Petition to the Admins of JU/WC

Published on April 23, 2008 By Texas Wahine In Blogging

Petition:

As we all know, JU is the red-headed step-child (sorry ParaTed!) of Stardock. It is a money-hungry bastard child that exists on the goodwill of the site owner.

As we also all know, if a JU article is accidentally cross-posted to WC, the hapless JUer is accosted by angry/annoyed WCers. JUers generally take great pains to avoid accidentally posting an article to WC because the backlash is so notorious.

However, with the new and improved (and yes, it is both new AND improved) JU format, myriads of WC, un-blogging-related posts make their way to the JoeUser forums daily. Because of this a solid 50% or more articles listed on the forums are technology/WC-related, rather than blogging related.

It is not difficult to dig deeper to find blogging articles, but it is bothersome and annoying. I propose a petition to have JU/Stardock tech-type-people consider further separating the two so that the bulk of "recent posts" is not comprised of 50% or more skinning/tech posts.

If you feel this is an important issue, and would like to see JoeUser remain a site dedicated to blogging, please leave a comment/signature.

Thanks.

Comments (Page 2)

andrew_

on Apr 25, 2008

little-whip, if you wish leave the site, please send an email to the 'Contact' address located at the bottom of joeuser.com. You can discuss the matter with the staff.

Zoomba

on Apr 25, 2008

I'm honestly confused here. The forum posts have always been cross posted. Not a single thing changed in this regard between the last JU and this one.

The ONLY thing that changed regarding this is the Recent Articles list on the JU front page and on subsequent blog pages (but not on the forums). This list currently mixes forum posts with blog posts. We've said this will change and that the Recent Articles list is going to be returned to the way it was. I just can't give a date on that since we're a bit swamped with other work at the moment.

Is this what people are having the big issue with? That specific list? Because if it's the entirety of the cross-posting issue, then I'm confused what brought it up. Since, like I said, it hasn't changed in behavior in the entire 5 years the site existed.

When I say certain things are not up for debate/can not be changed based on petitions, complaints etc, it's usually on issues that are fundamental to why the site exists and how we designed it to work. Cross-posting forum content is a core component to virtually all of our sites. When we launch or run a site, it is one piece of a larger picture that spans our entire network. If you only use JoeUser, or only use WinCustomize, you can't see that picture. You're seeing the trees, but are blind to the forrest.

I know, the response is likely to be "We don't care about the other sites, this is the one we use" but it doesn't exist in isolation, no matter how loudly you want to say it does.

Fact is, we do listen to a lot of feedback, we do take user issues into account. But not every single aspect of the site is open for argument and debate. We have a list of fixes, changes and additions for later phases of the site project (yes, it's an ongoing thing) based in part on what we've heard back from users. The changes aren't immediate, but that's because we have a lot of work to do beyond JoeUser, but they're coming.

Toblerone

on Apr 26, 2008

Zoologist03

comment 9

TobleroneHah! You've been gone for quite awhile. Nice to see ya!~Zoo

Nice to "see" you too mate, I hope you are well. I really must make an effort to start posting surreal stuff again or perhaps even get involved in those political debates I used to enjoy so much!

MasonM

on Apr 26, 2008

LW has been complaining about her log in issues for a long time now. Surely someone can help her fix this?

cactoblasta

on Apr 27, 2008

Ock has a new article up this morning that I'd love to comment on, Sodaiho had several in the past few days. But I cannot do so unless/until those show up on the forums. Sodaiho often gets no comments at all on his posts, so they never show up on those other lists.

But blogs with no posts do appear on the forums. That's been fixed for ages now.

Have you tried using a different browser? I can only post articles using Safari, and only comment using Firefox. It's a bit annoying but it works.

MasonM

on Apr 27, 2008

I use Firefox with no issues at all.

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