Freefall Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 Hi there, When I 1st visited your site it was great, it has superb videos and pictures as well as a great place to ask all my coaster questions, however now I'm losing interest in the site! Your content is great but other peoples content just gets posted on a forum and then after the threads old no one will look at the great pictures / RCT files again. What I propose you do is have a content section on your site, split up into two sections, pictures and RCT files (or other games). The pictures could be grouped together depending what park there from and the files could be grouped depending what game they use. I guess with regards to the pictures you might feel that this would be working against your forums as people would tend to just look at the pictures rather that talk about them and that other sites already have lots of pictures (i.e. RCDB) but I feel as a community of roller coaster lovers our picture galleries could be really something special! With regards to the files (as far as RCT goes) you could have park and roller coaster sections with pictures of everything so you can see what your downloading. I know a few sites offer this but your community on here would make some great coasters and parks and what better way to get the ball rolling that to have a 'who can build the best park / coaster' competition! I know people can already show off there parks in the 'Roller Coaster Video Games' forum but I have to say it sucks a bit and I think allot more people would be interested in it if you change it to a proper upload/download section. Well thanks for reading and although I know it would be a huge amount of work on your part to change anything I think it would make your site rock even harder, and would keep people coming back for more!
disneygurlz2s Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 Perhaps it's the migraine I have today, but after the first paragraph of this post (which, I believe, is purely the author's opinion and does not reflect the way the rest of us feel!) I didn't understand what he/she was talking about! Shari "I like TPR just the way it is" Shoufler
Freefallin Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 ^^I’m embarrassed to have ALMOST the same name as you. Matt - If you dont like the site, dont go.
Meteornotes Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 Well, I don't have a migrain, but reading that post did make me dizzy! Just my opinion, but I think this site is pretty damn cool. Sure, it would be cooler if there was a button to press that would make a guy show up at the front door with free food, but I'm not sure that technology is quite there yet... Dave "mmm...food!" Thomas
CoasterFanatic Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 The site is VERY popular because it fills a ... niche. (Definition) // Wouldn't want Robb to change a thing.
Scaparri Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 Yeah, I must agree with most people here and say that I love the site the way it is. I can't think of anything I would change about it (not that I'm opposed to changes if you guys want to). The forums are great, the videos are awesome, and the galleries and TRs are hilarious, entertaining, and even helpful. Keep up the great work guys!
benzo41190 Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 I like the site the way it is. MAYBE like another forum board but I like the site the way it is. Sounds weird because I repeated my self
SharkTums Posted May 3, 2005 Posted May 3, 2005 I think I understand what the original poster is talking about... All I can say is that Robb and I did a lot of talking about the site on our drives through Missouri this past weekend and there are some great new things on the horizon. The site will remain the same for the most part, except with some new features that I think will satisfy 'FreeFall' and others desires to be able to check out a specific ride/coaster from one of our trip reports. Elissa "10th Anniversary of the Site is next year and we're getting ready!" Alvey
robbalvey Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 ^ Yeah, basically the volume of photos we have now is almost un-manageable. In the sense that if you want to see our photos of "Journey To The Center Of The Earth" you have to weed through a bunch of other photos to get to them. Basically nothing that is currently existing is going to 'change' we are just going to add a few new options to make navigation a bit easier. I have added back the search function on the front page and in the photo gallery yesterday, and that should help. But I really want to make getting to our photos a bit simpler. For example, did anyone notice the change I made to the video downloads page a couple of weeks ago? I separated the videos into "Park" and "Footage" videos. When there were only 10 videos on the site it was easy to scroll through and see which is which, but now that there are 40, there needed to be a way to navigate through the easier. I'm basically going to do something similar with the photos. It's not an easy task, and when you have over 5,000 photos it's going to take some time. But the end goal is to make it so those photos are more accessible. --Robb "Don't worry, it won't change anything you already know and love about the site!" Alvey
Freefall Posted May 4, 2005 Author Posted May 4, 2005 ADMIN EDIT: Edited user bashing. I think the site layouts great all I'm saying is it would be nice to have a couple of little additions like a members picture gallery and game save archive, what’s so bad about that its a good idea if not a bit of a mission for robb! Looking at the 'Roller Coaster Video Games' forum I see there are hundreds of people looking at the threads but only a few people making threads and showing off there work for other to enjoy, I'm sure a lot of people would love members content area to show off there parks and to look at how everyone else is doing. I've noticed the changes that you have made in 'download Videos' and its set out a lot clearer not that I want to start a civil forum war but I have an idea for making it a little better, you could have the videos in the order they were released so its easier to keep track of new videos. I have a lot of coaster videos so when it comes to checking for new videos its hard to tell if I have the video or not, if they were in date order it would be a little easier. Thanx for you replies P.S. robb are you on the 7th guest special adition casset tape?
robbalvey Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 ^ Thanks for the feedback. I'm working on some changes to make things easier. As for the 7th Guest tape, honestly, I don't know! I'm not sure I ever watched it! --Robb
disneygurlz2s Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 In response to FreeFall..... let me just say it this way..... not everyone looks at everything on this site. That's why I was lost on your original post... For MY purposes, which is just entertainment and information, this site is great. I am not a "hardcore coaster fanatic", but I am a huge fan of theme/amusement parks and travel, and I love Robb, Elissa and gang's sense of humor. That's why I am here. Shari "that, and because of Robb's creative ideas for chopsticks" Shoufler
CoasterFanatic Posted May 4, 2005 Posted May 4, 2005 I am not a "hardcore coaster fanatic Hey ... what are you trying to say
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