Unity Blogs - Clarification

Andrew Boon posted 21st of June 2010 in . 12 comments.

We have changed the way Blogs are displayed at Unity. Blogs are no longer displayed at Unity Homepage and even Blogs Homepage (unless you browse by tag). Explanation:

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With this change we are trying to move all discussions to where they belong - Forums. It's an experiment and may be retracted, but we want to observe how it goes for a few days.

Rationale behind this move is simple - too often Blogs are used to engage other members into a discussion via comments, but they are not designed for this. New comments don't "bump up" the post and due to "replies" they may be not chronologically ordered. As a result, many insightful comments are overlooked.

We still need blogs, however, to let people post content that doesn't, per se, require a discussion (opinion, advice, tutorials, critique, etc). We would suggest linking to your Blog posts from forums if you would like to discuss them. By making Blogs more "personal" to every member, we would also be able to loosen some Blogs moderation rules (hopefully).

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This article gives a good description of differences between Blogs and Forums.

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Again, recent update is for the most part experimental, both in terms of Blogs and Staff Picks. We welcome your input as we search for the best ways to a perfect balance and harmony here at Unity.

 
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houstonlively
Perfect balance and harmony? I hate perfect balance and harmony.
silverado350
Well orca totally sucks ..... If you want people to use the forums then you should look at getting a real forum.
DeeEmm
Andrew that article looks like it's been written by someone who has never seen either a blog or a forum. It's a subjective classification based on second hand information, that mostly appears to be incorrect.

IMHO The blogs were working fine - no need to fix what isn't broken.

Additionally...

1 - Moving focus from the blogs to the forums is not going to improve the forums
2 - Removing the blog index is just going to kill the blogs - you have nearly 438000 members, do you honestly expect see more people to trawl though profiles to find something interesting to read?
3 - You mentioned that you want to retain info in the forums that's otherwise lost in the blogs - LOL - most forum articles only have a life of 10 posts (the number of posts on the spy). And all are dead after 50 as that's the limit of your search results.
4 - Why are you messing around with unity when you have bugs to fix?

PRIORITIZE....

/DM
Andrew Boon
Thank you for feedback.

We will keep changing, messing around with things and experimenting, no matter what some thing we "should" do, though.
DeeEmm
You're welcome :)

/DM
buckmcgoo
Why don't you guys just go ahead and make this site a static html page that has generic info about Dolphin. That's what you're shooting for correct? I'm not paying $5 or whatever it is to post in the forums..
freakpower
hmmm I also think u should leave blogs way theaywere - frontpage - as I always checked blogs on frontpage for some interesting boonex news and Im (I think we all) ale too lazy to browse several forum threads every time I visit boonex.... my 5 cents
Nathan Paton
May I suggest you consider adding a new display toggle for member blog posts next to BoonEx posts?
tomakali
better install a dolphin in members.boonex.com where we can take care of ourself without disturbing unity.
also i suggest to rename unity to "unity killer"
theres no point in unity without all sorts of active members.
CALTRADE
The blogs page is just silly now - I just clicked the link and about 20 pictures of Andrew popped up. I have never understood why you don't use the same tools you have in D7 - top blogs, featured blogs, etc. Doesn't matter to me I guess, I only have about a 50 percent track record in not getting my blog posts deleted.
Nathan Paton
The blogs are no more. I present to you: BoonEx news.
I don't really understand the draw of using tags. I get that they help organize but without any sort of search capability, it makes the blogs completely useless. The same applies to the market. I have spent hundreds of dollars on freelancers to do stuff that has already been done because I couldn't find existing mods in the market. If the idea is to kill the blogs, this will certainly accomplish that.
 
 
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