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Re: Specific problem: finding members - general conclusion: principle of least surprise needed on Lugnet
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lugnet.admin.general
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Fri, 14 Jan 2000 00:09:44 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> This link:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/members
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> **ought** to work.
And voila, now it does! That was a quick fix! It did a very fast redirect to:
http://www.lugnet.com/people/members/
Neato! I would do the training page thing by showing people they need to go to
the right place but just a redirect is fine..
Here are a few more I found by trying some obvious stuff.
http://www.lugnet.com/database - perhaps add a link at the bottom saying
"perhaps you meant Pause?" or something to this existing page. Right now it is
a dead end page, rather unfriendly. Use some text to offer the plan URL for
viewing, and explain that eventually Pause will be merged in?
http://www.lugnet.com/sets - go to Pause for now but don't just redirect, show
a page saying why you got redirected, and use that page to explain the eventual
fate of Pause as well.
http://www.lugnet.com/donations - go here after showing a training page:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/finance/donations/
http://www.lugnet.com/auczilla - remind people that they are not the same thing
for now, suggest the plan URL to see what is coming, and then offer to go to
http://www.auczilla.com/
http://www.lugnet.com/fibblesnork/ - similar to auczilla
http://www.lugnet.com/search - not sure where to go here. remind people that
they can search from the main page??? (prolly low priority)
http://www.lugnet.com/sitemap - go to /sitemap.cgi
http://www.lugnet.com/auctions - I dunno. point people to marketplace?
http://www.lugnet.com/newsgroups - go to /news but explain a bit first.
http://www.lugnet.com/post - ditto?
http://www.lugnet.com/posting - ditto?
http://www.lugnet.com/help - this one is an obvious one for a web non literate
to try, I think. No idea WHERE it should go, as there isn't quite a place that
explains it all yet
I came up with these pretty quickly, any one else want to try a few, or
critique some of my suggested redirects, etc?
It is NOT just about cramming more links on the main page, it's about
outthinking newbies who guessed wrong. Those are newbies who we WANT hanging
out here because it's friendly and convenient, but we teach them how things are
organized while helping them.
LUGNET is much much more than any mere personal website. Even mine. :-)
++Lar
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