Since re-launching Asian Sirens in its present form nearly a year ago, a few minor, niggling issues have remained. Well actually, one of these wasn’t so minor for mobile users: the inability to post comments. Unfortunately, all the WordPress mobile themes I knew of were seriously buggy in one way or another, so I’ve spent many months chasing up the developers of the various plug-ins I tried to get them fixed, but with virtually no success. But then I finally found one that actually works properly, so now mobile users can finally post comments! 2014/07/21 Update: Since this post, I’ve been working on a customised version of WordPress’ Minileven mobile theme, which finally gives mobile users feature parity with desktop users!
I’ve also made some changes to better accommodate how you are using the site: people were constantly getting the submit post and suggest post pages mixed up, so I’ve merged them (and culled the fulfilled requests in the process). Conversely, I’ve added an Already Identified page to the Request ID page, to make it easier to keep track of who has been identified and who hasn’t. And finally, I’ve added a Member Image Uploads page, to make it easier to keep track of all the images members have uploaded to their profiles (their images will only appear here if they’ve allowed comments on them though).
It does appear as though the backend features of the site are currently under-utilised: for example, not many people are commenting on the image uploads, or using the Favorites feature to store their favourite posts for easy access. I also would have expected more Featured Profile uploads by now. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get people to use these features without messing up the blog?
While we’re on the subject of user feedback, one other thing I haven’t been entirely satisfied with is our current site banner—I just whipped it up quickly to get the site launched as soon as possible. So I thought I might ask our readers to try and come up with a better design, in widths of 728 and 312 pixels. It has to have our name (of course) and motto “Discover and Discuss Beautiful Asian Women”, but apart from that, you’re free to design whatever you choose. Unfortunately I don’t have any prizes to offer, apart from the glory of creating the branding for our great site.
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