Members sventvkg Posted February 4, 2015 Members Share Posted February 4, 2015 See ya Dendy! Now bring back the original creator of HC:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nucleus Posted February 6, 2015 Members Share Posted February 6, 2015 Dendy was (and is) a great guy. It was a pleasure working with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nucleus Posted February 6, 2015 Members Share Posted February 6, 2015 traffic is up a little, but only 2% of visitors make it to the forums so participation is low and yes, the who's online counter needs fixing Other way around, 98% of visits are to the forums... and we use Google Analytics for our counter. bieke strikes again with inaccurate information and FUD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted February 7, 2015 Members Share Posted February 7, 2015 I'm not going to argue with Google Analytics or whatever, but if forum traffic is up, people aren't posting. This place is slower than it EVER has been and there aren't too many newbies taking part. Most of us got here (I think) by needing information or having a question they needed answer and asking for help. Then, if we like the place, we stick around. I haven't seen much of that in any of the forums. The keyboard forum can go days without a post. The live sound forum is mostly a few old-timers sharing stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author MikeRivers Posted February 7, 2015 CMS Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 This is the only forum I read here. I came here when Craig was still doing interactive Pro Reviews. There was one going on for the Mackie Satellite interface and my friends at Mackie asked me join in and offer some comments. I kind of liked the place so I stuck around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted February 7, 2015 Members Share Posted February 7, 2015 GS uses the same system, only another version, I think GS is still on vB4, which is stable and works and is the most widely used vB platform HC went with vB5, an insider confessed that since its release (now more than 2 years ago) over 6000 bugs have been found and fixed in vB5 and actually, vB itself has sent out an email 10 days ago that a large site (yup, HC) runs successfully on vB5 ... however unlike HC, 98% of vB customers wisely prefer not to switch to vB5. I`m not that smart but why the hell would HC use a version that has over 6000 f8$k!ng bugs in it? I know HC wants to contend with the GS giant but the truth is, this forum sucks. HC was a disaster for so long, it lost a huge percentage of its visitors. Lets be honest here. I don`t know Dendy, I don`t know when he started here on HC, and I for sure don`t know what he walked into but the mistakes from years past have been disatrous. Getting old timers back should be the first objective. New visitors will come if the forum has quality content and actually operates the way it should and we know it still doesn`t… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted February 7, 2015 Members Share Posted February 7, 2015 I'm not going to argue with Google Analytics or whatever, but if forum traffic is up, people aren't posting. This place is slower than it EVER has been and there aren't too many newbies taking part. Most of us got here (I think) by needing information or having a question they needed answer and asking for help. Then, if we like the place, we stick around. I haven't seen much of that in any of the forums. The keyboard forum can go days without a post. The live sound forum is mostly a few old-timers sharing stories. You`re 100% correct. I don`t care what analytics are saying either. Traffic here is dismal. This site is depressing. I don`t remember how I came to HC but I know why I joined. I enjoy the folks but many are gone. Thankfully the ones that are still here, I enjoy immensely and I hope to one day meet some of you. I just wish there was more activity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted February 7, 2015 Members Share Posted February 7, 2015 This is the only forum I read here. I came here when Craig was still doing interactive Pro Reviews. There was one going on for the Mackie Satellite interface and my friends at Mackie asked me join in and offer some comments. I kind of liked the place so I stuck around. I visit the Songwriting forum occasionally but this is where I come to first and hang out for the most part. I think this forum would do better if Craig posted more reviews here. I also think HC should drop the Political Forum, what exactly is accomplished there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest admos Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 Mmmh? What started as a polite farewell to Dendy has turned into a Rant. Too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted February 8, 2015 Members Share Posted February 8, 2015 Mmmh? What started as a polite farewell to Dendy has turned into a Rant. Too bad. Dendy worked at HC during one of its most trying updates…. its part of the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted February 8, 2015 Author Members Share Posted February 8, 2015 Take it from me...this update was light years ahead of both Jive and Lithium. For starters, the site didn't blow up when the flicked the switch...Jive was truly a horrible experience all around. Not only did it destroy the site, it was a scorched earth situation where picking up the pieces for subsequent attempts was exponentially more difficult. It wasn't entirely their fault; a site like HC requires a huge amount of customization if you're going to do more than just run a BBS. Trying to work with off-the-shelf solutions was always going to be doomed, or at least run up against a limit. In a way Jive was in over its head ("well, we didn't really believe you had more traffic than Apple"). Nucleus is capable of doing the customizations needed for a site like this, but it takes time, effort, and support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thankyou Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 I don't remember if it was Jive or Lithium (who comes up with those names?), but somewhere I have a bunch of points that is itching to be set free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 Best wishes to Dendy in life and future endeavors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aliensporebomb Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 Well, sorry to hear about Dendy but honestly he was kind of given a litany of problems to resolve. Hi all - probably one of the oldest old timers here. One of the biggest problems is just trying to get into the system in the first place. I seem to regularly have to ask HC to create a new password for me, this emails me a link which upon clicking gives me an utterly non-rememberable sequence of letters and numbers as a new password. Then you try to change your password to something more manageable it ends up refusing it (which is never clear why - it's certainly long enough and has upper and lower case letters and numbers) so I end up getting locked out shortly after trying to get back in. It's almost like HC doesn't want traffic. I finally just saved the current password in the browser I have on some specific computer but boy, the whole setup could be easier if we could change our passwords in a way that doesn't give us a runaround when trying to make it more manageable on portable devices or the like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nucleus Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 Well, sorry to hear about Dendy but honestly he was kind of given a litany of problems to resolve. Hi all - probably one of the oldest old timers here. One of the biggest problems is just trying to get into the system in the first place. I seem to regularly have to ask HC to create a new password for me, this emails me a link which upon clicking gives me an utterly non-rememberable sequence of letters and numbers as a new password. Then you try to change your password to something more manageable it ends up refusing it (which is never clear why - it's certainly long enough and has upper and lower case letters and numbers) so I end up getting locked out shortly after trying to get back in. It's almost like HC doesn't want traffic. I finally just saved the current password in the browser I have on some specific computer but boy, the whole setup could be easier if we could change our passwords in a way that doesn't give us a runaround when trying to make it more manageable on portable devices or the like. Dendy reported that there was a case reported of this, but we could not replicate. We VERY much want to fix this, but need more information to do so. Please enter a bug report in the newly Created Bug Report forum under the Community Voice category. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 Other way around, 98% of visits are to the forums... and we use Google Analytics for our counter. bieke strikes again with inaccurate information and FUD. well Alexa is always wrong of course but Google Analytics is also not accurate post some stats and traffic numbers then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 Take it from me...this update was light years ahead of both Jive and Lithium. For starters, the site didn't blow up when the flicked the switch...Jive was truly a horrible experience all around. Not only did it destroy the site, it was a scorched earth situation where picking up the pieces for subsequent attempts was exponentially more difficult. It wasn't entirely their fault; a site like HC requires a huge amount of customization if you're going to do more than just run a BBS. Trying to work with off-the-shelf solutions was always going to be doomed, or at least run up against a limit. In a way Jive was in over its head ("well, we didn't really believe you had more traffic than Apple"). Nucleus is capable of doing the customizations needed for a site like this, but it takes time, effort, and support. EDITED Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nucleus Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 well Alexa is always wrong of course but Google Analytics is also not accurate post some stats and traffic numbers then acepella.harmonycentral.com is subdomian and not the forums. In fact, that's odd that 1) it's getting almost 4% of the traffic and 2) that it's not being redirected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 acepella.harmonycentral.com is subdomian and not the forums. In fact, that's odd that 1) it's getting almost 4% of the traffic and 2) that it's not being redirected. Bookmarks and "memorized" links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nucleus Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 Bookmarks and "memorized" links. Yeah, we didn't know the domain even existed, otherwise we would have redirected it. We are looking into it. That would be great to get an instant 4% bump just for redirecting a previous/unknown domain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nucleus Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 well Alexa is always wrong of course but Google Analytics is also not accurate post some stats and traffic numbers then So as I said, our Google Analytics show that the forum gets 95%-98%+ of the traffic to the site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bieke Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 So as I said, our Google Analytics show that the forum gets 95%-98%+ of the traffic to the site. voila,4% extra traffic brought to you by misinformed bieke good for the numbers if everybody now would start posting I admit I used to lurk for 2 years before joining in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nucleus Posted February 9, 2015 Members Share Posted February 9, 2015 voila,4% extra traffic brought to you by misinformed bieke good for the numbers if everybody now would start posting I admit I used to lurk for 2 years before joining in LOL :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members moonlightin Posted February 10, 2015 Members Share Posted February 10, 2015 So as I said, our Google Analytics show that the forum gets 95%-98%+ of the traffic to the site. Getting traffic is one thing. Keeping it is another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vito Corleone Posted February 10, 2015 Members Share Posted February 10, 2015 What constitutes "Traffic"? Is that unique visitors? Or number of views which might just be the same 12 guys posting in the Political forum all day long? And if the forum gets 98% of the site traffic, what does that say for the rest of the site? Is the review section hard to access? Poor SEO? How many new visitors is the site/forum attracting and how long are they sticking around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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