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General => The Lobby => Topic started by: Daddy on July 16, 2011, 05:50:29 PM

Title: Homepage
Post by: Daddy on July 16, 2011, 05:50:29 PM
What would you as a boyager want on a homepage/?
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Tri4se on July 16, 2011, 05:52:38 PM
A page full of doodthings. Just doodthings.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Thyme on July 16, 2011, 05:55:40 PM
the status blog goowan
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: applesauce on July 16, 2011, 05:57:47 PM
(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b206/Gamosan/ohhhhhyeah.gif)
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: don't let's on July 16, 2011, 05:59:03 PM
Links to the forum, status page, twitter, etc. A nice logo. Maybe integrated stream functions. Or links to them anyway. Or maybe even the various stream schedules.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Hiro on July 16, 2011, 06:01:38 PM
Honestly I would have boyah.net just be the forums, and get rid of the /forums part.

But if nobody else wants that, then maybe like a blog that certain people can post on, maybe they have to meet a certain requirement or we can have a weekly poll to decide who becomes the "guest author" for the week or something.
Or maybe we can make a single livestream account that anyone who wants can access to stream from, and we can just embed the stream and chat on the site.

And what live said, links to the forums, status page, twitter, etc.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Daddy on July 16, 2011, 06:02:15 PM
Quote from: Hiro on July 16, 2011, 06:01:38 PM
Honestly I found have boyah.net just be the forums, and get rid of the /forums part.
But if nobody else wants that, then maybe like a blog that certain people can post on, maybe they have to meet a certain requirement or we can have a weekly poll to decide who becomes the "guest author" for the week or something.
Or maybe we can make a single livestream account that anyone who wants can access to stream from, and we can just embed the stream and chat on the site.
it'd break so many links lol
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Nyerp on July 16, 2011, 06:38:34 PM
nothing because i never even see the damn thing
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Hiro on July 16, 2011, 07:03:07 PM
Quote from: Khadafi on July 16, 2011, 06:02:15 PM
it'd break so many links lol
True I suppose. There's not a way around that, like a redirect or something?
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Andria on July 16, 2011, 07:09:04 PM
tofu recipes is what would be on my boyah homepage

that and pictures of hetalia characters
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: snoorkel on July 16, 2011, 07:46:32 PM
Quote from: Thyme on July 16, 2011, 05:55:40 PM
the status blog goowan


this is a decent idea

Quote from: Hiro on July 16, 2011, 06:01:38 PM
Honestly I would have boyah.net just be the forums, and get rid of the /forums part.

But if nobody else wants that, then maybe like a blog that certain people can post on, maybe they have to meet a certain requirement or we can have a weekly poll to decide who becomes the "guest author" for the week or something.
Or maybe we can make a single livestream account that anyone who wants can access to stream from, and we can just embed the stream and chat on the site.

And what live said, links to the forums, status page, twitter, etc.


also a good idea, I've wanted to do this. I like the blog idea, if people would actually do it (I think at least 2 people would), I imagine some kind of awesome multi-media portal thing with a blog column, livestream, widgets for latest forum topics/posts and twitter...

I think we underestimate the ability of a decent homepage to get us many new members (if you guys even want them lol) -- boyah is so big and old that a little bit of content outside the forums will make us skyrocket in search rankings and get hundreds or thousands of people each week randomly finding the site.

Quote from: Hiro on July 16, 2011, 07:03:07 PM
True I suppose. There's not a way around that, like a redirect or something?


it wouldn't be impossible, some simple .htaccess trickery would work.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: snoorkel on July 16, 2011, 07:51:47 PM
Also I'm STILL developing a 'free web services' site with a file mirror, proxy, free FTP accounts/basic hosting, seedbox access, and some other stuff. It could be a members-only section of the homepage, or at least part of it.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Daddy on July 16, 2011, 07:57:11 PM
Quote from: vziard on July 16, 2011, 07:46:32 PM
this is a decent idea

no that idea sucks because the status blog is on its own subdomain domain solely for the fact that if boyah.net's server is down then status.boyah.net is still up since it's on a different server (tumblr's server)

Hosting the status blog on this server would do us no good when the server crashes and people try to check the status blog to see if and why the server is down. akudood;

Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: don't let's on July 16, 2011, 08:06:40 PM
I would like to take this time to point out that checking the status blog to see why Boyah is down never works. Or almost never.

And couldn't boyah.net just redirect to satus.boyah.net or just the tumblr url, if you were going to go that route?
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Daddy on July 16, 2011, 08:11:28 PM
If it's one of those hour or two long things it does'nt get posted on the blog.

If it's been down for a while and I'm aware of it then I post.  But if it's some random outage in the afternoon that happens like twice a week then it's no biggie.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: don't let's on July 16, 2011, 08:13:35 PM
But I'm pretty sure once or twice when it was down for days there was no status update. And not even after it came back up.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Hiro on July 16, 2011, 08:36:27 PM
Quote from: vziard on July 16, 2011, 07:46:32 PM
also a good idea, I've wanted to do this. I like the blog idea, if people would actually do it (I think at least 2 people would), I imagine some kind of awesome multi-media portal thing with a blog column, livestream, widgets for latest forum topics/posts and twitter...

I think we underestimate the ability of a decent homepage to get us many new members (if you guys even want them lol) -- boyah is so big and old that a little bit of content outside the forums will make us skyrocket in search rankings and get hundreds or thousands of people each week randomly finding the site.

it wouldn't be impossible, some simple .htaccess trickery would work.
I think the media hub is the best idea. A good homepage really would help a ton.

Quote from: vziard on July 16, 2011, 07:51:47 PM
Also I'm STILL developing a 'free web services' site with a file mirror, proxy, free FTP accounts/basic hosting, seedbox access, and some other stuff. It could be a members-only section of the homepage, or at least part of it.
wrench;

I think we should have a post requirement before you can access those features, if possible.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: snoorkel on July 16, 2011, 09:08:14 PM
Quote from: Khadafi on July 16, 2011, 07:57:11 PM
no that idea sucks because the status blog is on its own subdomain domain solely for the fact that if boyah.net's server is down then status.boyah.net is still up since it's on a different server (tumblr's server)

Hosting the status blog on this server would do us no good when the server crashes and people try to check the status blog to see if and why the server is down. akudood;




yes obviously but I assumed we would direct boyah.net and boyah.net/forums (forums.boyah.net) to different servers. it's easy.


Quote from: Hiro on July 16, 2011, 08:36:27 PM
I think the media hub is the best idea. A good homepage really would help a ton.
wrench;

I think we should have a post requirement before you can access those features, if possible.


surely.
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: Mando Pandango on July 16, 2011, 09:25:35 PM
I think we should just run with the dog thing we got going right now.

[spoiler][youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpyK6Ojnl-0[/youtube][/spoiler]
Title: Re: Homepage
Post by: silvertone on July 16, 2011, 10:12:19 PM
Blog posts....about dogs???