Should we reinvigorate CoolJunkie?

[endymion]

We have long-time community members and loyal supporters of CoolJunkie openly telling us that CoolJunkie no longer serves them. It doesn't serve me either. I'm the software developer who built CoolJunkie's technology, and I'm begging to help. I'm still waiting for authorization to begin making improvements.

I want to serve the nightlife community by making CoolJunkie a better place. What do you guys think should happen?

[Bling]

HELL YES

[Apotheosis]

well what are your ideas???

making it "better" is highly subjective

[myles hie]

Originally Posted by Apotheosis

well what are your ideas???

making it "better" is highly subjective

+1

[swank]

As I've been told in the past..."Hope is not a good enough business plan"

So hopefully you are trolling for info to put in a business plan that you would like to present to the powers that may be. Sometimes that's the only way to get their attention for the 30 seconds required to say..."HEY!!! we can increase revenue or interest, or awareness, or press, from this project, you interested?"

[endymion]

Originally Posted by Apotheosis

well what are your ideas???

making it "better" is highly subjective

I agree. I would start by addressing some of the concrete concerns from the feedback that we're getting:

[quote author=LeVeL' link=board=2;threadid=42995;start=0#msg478295 date=1188321093]
Being a longtime CJ Member I have to say this is probably the worst I have ever seen the Miami Forums...
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[quote author=coach link=board=2;threadid=42995;start=0#msg478307 date=1188322090]
I *do* really think we need a NO-Bump rule like the dallasdancemusic.com site has (or had). You cannot bump your own promotion thread. Or, at the very least, only 1 bump per day. This would really lead to a more democratic front page. If people like (or hate) your party and talk about it, you get to stay "above the fold." Otherwise, buh-bye. It would also lead to more subscribers as the promoters get all their friends to sign up so they can comment on their parties.
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[quote author=LeVeL' link=board=2;threadid=42995;start=0#msg478325 date=1188323059]
90% of these thread dont gather discussions, they simply dont. Look through the first page of the Miami Forums and look at the thread with events that have 1 through 5 posts on them they will give you an example of what I am talking about.
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[quote author=V. Barbarino link=board=2;threadid=42995;start=0#msg478331 date=1188323540]
...there is nothing remotely interesting on this site. I know Dade is bailing soon too. The board didn't evolve, it could have been much better, but from what I hear the powers that be in NYC are idiots.
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[quote author=coach link=board=2;threadid=42995;start=20#msg478438 date=1188334980]
We could use a better search function. But I guess nobody uses it, anyway.
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[quote author=saintjohn link=board=2;threadid=42995;start=40#msg478738 date=1188400634]
Improving the content on the main page would attract more (and better) contributors to the forums, but that would require a little investment.
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[quote author=coach link=board=2;threadid=42995;start=#msg478953 date=1188422274]
There is a bit of an underground music/art/fashion scene in Miami. It's not big, and it's not electronic (exactly), but it is definitely not served by CJ.
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Simply upgrading the forum software would go a long way toward addressing some of these, like "the search feature is broken", I could add limitations on promoter thread bumping, new specialized forums that people are requesting. With Jipsy around we have the potential to appeal more to the art/fashion crowd, for example. And why not a whole specialized forum for Barbarino's prophesies? He has so many of them and they're extremely accurate on average, why don't we reward and encourage him more? Somebody requested MySpace video embedding to go along with the YouTube tag and I could do that, but I already did the YouTube hack as a volunteer, I'm not going to just keep updating the site for free.

I also have had ideas for directions to take the forums since before we even started CoolJunkie, that I was in the process of implementing while we were building CoolJunkie and that I have been proposing ever since. Specific ways to redesign the forums to make the community more a part of the evolution of the site. I don't understand why that project isn't happening.

Pod used a poll to justify some T-shirts. Maybe I can use a poll to justify fixing some of what's broken around here.

[myles hie]

What are you trying to change, the message board part or the actual site and its content? Even though its all under the Cool Junkie umbrella, its 2 seperate entities imo.

[pod]

What TJ is proposing is to make it one unified entity.

[myles hie]

How about concept outline Mr TJ.

[meta]

what about eliminating first time posters that come here to just posting up an event. They post up here don't get a response and never come back sometimes. They really don't see what this forum is all about.

Also how about the double posting of events. I know i have runned into it in my day but when i coordinate it with someone, either one of us deletes the duplicated thread.

Just my 2 cents.