Ideas for site updates
Hi thanks Jan for doing a great job on the site. Most things are great but if you don't mind can I point out some thoughts for you. Just a few ideas.
I tend to find it hard to get back to my Loughborough area forum if I am posting in Norwich for instance and want to return. I assume we are meant to speak to any forum in the UK or our own in our location- Loughborough for me. There are many great ideas for site ease and quick navigation. Some people might find the intuitiveness a bit complicated even though it is meant to make is easier. For example if I go to the Norwich forum it then sets in the Menu to Norwich. I'd prefer that to remain in Loughborough for me. Also when I was here I had to hit the Site menu to the right to select home, this takes me to the National forum and I have to go half way down the displayed page to find a button saying Loughborough forum. Many Streetlifers like a simple natured "what they see as easy to use" website. Mostly the intuitiveness is really handy with near buttons nicely placed to find things but I wonder if people will be almost suprised by this helping hand and it may somehow make it more complicated in there mind. To me I am happy how it is other than the Loughborough issue and getting back home to my local forum quickly. To others they may want it like Streetlife is a bit more hence doing a few screenshots of Streetlife before it closes so you have that record. Also some ex-streetlifers may not like being able to see it is a universal site to all of the UK. I mention that since people like there own little patch and it may again overwhelm some. This may or may not be a generational issue. For me personally, I am fine with most things other than the slight navigational issue I mentioned above. So the other points are what I picked up on Streetlife and Nextdoor when I read all the conversations. Not my views as I say but I am trying to think of others. Also the indexing picks things up so well and is so well done that vertually anything I do remains in the "my posts section". All you need to do with this is look at Nextdoor since there settings are very adaptable. I think Streetlifers tended to like "from there comments" just a daily digest and then a limited amount of "there posts" feeds. As I say look at Nextdoors settings it reveals alot of things to consider or is at least very enlightening. There securty is terrible but that's another storey.
David.