London Cycling Campaign

It seems that if you cut a paste into the 'reply' box all the formatting is lost. This is a test message to see if direct typing format is also lost......................... and how line wrapping in handled. Charlie PS you can use the advanced reply form to insert formatting, or edit you reply after it appears.

Would be nice to have a heading for each forum so that at the top you can see which forum you are in. currently this is only a red highligh in the sidebar. If you are further down the list you have to scroll down to check.

I like the way you have provided maps for each event, but please could we have OSM instead of Google Maps. I have noticed that my email address is given in clear on the events page for an events that I posted (I gave it as jean AT dollimore.net on the old website). Please would you rectify this. Please also tell me how I can edit the entry for Cyclists Breakfast so that I can correct an error in the times given rather than having to reply.

This content was deleted by George Coulouris at 07:26pm 01 Jun 2011.

Great to see the Cyclestreets.net route finder on the Home page. The entire box should be made clickable to take you to the full rote planner page, so that users can click on the map to choose there start and finish points, rather than just type in addresses.

The events listing seems to be in a very large font size which means that you don't see many events at all on the screen without scrolling. However when you then click on a specific event some of the details (eg ride difficulty) are very small. I think it would be easier to read if the fonts were a) smaller on the main page and b) larger for those details. Two other comments on the events list - firstly there doesn't appear to be any sort of filter obvious to select just say rides, or workshops so you have to read through all the titles and descriptions, and secondly for rides it gives the "borough" but no indication on whether it is a ride organised by a borough group (I think this was included on the old website).

I like the new website design, it's a vast improvement over the old one. The route finder is a handy tool to have direct access to. One suggestion I have for the moment is that on the gear review pages it has a website for the manufacturer but it's not a hyperlink. Its a small point but will improve usability. Thanks Steve

I think Forums should be a separate tab from Rides & Local.

How do you start a new topic thread?

If you edit a post it says "edited by..." but text is unchanged.

I'm enjoying finding my way around the site ... I think it all looks much more up-to-date and interactive. I have noticed various typos etc, but am not sure of the appropriate place to point them out. Would you like that info? Also, it's a bit disconcerting that when I looked at 'today's video', I then got offered various alternatives - clicked on one about wearing high heels on a bike (cute, and interesting to someone who sometimes needs to cycle to parties) - which in its turn offered me porn-type clip, about un-cycle-related high-heels. You don't realise until you've started watching the thing. Not nice! Is there not some sort of a filter for that kind of thing?

Have the RSS feeds/newsfeeds been removed deliberately? My LCC News/Campaign/Community feeds from the old sites now give 404 (not found) errors! Please reinstate, and why not add in borough-based feeds too?

Hello there!

Don't worry, RSS feeds will be back within a couple of days - they were dropped off the list of things to do for launch (as we had so much to do and too little time), but are on my list of things to do over the next few days.

Regarding using OSM rather than Google maps - I'd be keen to look into this, however, a lot of our geodata and mapping stuff is quite tightly coupled to google's API (we make use of their routing service for plotting routes, etc). However, if there's a simple way of integrating OSM with this, I'm all ears!

Thanks for all your other suggestions and comments - I won't respond to any others just yet, as it's not for me to say what will or won't get done (That's for Mike and the others at LCC to decide), but all the feedback is really useful!

Thanks,

Tim

(LCC web developer fella)

 

Good news on RSS feeds, thanks Tim. Also noticed that the you can get stuck on a page and have to use the back button to get back to menus, maybe need some way of getting back up the tree?

 

I could see how to create a new topic/ discussion. It is the top left above the DISCUSSION word. Click 'Start a new thread'

but then I created a post on Bike Recycling in the 'Bikes and Bits' Forum area and it has disappeared. I can find it if I search for it, but otherwise it's invisible. Any idea why?

This is it:

http://lcc.org.uk/discussions/bike-recycling

 

 

Why doesn't this forum list the comments in the order they were submitted? Seems a bit random!

How about a longer listing on the LH column on the home page for the latest posts (Have your say). Three topics and they're gone! Longer list will keep them active (hopefully) for longer. Cheers

2 errors:

Can't create an event - get an internal server error, and also no field to enter the date and time of the event

secondly, when resetting a password, the link in the email is not found.

Thanks everyone... as Tim mentioned, we're still catching up with launch features but nothing here goes unnoticed and it's all prioritised and added to the master plan

Please keep suggestions coming

cheers

Mike Cavenett
communications officer

New design is looking good, and much easier to find stuff. Have noticed a few minor bugs:

1) A problem with paged navigation:

For example, on the page:
http://lcc.org.uk/pages/bikes

Clicking the links to move onto pages 2 or 3 do not work. The new pages
contain the same information as the first page:

http://lcc.org.uk/pages/bikes?page=2
http://lcc.org.uk/pages/bikes?page=3

The same appears to be true of other multi-page pages in that section, eg:

http://lcc.org.uk/pages/accessories
http://lcc.org.uk/pages/clothing

2) The FAQ section appears to be empty (perhaps this is intentional at
this early stage in the new website's life?)

http://lcc.org.uk/pages/faqs

3) The page http://lcc.org.uk/2012-election-poll does not exist (404 error). It is linked to from http://lcc.org.uk/pages/2012-mayoral-election

 

This post was edited by MattHammond at 07:08am 21 Jun 2011.

Re: "The map". What map? I click on the tab and see a heading 'The map' but a map I do not see. Nadda. Just lots of whiteness. Any idea why?

I can't see where to start a new topic/discussion...

I think you might need fewer sub-forums. It's tempting when starting something like this to try and create a whole range of sub-forums, but it inevitably means that some of them stay quiet for days or weeks on end, and that makes people self-conscious about starting a new thread. I would suggest amalgamating most of them so that you get a few forums which are each busier, which will be more inviting to people, and if you subsequently find that there are so many conversations that you need to split it up then great, go ahead and do that. But right now you've got too many empty spaces, which isn't very inviting. For example, instead of a separate 'borough chat' sub-forum, you could just encourage people to start a 'super-thread' for their borough in the general sub-forum.

Regarding the actual design of the forums, I think the text is a bit too big, and you might want to allow people to choose avatars and sigs so they feel like they 'own' the place a bit more. Right now it feels a bit too much like a guestbook rather than a place for conversation.

I have to admit to being a bit confused about how to start a thread as well - I'm signed in, and all I see in the area around 'DISCUSSION' is the following:

 

A glance at the page source reveals nothing that my browser might be failing to render, yet people plainly are starting threads on the forums. What gives?

This content was deleted by Tim at 02:43pm 21 Jul 2011.

Does the forum work with IE9? Doesn;t seem to, had to use Firefox to be able to post any messages.

Is it possible to have the "old" news comments added to the appropriate forums , so we can continue discussions?

On the forum, I can only access the first page of any set of topics - both on home PC and at work - any suggestions ?  Thanks

Its a bit anoying to click on a thread and find it only contained one post - and that that post has been removed.

The borough sections from within the forums, have very few posts.

I know that Islington and Camden both have large forums online hosted by yahoo.

Do other boroughs?

is there a way to "link into" or give the web address' of other forums?

I often cycle through Westmisnster as well but their forum is empty!

says it all really.

These forums are pretty uselsss if non one uses them!

Come, I think you're missing out a big time with this forum.

Needs making much more user friendly and old school BB style.

Think something is odd with the discussion board.

 

I can see that people have posted to a discussion from the title summary like paul draper below

Concerned Londoner 11 11:47am 25 Apr 2012 by: Paul_draper »

 

 

But when i click into the thread the last visible post is by

By cycle_stephen on 03:46pm 24 Apr 2012

 

Either i'm blind and can;t see the post/next page button or its buggy.

~John

 

I STILL can't post rides!