WC Poll: How Are We Doing?
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Monday, June 25, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
It's time again for a new WinCustomize poll. But before we launch into the new poll for the week, let's take a gander at last week's results.
Last week, I asked how often you changed your desktop skin, providing a range of options from constantly to never. We saw a fairly decent turn-out on the poll, here are the results:
| How often do you change your desktop skin? | |
| Several times a day! | 3% |
| Once every day or two | 24.89% |
| About once a week | 30.9% |
| Once a month | 21.03% |
| Every few months | 15.45% |
| I don't remember the last time I changed skins | 4.27% |
Based on the results, most people here go through at least once skin change a month, with only a small percentage either changing their skins constantly or never. The sweet-spot seems to be once every week or two. But a good question remains of why they only change when they do. Is it because of a lack of perceived quality? A lack in volume? Or is it simply because that's as often as people feel the need to make a change. I don't know exactly, but if you'd like, please share your reasons in the comments below.
Now it's time for this weeks question: How Have We Been Doing?
WinCustomize 2007 went live just over 5 months ago, and we've seen some significant improvements in speed, stability and functionality. However, the technical aspect of the site is only one aspect. On the other side of the coin we have site content (news, polls, articles, contests) forum & skin moderation, and administrator & moderator interaction via forums/email. Since the launch of the new site, all of these have been top priorities for us as we work very hard to make the site both more welcoming, and more useful/interesting to users both new and old. What I'd like to know now is how you think we're doing, overall, in running this site.
The poll this week is the typical grading scale, from A to F (no plusses or minuses). So give us some feedback on how we've done this half of the year. Take all factors into consideration and don't judge based on just one aspect. If you have specific comments on improvements, please leave them in the comments.
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Reply #42 Friday, June 29, 2007 10:34 PM
With FF, click name, middle click any option opens in new tab.
Reply #43 Friday, June 29, 2007 10:42 PM
Logging in is often a pain, takes 3 or 4 attempts and when issue is bad ( as it was today ) takes about 1 min to get the oops about nick or password not correct page or to finally log in. ( this is on a 5 meg dsl ) ( even after running CCleaner, so cache and cookies cleared, still slow.)
This happens often, for whatever reason leaving the forums to home page then coming back to forums speeds things up for a while.
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Reply #41 Friday, June 29, 2007 10:19 PM
I'm a daily visitor on average, but this summer is turning out to be full of fun stuff down at the Snake River park here: Bluegrass Festivals, concerts, art-walks/fairs, just a hoot. 91F here today!
Managing to at least check in every two days if not daily. Improvements?..."if it ain't broke, don't try and 'fix' it". WC has its own "look", different than others a bit, here and there, but I'm used to it and it's good. Took a bit of grumbling when it changed, but now it rocks here. Thanks for the tip on # of works displayed per page, I'll have to try that. With the crew here and all they put into WC, we've got the best place I've found on the web, bar none. A couple/few really close runner-ups, though. Feels like running shoulder-to-shoulder with the buffalo. Yee Haw!
I'm a hog for ya, baby, can't get enough!