New Section discussion
Published on Saturday, June 23, 2001 By Brad Wardell In WinCustomize Talk
With the end of the month fast approaching, we're coming to where we need to make some decisions.
As some of you know, the original goal of WinCustomize was to feature mainly the apps that had already become fairly popular. But last month with Deskmod going down, we decided to open things up a little more and added sections that we might otherwise not have added.
This month we added 5 sections - Graphics, KewlPad, CoolPlayer, Beatnik, and Colorpad.
Coolplayer and Beatnik seem to be doing pretty well. But Kewlpad, Graphics, and Colorpad are not doing so well.
Rather than kill the sections at the end of the month, we've been thinking of coming up with an alternative. We don't want this site to end up where it has a gazillion sections off on the left where most of them get little or no activity.
An alternative would be to list the top 16 or so sections and the others would show up under a fuller library when they user clicked on Categories.
Registered users could also from their profile pick which sections they can and can't see. So if they want to see all 30+ sections or whatever eventually they could do that. And when someone created an account, we'd make it apparent that they can do this and that those other sections exist in case they didn't know they were here.
By the same token, users who just want to see 5 or 6 sections can just pick 5 or 6 from the list that they want to see.
By doing this, we don't have to get into killing sections that are borderline while we still keep the site from listing sections in which only a handful (literally) of people are interested in.
As some of you know, the original goal of WinCustomize was to feature mainly the apps that had already become fairly popular. But last month with Deskmod going down, we decided to open things up a little more and added sections that we might otherwise not have added.
This month we added 5 sections - Graphics, KewlPad, CoolPlayer, Beatnik, and Colorpad.
Coolplayer and Beatnik seem to be doing pretty well. But Kewlpad, Graphics, and Colorpad are not doing so well.
Rather than kill the sections at the end of the month, we've been thinking of coming up with an alternative. We don't want this site to end up where it has a gazillion sections off on the left where most of them get little or no activity.
An alternative would be to list the top 16 or so sections and the others would show up under a fuller library when they user clicked on Categories.
Registered users could also from their profile pick which sections they can and can't see. So if they want to see all 30+ sections or whatever eventually they could do that. And when someone created an account, we'd make it apparent that they can do this and that those other sections exist in case they didn't know they were here.
By the same token, users who just want to see 5 or 6 sections can just pick 5 or 6 from the list that they want to see.
By doing this, we don't have to get into killing sections that are borderline while we still keep the site from listing sections in which only a handful (literally) of people are interested in.
