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Thoughts on the homepage?

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Mr.Bishop
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We've made a lot of changes over the last few months, and personally I feel that we're really settling into what the vision was from the start.

I'm curious to see if you guys have been enjoying it more now that its had time to settle, and we've got it much more dialed in.

Feb 12 2013 10:31AM
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Mag
Posts: 8155 - Karma: 14,809
It's cool, but the old homepage still shits on it, well being able to see news articles from admins, can't remember who it was who always wrote them, but they were always awesome, nowadays there's nothing like that, and no amount of awesome pics/videos will compare.
Feb 12 2013 2:29PM
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freestyler540
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I dig it, I still find it cluttered a little bit.
Feb 12 2013 5:16PM
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I love it personally, that may be though cause I consistently see my friends content on it.
Feb 12 2013 5:17PM
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Ben.
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I feel like the spacing is weird. I like it overall, but theres a lot of empty space, weird space, etc.

Maybe its just my browser.

Why so much space between the top menus and the orange personal one. And then again between that and the one below. Makes the tabs on the orange look odd as well, since they dont touch anything, just empty space.

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Feb 12 2013 5:35PM
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Mag
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Works for me, maybe it's your screen size/resolution?

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Feb 12 2013 5:40PM
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Ben.
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Thats the homepage that i posted.


My forum pages look like yours.
Feb 12 2013 5:42PM
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Troy.
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I like it a lot. Feels a bit like tumblr in that its an aggregate right there, but I really think its a good one-stop-shop.
Feb 12 2013 7:15PM
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Mag
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Weird, what resolution and screen size do you guys have? It's the same for both home and forums for me.
Feb 12 2013 8:00PM
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bakedpow
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i like it mostly cuz it promotes the media on our site muccch more than the old one.
Feb 12 2013 10:09PM
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skitheWest.
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schmuck?
Feb 12 2013 10:41PM
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stupendous-man
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This is the one big drawback to me of the new homepage. I feel like im just missing out on news.
Feb 12 2013 11:42PM
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yeah, if there was still just maybe a locked news tile. that part of the site doesn't seem to get enough traffic to consistently bump them to the top.
Feb 12 2013 11:45PM
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Sklar
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the more i use it the more i like it
Feb 12 2013 11:54PM
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TotallyTrevor
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really the only thing I ever used the home page for was news articles, and video of the day...otherwise I'm going straight to the forums or video section.  So other than not having video of the day on the homepage it's pretty good.  I just set it to show the latest news and that's it, so it's essentially the same as the old homepage.
Feb 13 2013 12:39AM
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Mr.Bishop
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Hmmmm.... that is odd. YOu have the mobile site. If you drag your browser to be smaller, it automatically re-sizes. So if your resolution is below the normal width, it might be doing that to you.

What browser / OS / Resolution are you rocking?

Feb 13 2013 10:08AM
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Mr.Bishop
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Yeah well the problem with the old one was that we forced articles to the top - even if they weren't good.

People had really stopped reading the news for the most part, views have been stagnant or falling for years now.

This way, if there is worthy news, its still right at the top. Just when there isn't, it isn't forced.

We need to work on improving the news setup, that is for sure. We need better journalism or more people sharing articles they like.

Feb 13 2013 10:10AM
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Mag
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What's the problem with having the shmuck news as well? Or shmuck chosen news
Feb 13 2013 10:28AM
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c_roll
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I am a fan, it makes it easier to filter through the crap and the homepage always has something good to watch or look at if im in a bind for time
Feb 13 2013 12:10PM
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Ben.
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Late 2012 MBP, up to date Mountain Lion, Chrome.

Display is 1680x1050
Feb 13 2013 12:30PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Schmuck news gets posted with everyone else, and he can share news just like everyone else.

If people like it, it gets voted to the top! Its already happened a bunch of times. What you don't see now is boring news.

You can follow latest news for everything. As a matter of fact, it would be awesome if you regularly checked latest news and upvoted anything that you liked.

Feb 13 2013 5:08PM
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Sklar
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i really like this view, i think it should go to this when you go to latest from the pictures tab
https://www.newschoolers.com/home/?view=picture&sort=latest
Feb 13 2013 5:13PM
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Mag
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I don't often check any of the media except what's on the homepage, I'll usually scroll down quite a bit but I don't go out looking for stuff, which is annoying because I miss news, but I always remember shmucks news being consistently awesome, especially for all the comps.
Feb 13 2013 5:16PM
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corona
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there should be less emphasis on newly created threads in the "new" section on the home page.  I'd be inclined to take them out all together. keep them in the 'hot' and 'top rated' and stuff, but it really just clutters up the 'recent' section.  and nobody goes to the home page to see new threads, they just go look at the first page of ski gabber.
Feb 13 2013 5:21PM
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Sklar
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if you don't want to see threads you don't have to,
set it up like this
https://www.newschoolers.com/home/?view=picture,video,news&sort=latest
Feb 13 2013 5:43PM
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blindside
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I have my homepage set to only new news, this is currently at the top: https://www.newschoolers.com/readnews/42723.0/good-line-park-ski

Also, the media I upload now gets a couple dozen views if that.. My older uploads are in the thousands. Maybe my shit just sucks lately, but the discrepancy just strikes me as noteworthy..
Feb 14 2013 10:19AM
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SkiBum.
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A clusterfuck of information all thrown together.

If that is what you were going for, then you nailed it.
Feb 14 2013 10:51AM
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Powdered_Donuts
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i really enjoy the new layout, it gives me stuff to browse in my downtime
i also think the up/down voting system is cool too and a good way to bump good content and filter out the rest.
I found my way to site discussion today to make a suggestion about the up/down voting. If you vote a piece of content up or down and then change your mind, there is no way to retract your vote. For instance: A video is rated at +20 currently. I come in, start watching and see something cool and upvote it, putting it to +21. Then by the end i change my mind and dont want to upvote. With the system working how it does you cannot simply retract your vote and put the video back to +20, you have to leave it be or down vote it moving it down to +19.

Just a thought.

thanks
Feb 14 2013 1:02PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Yeah you'd want to downvote that. Ideally you should set it to 'hot' news if you want to get the latest decent stuff. Not much is there, but what is is the best quality. When you've read that, take a quick peek through latest and rate up/down all the good/bad stuff.

Feb 14 2013 1:04PM
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blindside
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That's kind of an annoying process just to get my news.. I don't only want the 'hot' stuff, I don't trust the NS hive mind yet. I'll just ignore the useless stuff for now. That stupid 'which skis' post is still at the top in latest btw..
Feb 15 2013 10:44AM
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Mr.Bishop
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At least downvote stuff you don't like. Ignoring it doesn't help anyone.

Also, if you're super passionate about news you should check all the other rad ski sites that put a ton of money into their news programs. Freeskier, Powder, SBC, Ski The East... all of them do a great job. If you see something really good quickly share it on here so others can see it.

The key about participating is we need very few people to start participating and then it will take off. We just need to reach a bit more critical mass with news and its going to be the greatest thing ever.
Feb 15 2013 9:51PM
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Mr.Bishop
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There's plenty of news there now.

https://www.newschoolers.com/home/?view=news&sort=latest

Check it more often. It'll work. Trust me.
Feb 15 2013 10:02PM
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heFF
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Now that I've played with the settings a bit as far as show what's "hot" and how you can only show videos, or pictures, etc...I like it! You guys were killing it when i started here in 05' and continue to do so to this day!
Feb 16 2013 12:50PM
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