Are there any ways the Mises.org experience could be better? Do you have any problems with how the website is structured? What could be added, or taken away?
The UI on the forums could be improved.
I wish the audio and video lectures were better organized. As it is now, the daily audio versions of articles are lumped in with lectures, which sometimes makes it a pain to navigate through the archives, especially for Rothbard. That would be my only suggestion; everything else is great.
A great addition would be a wiki, methinks. Though there are some libertarian wikis out there, mises.org should attract more authors.
Marked: The UI on the forums could be improved.
Maybe I'm missing something, but when somebody replies to you in a forum do you automatically get notified? Whenever I post I am constantly checking back to the forums to see if anyone replied to my post.
I wish you could download the individual chapters of audio books without going to that chapter's web page. For example, let's say that chapters 1-10 of a book are listed, as it is now, you must click chapter one, then download that chapter once that chapter's page loads. I think it would be better if you could simply right click on chapter one and download the mp3 file from there, without having to load another page.
Metus wrote: A great addition would be a wiki,
A great addition would be a wiki,
http://wiki.mises.org/
I would love to see a mobile version of the site, m.mises.org or some such, with the content optimized for the smaller screen. It would also be great if the forums were Tapatalk compatible.
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Jesus Christ, make me see again, for I am blind.
Though that'd be another point, make it more obvious ... off to explore the pages.
"I wish the audio and video lectures were better organized. As it is now, the daily audio versions of articles are lumped in with lectures, which sometimes makes it a pain to navigate through the archives, especially for Rothbard. That would be my only suggestion; everything else is great." - Lewis S.
That would be my wish as well, along with one other thing: public speaking lessons for the presenters. I love the lectures that are available, but some of them are hard if not impossible to listen to. I'm sure Joe Salerno is brilliant, but he stutters so damn much he coukld probably give the same lecture in half the time minus the stutters. And Thomas DiLorenzo has a tendency to start every sentence at FULL VOLUME and then trail off at the end, which has a tendency to put people to sleep. Some of the other presenters say "um" and "ah" between every word of every sentence for the entire lecture. When AH someone UM keeps AH saying UM and AH over UM and UM over AH and UM over AH again, it gets noticable and severely annoying. As a product being put out to the public, the presentation of many of the speakers could be dramatically improved with a simple public speaking class to make them aware of these speech habits.
Metus,
They only just launched it. That's why you didn't know.
Fix the quoting system.
Freedom has always been the only route to progress.
When was the wiki launched? Just so I know. How did so many pages get already there?
Libertyandlife: Fix the quoting system.
Yep.
Also, when searching for mp3s on a topic, have the results be direct links to the mp3s, so that one can use a download manager such as Download Them All to download them all right from that page.
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See, I would have loved to properly quote the above as the top priorty for improving the Mises forums, however I couldn't because...the quoting system is broken. Fix the quoting system.
The Wiki was officially launched today. But it's been live in development for several days.
Fix the forum in general, but make fixing the quoting system a priority.
I think it'd be nice to have more of a focus on current news. If that's possible.
Make it so that clickable links in a forum post automatically open a new tab/page, it currently sends you from the mises.org forums to whatever page is linked.
Ok definitely would like mises.org to add a button to post mises daily and blog posts to twitter. Very similar in fashion to the button on youtube, which shortens the link and allows you to add a comment with it and post directly to twitter. I tweet a ton on mises daily articles and its a bit cumbersome to have to copy the link, go to bit.ly and shorten it, then open twitter and post there. Its particularly a pain in the ass to do that on my droid.
I would bet mises.org would get even more exposure on twitter if you added that functionality.
At least he wasn't a Keynesian!
about twittering; that may be the kind of function you can use a 'bookmarklet' for.
I googled and found this (for example, maybe it doesn't work or there are better... i don't twitter myself...)
http://dev.twitter.com/pages/share_bookmarklet
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Yes. Buy a real, commercial bulletin-board. The home-brew thing is crap. The "new, improved" interface is non-functional (it's months now and we still can't quote). It's not that expensive. DCForums is one of the better ones I've used.
Clayton -
The front page does not show the newest videos. The newest video is Introducing the New Mises Wiki while the front page shows the newest video as The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law.
So ironic considering the five or so spam threads above this one.
Dustin Jussila: Are there any ways the Mises.org experience could be better? Do you have any problems with how the website is structured? What could be added, or taken away?
Seems every other time I post something, the site thinks I'm a spambot and sends me to the captcha check. I wish that wasn't happening.
^^^ Holy SHIT this.
I just tried to make a thread and the site went FBI on me.
It feels like this forum interface is falling apart everywhere.
FFS I'm willing to donate if this site can get something based off ipboard of Vanilla or something functional. This interface seems nice at first view, but damn...
Well I would suggest llinking it to http://www.disqus.com as then people reply on disqus. You can follow people on it and they can follow you. You have 3 choices of replies: everything (meaning everyone you follow); your comments only; replies to you where you can click on context to see what you said that is getting replied to. And you can do all this on your disqus dashboard, and you can edit on it. All this fancy stuff won't show up but links will be hot. Besides disqus is used on a lot of other sites so you can reply on them without registering so it makes it easier that people who are registered with disqus already don't have to go through a separate registration process. Much simplet.
The "daily articles" are pretty dry and boring. I hardly read them anymore. Once you read a few, you get the gist and everything seems more of the same.