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Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« on: April 22, 2008, 03:49:24 AM »
Hello Everyone-

      We are looking to update the site with new features, and a better forum to keep Ballreviews as the best ball review site out there.  We are looking to add reviews for shoes, bags, and accessories.   Also we are going to implement video and picture uploads.  We are looking to you guys for any suggestions you have for the following categories - Layout, Content, Navigation of the site, and Forum Tools.  Please feel free to post any suggestions you have for these categories, but try to keep it short and sweet.  

Example post:  Forum Tool - I would like to have a better way of searching the forum.

      We thank you for your suggestions, and help in making Ballreviews the best it can be.

 

Djarum

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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2008, 11:51:28 AM »
PBA/USBC News - Something automatic in a dedicated read only type forum.

Some sites have users post them, but then the topic gets hijacked. Just a forum where a moderator can update a forum for USBC news or PBA news.
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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2008, 11:54:47 AM »
Have reliable posters be able to close threads or delete posts.
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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2008, 11:57:09 AM »
Video section featuring the new equipment posted by brand, have senior staffers from each company be moderators for there own forum.

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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2008, 12:06:11 PM »
Tip o' Week with regional or tour guys.  And get Randy Peterson on here, he'd be amazing.
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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2008, 12:54:20 PM »
How about HTML embeded link ?

Maybe small avatars ?
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« Reply #6 on: April 22, 2008, 01:36:44 PM »
Yes eliminate the stupid annoying sayings that people automatically put on each time they write something

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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #7 on: April 22, 2008, 03:15:54 PM »
If you're going to allow videos, then some kind of voting system would be good, with each user limited to one vote.
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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2008, 03:19:37 PM »
I wouldn't mind seeing the ability for different color schemes, or just a change of the color scheme anyway, new layouts would be cool too. Just switch it up a bit, the site seems a little boring right now.
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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2008, 03:37:46 PM »
Not to knock a site I don't really participate in, but these forums are significantly more work for me to read quickly than the ones here.  The layout is simple and more than effective.  No obnoxious avatars to take up space, create visual noise, or slow down page loading.  No gigantic "user info" box before each and every post, limiting the amount of space the actual content takes up.  There's a tremendous amount of empty space on that page, it's just wasteful.  The additional information that's listed for those users would more than fit under their usernames using the existing layout.

I like the simplicity of this site.  There's one ad at the top and one at the bottom and links to sponsors on the left.

The color scheme is simple and easy to read.  Fonts are well-behaved and appropriately sized.  No pale fonts on a dark background, no teeny text.

I come here for the content, not the visuals.  As cool as avatars may be to 18-year-olds on Myspace, they add zero useful content to the site.

That said, I'd like to see a more uniform and standardized format for the For Sale listings.  It's a pain to search for "L/LM" and "Legends/Lanemasters" and "lane masters" and "lane mast".  Or for "Brunswick", "Big B", "Bruns",... .  Unfortunately, I can't think of any really good ways to get around that problem that also scales well to the number of manufacturers and the plethora of balls that each puts out.

One feature that I'd like is whatever bit does the formatting for long URLs to automatically generate properly formed URL tags with some short text instead of a 200-character long URL string.  Totally screws with the word wrapping.  Maybe it's my Mac, but I don't think so.  Basically, if someone puts in a really long URL, say, longer than 50 characters, a {url="..."}text{/url} tag is automatically generated and put in its place.

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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2008, 03:39:26 PM »
I, honestly, think that adding reviews for shoes is a bit too much. I do like some of the ideas so far though, like making the profile icon different if the person actually has a profile (thought trolls will still just put like 1 letter to make people mad), and video links. Keep up the good ideas guys, and thanks BR for listening to the people.

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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2008, 04:30:33 PM »
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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2008, 04:56:51 PM »
I like the simplicity of the site but it would be cool to be able to pick your own color scheme.  
I think it would also be fun if users could post a picture that appeared with their posts.  
I like the idea of having having other reviews than balls because it would be helpful to know how shoes fit others or how a bag holds up.  
I think a way to search the forums would be good too.  
I think the idea I read about each manufacture having a section that they controlled would be good.  They could post videos and stuff.
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« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2008, 04:59:58 PM »
i think that they need to add banger products to the "for sale" section.
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Re: Ballreviews Needs Your Suggestions For Updating The Site
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2008, 05:18:18 PM »
The ability to return to the "current" page of a topic after posting, instead of the 1st page of the thread would be nice.


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