FG Feedback Time

[GazzaGarratt 11,122]

Looking for a bit of feedback everyone!

 

Always want to keep everything as fresh as we can here, and I know we have an awful lot of stuff to get involved in - sometimes too much! At the same time, its ours and we can do loads of things together so why not!

 

FG has lots of spaces so would be ace as I'm starting to look at how we can keep everything fresh here, what parts you'd like better, more of, confuse you, don't understand, want more on how to get involved, anything missing we should have....the list i'm sure goes on.

 

To help if you are struggling what things to send me feedback on, here's a breakdown of areas we have now or had in the past:

 

• Forums
• Articles
• Blog
• Videos
• Quizzes
• Events
• Predictions
• Merch
• Achievements / Medals
• Memberships
• Game Hubs
• Guides and Tips
• History
• Ideas
• Leaderboard
• Polls
• Raffles
• Roadmap
• Search
• Servers
• Tournaments
• FG Team
• Themes

 

Most of these you can find in the menus on FG - just click the burger 3 line menu on mobile or hover over 'More' on the menu bar on PC.

 

I'm all good taking any feedback, good, bad or just comments. If we don't know, we can't improve.

 

Cheers all!

[Luseth 2,046]

Honestly, there is probably too much? Maybe condense it a little and make some of the things more of a feature i.e. if you were to keep quizes, do them more regularly? Or alternatively see if we can get some FG members to take ownership of certain areas? I.e. Someone running prediction league or someone who might be keen enough to regularly add quizes?

 

I haven't put anything next to everything but have put a little reply next to a lot of them 🙂 

 

• Forums - Fine as they are, generally I just read the new topics and see if there is anything new for me to respond to.
• Articles - Honestly, I'm not sure of the purpose of this area? Is it just an FG article or can it be an article on anything? I.e. review of a game etc?
• Blog  - I did not know there was one?  Might be good to do this whether it's the summary of upcoming events like your whatsapp posts you were doing or sessions that have been done the week before.
• Videos - I don't think anything need's to change here
• Quizzes - Just need's more of them, see note above maybe about ownership.
• Events - Trying my best to keep on top of adding them but need people to engage more sometimes 🙂 Once one or two reply to an event others then follow
• Predictions - Fine, I just found it difficult to find time to sit down and put them in sometimes.
• Merch - I don't suppose you could get a hoody sorted with a zip down the middle could you? I do like the white one's but I find general hoodies a little restrictive (I know it's a personal preference thing)
• Achievements / Medals - Good as they are.
• Memberships - I keep meaning to resub, will sort it out later this month.
• Game Hubs - Not sure what these were?
• Guides and Tips - This is one of those areas that unless people ask for a guide nothing will probably get posted. It's also maybe too restrictive in that it's got the 6 games and it's not obvious where to post guides related to other games?
• History - Apparently FG has no history since 2013 😛 
• Raffles - We need more of these, unnanounced so it encourages people to check the site more regularly.
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[James 1,650]

I somewhat agree with @Luseth, less is more sometimes. Which is probably why the WhatsApp and Discord chats do so well. Easy to use and takes no effort whatsoever. The forum is a good example of this on the website.

 

I think unless it benefits people they’re not going to use it, a good example of this is the events… it takes so much effort to get people to click one button because it does nothing for them.

 

I, as most others probably do, use FG as an archive and large discussions space. If you want to create more movement it needs to be a tool to either create discussion (competing with WhatsApp) or create/share content like videos or games/quizzes/competitions.

[WelchyTV 484]

As a newer member to the site, I would say the main thing I notice is that there seems to be a lot of underused features.

 

I wonder if there could be an easier way to keep up to date with what’s going on in the community without having to go through all the different tabs and forums? Could we have a ‘features’ or ‘what’s on’ page, which highlights the main events going on. The page could show the next and upcoming FG events, a hot topic from the forums, latest videos being uploaded, new quiz posted etc etc. 

 

It wouldn’t even have to be the most recent posts and not everything posted needs to be featured, but if there is a forum post that you or any moderators here think is worthy of being ‘front page news’. 
 

Essentially a place that just makes it easier for members to see what is going on. I often forget to look at the events tab and don’t even know until this post that there was a quiz tab!! 
 

I quite like @Luseth idea of having certain members being responsible for certain areas too.

[IRaMPaGe 3,283]

I'm overall pretty happy with how things are, but I do agree with Luseth. 

 

Some areas are not being used as much. 

Maybe due to interest or general knowledge of existence. 

Maybe trim some fat, keep the majority of what we have tho. 

 

I think the "Your Picks" for cod maps and guns isn't really worthwhile. 

It was a good idea, but we can easily discuss such things in topics or vote on polls. 

I think that we could get shot of it. 

 

I do admire the work and effort of especially Lee, that he puts in here. 

 

If anyone has geniuene good ideas for things to add, I think we should look at what can we rid of first. 

 

But the current layout, features etc we have are really good. 

It's something that has improved on vastly over time. 

[GazzaGarratt 11,122]

This is brilliant, thank you all so far. I've known for a while we have underutilised sections and its a cyclical thing really. We really removed things over time to make it simplistic and then I added new features on top over time to keep the place fresh and worth coming back to it. This feedback really helps work out where we can potentially remove certain areas off the main focus when they don't seem to be being used and try and circulate more key features.

 

I think I've always been clear on one principle that has to stay for FG to work for me and that's the website being our main HOME. WhatsApp is chill and great for connecting, as is Discord, but its not personable as this place as is viewed as 'your place', not standardised bland group chats. One thing is for sure, I need to pick Announcements again, which are similar to what Welchy picks up around what's on. It was essentially a notification system of telling you all there's some new shit this week, go and check it out. It was just something that takes a while to get used to doing because everything requires time. Time around work, life, home, kids, etc. We can all make time though, if we want stuff to work.

 

And I'd love to try yet another way of getting more people involved, I won't stop trying different ways to ask people if they want to get in on the FG act - just note that's its not the first I've asked everyone so its on everyone to recognise that a little more stepping up to the plate is all that's needed for FG to grow and flourish.

 

So with that in mind, whilst I take some thought on some changes, let this be the place for the first way to gather interest on who would love to be involved in this stuff. Even if its just one small part of FG, it all counts. Remember, there's many things where people can immediately add value by just going into that section and creating or interacting with it. Quizzes, for example, ANYONE can create one if you are an FGer. I have also linked very many medals and achievements for interacting with this type of stuff, including responding to Events so it all counts, especially if you can see a nice shiny medal on your FG profile.

 

 

Please keep the feedback coming in here everyone - its great we've had 4 comments above but more feedback and dialogue in here between us all will really help get things going at FG 👊

[LordBaguette 849]

What is FG? - this will be a serious, long winded essay of a reply, but Lee has told me to edit this beforehand to say ‘under construction’  until I finish 

[Luseth 2,046]

@GazzaGarratt any chance you could make it so event cover photos can use other image types? Webp seem's to be most common at the moment to find so might be worth incorporating here?

[GazzaGarratt 11,122]

1 hour ago, Luseth said:

@GazzaGarratt any chance you could make it so event cover photos can use other image types? Webp seem's to be most common at the moment to find so might be worth incorporating here?

 

Current software restraints from webp being used unfortunately.

 

However, there is a huge update to the software at Invision coming very soon and that will allow webp I believe - we will need to do some significant lift and shifting for that once it is ready.

[phil bottle 9,889]

Some lazy fuckers in the community need to post more and support their community. Costs nothing 🙂 that's my 2024 feedback, you're welcome 🤣

[Luseth 2,046]

1 hour ago, GazzaGarratt said:

 

Current software restraints from webp being used unfortunately.

 

However, there is a huge update to the software at Invision coming very soon and that will allow webp I believe - we will need to do some significant lift and shifting for that once it is ready.

Ah fair enough, I can obviously convert them when needed. It would have just removed a step for me ^_^

[GazzaGarratt 11,122]

2 minutes ago, Luseth said:

Ah fair enough, I can obviously convert them when needed. It would have just removed a step for me ^_^

 

And for us all mate. Plus would reduce storage space dramatically! Quite a lot to do back end before we get it though and a few decisions to make on where we store FG in teh interwebz too....

 

48 minutes ago, phil bottle said:

Some lazy fuckers in the community need to post more and support their community. Costs nothing 🙂 that's my 2024 feedback, you're welcome 🤣

 

Amen to that ❤️ It will cost us at some point though and I hope people want it enough to be here forever ❤️🖤

[J4MES OX4D 10,108]

The site has been pretty dead for the past few months I feel and I think a large portion of it could be trimmed down. Many of the game sub forums could be removed or replaced with newer/more popular titles. Overwatch, ESO, Diablo 4, Hunt Showdown and Valheim all probably don't warrant their own space now either by virtue of diminishing popularity and/or their age. 

[Luseth 2,046]

On 12/30/2024 at 12:13 PM, GazzaGarratt said:

 

Amen to that ❤️ It will cost us at some point though and I hope people want it enough to be here forever ❤️🖤

 

Sadly it's like everything people need to use it or lose it so to speak!

 

It's the same story with high streets, pubs, Shops, local authority facilities. I have gone a bit backwards on everything recently, you need to take care of the things you have or one day it won't be there anymore. (Heck it's the same with the planet). But for some reason people do not seem to understand it and only moan once things are gone!

[phil bottle 9,889]

I don't like the front page, can only see 5 latest topics and the rest is a distraction from that. Sort it. 🤗

[James 1,650]

1 hour ago, phil bottle said:

I don't like the front page, can only see 5 latest topics and the rest is a distraction from that. Sort it. 🤗

I agree… which makes me concerned 😂

[GazzaGarratt 11,122]

1 hour ago, phil bottle said:

I don't like the front page, can only see 5 latest topics and the rest is a distraction from that. Sort it. 🤗

 

I reduced it from 10, mainly because we get no feedback either way if its good or bad 🤣 This is the best news now we have some! What catches the eye? Back to 10? Or anything latest specific feeds?

 

I may remove all time top 5/10 because again, not sure it adds value on homepage. We have to keep testing and learning.

[phil bottle 9,889]

3 minutes ago, GazzaGarratt said:

 

I reduced it from 10, mainly because we get no feedback either way if its good or bad 🤣 This is the best news now we have some! What catches the eye? Back to 10? Or anything latest specific feeds?

 

I may remove all time top 5/10 because again, not sure it adds value on homepage. We have to keep testing and learning.

 

Cheers yeah I agree and back to 10 is good. It only really matters when the forum is busy but it's much easier to track and not miss people's posts with 10 

[GazzaGarratt 11,122]

15 minutes ago, phil bottle said:

Cheers yeah I agree and back to 10 is good. It only really matters when the forum is busy but it's much easier to track and not miss people's posts with 10 

 

Done. If we can get latest hot topics and other FG stuff to the front then thats the plan, but I think it will always require people to help with this to make that happen.

[phil bottle 9,889]

3 minutes ago, GazzaGarratt said:

 

Done. If we can get latest hot topics and other FG stuff to the front then thats the plan, but I think it will always require people to help with this to make that happen.

Much better 🖤❤️