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(like the radio thingy) or any clue if it is still being worked on or dropped dead for months.
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Nov 21 2012, 08:33 PM
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Hi there and first of all - thank you for this feedback, it is very useful to us!
I'll try to answer some of the questions posted here. QUOTE The wiki itself also seems a bit overwhelming and it's not that easy to sort out what is new, what is worked on, what is an actual article or a link to a forum section. Posting dates on the articles might help a lot. The links to the dates and "last modified" can be seen in the very footer of all the wiki pages, example: http://screencast.com/t/faN7neRyzVaj However - this project (Guitar Wiki) isn't regularly updated unfortunately (same as wikipedia - guitar wiki is student driven project where students add content). At the moment, it should be used mostly for information it contains (some killer articles!). We also use it as a neat way for presenting articles (by linking to it from forum the forum or some other place), REC scoreboard and similar stuff that needs that kind of format. QUOTE there are sections I stumbled across I have no idea where to find now (like the radio thingy) or any clue if it is still being worked on or dropped dead for months. Guitar Wiki has an independent search which works well, please try it out : http://screencast.com/t/r6SXqYPFms QUOTE For instance the Workshops page, not sure what it is going to tell me about workshops but it actually looks like some page with current content thrown together that is already around on other main sections of the site aswell (chat link on the top, latest lessons on the main page and on the guitar lessons start page, latest forum threads) kind of looks like it is there to promote cool new stuff (which is ok, but the mainpage kind of already does the same, doesn't it?) Community section has that "latest finished collabs" thing which is dated back to march. You are right - this page is meant to showcase different activities (video responses, forum/chat activity etc). However, we are planning to redesign/replace this page in the future. QUOTE the current lessons page only allows filtering for 1 category and display newest and top rated of that. would be great to get more branching (picking a category and then be still able to pick a difficulty, sort by instructor name, etc) Yes, we are considering searching options on the lesson pages. It is very hard to present an archive of almost 3000 lessons in a confortable and user friendly way. We are definitely going to keep working on this until we find the way! At the moment - we suggest using the search that is available on all the pages in the site header : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/search/ You'll notice that we have upgraded it and made it smart, so it now shows search term recommendations based on what you type in it. Could be very useful for finding some cool lessons!  QUOTE all I see is the number of facebook likes which doesn't seem to affect the order of the "highest rated" lessons. Also doesn't seem to be ordered by the actual views. some magic formula behind it? Actually yes - we do have a "magic formula" here It takes in account several factors that are used to measure the lesson popularity in order to showcase the cool ones. We used to have a "rate" button in the lessons though so the word "Rated" might be somewhat confusing in this case now that we don't use it anymore. Functionality should be still correct though!QUOTE some advanced search function would be nice. At the moment forum can be searched from the general GMC Search that is located in the header of the site or through individual forum sections search : http://screencast.com/t/Z6vMiWvp4KI5 More advanced search can be found here : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo....php?act=Search We might add a more accessible link to it in the future. QUOTE What is the vintage GMC section supposed to be? For now it looks like old forum sections thrown together and kind of archived but still open for new threads and posts? This is where all the previous forum structure was archived. We are considering closing it for New Topics creation though as topics started in those sections do not get that much traffic as the ones in new structure. QUOTE so why was the old structure replaced by sth that has only 2 sections for general discussion and if the vintage GMC forum with its subsections should be still in use, why does nobody use it? Old forum structure got too complicated and big over time for the traffic/activity it was receiving. It became very hard to navigate and find new stuff in it due to all the sub sections. Also a lot of stuff there got outdated and therefor even more confusing. New forum structure was introduced as an answer to current forum activity level and needs. It should also be much easier to approach to folks that do not have much forum using experience as it has much lesson sections + it looks much cleaner. New forum structure also pushes up front instructor activity and personal boards. For following new posts/forum we always suggest using this button which can be found in the forum header - View New Posts : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...amp;CODE=getnew It is very neat for catching up with activities! Thanks for the feedback - please keep it coming! -------------------- For GMC support please email support (at) guitarmasterclass.net
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Nov 21 2012, 09:22 PM
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QUOTE (Bogdan Radovic @ Nov 21 2012, 11:33 AM)  Yes, we are considering searching options on the lesson pages. It is very hard to present an archive of almost 3000 lessons in a confortable and user friendly way. We are definitely going to keep working on this until we find the way! At the moment - we suggest using the search that is available on all the pages in the site header : https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/search/ You'll notice that we have upgraded it and made it smart, so it now shows search term recommendations based on what you type in it. Could be very useful for finding some cool lessons! If I can insert a "nice to have" here - if you choose an instructor from the Guitar Lessons' tab you'll get a comprehensive listing of lessons. If you choose a lesson, you leave the page. The only way back is the back-button, and if you're like me, you want to view all the lessons but hitting the back-button doesn't retain what you just watched, so you have to scan the list to see (and remember) where you left off to see the next lesson. Ideally, it would be great to have lesson navigation on the player page itself so that when you're done with the lesson, you can choose the next lesson from that instructor! Kind of like youtube's scrolling list of video playlists. Cheerios! Chris -------------------- The more I practice, the more I wish I had time to practice!
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Nov 27 2012, 11:22 PM
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QUOTE (Kristofer Dahl @ Nov 22 2012, 12:28 AM) Agreed - it would be cool to have more controls within the video player! ("go to next video part", "next lesson this series" etc) My preference would be to have a pick list of lesson names with their level - but I'm a pipe dreamer Snappy job on the new video chat functionality. I saw it for the first time and was blown away! Great choice - absolutely love it! -------------------- The more I practice, the more I wish I had time to practice!
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