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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on October 17, 2011 at 8:04am

CH...CH...CH...CHANGES!

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on October 17, 2011 at 8:04am

A few bipartisan comments!

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Permalink Reply by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on October 17, 2011 at 8:07am

Maybe I should use david bowie's outfit in that picture for a new color theme!!!

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on October 17, 2011 at 8:07am

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

That would be a great banner!

(Sorry...I will stop now)

Back to the serious stuff.  

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Permalink Reply by Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) on October 17, 2011 at 8:45am

I was there for the old Yahoo group.  It's one of the reasons I signed up for the new Ning group as fast as I did and never looked back :)

Shane Speal said:

Old school, mutherf***er!!!  Bring back the old Yahoo!  (...or not)

Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) said:

Please tell me that there's nobody using that thing anymore...

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on October 17, 2011 at 8:53am

I wanna see Gitty dressed up like Ziggy Stardust!

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on October 17, 2011 at 8:55am

Gitty made guitars

Jammed 'em good with weird appointments

Like a spider soundhole

He could make 'em left hand

And he made them for Gwar

He took it all to far

But boy, could he make guitars

 

(ok, somebody get the next verse)

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Permalink Reply by Josh Gayou (SmokehouseGuitars) on October 17, 2011 at 8:55am

Ziggy sold guitaaaaaar paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrts!!!

Shane Speal said:

I wanna see Gitty dressed up like Ziggy Stardust!

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Permalink Reply by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on October 17, 2011 at 9:14am

You guys crazy ;)

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Permalink Reply by Mark on October 17, 2011 at 9:15am

Didn't much like the old one, but the new one is no worse (some slight improvements, some losses). It's structure and coding that trouble me more than graphic design. The Nation hasn't been particularly good for mobile devices and I know it's had a tendency to crash some browsers. And you need to make sure the homepage isn't so huge in data terms that it takes ages to load.

Most important thing of all is the content - it's been the place to come for CBG info, if it remains a source of good objective information and a definitive meeting place then it will live on.

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Permalink Reply by Diane in Chicago on October 17, 2011 at 9:15am

Um.  I would like the groups section to reflect the groups in order of most recent activity, sir.  Please.  So we know when there is activity in an area of interest.

 

Otherwise, I am just happy that something like this exists at all.

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Permalink Reply by Ben "C. B. Gitty" Baker on October 17, 2011 at 9:20am

Mark - I have definitely been working on streamlining, slimming down and reducing the total data payload of the homepage. The new banner that CBJ dislikes so much is about 1/5th the size (in KB) of the old one. Also fewer groups displaying (to Diane's chagrin) and fewer graphical ads help that too. Some of the structure/coding stuff is just inherent to Ning and we don't have a lot of control over it. Another thing I have tried to focus on is removing any blank space... if you recall with the old banner which was a good bit thicker to begin with, there was a lot of blank space so you always had to do some scrolling to get to the content.

 

As for latest group activity, for now I intend to leave the front page showing the featured groups. To see the most recent activity like before, go to the groups page (from the main menu or from the View All link) and choose to sort by Recent Activity. I realize it's 2 more steps/3 more clicks than just having it all on the main page, but my feeling is that a cleaner main page is a greater value at this point.

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