- sir_brilliant
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- Exalted Mythic Member
I've been working alot on OFG and found a serious problem: the chapter homepage.
Obviously, the themes are limited, so i won't bother there, nor is this a technical issue.
Rather, the chapter homepage is the dullest part of the Homepage, and i think therein lies the problem.
When i go to OFG or any other chapter, the first thing i want to see is something that resembles the homepage of any respectible website, not some crap that i see normally. There's little that can be done to spice up the homepage, if anything...manipulating the few places where we can post a comment or so. Hell, most chapters have it so that if there's any news to see, you have to actually scroll down the page to see it, and i think that is a huge issue.
The chapter shouldn't be all about appearence, but having a good one definately helps. Right now, i know for a fact that most people justskip the homepage and go straight to the forums in any chapter. If there's a news article, it usually goes unnoticed for several days-months. If someone updated something on the front page, it would require a user to look very hard at the homepage to realize what was different.
I guess what i'm asking for is a little more flexibility, at least with respect the the homepage (which i've said a gagillion times already, and will now refer to it as HP). I would like it to be more like the bungie HP, where you can click on forums somewhere on the right of the page, you can see the name and any news at the very top, and resources and members could be on the left.
The main idea, i guess is for members to be able to keep up with the chapter like they do with bnet...through the ample supply of news. I know some chapters don't really care about it, and for good reason (its so damn hard to get anything noticed), although I use it extensively for weekly updates and changes to the chapter.
Any thoughts? Maybe possible changes occuring?