Don't get me wrong when I say the following as I know that the boards have had to be a priority. This after all is first and foremost a message board
system. As 99.9% of Yuku members are ex-ezboarders a decent message board system is what all have been expecting. But the whole idea of Yuku is that it it has
everything in one place, ie:- message boards, blogs and htlm pages.
The profiles started off great. But since then there has just been a basic blog dumped on them and they have since been abandoned. Many people are already blogging elsewhere on the web and at the moment just can't use their Yuku blog for the simple reason that they have no way to import an active blog over here yet. So what do they do but continue using their active blog and ignore their Yuku blog. We can't even copy and paste an active blog over here because as stated above we can't back date posts. Many posts posted in the past would look ridiculous as a post with a recent date, especially for those that use a blog as a type of journal.
We have the facility to change our user names but we don't have the facility to export/import our blogs from one user name or one account to another.
The profiles were raved about (including by me) on our first arriving but after 2 years we can still only add basic htlm to the blocks. We are still unable to add gadgets/widgets or extra blocks or drag/drop block from one side to the other.
The profiles are still only profiles 2 years on. As profiles they are the best on the web, but as blogs they are the absolute worst.
Yuku wanted an all in one system to encourage people from all over but concentrating purely on message boards for all this time and totally ignoring the blogs is totally defeating the whole object of what Yuku was going to be all about.
Ok, I know board owners are going to start screaming, saying but we need the boards working perfectly before time is spent on the blogs and I don't deny that the bugs on the boards do have to be worked out asap, but owners of boards are a very small part of a board systems members. Board owners want new members, but how can we get new members if there is nothing to attract people that have never heard of Yuku or Ezboard. As a member of a board a board is a board. They don't care what system it is on, they care about the content of a board and of it's members. But, there are a lot of people out there blogging that could be encouraged to move a blog over to here if Yuku offered more or at least as much as other blogs. These people would then maybe become active members of our message boards.
I would dearly love to see Yuku become bigger than Myspace or Blogspot or any of the other blog systems and to me blogging is where the members of a any system are. Bloggers do far more blog hopping than board members do board hopping and they also share so many links with each other and follow up those links. Get those bloggers on Yuku and owners of boards get themselves a decent blog going on here and it wouldn't be long before Yuku became the hottest thing since sliced bread.
I had a try out of starting a blogspot a couple of day ago and within two hours of creating it and before I had finished making it look as I wanted it I had two people come along and not only leave messages but one of them had put a link to my new blog on their blog by the time I went over to theirs to be nosy. For those that have never blogged you wouldn't believe the movement of members on them. My visitors to my personal Yuku board has also jumped up since putting a link to there on the blogspot.
The other thing that I really think we need on a Yuku blog is the choice of being able to have guest posting. Many people from other systems just wouldn't want to take the time to register to make their first quick posting. Once they had posted as a guest and found our blog interesting and would want to post again or find themselves an interesting Yuku board they would then register.
I expect Alison will raise her eyebrows to this post of mine thinking here she goes again, lol, as I have been going on about the blogs for months, but I truly see the way forward to attracting members from other systems as via the blogs. We need to get those with blog mentality over here to give them the idea of using message boards as well. There is an untapped source out there that have never even been on a message board.
The profiles started off great. But since then there has just been a basic blog dumped on them and they have since been abandoned. Many people are already blogging elsewhere on the web and at the moment just can't use their Yuku blog for the simple reason that they have no way to import an active blog over here yet. So what do they do but continue using their active blog and ignore their Yuku blog. We can't even copy and paste an active blog over here because as stated above we can't back date posts. Many posts posted in the past would look ridiculous as a post with a recent date, especially for those that use a blog as a type of journal.
We have the facility to change our user names but we don't have the facility to export/import our blogs from one user name or one account to another.
The profiles were raved about (including by me) on our first arriving but after 2 years we can still only add basic htlm to the blocks. We are still unable to add gadgets/widgets or extra blocks or drag/drop block from one side to the other.
The profiles are still only profiles 2 years on. As profiles they are the best on the web, but as blogs they are the absolute worst.
Yuku wanted an all in one system to encourage people from all over but concentrating purely on message boards for all this time and totally ignoring the blogs is totally defeating the whole object of what Yuku was going to be all about.
Ok, I know board owners are going to start screaming, saying but we need the boards working perfectly before time is spent on the blogs and I don't deny that the bugs on the boards do have to be worked out asap, but owners of boards are a very small part of a board systems members. Board owners want new members, but how can we get new members if there is nothing to attract people that have never heard of Yuku or Ezboard. As a member of a board a board is a board. They don't care what system it is on, they care about the content of a board and of it's members. But, there are a lot of people out there blogging that could be encouraged to move a blog over to here if Yuku offered more or at least as much as other blogs. These people would then maybe become active members of our message boards.
I would dearly love to see Yuku become bigger than Myspace or Blogspot or any of the other blog systems and to me blogging is where the members of a any system are. Bloggers do far more blog hopping than board members do board hopping and they also share so many links with each other and follow up those links. Get those bloggers on Yuku and owners of boards get themselves a decent blog going on here and it wouldn't be long before Yuku became the hottest thing since sliced bread.
I had a try out of starting a blogspot a couple of day ago and within two hours of creating it and before I had finished making it look as I wanted it I had two people come along and not only leave messages but one of them had put a link to my new blog on their blog by the time I went over to theirs to be nosy. For those that have never blogged you wouldn't believe the movement of members on them. My visitors to my personal Yuku board has also jumped up since putting a link to there on the blogspot.
The other thing that I really think we need on a Yuku blog is the choice of being able to have guest posting. Many people from other systems just wouldn't want to take the time to register to make their first quick posting. Once they had posted as a guest and found our blog interesting and would want to post again or find themselves an interesting Yuku board they would then register.
I expect Alison will raise her eyebrows to this post of mine thinking here she goes again, lol, as I have been going on about the blogs for months, but I truly see the way forward to attracting members from other systems as via the blogs. We need to get those with blog mentality over here to give them the idea of using message boards as well. There is an untapped source out there that have never even been on a message board.
