Site upgrade work - feedback here

Devesh and myself had posted some comments on BIAL Challenge topic.

Interestingly this doesn't appear in "Recent comments" column. Could this be looked into?

Syed 

 The version just before this, with comments on the left pane, and indicating in which forum, was far more informative.

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Regards

Devesh R. Agarwal

Visit my aviation blog at http://aviation.deveshagarwal.com

Guys,

 I noticed that Weblinks longer than the comment boundaries, appears overshooting the comment box (RHS). This sometimes overlaps the text/messages on right.

 Syed 

will revamp forums

1. remove multiple sub-forums, have simple ones, may be just 2-3 per city
2. remove so many tag "sets" ("where", "project"), make it al free form tagging. But will have just one mandatory tag option - type of post, - crib, idea/suggestion, rant, news/report, research.

Change #2 will apply to blogs/events etc as well. Should make life easy for bloggers and readers alike. Some nice but similar posts are now not shown via "Related posts" as they are split across different tag "sets".

there is some more work pending, will start on them next week:

• Remove some of the clutter on frontpage, especially from first time and non-registered users of the site. There should be less stuff on main page for them, and should have easy access to something like "how the site works"
• Color schemes need work, colors for 'blocks' don't fit in with the banner color
• Petition like concept is ready to be rolled out. Only looking for a petition worthy subject to test it out in live site.
• City specific "recent comments" etc on the city pages (praja.in/<city>)
• City specific site banner (images are ready, need to roll them out)
• ...

Thanks Syed. Fixed now. Problems around images was due to recent changes in the way one attaches and places images inside posts. Regular authors/bloggers would have received notifications on this change.

BTW, we have redone the tracking pages. Trying somethings that will let members create tracking page like things themselves, without requiring administrative technical work. For example, it'd be nice if you could create a BIAL-RTI tracking page yourself to let us all track the BIAL-RTI work the RTI gang is doing.

Admin,

 Just 2 days ago, there used to be newskink related to the big projects like BMIC, BIAL etc. Now they are not to be found on the page. These used to appear on the right side of the page corresponding to the project.

 Any idea why this was removed?

 Syed 

Syed - tracking page has only praja stuff now, posts, and comments. Go to the "Links" page to find news and blog links.

Tarle - paying the price for growth. we are close to the tipping point, where we will need substantial investment to site's infrastructure to support the growing number of readers.

We've been watching it all, and doing somw tweaks to support more readers. We have two main challenges right now (technology wise)

• How to better present all the content we have (which is buried ddep in the site in those wonderful thoughtfull comments
• How to handle the reader/traffic surge (which we are starting to witness)

Working on it guys. Trust us, we are here to stay in this for a real long time, and not run scared of challenges.

Be ready though, to either see some ads, or to contribute some money as the costs of running the site go through the up curve.

Vini - This thread is abt Site Upgrades.

We are given to understand that the BMTC site is undergoing an upgrade & hence, may not be up-to-date, thus, route maps may not be available in all cases.

Anyway, pls try this link for bus route information - the bus no. has to be selected :  123.236.244.54:8080/bmtcinfo/jsp/