Maybe bundle Domainlore details to avoid bumping down other posts?

[SiusaidhSiusaidh is verified member.]

Please don't take this thought the wrong way. It is only a thought. When I come to the homepage of Acorn Domains, I today find 31 separate posts detailing individual domains up for sale at Domainlore. Now I have used Domainlore myself and it's a valuable site, but I find it a little frustrating that other people's posts get bumped down the page and out of sight so quickly. I know there is a 'more' button I can click at the bottom, but how many people do that? I suspect we mostly just read what's on the front page. So I wondered: couldn't Domainlore domain sales be 'bundled' up in groups of 10, so we end up with 3 posts instead of 30. UKBackorder tends to 'bundle' latest domains like that, which I think is a more proportionate approach. As I said, please don't take this as a hostile post. It's not. It's just a thought and suggestion. Domainlore is a valuable site, and Acorn Domains is really useful. Thank you for all the commitment involved.

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

Please don't take this thought the wrong way. It is only a thought. When I come to the homepage of Acorn Domains, I today find 31 separate posts detailing individual domains up for sale at Domainlore. Now I have used Domainlore myself and it's a valuable site, but I find it a little frustrating that other people's posts get bumped down the page and out of sight so quickly. I know there is a 'more' button I can click at the bottom, but how many people do that? I suspect we mostly just read what's on the front page. So I wondered: couldn't Domainlore domain sales be 'bundled' up in groups of 10, so we end up with 3 posts instead of 30. UKBackorder tends to 'bundle' latest domains like that, which I think is a more proportionate approach. As I said, please don't take this as a hostile post. It's not. It's just a thought and suggestion. Domainlore is a valuable site, and Acorn Domains is really useful. Thank you for all the commitment involved.

Hi, a valid suggestion.

We quite often talk among ourselves - what to show on the frontpage..

Have you noticed the header menu "Discussions"? .. would you prefer this content for the frontpage?

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

hmmm... this raises up a potentially really good conversation..

maybe instead, we should have a different frontpage layout? 1st - "Discussions"; 2) could be "Marketplace Ads" posts (newly updated topics), and 3) sold domains feed? ..

would love to hear more thoughts

and, of course, this isn't taken the wrong way - it is great to see members suggestion how the forum can be improved.

@Prashanna could you try creating a custom frontpage for Acorn and publish in the top menu as "Test Frontpage"? .. let us test it Thank you

 

[SiusaidhSiusaidh is verified member.]

Thank you for not getting mad at me! Personally, I think the homepage would be best kept to list ALL the most recent posts, otherwise some posts will just get lost, because I don't think most people click on every single discussion forum. I imagine many people just log in to get an overview on the homepage of all the latest posts. But for that to work efficiently, I just think that people should avoid posting multiple separate posts for every single domain up for sale. Uk backorder seems to have about the right approach (in my opinion) - a list of recent domains up for auction, bundled together in a single post. That means other people's posts don't get bumped down and off the bottom of the homepage too soon. However, I am by no means an expert and thank you for everything you do.

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

/quick update/

just bounced ideas with @Admin - and we have put on our "do do" plan to launch a feature that will allow forum members to customize your own frontpage (as you wish)

 

[SiusaidhSiusaidh is verified member.]

I like that idea!

 

[NiceNICDomainServerNiceNICDomainServer is verified member.]

Wow good update

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

.. and we definitely need to hide non-uk marketplace section ads showing on the frontpage, for sure.. @Admin - thank you

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

while @Admin is working on the new idea on frontpage designer - we have excluded "sold domains" auto-reports from the frontpage

 

[NiceNICDomainServerNiceNICDomainServer is verified member.]

while @Admin is working on the new idea on frontpage designer - we have excluded "sold domains" auto-reports from the frontpage

That's a nice update, thank you, team!

 

[baldidiotbaldidiot is verified member.]

It might also be worth not letting people bump sales threads 30+ times... there are some here that bump it every day, so the latest posts / home page basically look the same every day.

 

[SiusaidhSiusaidh is verified member.]

I agree with the last post. It seems a pity if multiple sales threads are bumped several times a week, in the process knocking other people's posts down the page or off the foot of the page. If you want to repeatedly get attention for the same set of domains, maybe act proportionately, say at the most once a week or once a fortnight. I realise that running this forum is loads of work for admin, and I don't know how these multiple repeat threads could be blocked, but maybe a request could be made privately where this occurs? And then a warning if ignored. Personally, I like the proportionate approach of ukbackorder - where a collection of 10 or a dozen names are listed in one post, and just posted once. That approach doesn't bump other people far down the list, and yet people get to see the domains being listed.

 

[baldidiotbaldidiot is verified member.]

Whilst we're at it, if you do end up setting out new guidelines can we stop people using the word "premium" for rubbish or mediocre domains

The amount of times when people say "premium category killer domain for sale" and then it's something like bestfootballshirtz4u.org.uk