and I bet a lot of people don't know how at all.
  • It would be really nice to have a private message function, like most PHP fora have. You could still hide email addresses, but being able to PM another poster could provide guidance to people who are unused to the format or etiquette without publicly wasting other people's time.
  • The wiki is a good idea, but needs a tutorial page up front.

 

Mon, 06/02/2008 - 20:43 — Joep

Tutorial

Hi thebastidge,

A very short tutorial is here: http://wiki.seasteading.org/index.php/Tutorial

-Joep

Mon, 06/02/2008 - 19:07 — ernie_the_emo_emu

I'm going to have to side

I'm going to have to side with the others above me in not being too giddy about the forum being used for most of the reasons already mentioned.  Though I have to say the community thus far makes it worth it(even those with whom I disagree).

Tue, 06/03/2008 - 23:37 — thebastidge

Once it gets to a second

Once it gets to a second page on a given thread, you cannot find the new posts at all. It flashes the new post, then slides to the first page and eliminates the "new" tag beside whatever post was the latest. Given that each reply may be to a specific post and not to the thread at large, this means you have no way to determine where the new input is, and unless you're intimately aware of the entire previous content, you can't even figure out if there is a new post or if the DB has just not updated your cookies to show you the new post.

  • Drupal sucks

 

Sun, 06/08/2008 - 06:49 — Wayne Gramlich

Drupal Forums

I have to agree with you, I am finding Drupal forums to be extremely hard to work with. If I could just get a single feed with the comments, I could handle them so much easier. I waste huge amounts of tracking things down.

Mon, 06/09/2008 - 09:12 — Eelco

Exactly, that is my biggest

Exactly, that is my biggest complaint as well.

In between the slowness and the disfunctionality of the 'new' tag, it is really hard to keep track of what is going on on the forums if this has fallen off the recent activity list.

Tue, 06/03/2008 - 23:44 — Carl Pålsson

Agreed, there are plenty of

Agreed, there are plenty of bugs in the forum. I like the threaded style though, and it´s a fresh feeling to use something other than all the crappy unimaginative PHP-BB (and clones) nonsense. So if a change is coming (not that I´m personally in dire need of it), please consider something else. BBPress? Or something threaded perhaps, not that I know any of those unfortunately.

Wed, 06/04/2008 - 20:17 — vincecate

Wiki on home page "Key Areas"

 

Could we have "Wiki" listed on the home page in "Key Areas"?   Make it a bit faster to get there.

 

 

Mon, 06/09/2008 - 09:04 — thebastidge

Sweet- Line breaks work

Suddenly, automatic line breaks are working for me. That helps immensely, thanks!

Mon, 06/09/2008 - 16:40 — Heath

I like the forums. Only

I like the forums.

Only complaint is that there's no rhyme or reason as to whether it keeps me logged in or not.  I might pass out for 12 hours and I'm still logged in, or I get randomly logged out after having just logged in.

Not a big deal though.