Something to look at.... Gamers Seeking Gamers

[Thornir Alekeg]

OK, a question to folk:

Only about 5% of people are filling in the Introduction field. I need to find out why:

Have you noticed the Alert on the right hand side of the page asking you to complete it?

Should it be a compulsory field in the initial "3 questions" bit?

In short, are people choosing not to fill it in, or are they not realising they should?

Any chance the field can be made larger? It is pretty limited in length.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Sorry, yeah, I removed the test events. Should've mentioned it to you!

No problem, just glad to know it wasn't a problem with the system.


Btw, here's a bug report: When I click on the "Gamers seeking gamers System" link on the Gamers seeking gamers forum page, I get this error on a blank screen:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ELSE in /www/enworld.org/production/htdocs/forum/gamersseekinggamers.php on line 1728

[Edit: Ok, now it's not doing it. Weird... But it happened once, so it might indicate a problem of some sort.]

 

[Morrus]

Any chance the field can be made larger? It is pretty limited in length.

Well, we need people to keep it brief.

 

[Beginning of the End]

Only about 5% of people are fillng in the Introduction field. I need to find out why:

Because I don't want to broadcast information about myself into a system until I've had a chance to see how that information is going to be used. Since you made it mandatory in order to see the site (it kept crashing for me unless I filled in that field), you got garbage information from me.

Might consider allowing an entry with a click on Other, so folks can add games like Dread, Fiasco, Dogs in the Vineyard, and other small press games.

If nothing else, a "Story Games" category might be a useful catch-all.

 

[Morrus]

Since you made it mandatory in order to see the site (it kept crashing for me unless I filled in that field)

Crashing? As in a database error or similar? Or shutting your browser down?

 

[RangerWickett]

OK, a question to folk:

Only about 5% of people are filling in the Introduction field. I need to find out why:

Have you noticed the Alert on the right hand side of the page asking you to complete it?

Should it be a compulsory field in the initial "3 questions" bit?

In short, are people choosing not to fill it in, or are they not realising they should?

Edit: Nevermind. I re-entered my information and now it seems to have taken.

I thought I filled it out the first time I went there, but now when I click on your Gamers Seeking Gamers link in your sig (or the one along the banner at the top of the page), it asks me to fill in again from the get go.

When I go to my settings, and click on Edit Details, if I scroll down far enough I see an entry for my game, and what games I'm interested in, so it looks like that original entry took. So why am I being asked to create a new game entry when I click on the link now (again, either in your sig, or on the top banner)?

Am I just following the wrong link? Was I too early an adopter, so I need to do it over again?

It doesn't make sense that the 'home page' for Gamers Seeking Gamers would always request that I create a new entry, instead of, say, listing my current game and giving a way to search for new games.

 

[renau1g]

So I did notice one thing that was a little odd (to me at least). I added my info to the GSG area and it auto-updated the location on my posts (the one that shows up under join date). Is this supposed to happen? It prevents a funny location (i.e. Sigil or In your mind, etc)

 

[Morrus]

It's the same field, yes. You can enter a funny one still if you want, but just be aware that's what it will say in GsG.

Asking people to enter their location multiple times in different fields is a sure-fire way to get them to press the "back" button on their browser.

If you just want something funny under your name, we offer user titles AND status updates!

 

[El Mahdi]

I was wondering about this also...

...If you click on a user's profile, then hit the back button, it should have your map zoomed into the same spot. Right now it seems to reset back to your "home" location...

Is it possible to enable right-clicking on a profile name from the map, in order to open in a different tab? It would save having to go back to the previous page and then reset the map for where you're looking. (I know you can look at names beneath the map, and right click on names there...but it would be infinitely more convenient to be able to do it from the map). Is it maybe not possible with Google Maps software?

Any chance the field can be made larger? It is pretty limited in length.

Well, we need people to keep it brief.

I understand the need to keep it brief, but it's a tad too brief right now. Perhaps just a little bit bigger...

 

[Wepwawet]

Maybe I'm too dumb, but I can't seem to use this gamers seeking gamers thing.
When I enter http://www.enworld.org/forum/gamersseekinggamersg.php I get this message:

Welcome, Guest, to Gamers Seeking Gamers! Below you can see a sample of gamers, events, and groups. In order to zoom and move the map, browse and search the entire list, or to set your location, filter results, or add a group, game, or event, please log in or register!

Click here to register!

Then I click there to register and it says i'm already registered and whatever..
How can I get inside and use it?

Oh, and I'm doing all this already logged into ENWorld