Reply To: Hey you guys! Feedback on Bow 2.0 in general

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The Good:

I have to say the projects system is great, the editor for posting content is pretty fantastic. I can’t overstate how much of a huge improvement this is. Someway to link posts in forums in an embedded way would be very nice. If I was going to make a tweak, it would be to integrate comments directly into the blog feed page. It’s that one extra click deep to go to an article you can already read in order to be able to comment. I think this might discourage comments a little.

I am really loving the games section as well, though I am seeing some odd things in there, but I am sure it will get tidied up in curation as we go.

I love the banner image stuff as well, very nice.

 

Some feedback on what I’d suggest changing:

The forums, I miss seeing the top recent thread activity across all the forum hubs on one page. It’s a bit fiddlier to check out all the recent posts now, opening a tab for each thread.

I am not clear on how the notification stuff works now, I’ve ticked lots of bells, follows and subscription buttons, but still only getting a few notifications through. Might be just not as much content is flowing right now, but on the old site, it was not uncommon for my inbox to be filled at the end of every day with forum notifications. A little treasure trove to browse through at the end of each day! I’ll keep at it though, might be that just comes with more usage.

I’m not a fan of how content tracking backwards through time is now shown on the homepage, but the big categorised grid is the thing twitch does as well, and it’s the same reason I stopped subscribing to Shield of Tomorrow on twitch, because despite being a story driven show it was almost impossible to watch it in chronological order. I might just be an old fogey who doesn’t get how the kids like to browse content these days. A nice linear list from newest to oldest somewhere would be great, but I can understand I might be in the minority on this one.

Also I miss forum signatures, but that is a very minor point.

Conclusion:

Hope that doesn’t come across too negative, because overall I think it is a big improvement, and I look forward to seeing how it grows in the coming weeks and months.