Thoughts on improving the website
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In light of the recent push to make Geeksandgamers.com the place to be, I wanted to make a thread on how the website could be improved to help get people engaging more. I know some of this stuff may already be happening internally and under consideration, but I wanted to blather about it and maybe other people have ideas/ thoughts on the matter! Exciting times in these parts for sure.
Consolidation:
My main problem with this site currently is it’s a little bloated, it’s hard to find where the action is. Instead of having to go to the forum dropdown and select recent topics, it would be great if there was just “FORUMS” and it was one buttons, and from there it shows you just Four Forums: General, Games, Sports, Reviews. Having lots of forums and lots of links just makes things muddy and makes the site seem hard to navigate and not feel very alive. Also the forum button could be moved to the left to make it more prominent. Seems like the meat and potatoes of this website and why people come here are for the front page news and for the forums, those should be easy to get to and they should feel alive! No one wants to feel like they’re in a ghost town, see forums with posts that are 6 months old, it makes you think the website is old news.
As opposed to an “entertainment” tab why not make reviews for products all in one place and put it in the forum so there’s more engagement. This feels like it would be more in line with the communal aspect of this organization. Reviewers could still make quality content but it would all be more easily found and feel more alive if it was in a forum where people are more likely to engage with the content and have their say.
The sports tab could be tucked away somewhere as that doesn’t seem to have much energy these days, this site is great about talking modern day cultural drama, that’s the real strength here. Social button could be done away with, the front page does a better job of showing what’s trending. Contribute could be put under “support us”.
So if the forums were greatly consolidated, easier to find, and a lot of the “fluff” that kinda fell off was done away with this site would be a lot slicker and more fun to use.
Also the site is slow as balls but that goes without saying and hopefully that gets fixed :P
Just some ideas, if anything on this site has annoyed you or think could be better feel free to share your thoughts.
Minor Nitpick: The “keep log of this edit” feature is kinda annoying, i’ll keep that checked just to show that it kinda just bloats this whole posting experience and then you feel like a moron for having this log of all the edits you’ve made shown to the world. Also not sure the tags are necessary when making any post. Again, just a lot of bloat. Lots of hard work went into this site and that’s commendable, but it’s just gotta be a bit more streamlined and fun to get into.
P.S. I know fixing this stuff isn’t as easy as waving a wand and everyone’s a critic, and the current setups at one point made a lot more sense, but just putting my 2 cents out there!
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