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Permalink Reply by Jack on November 29, 2010 at 6:16am
I agree with Ten layers, I don't think a large number of boxes, tages, names and divisions are desirable. The search function is effective. Perhaps a few more category choices for forum discussions would be useful. Seems that most people do not select a category for their discussion, which may be part of why some people think the forum is disorganized. Here's the current forum discussiion category choices and the number of discussions in each as of this morning: UNCATEGORIZED 455, RADIO 10, RECOMMENDATIONS 36, GEAR 2, GREAT SONGS 24, INDIE ARTISTS 15. That's 6 categories, 542 discussions, of which 455 or about 84% of forum discussions aren't categorized when started. I'm ok with the existing category choices, perhaps people should suggest additional categories. I do think that using groups is an effective means of starting off topic discussions and would not want to see non-music discussions featured or placed in places of prominence on the site. While I do chip in on political tangents in some discussions, and do enjoy when music and political discussions merge for appropriate reasons, mostly I enjoy the lack of political discussion on this site. I'd hate for ND to turn into a music/books/politics/food/restaurant/movie/sports one size fits all site. It's great when some discussions do off on tangents, but as Ten Layers notes, they all seem to come back on topic pretty nicely.
Permalink Reply by Kyla Fairchild on November 29, 2010 at 8:43am
People rarely choose a category for the forum discussions that they create so Kim has been trying to go back and categorize them, but it's a big job and she's already working more than she should helping to manage the site!

If anyone wants to suggest additional forum categories that would be great and beyond that, anyone is welcome to send Kim the URL link to discussions along with the categories you think they should reside under. That would help us towards the goal of getting as many as possible categorized.
Permalink Reply by David Smith on November 28, 2010 at 10:12pm
Youtube videos load WAAAY too slow from this website. So much so that I don't come here as often as I would otherwise.
The paper version of "No Depression" is (was?) my favorite music mag of all time.
Permalink Reply by Kyla Fairchild on November 28, 2010 at 10:42pm
Thanks for the feedback David. I've been noticing that myself and wasn't sure if it was my internet connection or the site in general. Sometimes it seems fine and other times not so much. The ND site is built on the Ning platform so we have no control over the back end programming, page load times, etc. It's mostly great to be on Ning as we can't generate enough revenue to pay developers so ND couldn't exist without Ning, but it's also frustrating to not have any control over the things that we deem important for the site.
Permalink Reply by RP N10 on November 28, 2010 at 11:29pm
I tend to download videos from youtube in MP4 format. The ning doesn't (or didn't last time I tried) accept an upload in this format.
Permalink Reply by Kim Ruehl on November 29, 2010 at 2:56am
It looks like they accept that kind now. According to the note on the video page: You can add up to 30 videos at a time, and each video may be up to 100MB in size. We support videos in the .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .avi, .wmv, .3gp, and .3g2 file formats.

But, I think the best way to add YouTube videos here that I've found is to click on the YouTube link on the videos page, and then paste the embed code into the box that comes up. It works pretty much instantly.
Permalink Reply by RP N10 on November 30, 2010 at 4:51am
Thanks. I will give it a go. I agree the embed works well but so far as I know it's a link to youtube and that's what David was commenting on the performance of above.
Permalink Reply by Easy Ed on November 30, 2010 at 6:31am
Just a note...I'm having a hard time uploading any videos while using Safari. I need to jump over to Firefox in order for the embed codes to work. Anybody else with this situation?
Permalink Reply by Adam Sheets on November 30, 2010 at 6:32am
I'm on Google Chrome and I have no problems with uploading or watching videos.

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