Suggestions for the Community
We, the Staff of Geeks (@staffofgeeks), want to know what your suggestions are for Geekswithblogs.net. These are your blogs and we want to know what will make your experience better so we can focus on content and not issues. So please post your suggestions and comment on others.
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301 redirects so we have one URL
I would really like to be able to have ONE url for my site. At the moment my google juice is split between http://geekswithblogs.net/hinshelm and http://blog.hinshelwood.com
I would like to have only http://blog.hinshelwood.com and have all other URL’s 301 to this one. I am happy to support the GWB brand by having a shield on my blog, or to have “Provided by GeeksWithBlogs.net” at the bottom of the template.
10 votesunder review ·
AdminGeekswithblogs.net
(Co-Founder, Geekswithblogs.net) responded
I am definitely leaning your way because we have noticed a drop in Google placement with the custom URLs. We would need to figure out what the link back to GWB would be. More than a side bar badge because the branding is important to searchers who trust GWB content. Would you be apposed to a small 30px bar on the top of the blog with GWB on it and some other tools for readers?
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Add a "source code" block to the blog editor
This would make it much easier to post actual source code without it looking like plain text or a big mess. Many forums have this tool available (e.g. put [source][/source] around the source code) and it would be awesome if GWB had a similar tool.
9 votesunder review ·AdminGeekswithblogs.net
(Co-Founder, Geekswithblogs.net) responded
I definitely like the idea you have here. Do the offerings in WLW for source plugins not work for you? Also, what if we integrated with a snippet provider instead?
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Comment suggestion
Just to follow up, I like this:
Figure: http://www.cookcomputing.com/blog/archives/000223.htmlSo maybe an optional integration with http://disqus.com/
5 votesunder review ·AdminGeekswithblogs.net
(Co-Founder, Geekswithblogs.net) responded
OK, so making GWB comments hotswapable with other comment providers. Who else is there besides disqus?
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Gist Support
I wish I could put gists from github.com in my blogposts. I need the ability to use script tags to do so though.
4 votesunder review ·AdminGeekswithblogs.net
(Co-Founder, Geekswithblogs.net) responded
What exactly would you want integrated? Just a list of your recent Gists on the sidebar as a Widget or someone linking them into posts?
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Add the ability to put users in a "group"
It would be great if users could create groups and "invite" other people to be in their group, making it easy for users to see blogs/articles written by other people in their group. The idea behind this is our company wants a developers blog, but don't want to host it ourselves. If we could create a "group" that only our staff belong to, then developers would be posting blogs/articles on your site for all to see, but with the main intention that it is useful for other developers at our company.....basically allowing for an easy way for people to see… more
3 votesunder review ·AdminGeekswithblogs.net
(Co-Founder, Geekswithblogs.net) responded
Definitely like this idea
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Make sure that any catagory/tags are included in RSS
Wither you are keeping catagories or chnaging to a more fluid tagging system please make sure that you have the tags added to the RSS:
<item>
<title>TFS 2010 Build: Dealing with the API restriction error</title>
<category>Team Build</category>
<category>VSTS 2010</category>
<category>TFS</category>3 votes -
Enable delete of URL links
Is is possible to have anoption whereby URL links on comments can be deleted without dropping the rest rest of the comment. The reason I ask this is that I receive many comments that are just an excuse to post a link to some other site.
2 votesunder review ·AdminGeekswithblogs.net
(Co-Founder, Geekswithblogs.net) responded
Currently we only remove the comments, but all links are nofollow specific. Why would you want to remove the links but leave the comment?
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I want to create a blog on GWB, but after register, I didn't get any feedback, so please give us more information even no access
I want to create a blog on GWB, but after register, I didn't get any feedback, so please give us more information even no access, that will make our experience better.
1 voteunder review ·AdminGeekswithblogs.net
(Co-Founder, Geekswithblogs.net) responded
We currently do not provide feedback, but would be open to it. Did you sign up for a blog at some point? What was your email or blog requested URL?
