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mario 253532 years ago
Glorum Negative Feedback

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Exclusively negative feedback about glorum is appreciated.

mario 252787 years ago:
It's not very active, as a minimum.

mario 252000 years ago:
The lack of any focus (on a branch of topics) forces very generic topics first (ie. music) and slowly will self-declare its unique possible focus: glorum itself.

At this stage, glorum testing as a model should be complemented with a second instance of the software on another domain (ie. with a declared focus on programming or gossip).

Glorum_Golem 233957 years ago:
I have a solution. Go hybrid.

Use open tagging as-is PLUS offer broad categorization. Here's one way: offer the poster a pull-down menu of preset broad categorizations. He can choose one (or choose not to) in addition to whatever tags he selects. The broad categorization acts as a "super tag", weighting higher in searches, adding highest-priority structure, etc.

This solves your problem and staves off chaos in very busy forums.

Obviously, the broad categorizations will be configurable by each admin.

Glorum_Golem 233957 years ago:
negative feedback: the "#" and "@" signs are way too geeky. This software has great potential beyond a tech crowd, so it's poor marketing (IMO) to configure it this way on your demo site. Will turn off general interest webmasters.

troels 230533 years ago:
The overall design adds a bit to its geekyness. A few fonts with serifs would probably lighten up.

mario 229597 years ago:
The 'super tag' idea sounds interesting as an option (possibly allowing glorum to be setup with plain old categories when needed). I will return to it.

The # and @ signs were just killed. Thanks for the hint.

mario 229593 years ago:
I definitely would like to minimize its perceived geekyness as much as possible, possibly removing it.

I have tried some alternative fonts, but it doesn't seem to change a lot.

Glorum_Golem 228957 years ago:
one fast way to de-geek is to remove necessity for underscoring in lieu of spaces in nametags. Let people use spaces.

mario 228804 years ago:
I am not sure what you refer to with nametags. Usernames as Glorum_Golem or the actual tags?

Glorum_Golem 228764 years ago:
the visible handles.