Weber Kettle Club Forums
What's Going On => Website Issues & Suggestions => Topic started by: Troy on March 01, 2015, 08:41:35 PM
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what can we do to improve the site?
improve the community?
are there things wrong?
my mind and my ears are open :)
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An alphabetical recipe index, or something similar organized by meat and cut would be really cool. I would be happy to help.
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An alphabetical recipe index, or something similar organized by meat and cut would be really cool. I would be happy to help.
That's a great idea! We've already been putting more focus on food in the blog, I think adding a recipe section would be a great add-on!
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Would be nice to communicate with new people to add their name to the map. I see some people on here looking for agents and i'm pretty sure we have a lot of people that are not on the map.
Not sure if you could make new users go to the map, or maybe a mass email to every one or just new users.
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I like the index for recipes, alphabetically may be a pain but a index by main ingredient would be nice
such as
pork roast
pulled pork
bacon
pork ribs
hams
other pork
etc.
you could have it expand when clicked on, such as open the recipes and see
beef
pork
chicken
fish
other meats
appetizers
sides
deserts
sauces and rubs
then when they are clicked they expand, that would keep the board uncluttered till things are opened
my main thing I would like to see improved is keeping subjects where they belong, I see stuff in the wrong place all over, but I am just kinda anal like that
one last point, a regional area set up under the meetup forum so we could check for meetups by the area we are in. I think it would improve guys getting together to chew the fat and cook
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@Troy - Would you change the freaking header image already!?! ;)
Just messing with you... I know I created them but I think we were going to do a vote or something? lmk
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These were done over a year ago. I can't recall why they were never used. Not enough kettle I guess. @Troy was like the guy on SNL: "I coulda used a little more kettle!"
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3841/14778343007_63ff0bd3fc_c.jpg)
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5581/14778203189_2b5cf6eec0_c.jpg)
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3914/14778210020_cd8b15745a_c.jpg)
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Age page relaunch... Oh wait that's my thing to finish...
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Age page relaunch... Oh wait that's my thing to finish...
cmon now, i'm currently the delay on that project :P
me quitting my job at motor trend kind of shook up the last 6 weeks ;)
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Just giving you and myself a hard time
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Free hookers and blow?
:D
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Free hookers and blow?
:D
Only for people that own kettles from the '80's............ 8)
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:facepalm:
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My favorite forum is the "Weber Charcoal Kettles and accessories" forum. By the thread count I would say that I am not alone.
This forum is the place we ask engineering/mechanical questions and historical/restoration questions. We show off our mods, restorations, scores, handles, gadgets, etc. We also post about charcoal sales and clearances.
Should we consider subdividing this forum? Or is the variety and eccentricity part of what makes this site fun?
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Kinda trivial, but how about some additional Weber/BBQ related emoticons? 8)
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Kinda trivial, but how about some additional Weber/BBQ related emoticons? 8)
Well that's bloody brilliant! :)
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Would be nice to communicate with new people to add their name to the map. I see some people on here looking for agents and i'm pretty sure we have a lot of people that are not on the map.
Not sure if you could make new users go to the map, or maybe a mass email to every one or just new users.
That's a good idea. Let me ponder some methods :)
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My favorite forum is the "Weber Charcoal Kettles and accessories" forum. By the thread count I would say that I am not alone.
This forum is the place we ask engineering/mechanical questions and historical/restoration questions. We show off our mods, restorations, scores, handles, gadgets, etc. We also post about charcoal sales and clearances.
Should we consider subdividing this forum? Or is the variety and eccentricity part of what makes this site fun?
I do think we need to re-improve our forum categories.
I'm not sure if Kettles & Accessories needs more division or not - but we'll definitely consider it.
Any topics you think we should segregate out of kettles & accessories?
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I like the index for recipes, alphabetically may be a pain but a index by main ingredient would be nice
such as
pork roast
pulled pork
bacon
pork ribs
hams
other pork
etc.
you could have it expand when clicked on, such as open the recipes and see
beef
pork
chicken
fish
other meats
appetizers
sides
deserts
sauces and rubs
then when they are clicked they expand, that would keep the board uncluttered till things are opened
my main thing I would like to see improved is keeping subjects where they belong, I see stuff in the wrong place all over, but I am just kinda anal like that
one last point, a regional area set up under the meetup forum so we could check for meetups by the area we are in. I think it would improve guys getting together to chew the fat and cook
We're definitely going to do some recipe stuff :)
Regional was planned last year, but it never happened (I won't go into the reasons here)
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We used to have a recipes section I think..
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Add a separate category/tab for Woks/Discs/Griddle cooking.
Please…Please ;D
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We used to have a recipes section I think..
we did. but no one was interested in contributing or driving it.
this appears to not be the case anymore :)
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I was just thinking I'd find a way to compile my successful cooks (VERY loosely defined for my purposes as "recipes") and thought, "why not use WKC for that?"
But I'm not sure I can, because redundant content is still spread between the four BBQ & Grilling Forums. For example I posted pix of my "simple chicken thighs" but also the recipe/instructions for how to duplicate it. Where'd I post it ... ? It was an arbitrary decision, as are most. I do understand each of those subforms has a different intent but disagree subforms are helpful, simply because someone decides to post a picture without talk of how it's made or list a recipe without a plated picture.
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New threads with a "recipe focus" could be started with a common visual and textual lexicon
eg: RECIPE: pork sliders
eg: [recipe] pork sliders
Having RECIPE at the beginning of the thread title serves as a visual indicator during a quick page scan. A sorting script that looks for the word "recipe" in thread titles could group them (by date or whatever else you like). Or maybe use a hashtag or @recipe or @recipes and put that to work somehow.
The Cooking Discussions subform in particular has the same content as pix and recipes, because someone will ask "how do I" or "can I" and the responses will be pictures and links to the rest. There's soon no point in keeping just the opening question separate.
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Addicted have you tried to make your own website with the recipies
I am starting one
I went to godaddy and got a url, hosting a website builder for super dirt cheap
they have templates to start off with that have artwork, and you can change that art work
it is super easy and super cheap, I have all of 20 minutes into mine and I will post a link
anyway, the site is just beginning, kind of like a shell right now but check this out
www.roosterfeathersgrill.net
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I plan on (in the kitchen section) posting pictures with a name that will be a link to the recipe and other pictures
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I was just thinking I'd find a way to compile my successful cooks (VERY loosely defined for my purposes as "recipes") and thought, "why not use WKC for that?"
But I'm not sure I can, because redundant content is still spread between the four BBQ & Grilling Forums. For example I posted pix of my "simple chicken thighs" but also the recipe/instructions for how to duplicate it. Where'd I post it ... ? It was an arbitrary decision, as are most. I do understand each of those subforms has a different intent but disagree subforms are helpful, simply because someone decides to post a picture without talk of how it's made or list a recipe without a plated picture.
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New threads with a "recipe focus" could be started with a common visual and textual lexicon
eg: RECIPE: pork sliders
eg: [recipe] pork sliders
Having RECIPE at the beginning of the thread title serves as a visual indicator during a quick page scan. A sorting script that looks for the word "recipe" in thread titles could group them (by date or whatever else you like). Or maybe use a hashtag or @recipe or @recipes and put that to work somehow.
The Cooking Discussions subform in particular has the same content as pix and recipes, because someone will ask "how do I" or "can I" and the responses will be pictures and links to the rest. There's soon no point in keeping just the opening question separate.
I completely agree with you.
I'd like to move the 'official recipe section' out of the forums and onto the main site.
Recipes can certainly (and should be) shared with the thread in food pics.
I think i'll stop working on an image hosting solution, and start working on something for recipes.
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Troy, trust me. If you think your band widtbis wide now, just start hosting images. If no one is on the amount you pay is so much because of other sites displaying your images.
Not worth it unless you have big funds
Let those with copywriting intrest deal with hosting images
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Troy, trust me. If you think your band widtbis wide now, just start hosting images. If no one is on the amount you pay is so much because of other sites displaying your images.
Not worth it unless you have big funds
Let those with copywriting intrest deal with hosting images
The idea was to offer it, along with several others, as a premium feature.
I would only allow a few different domains to serve images.
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...I'd like to move the 'official recipe section' out of the forums and onto the main site.
Recipes can certainly (and should be) shared with the thread in food pics. ...
What's your vision for how this would play out? In the forums, when someone had a recipe to share, they'd link to it, which would take the viewer to a different thread living in a list on the main site? Trying to see how that would be meaningfully different from how it is now, so I'm sure I still don't understand.
And by the way, if I can help in some way let me know. I have more time than money to contribute here.
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Forgive me and delete this if this has been discussed, or done.
Perhaps a mod could make a sticky of a directory of cities/localities where GrillFellas (and potential agents) reside so as CL finds pop up, there is a quick reference of potential agents in the city/locale where the item is located.
Agents can list their names and handles, locales/areas served and preferred method of contact (email/phone)
Ill start.
Jeremy Poshkus (order66)
Areas served: Central MA/North East CT/ Northern RI
Preferred contact: (pirate_flag at icloud dot com)
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...I'd like to move the 'official recipe section' out of the forums and onto the main site.
Recipes can certainly (and should be) shared with the thread in food pics. ...
What's your vision for how this would play out? In the forums, when someone had a recipe to share, they'd link to it, which would take the viewer to a different thread living in a list on the main site? Trying to see how that would be meaningfully different from how it is now, so I'm sure I still don't understand.
And by the way, if I can help in some way let me know. I have more time than money to contribute here.
i don't have all the logistics worked out yet.
i do know that I want the mainsite to features recipes and techniques.
I will definitely take you up on your offer ;)
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Forgive me and delete this if this has been discussed, or done.
Perhaps a mod could make a sticky of a directory of cities/localities where GrillFellas (and potential agents) reside so as CL finds pop up, there is a quick reference of potential agents in the city/locale where the item is located.
Agents can list their names and handles, locales/areas served and preferred method of contact (email/phone)
Ill start.
Jeremy Poshkus (order66)
Areas served: Central MA/North East CT/ Northern RI
Preferred contact: (pirate_flag at icloud dot com)
There's a sticky post in the Introduce Yourself forum.
http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/introduce-yourself/where-is-everyone/
:)
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There's a sticky post in the Introduce Yourself forum.
http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/introduce-yourself/where-is-everyone/
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I can't see the sticky posts when I use Tapatalk, and 90% of my logged in time is from my phone. I doubt that you have much control over the Tapatalk app, but I wonder what percentage of our members use it for a large portion of their participation?
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Forgive me and delete this if this has been discussed, or done.
Perhaps a mod could make a sticky of a directory of cities/localities where GrillFellas (and potential agents) reside so as CL finds pop up, there is a quick reference of potential agents in the city/locale where the item is located.
Agents can list their names and handles, locales/areas served and preferred method of contact (email/phone)
Like this-http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/introduce-yourself/where-is-everyone/
And PM from there
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Just got a new calendar in the mail yesterday and tossed it out. Had cats in it, I don't have any cats unless you count the strays my dog chases.
Was thinking if we (all of us on the site) got got together and got involved we could put one hell of a calendar together with pictures of our grills with our home city and era the grill was built.
I know with smart phones most don't use calendars anymore, but put some Weber grills in one and people would. I know I would.
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Not a bad idea !!!
We already have a bit of a leg up with the "Vent Code Poster"
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http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/vent-codes-a-photographic-history/30/
Some printed ones were done & on that page a download was made available
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After I did the vent poster, I actually started a pin-up calendar of kettles, but the hard part was finding high-res files of enough girls to make it work. maybe it's time to re-open that idea.
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After I did the vent poster, I actually started a pin-up calendar of kettles, but the hard part was finding high-res files of enough girls to make it work. maybe it's time to re-open that idea.
@MartyG is that supposed to be girls or grills? Regardless, I love the idea of bikini clad ladies standing next to gorgeous smoking kettles ;D and going further down the wormhole holding large pieces of BBQ'd meat food
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we'll be having a few photo contests and promotions within the next few months.
we'll make sure to save our high res photos for a 2015 calendar!
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What about adding a function where you can see what the thread is about without having to open it by hovering your mouse pointer over the thread title and the first sentence pops up.
Also, is there a way to add a link to where all new posts are available for viewing no matter what section they are in? I have seen that capability on other websites and use it all the time.
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I know it's the weber kettle club, but since a good amount of us have WSM's, why not start a new section for them.
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What about adding a function where you can see what the thread is about without having to open it by hovering your mouse pointer over the thread title and the first sentence pops up.
Also, is there a way to add a link to where all new posts are available for viewing no matter what section they are in? I have seen that capability on other websites and use it all the time.
That might be good, for instance......what could this be about?
http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/bbq-food-pics/yeah-or-monkeys-could-fly-out-of-my-butt-too/msg28112/#msg28112
Yeah-or-monkeys-could-fly-out-of-my-butt-too............
Might be good to know ahead of time on some of these...... :o