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Folks,
We're now, officially, a year into this Think Out Loud experiment, and we thought it was high time to redesign our website. There were of course a few things we wanted to change ourselves, but we were even more interested in the changes you were hoping for. So we talked to many of you -- listeners and commenters and lurkers -- to figure out what was working on the site and what could be improved. Your input was immensely helpful.
The biggest complaint we heard, over and over, was that you wanted a clearer and easier to navigate site. In particular, you wanted to always know what shows were coming up. That concern was one of the guiding principles of this redesign.
In most ways this new site should act just like the old site. We'll put information up about our shows, provide a forum for your discussions about those shows, and sometimes follow up with photos or reflections or audio extras. We still want your show ideas, and are eager to help foster conversations that will live on after the hour of live radio. Your old username and password will work. (If you forgot your password, you can reset it here.)
In fact the changes are relatively subtle. One of the changes I'm most excited about (and not just because I spent Christmas week as a one-man tagging party) is that you can now navigate by tags, which means that if, say, you want to see a list of all the shows we've done about race, you can. Ditto for medicine. Or salmon. The other big change is that information that's not directly about a show -- like, for example, this post -- will now show up in this "Producer's Blog."
One final note: the guts of this new site are in good shape but the outside may need a bit of buffing and massaging over the next few weeks. Bear with us as we do the final tweaks in public!
And if you have any specific questions or problems with the site's performance, please drop us a line:
thinkoutloud ((at)) opb.org
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New site. Congratulations. Thanks for playing Herbie's *Butterfly* and *Gentle Thoughts* as bumpers. Brings back good memories. I'm using Firefox 3.0.5 and right now the screen is only half width. Have fun getting the site together!
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Could you arrange the order of shows from newest to oldest so the newest show in a category appears at the top of the page?
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Call in phone number should be displayed on the site clearly.
What is the limit of characters per post? Perhaps let folks know easily.
Good show and the site will improve, hang in there and get the site development team working on upgrades/bug fixes right away or folks will not bother to post, IMHO.
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I don't see a place to submit ideas for future shows. You should have an easy to find link posted on your new site.
Idaho Power is trying to ram a 500kv transmission line through Eastern Oregon. They have not complied with notification requirements and are now pitting communities and counties against each other using route selection (not in my backyard or county) instead of whether they can come through our state and what rights we have as citizens to stop or alter the process.
I propose a show addressing the rights of the citizen to receive information on projects of this sort and how to fight and appeal the decisions made by state and federal officials. It would be great to have a show specifically about the Idaho Power transmission line. -
We're working on it! And thanks for this suggestion.
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TOL 2.0 is looking and working better. Like the wysiwig formatting instead of the bogus formatting codes. There still seems to be a limit to the length of my rants (which is a good thing). Is there a limit? Love the tag cloud for organizing and perceiving topic activity. Like that the call-in phone number is almost the first item on help page. Maybe some day I'll call in. Nah! Psyche! Good job.
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