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[Peter Green <peter AT greenpete.free>]

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>Good work to all participating in the changes. Looks so much better now.

Great! :-)

>in comparison with the old style.

So the next step is to improve further. Has anyone ideas to move forward?

A couple of ideas I've got are possibly some sort of survey of visitors to 
the site, maybe using a popup questionnaire asking what visitors are looking 
for at the site, so we can arrange the site to maximise engagement and 
satisfaction.
S.E.O. is also something to increase visitors.

To try and keep people on our network they need to have places to go, 
resourses to use etc. This requires a good search engine. I don't know what 
others think, but personally I find results from the main one we do have 
disappointing.
Given that people new to OpenNIC will be used to the likes of Google et al, 
we need to offer something closer to that than we do I feel. I have 
researched this and tried out systems and find it's way beyond my 
capabilities. Maybe grep.geek could be tweaked and re skinned to look more up 
to date and give better results?

It's a shame Seth didn't keep the directory going that he started, a links 
directory is a great idea and would help fill a gap until search improves.

It could be that there isn't much to search for and that's why search results 
arn't great, which I see as another weakness of the network, it needs way 
more content!
Does anyone remember what system Seth used? I would happily set one up and 
host it.

Another idea I had and worked on for weeks without the success I wanted was a 
live Linux CD that was preconfigured to use OpenNIC nameservers and have 
sites preset in the browsers bookmarks.
If anyone feels that could help people get into OpenNIC that has the skills 
to create such a distro, I'd love to talk with them and offer what I have 
done as a contribution and collaborate on the project.

Peter

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