对文学城的一些问题和建议
文章来源: MichaelC2009-07-14 05:23:12


(一)问题:

刚进城两个星期,有点像刘姥姥似的。有些问题想请教各位在城里住得久的人。

首先,我不明白这论坛和博客的区别。论坛似乎没有起到它原设计的目的。比如,大家做了一个博客,复制到论坛,论坛上的帖就和原博客脱了钩。论坛上帖的不能改不能删,博客上的可以一直修改添加内容,结果就成了两个版本。而且大家的评论也都留在了论坛上,原博客就很少评论。这很可惜,因为论坛上的帖毕竟是流水似的、短期的,而原博客才是永久性的。有谁还去看半年前的论坛?

论坛似乎已喧宾夺主。看论坛的人已远大过看博客的。大家似乎都养成了在论坛上发新作的习惯。那是不是很不妥?

怎么解决这个问题?简单的办法是,大家别再将新博客“复制”到论坛,而是在论坛上发个消息条(叫“新博客链接”?),通知大家有新博客啦,加上去新博客的链接,鼓励大家去看博客的原版,评论留言也留在原博客上。唯一的问题是留言不能在论坛里出现,但那也不应该是个问题,因为大家发博客的主要目的毕竟不是在论坛上讨论。

复杂的办法是WXC应该将博客“复制”到论坛的功能,改成“链接”到论坛。这样就永久性地解决了这个问题,而且评论也能在论坛上展现。

不知各位认为如何?

另外还有一个问题请教。

我的兴趣是高尔夫、摄影和写作,这些都有不同的博客园,而现在WXC只允许一个帐号一个博客园。除了登记三个不同的帐号外,还有没有别的办法?我想把不同的博客放在不同但相关的博客园里。相信我不是第一个有这种困扰的进城人。

谢谢啦!



(二)建议:

(1) There should be a way to publish the stats for each user; for example the total number of posts on the forum. Such numbers can be used to "rank" users, which is very common in English forums.

(2) The forum technology seems to be very old. One has to click on each post to see the contents. Most of the English forums now have the entire contents shown on the page. Or at least let the visitors an option to choose how to view them. (Maybe this function is already there).

(3) Again the separation of the forum and the blog is really annoying.

(4) The Cut and Paste functions on creating blogs and editing blogs do not always work properly. When I paste something, it sometimes mess up the entire blog; forcing me to repeat the work. This is especially true for pictures. Very often, I have to reload all the links once I do some cut-and-paste.

(5) On Forums, I don't think it's necessary to 置顶a post until that post falls out of the first page. The whole reason to put a post on the top is to draw more attention to it. If that post is still on the first page, it's not necessary to do that. That way you would give the other posts already on the top more time on the top.

(6) Currently, there is no way to customize the homge pages of blogs. It would be nice to have that function. For example, it would be great to be able to go to the home page with messages automatically displayed from my favorite forums. Currently, one has to check each forum one by one. There should also be an option for a "Greeting" message on the top of each blog home page so that the author can tell the visitors something about how to navigate through the blogs.

Having a way to show "Blog rankings" to list the most popular blogs is a great idea.

(7) There should be a way to view the stats of one's blogs, for example, how many visitors to the blog per day/week/month, which page has the most visitors so far (in the last week/month/quarter/year), etc.

(8) On the comments on the blogs, there should be a link to the home pages of the authors of those comments. Right now, the link for the author's ID is to send them QQH. Most time, I would like to take a look at their blogs instead of sending them a message. I believe most users do the same. Currently, you have to copy and paste that ID to search for their blog, which is too much trouble. For those who don't have a blog, that should be shown on their ID too so one won't waste time searching for it.

(9) Here is another very important stat for each ID: the number of blogs each person has. If that is shown on each ID, it's a very good way to say how much activity each ID has, which is a great way to prevent people from making up too many IDs.

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(10)另外,博客主页在左边Column的评论现在是按原博客的发布时间排列的,若有人在老文章上留了言,就不会在最新的评论栏里出现,结果博客主人就注意不到这些新评论。评论应该以评论发表的时间排列。“评论管理”也用同样问题。

(11)另另外,编辑老文章的时候要费挺多力气才能按原发表时间找到原文章。我发现可以用改URL的办法从一篇文章的修改中直接进入另一篇。这样就方便很多。但对大部分人来说,那是很麻烦的。有没有别的办法更快地找到老文章进行编辑?

(12)另另另外:有时网管把我们的文章贴到不同的论坛里,可不可以用QQH自动通知一下?否则,我们就没有办法知道有什么反馈。

(13)另另另另外:“最新文章”的排列总有问题,老也不按原发表时间来进行,对常来博客的Visitor很不方便。也许还可以加一个:“最近修改过的文章”

新的建议:

(14)如何让系列文章连起来?发表的许多文章是一系列的,但同一系列的文章发布的时间可能不一样,如何把它们串起来,更方便读者读到以前和以后的文章?现在我的做法是手工在文章后面加Links,但那样很麻烦,出到第7第10篇的时候,就会有很多前面的文章需要Update Links,费时间。我想如果博客有一个“系列”功能,有些类似文章分类,但发表文章的时候自动会在文章的后面加上所有同一些列文章的Links和Titles,而且前面的文章也自动加上以后的文章。那有多好!

(15)应该有更多的办法Customize 博客的Look, style, and feel?

(16)各个热点论坛的PageTitle没有customized,结果做BookMark的时候,统统被叫成“热点论坛。”同样的道理,每篇文章也是如此,不适合读者在他们的Browsers上做标签。

(17)应该有一个这样的功能:Subscription for notices of new blogs for frequent visitors。常来的读者就可以通过Email或QQH立即知道一个作者的最新文章的Title和Link,依次来读博客,他们就不用常靠BookMark的办法来发现有没有新文章。被Subscription的数量将是衡量一个作者博客流行程度的最佳数字。

(18)也许,WXC应该组织一些“Super Users”或“Super Bloggers"为WXC的下一次版面更新提供更详细、全面的建议和Prioritization。

几个新的观察:

(A)论坛的Search功能很老式,结果没有办法把“原帖”和“跟贴”分开来。最好是有办法把作者的原贴列出来,就比较容易找到原帖。