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Less comments on Wowhead blog posts--tell us why!
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Post by
Treskol
Could it be the actual content within the blogs?
The Thrall blog and the Legendary Staff one have ~45 comments in them, about average for the blogs (according to your figures).
However, the more tedious stuff (hotfixes) have gotten practically no comments, probably because people don't really care about them.
Post by
Katalliaan
In my opinion, it's probably a combination of two things:
1. Layout/color scheme: It's not a bad layout or color scheme, but it's very different from what's used on the main Wowhead site. On the main site, the colors are flat and varying shades of dark grey. On the news/blog site, it looks like there's a carbon fiber background to the posts with a splash of fire behind it (or white background with a splash of water if you're using the light theme).
2. Separate website: People might be clicking the link (which still says
http://www.wowhead.com/blog
), seeing that it's redirecting them to another website, and just leaving.
Regarding the posts per article: have you compared the total posts for articles released during a time period to articles released on an earlier, similar time period? If there's more blogs, people might be spreading their replies across them, rather than having them be more concentrated.
Post by
Ashelia
Could it be the actual content within the blogs?
The Thrall blog and the Legendary Staff one have ~45 comments in them, about average for the blogs (according to your figures).
However, the more tedious stuff (hotfixes) have gotten practically no comments, probably because people don't really care about them.
I think if it were that, the hotfixes/junk of the past wouldn't have had comments too. However, news round up of the past have a lot. Same with guides--which here have less.
We're working on a few smaller design tweaks to help, but there is a bigger problem somewhere I think. Maybe the layout is just too different, which is good for us in our new venture, but bad for us in our old one; old fans might not like it but new ones will. Part of this site was to attract new fans who had no idea we had a blog, but honestly, I don't like alienating others to do so =(
Post by
Treskol
Is comments really a good indicator of it's being read or not?
You said in the OP that traffic and views of the blogs is up, shouldn't that be enough proof that the website is being used as much as you want it to?
=(
:(
Post by
Sweetscot
I don't (and never have) understood why the info needs to be copied and spread out so much? It was fine when all we had was just the forum and people posted and it didn't have to have a blue book beside it and a spot on a different page of the site that all wound up being 2 copies of the same thing. It's a total waste of bandwidth and spreads the community out :/
Now we're supposed to go to a totally different site? Why?
I wouldn't go to another site, so if it's not getting copied to the WoW General forum on wowhead.com I'm not reading it, and therefore not posting on it.
One reason could definitely be the patch and the fact that it's falling during wow holidays (and the easter one is pretty up front so most won't need the guide to do it, although the guide is still very much appreciated!) So even if the thread is getting hits I think people are more likely to read the colored text portion then tab back to the game without posting.
Another thing...totally not the bloggers/posters faults...but the blizz news has been pretty bland and has been common knowledge for quite a while. You're doing a good job of polishing it up and giving it to us in a nice format...but we already know it and probably already ranted/raved about it. Doesn't apply to the Thrall thing but I commented on that one...and like I said there it seemed pretty disappointing but that fault lies with blizz not you...you can just only do so much with what Blizz is putting out right now.
I haven't even seen the other site but I know the new blizz boxes, while neat at first glance, are alot harder on the eyes than the plain blue text was, also don't really see why they need to collapse, you gotta scroll through it to read it anyway so why would you collapse it and go "dang where did it go" afterwards :?
Slightly O/T: I think Wowhead does do a good job of listening to user feedback and doing what they can about it, don't be sad Ashelia :)
Post by
Ashelia
Is comments really a good indicator of it's being read or not?
You said in the OP that traffic and views of the blogs is up, shouldn't that be enough proof that the website is being used as much as you want it to?
=(
:(
It is and it isn't; if comments go down but views go up... it makes us wonder if we did something wrong for commenting. Logically it's just weird.
Slightly O/T: I think Wowhead does do a good job of listening to user feedback and doing what they can about it, don't be sad Ashelia :)
<3
I read the rest of your post but we'll be talking/thinking about it more over the weekend. Grouping it with a few others here that have been insightful, so thanks!(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Ashelia##DELIM##
Post by
Sweetscot
I think views up comments down means that either the news itself (regardless of how it is presented) may just not excite debate or conversation in the viewer, may not be a blogger/wowhead issue at all.
Post by
Interest
Seems there's a bit more activity in the blogs now.
Post by
Orangutan
Seems there's a bit more activity in the blogs now.
No one wants Ashelia to be sad.
You must use your power only for good, Ashelia!
Post by
Treskol
Off-Topic, but I really like the way Wowhead's been ran since Ashelia came.
It seems that we have a more direct and reliable contact to Management, and they certainly have been hearing their users
Post by
Interest
Off-Topic, but I really like the way Wowhead's been ran since Ashelia came.
It seems that we have a more direct and reliable contact to Management, and they certainly have been hearing their users
Agreed.
Post by
212003
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
shadowhand911
Maybe people are actually playing the game instead of trolling the forms. Patch just came out this week so i know that is why i have not been on forms that much. Give it some time, people are still adjusting to there class changes.
Post by
Kruga
It might be the fact that you can now read the entire article without clicking. When people are done reading the article, maybe they don't wanna click to go make a comment.
I rarely comment myself, but I would often scroll down to take a look at the first few comments. Mostly I don't bother to click and reload the article just to do that now. Some of the comments are replies to other comment, so if people don't see the comment, they wont reply to them.
Post by
Liquoid
I think maybe it's because a patch was released recently and posters are, ugh, gaming.
Post by
Darvon
When you first open Wowhead News, it seems a bit overwhelming.. First off, the search bar wasn't in its usual placing.
On a more personal preference.. There are some bugs with the Light background, text shows up white in some areas, you could highlight it, but it didn't change color to match the background.. For the news you have to scroll down more then you used to in order to see the news, and the top part seems a bit cluttered, on the side there was also some icons and panels. Perhaps making those smaller would help.
Before, you had a small tag control panel to see the news easier, and a 'news search'. Patch notes and changes had summaries, whilst you could click the "View More" (I think?) button on the bottom of the post to see more of it. Having them all on the front page is clogging it up, and eliminating part of that purpose, since that way you could directly scroll down and then comment faster, otherwise it seemed a bit redundant.
Just giving out some ideas, I love WoWhead!
Post by
Sinespe
Fewer* comments. :P
Post by
Interest
Fewer* comments. :P
Damn youuuuuuuuu
Post by
Sweetscot
It might be the fact that you can now read the entire article without clicking. When people are done reading the article, maybe they don't wanna click to go make a comment.
I rarely comment myself, but I would often scroll down to take a look at the first few comments. Mostly I don't bother to click and reload the article just to do that now. Some of the comments are replies to other comment, so if people don't see the comment, they wont reply to them.
If you have to reload to see comments on the other site I think that would cut down on comments pretty drastically...and yes people really ARE that lazy.
Post by
Kruga
Actually, just discovered that there in fact IS a bug with the commenting. Don't know if i'm the only one getting it, but here is what happens.
There is no box to write the comment. It just says "Leave a comment" and a Submit button.
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If I click submit it will say "Your post is empty!" and the capcha will appear, but still nowhere to write a comment.
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I can still make comments through the forum.
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