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Post by BartBoch » Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 9:30 AM UTC

csallen wrote: post #51

niko001 wrote: post #31

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Agreed. I can fully understand Courtland's motivation to grow a community (to keep people coming back more frequently / to create engagement) and the best way to do this is putting the forum front and center, but at the moment, the community is much too immature to be valuable. Lots of people asking for feedback (often with zero replies), self-promotional articles disguised as advice from first-time side-project crea…

Got a few questions for you: 1. Why not bookmark the interviews page instead of the homepage? 2. Would it be helpful to you if the interviews/podcasts were more prominently linked from the homepage, or is it only sufficient if they are the primary focus of the homepage? 3. If you don't mind sharing, what do you do? Specifically, I'm curious about whether or not you're a founder, what stage you're at, and what you hop…

1. Why force people to bookmark it, instead of adding a navbar link?

Re: undefined

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Post by BartBoch » Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 9:34 AM UTC

louisswiss wrote: post #45

niko001 wrote: post #43

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> Also, please stop spreading untruths. It takes one click to get from the homepage to a list of all interviews ranked in descending chronological order. With some pretty awesome filters as well. Not true. On mobile, it takes exactly three clicks, as I stated. On desktop, it takes two clicks. What you're probably referring to, the "browse hundreds" link on the homepage (desktop only), is a list of products , which ar…

> Not true. On mobile, it takes exactly three clicks, as I stated. On desktop, it takes two clicks. Ok, just in case you're genuinely mistaken and not trolling, I'll bite. It takes one click on both mobile (iOS at least) and desktop to get to the newest interviews ( https://www.indiehackers.com/interviews/page/1 ). The link is in the footer (titled "interviews"). > That's just not true. Probably 30% of threads receiv…

> The link is in the footer (titled "interviews").

Footer link is not user-friendly imo. Navbar/sidebar are is where it should be. Probably 95% of users won't even know that there is a link to interviews in the footer.

Re: undefined

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Post by csallen » Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 2:50 PM UTC

BartBoch wrote: post #61

csallen wrote: post #51

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Got a few questions for you: 1. Why not bookmark the interviews page instead of the homepage? 2. Would it be helpful to you if the interviews/podcasts were more prominently linked from the homepage, or is it only sufficient if they are the primary focus of the homepage? 3. If you don't mind sharing, what do you do? Specifically, I'm curious about whether or not you're a founder, what stage you're at, and what you hop…

1. Why force people to bookmark it, instead of adding a navbar link?

I do plan on adding a navbar link. However, I don't think this eliminates the advantages of bookmarking or directly visiting the desired URL for someone who finds no value in the homepage. (For example, I never visit Reddit's homepage.)

Re: undefined

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Post by csallen » Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 3:02 PM UTC

BartBoch wrote: post #58

csallen wrote: post #44

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"Subreddits" are coming eventually! The other phenomenon, of people asking the same question over and over, is an interesting one. Unlike StackOverflow, sometimes the same question (e.g. "How should I improve my landing page?") has a different answer depending on what your business is. That said, it would still be nice to do the SO-suggestion thing, and maybe surface some articles as well as some previous threads on…

I think that the quick solution to help the current situation is this: 1. Allow sorting threads by the time of creation, so discoverability of threads with no responses is much easier. (you can have default and by creation time sorting, this won't be to complex I assume). 2. Maybe finally add a link to interviews to the navbar? This request is simply ignored for months now. You are running a community and you need to…

You can click "Newest" at the top of the forum to see threads by creation date.

I'm planning to rework the nav bar. It's not as easy as simply adding a link, as there are numerous links people want faster access to, not just one. I need to design a navigation system that's scalable and responsive to accommodate what I know will be an ever-growing list. There are also a great many other features and bugs I spend time on that people have been requesting for months, not just navigation, and imo navigation is by far the easiest to work around oneself for anyone seriously inconvenienced at the moment.

I share plans for IH on the forum sometimes. I should do it more often for sure — the monthly thread is a great idea. And of course people in the community are free to make threads with requests/questions, and to send me DMs and emails, which I respond to. However, I'll probably never have a public feature roadmap with date estimates.

Re: undefined

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Post by BartBoch » Sun, Jun 10, 2018, 4:05 PM UTC

csallen wrote: post #64

BartBoch wrote: post #58

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I think that the quick solution to help the current situation is this: 1. Allow sorting threads by the time of creation, so discoverability of threads with no responses is much easier. (you can have default and by creation time sorting, this won't be to complex I assume). 2. Maybe finally add a link to interviews to the navbar? This request is simply ignored for months now. You are running a community and you need to…

You can click "Newest" at the top of the forum to see threads by creation date. I'm planning to rework the nav bar. It's not as easy as simply adding a link, as there are numerous links people want faster access to, not just one. I need to design a navigation system that's scalable and responsive to accommodate what I know will be an ever-growing list. There are also a great many other features and bugs I spend time…

Sounds good!