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i like the way the layout is. i wish the site was tablet optimized/html5 enabled. i think that'd be cool.
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this..if anything, eliminate da regional forums.Originally Posted by Dimelo
I think niketalk is fine the way it is
I've commented on the mobile situation before, and our plan has always been to push for universal mobile optimization first and foremost. NT is serviceable on the average phone, but far from ideal.Originally Posted by Method Man
Focus Group Guy: [after showing the kids some Itchy & Scratchy cartoons] Okay, how many of the kids would like Itchy & Scratchy to deal with real life problems like the ones you face every day? [the kids cheer]
Focus Group Guy: And who would like to see them do just the opposite, getting into far-out situations involving robots and magic powers. [the kid kids cheer again]
Focus Group Guy: So you want a realistic down-to-earth show that's completely off the wall and swarming with magic robots? [the kids all chat at once about it being a great idea] Milhouse: And, also, you should win things by watching.
Focus Group Guy: [sighs]
It's difficult to take feedback too literally when we often have difficulty articulating exactly why we like something.
For many of us, 80's - 90's NBA basketball defined all that we enjoy about the sport. Those experiences became our standard for greatness. No matter how great an NBA game or season may be, it can never quite recapture the feeling of watching MJ light up Madison Square Garden. When we share footage of our favorite games with kids weaned on LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, we're often frustrated to discover that they don't see or appreciate them in quite the same way, just as most of us don't exactly melt at the sight of Dave Bing highlights. You'd be hard pressed to convince the average 15-year-old that Rakim is superior to Kanye West, that Super Mario Bros. stomps on Call of Duty, or that Coming to America is funnier than The Hangover. There's a novelty factor that can never be recaptured, and this influences your ideal standards.
If sports never changed, if music never changed, if movies never changed, they'd have a difficult time attracting new audiences and the existing audience would grow bored of experiencing the exact same thing over and over again.
The things that most of you liked about ezboard weren't exclusive to or even attributable to ezboard. You liked ezboard because it was your first taste of NikeTalk. The posts felt "better" because they were all fresh. You'd never seen a WDYWT or PYP thread before. You'd never given someone a stoneface before. You'd never waited online for a QS sneaker release before. All of those memories are associated with ezboard if you joined before 2006.
Internet forums really haven't changed very much since the days of dial-up bulletin board systems. It's been a glacially slow, iterative process (especially for yuku), but, for that same reason, people tend to assume that the features in place today were "always" present.
Staying with ezboard would've been like running NikeTalk as a Telnet BBS. The core would've remained the same, but the world would've passed it by. Failure to evolve would have cost us the ability to recruit new users and/or offer existing users the modern conveniences to which they would become accustomed. As stagnant as Yuku has been, it still represents a significant step above ezboard. Remember, you would not be able to embed videos without Yuku. Your avatar size would've been 60x60, as the ezboard system was created when the average desktop display was, at best, 1024x768. Yuku added a WYSIWYG text editor (which is so standard now that most people don't even know what WYSIWYG stands for), integrated image hosting, customized profile pages with friends lists, and enhanced storage capabilities. Prior to Yuku, each forum could only hold 20 pages of 20 topics. That isn't even a week's worth by today's standards.
Before Yuku, we had to store user warnings in a POST. We had to go in and manually alphabetize entries for the sake of organization. There was no such thing as a suspension.
The problems people associate with Yuku (instability, sluggishness, and unreliable search functions) were either present before Yuku or a product of NikeTalk's growth. Remember, Yuku was just a rebranding of ezboard. It was essentially a new version, not a separate product. If we'd had 80,000 members and millions of posts on ezboard, it wouldn't have held up very well to say the least.
As much as people remember ezboard fondly, they also appreciate the additions of Yuku that everyone takes for granted. If you love Coming to America, odds are it's not because you prefer VHS to Blu Ray.
NikeTalk is going to change. It has to. The key, I think, is to ensure that future incarnations continue to deliver the same core experience. Facebook and Twitter serve a different purpose than a message boards. Message boards are essentially affinity networks. You didn't join this board, initially, to interact with people you already knew. You came here to learn about and discuss topics of interest and meet others who share those interests. We're not going to lose touch with why people enjoy our community or try to make it into something it's not.
Unlike a lot of the imitators out there, NikeTalk actually embodies a set of founding principles. We can use new technology express the same founding vision, so that the site can add functionality while retaining the same unique sense of place and character.
The front page is going to change. It's been a glorified text menu for a decade. It's inaccessible for new users. It doesn't operate as a useful hub of information. It doesn't direct your attention to quality content. It doesn't help you keep up with the latest news.
Content organization is going to change. Subforums and a mediocre keyword search aren't enough on their own. They aren't adaptive. The existing search tag system isn't standardized and is, therefore, useless. That's not good enough.
Step 1 to improving NikeTalk was to upgrade the hardware - and that's been accomplished. The software is next and, one way or the other, we expect and will accept nothing less than meaningful, if not dramatic, change in that area within the next 12 months.
It'll still be NikeTalk. It'll still be black, white, and red (though, at some point, we may offer additional themes as we did with this year's moon/sun toggle.)
It will be different, but hopefully we can build new features over top of what has proven to be a pretty resilient structural frame.
Agreed, an app is useless, ISS developed one and it was the biggest piece of garbage ever...in all reality I browse NT 80% from my iPhone with no problem and that's on 3G....if I'm hooked on wifi...we flyinnnn
this type of talk gets me nervous....hope ya dont overhaul da site to try to appeal to casual cats that are here today, gone today....Originally Posted by Method Man
We want to make NikeTalk better for EVERYONE, and in order to do that we'd like to learn as much as we can about what you enjoy - not only about NikeTalk, but about websites that you only visit on a "casual" or "passive" basis.
I think this is a great idea.Originally Posted by Tr1ll
I would like hot links at the top of each page. That way I can jump straight from a thread in Gen, to Retro, to Music and back to Gen without having to click on the "Niketalk" link.
Originally Posted by Dimelo
I think niketalk is fine the way it is
y0ung j33zy wrote:
Wouldnt feel like NT without the Blk/Red colorway![]()
Originally Posted by DCAllAmerican
Originally Posted by Dimelo
I think niketalk is fine the way it is
Yep. The basic nature of Niketalk makes NT what it is. We don't need anything else cluttering up our smooth sailing basic loading screens. It is fine the way it is.
I would like a, "Go to first unread post" link to the left of each listed thread though. That would be nice.
If you add any other skins, please allow us to keep this same Vintage NT skin for those of us that don't want to change.
Originally Posted by ThorrocksJs
Niketalk has a good layout .
Italicised and underlined for emphasis.Originally Posted by ILL LEGAL OPERATION
Originally Posted by 1stWitIt
Just fix the yuku problem please. Layout is fine
Originally Posted by ILL LEGAL OPERATION
Originally Posted by 1stWitIt
Just fix the yuku problem please. Layout is fine
Originally Posted by redsfan3
I like it the way it is... simple