Meta: If you could change 1 thing about MGoBlog, what would it be?
Please do not make ths site any better! As someone with OCD and ADHD (add possible insomnia), this site is the PERFECT drug. Brian is genious in my mind, not just because I have issues, but because I love his writing style. I love UFR, because it makes me feel like I understand stuff I didn't understand.
if it's not already available a tab with a "cloud" view of tags from posts with emphasis on page views, comments, and chronology.
that'd be swell.
meanwhile, thanks for the fine site brian et al. it's manna from heaven.
There are no fewer than 500 tags and ever growing. I'd wager there are probably some 1000+ tags. It's a super pain trying to sort through all of those. Having a single page would be nice.
Survey module would be easy and potentially interesting. Drupal has this already.Which B10 team looks to be the most improved? UConn - Did Martin make the right move scheduling this team? Should admission standards for Football players be higher than other B10 schools? This might limit the "Look - I have an opinion!" type posts (which I'm guilty of...I admit.) Also it might drive traffic on slow days.
MGoTrivia quesiton of the week (these posts are always too few and far between - and often too easy.) That would drive traffic as well.
You could also add a word cloud - these can be helpful and easy ways to search common and timely subject matter that is being discussed on the boards or in the diaries.
It would be interesting to see who is logged in - maybe a scrolling text to show recent logins.
There was discussion about removing ads if you beveled enough guilt. I would like that.
Users should be able to delete their own threads or posts - in case there is a double post or redundancy. This could be locked out once someone comments on a thread/post.
MGoWave was a good idea - but has issues...I would like some way to organize the info of past diaries and board discussions and tie in past discussions...I'm just not sure how that would work...
...great ideas. Survey builder and tag clouds are the best of them, IME.
Things I would like to see added...
1.) Calendar: Just a tab with a calendar showing things like who is visiting on this day, who is planning on signing, any games going on, events, etc.
2.) I do GIS work, so I think it would be interesting to have a interactive map using google earth platform or anything similiar, but having different layers showing where we are recruiting.
3.) Would be nice if there was a +/- stat showing how many times a person has upvoted/down voted other people.
#3 exists already. It's under voting statistics in the menu on the top left.
Been here for almost a year and I never knew that......my wife if correct I am a genius.
Thank you Sensai FormerlyAnonymous
Is sorting the columns by pos/neg votes, so you can see who has the highest percentage of pos votes, or neg votes. Because there's voting a lot, and then voting one way or another. (For example, not shockingly, MGoJen is super positive).
...numbers 1 and 2. Great ideas -- but someone's probably going to have to volunteer to create and maintain them.
. . I am almost afraid of the recruiting map as I have this vision of facebook stalking hitting the road where The Other Brian now knocks on Anthony Posada's door to prove Magnus wrong in a thread beat down.
We don't need exact locations of a recruits address, but general central points based on City & State. It could also be more then that though.....you could have layers depicting....locations of Big Ten Universities, Bowl Venues, U of M friendly bars in other states, etc.
I agree this one would be a big undertaking not only to deploy, but maintain. Just throwing it out there though....I have the software to generate the data we would need in a .kml (google-earth data file type) a/o .shp (industry standard ESRI data file type). Howeva, I would need to get educated on how to actually embed this into a site.
change the mgoblog picture more often and do some work on the interface. nothing wrong with the presentation IMO, but i feel like its due for an update.
But would it be hard to create another iteration of the Mgoboard for OT discussions? The default main page is usually so long that it way outstrips both the archive and the del.icio.us feed, I assume it wouldn't be hard to throw another Mgoboard down there.
I mean, for the people who come here for OT stuff its little to no inconvenience (I assume creating/replying will remain virtually identical, with a new OT choice in the create combobox). You extend the longevity of Michigan board posts on the front page and also reduce the amount of bitching about the OT topics on the board.
Problems might come from posts wrongly posted in each other's board, but thats what mods are for, right?
Ok at 4:56 am, you are either:
A.) Hammered drunk from a epic night of partying.
B.) You are one of those crazy military types and you just woke up, are eating breakfast, and then gonna go do an obstacle course or run 5 miles or something.
Wierd time to be up dude
/s
C.) a graduate student
D.) a pre-med student
E.) an engineering student
F.) a programmer
Or he just happened to wake up early today? Not every thing means everything.
um.....timezones?
Ahh could be right on that, haha. Just messin around anyway.
A link back to the board at the bottom of the screen so i don't have to scroll all the way back to the top.
...Home and End keys to move up and down a page in one keystroke.
you should know I try to work smarter, not harder. c'mon shipmate.
Maybe there could be a limit to how many times someone can neg in a day? There's far too many clowns here who will go through an entire thread of rational discussion where divergent opinions are being nicely discussed, and neg everything from the person they disagree with. Needless to say, that's not what MGoPoints are supposed to be used for.
Perhaps there could also be a limit as to how many times a post can be negged? I think we get the point at -50, and so often the only reason people keep negging is to pile on, not because they necessarily think it's a stupid post.
I don't think there's need for limits on positive voting, there's nothing wrong with pos-banging at will.
Just my 2 cents.
1. Functionality of the Board post preview could be restored. I was experiencing problems with it before the new interface was introduced, and I was told by another poster that it doesn't work when there's HTML in the post. Even though HTML is encouraged (imbedded links, blockquote, etc.), I could get around this with extra-careful proofing. However, it doesn't work <i>at all</i> anymore. And there's nothing like formulating a long response only to lose it when the preview doesn't work.
2. Functionality of the site search could be improved. Some posters get sensitive when people overlook earlier posts and post "old" news. However, my experience with the site search isn't favorable (although I can't cite a specific example at the moment). At the very least, perhaps one could sort the results by date. I just tried a sample search, and the results were not in date order, and I don't see an advanced option to sort or refine.
3. For those of us who don't read often enough to see new Board posts before they're pushed off the front page, it would be great if the sidebar didn't default back to page 1 when you click on a post on a later page.
Having said all that, I think Brian does a fantastic job. Good topic, OP.
Update that yellowish color to Gold, it would add a bit more class to the walls =)
Seriously though some way to PM other people could dramatically decrease the amount of dumb noisy arguments that no one is actually interested in.
like TomVH and others...
Many MGoBloggers use their own readers but the majority cleary don't. Do this for them and let this drive clicks to MGoBlog.
These other blogs have nowhere near the traffic or content but when the new stuff comes up it is often on point and missed by MGoBloggers for days, MaizeNBrew, MVictors (I almost missed out wrt Tom Harmon's putter - unacceptable), TouchtheBanner...some have medium traffic and content...others have good content but low traffic and infrequent postings.
As the most popular of all the M Blogs this portal function is defaulted to MGoBlog for the moment...it should be encouraged. This is low maintenance as well once setup. Mgo.licio.us can still be editors choice and serves a different function.
i get tired of sending that check in to the brain cook every month, especially in the off season.
You have to keep sending checks so we can keep having our monthly meetings (i.e., parties).
Here's a pic from the last meeting (that's me in the middle):
Eliminate the stupid sidebar on the front page for mgoboard. I swear that stupid thing is the cause of virtually 100% of the duplicate posting problems that happen here.
I could navigate my own posts easier. That sounds vain haha. What I mean is, I wish there were some way to see when someone replies to a post I've made. Maybe there is a way to do this and I just don't know?
I know it says when someone +1's or -1's a post, but even then it doesn't say which post it's talking about. I don't like having to go back 4 days later and see a reply I missed on a topic that is now dead.
I probably won't come back to this post, because I'll forget about it and go on my merry way. Hopefully I remember, and come back and see a "oh! you just go to ___ and it has this exact thing," but I'm counting on no one ever reading this so, meh.