[quote]Chris Colucci wrote:
Yes, let’s. The forums are, and always have been, what the members make of them. The BSL forum seems to be doing just fine, lots of good discussions going on there. The Bodybuilding forum has plenty of competitors talking shop. The T Replacement forum found its rhythm, and Steroids has its Vets setting newbies straight. GAL is GAL, as always. My point is that the members make the forum, for better or worse, with whatever members are currently active.
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Hey, I’m not the one who said they had problems. I’m just responding to what I read on this thread. Like I said, I got my forum that I like haha.
Discussing articles seems like it’s right now up to the members. If someone was compelled to start a thread about today’s article, I’m sure they’d be able to start a “Barefoot Training Article Discussion” thread in BSL or Conditioning, no problem. But, no, you can’t necessarily guarantee the author will catch the thread, because they’re not all as cool as me. If nobody wants to take the initiative even start a thread though, that’s on them then.
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Thats very true, and I’ll even give you the benefit of the doubt that the author will stop by just like they used to and not a single question goes unanswered… But the discussion still wont be linked to the article like in years passed.
As I mentioned, I recently have gone back into the archives as I wanted to review a particular authors work, And after each article you can click Discuss and it takes you to a thread where the author showed up and fielded questions. Its very nice to have that discussion linked to the article, it expands the amount of content and clarification you get.
I suppose you could search the site for the article discussion, and hope the author decided to do the same and stopped in more than once, or then you could search their facebook site and hope the author stopped in there too… But its just not optimal like it was in the passed.
And from a purely business standpoint, I used to return to articles multiple times to see what CT, Dan John, or a whole slew of other authors used to say in the forum/livespill… Which means more exposure to the site, and more opportunities to visit the store. Obviously as a level 100 I’m not exactly a hard sell, but I have to think others used to do this as well. As it stands now I might not even bother visiting an article page more than once.
Bottom line is they took something that worked well, crippled it with the LiveSpill and have now chopped its legs off at the knees with the new way of doing it.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
To try to assist people with questions, and there were many good questions for the two articles I wrote recently, tonight I set up a Facebook account and a Twitter account.
Those that want to ask that way, I’ll endeavour to have replies there.
For those not liking Facebook, starting a thread in an existing forum would work for my articles anyway and probably many articles, perhaps all.[/quote]
Bill! I looked on Facebook and didn’t find you. [/quote]
It’s Facebook , but there’s nothing there as it’s new and I’m not a Facebook guy.
[quote]OldOgre wrote:
A sample of the insight offered from facebook on today’s article.[/quote]
People go in and just. . . write their names? lol[/quote]
They are “tagging” their friends so they read the article. I’ve never understood why these were visible to all FB users, but they are and its extremely annoying.
This is a perfect example of why FaceBook is now a good medium for article discussions
And from a purely business standpoint, I used to return to articles multiple times to see what CT, Dan John, or a whole slew of other authors used to say in the forum/livespill… Which means more exposure to the site, and more opportunities to visit the store… As it stands now I might not even bother visiting an article page more than once.
Bottom linewe they took something that worked well, crippled it with the LiveSpill and have now chopped its legs off at the knees with the new way of doing it.
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I couldn’t agree more! Why can’t they maintain a discussion thread here and leave FB to FB? Maybe there’s a lot more to it than I understand but it’s a valid question.
I had a look over on FB and it’s mostly terrible. Scott Abel article where he slated battling ropes got comments like “I’m giving them up now cuz I want to save my shoulders!”. WTF! No back and forth discussion, just people accepting the written word verbatim and dropping comments like sneaky farts then leaving the room. There’s no learning, there’s no forum, just people slinging comments up on a virtual wall like monkeys throwing shite in the zoo
Unfortunately, forum/c-section traffic has been noticeably down at all of the lifting sites I frequent. I assume moving the discussions to Facecrap and Twitter will increase clicks and $$$. I truly think Facecrap is an atrocious medium for discussion, but I will get back on my front porch now.
As general feed back to anyone whom cares about site feed: I’ve tried the Facebook comment section and it’s near as bad as reading YouTube comments. I think the work put in to this site and Elitefts is exceptional, the former comment withstanding. X
the link after the article takes you to the homepage of TNATION’S facebook account so you can’t find any discussion on the article unless it’s recent.
the majority of comments were either trolling or were made by people who received a personal training cert after studying 2 days at lifetime fitness. All they do is pretend to know more than the authors. One ass hat actually made a comment similar to: “the author obviously doesn’t know anything about blah blah because blah blah.” Fricking Christian Thibaudeau wrote the article!!! I’d rather have nothing than to keep linking articles to facebook.
[quote]sandos wrote:
My problem with this is twofold:
the link after the article takes you to the homepage of TNATION’S facebook account so you can’t find any discussion on the article unless it’s recent.
the majority of comments were either trolling or were made by people who received a personal training cert after studying 2 days at lifetime fitness. All they do is pretend to know more than the authors. One ass hat actually made a comment similar to: “the author obviously doesn’t know anything about blah blah because blah blah.” Fricking Christian Thibaudeau wrote the article!!! I’d rather have nothing than to keep linking articles to facebook. [/quote]
Comments on today’s article on the merits of keeping a training log are equally ridiculous.
[quote]MattyG35 wrote:
Anybody else having the problem of being automatically logged out after they leave the site?
Every time I come back I have to log in again.[/quote]
YES! I was about to post something about it.
Not exactly LiveSpill related, but as long as we have eyes on this thread we may as well point it out. It isnt super inconvenient, but it is something new… Even a few hours of no posting will result in me being logged out.
If nobody wants to take the initiative even 
