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- Rolled out some site improvements
- Just wanted to let everyone know that we made a few site improvements today:1. Updated the forum layout on all listing pagesNow, all of the lists of discussions have the same look and feel. So Browse by tag now looks like the lists on Hot Discuss
- Tags: rss, site improvements, sMoRTy71, Contacts, feedback, Contacts Online
- Discussion threads 2006-11-30
- Has everybody noticed their new "Helpful" numbers?
- Look to the right of your user name in any forum post. If you've ever had an answer marked as helpful in a TR Question (or rated Accepted in the old Tech Q&A) we now keep a running tally of those responses in parentheses to the right of your alias....
- Tags: Accepted, Cha, community, feedback, site improvements, The Trivia Geek
- Discussion threads 2006-11-01
- TR Site Relaunch this weekend!
- Attention TechRepublic members. The long-awaited site-wide revamp of TechRepublic begins this weekend. On Saturday, Oct. 7 at noon EDT GMT minus five, the current version of TechRepublic will go dark. A few hours later, the new version of TR will be live.Here's a preview of what the new site will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, The Trivia Geek, TR Site Relaunch
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
- The TR T-Shirt Era has arrived!
- TechRepublic is going to start selling TR T-Shirts!After a several rounds of internal competition and debate, we've narrowed our first TR T-Shirt design to three candidates. One of these will make the cut for a full production run to be sold through our catalogue (where all those Books & CDs...
- Tags: TR T-shirt, Design
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- TR blogs are dead. Long live TR blogs.
- Just a heads up. In our continually evolving plans for the the TR Revamp, a slight bombshell was agreed upon recently: We're killing TR blogs.And then, we're launching TR blogs.Screwy, eh? Short version: We're getting out of the business of competing with Livejournal and Blogger as an "anybody who wants...
- Tags: blog, TR Blogs, feedback, site improvements, blogs, The Trivia Geek, blogger
- Discussion threads 2006-08-07
- Thanks Jay
- Thanks JayAppreciate the warning. Will be watching and happy to report on Thursday if there is still any craziness happening.WARNING: TR site weirdness planned for Wed. June 28Just a heads up to all the hardcore TechRepublic fanatics out there. We're going to briefly shut down our global user authentication system...
- Tags: INTERNET, weirdness, Jay
- Discussion threads 2006-06-27
- What are "My Discussions" good for?
- What are "My Discussions" good for?OK folks, feature regression time: What do you use the My Discussions feature to accomplish?A). To keep track of every thread you ever started, for all timeB). To Keep track of every thread you've ever particpated in, for all timeC). To keep track of the...
- Tags: E-mail, The Trivia Geek
- Discussion threads 2006-06-05
- Member feedback needed: Do "Booth babes" belong on TR?
- Member feedback needed: Do "Booth babes" belong on TR?As part of our E3 coverage, TR ran some photo galleries featuring pictures of scantily clad promotional "booth babes."http://techrepublic.com.com/2300-1035_11-6070849-1.htmlThese photos roused a bit of reaction from our audience, some of it positive, some negative. TR is also experimenting with some off-topic "Geekend"...
- Tags: booth, TR IS, feedback, site improvements, off topic, geekend, The Trivia Geek, disclaimer, gallery, news story
- Discussion threads 2006-06-02
- Update on community revamp. TRI feedback needed...
- Hey everybody. Remember when we posted those mockups of a promised community revamp a few montsh ago? Well, we understand if you've forgotten. The process has been slower than we hoped, but only ebcause we've been testing and retesting the crap out of the system. So, if you're wondering when...
- Tags: Right Now, feedback, site improvements, community, The Trivia Geek, Does TR
- Discussion threads 2006-05-19
- Projects
- ProjectsMy vote would go for projects. I recently started a new project and thought I would check out the TR's projects facility. I quickly discovered it was a waist of time since it did not allow me most of the management capabilities offered by project clearing houses such...
- Tags: TR Peer, Projects
- Discussion threads 2006-04-03
- Community redesign coming...
- Community redesign coming...OK, I figure now is a great time to post some of the comps from our upcoming community revamp/redesign.Not going to go into a ton of explanation about these comps. I want to get everyone's reaction without any prompting about how things might work.So here goes:Start a thread...
- Tags: Web browsers, comp
- Discussion threads 2006-04-03
- Warning: Saturday TR outage planned, 12-3pm EST!
- Just a little heads-up to our Insiders...we're deploying a fix to our site authentication system, which will mean the system will be down for a few hours. When authentication is down, it will block access to any site features that require login, including making or editing posts, or accessing the...
- Tags: Jay, outage, site improvements, The Trivia Geek, TR Discussion, Tri
- Discussion threads 2006-03-17
- TechRepublic's Frayed Edges
- TechRepublic's Frayed EdgesDespite what some of our more critical members may think, TechRepublic is well aware that certain aspects of our Web site don't exactly conform to the highest ideals of the optimal user experience to say the least. Well, we're out to change that. Here's the deal: We need...
- Tags: advertisement, chocolate
- Discussion threads 2006-02-14
- Update to Blogs door
- We have added a new component to the Blogs door. The "Hot Blog Posts" element replaces the "New Blog Posts" view.We wanted to expose the blog posts that are the most active with user comments. So take a look at the "Hot Blog Posts" section and see what other members...
- Tags: blog, BLOGS, Blogs door, feedback, Hot Blog, Hot Blog Posts, site improvements, sMoRTy71
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
- Updates to Tech Q&A door
- We made some changes to the Tech Q&A door to make it easier to use. Now, instead of that long list of question categories, we are displaying a list of the most-recently asked questions with a link to All Open Questions and an RSS feed of All Open Questions.We have...
- Tags: RSS, Open Question, Tech Q&a
- Discussion threads 2005-10-31
- Radical idea for TQ&A, blogs, discussions
- Radical idea for TQ&A, blogs, discussionsSecret confession time: Blogging at TechRepublic has not been as successful as we hoped. Essentially, blogs are hidden in a corner, not integrated into site search, and don't get surfaced enough places to generate meaningful traffic and user interaction. Compared to discussions, blogs are pretty...
- Tags: Blogging, blog
- Discussion threads 2005-10-26
- A couple of feature enhancements
- We pushed out a couple of new enhancements last night. 1. Hot discussions on all discussion detail pages -- now you can see and access the hottest discussions from within any discussion thread. You can look at the top of the right column on this page to see it.2. Blog...
- Tags: Blogging, sMoRTy71
- Discussion threads 2005-10-20
- WILL YOU BE A BIG GEEK THIS HALLOWEEN?
- WILL YOU BE A BIG GEEK THIS HALLOWEEN?TECHREPUBLIC BLOG ROUNDUP NEWSLETTER for October 19, 2005WILL YOU BE A BIG GEEK THIS HALLOWEEN? Are you still trying to figure out your Halloween costume? I sure am. I have a couple of parties to attend and I'd like a fresh look...
- Tags: beth.blakely@..., big geek, blog roundup newsletter, costume, feedback, halloween, http://techrepublic.com.com/5254-6257-0.html?forumID=99&threadID, site improvements, This Halloween
- Discussion threads 2005-10-18
- Should blogging be a corporate mandate?
- TECHREPUBLIC BLOG ROUNDUP NEWSLETTER for September 7, 2005SHOULD BLOGGING BE A CORPORATE MANDATE? A recent TechRepublic download, "Corporate blogging gives you a competitive advantage that cannot be ignored," provides the findings of the 2005 BackBoneMedia survey. The results "reveal that corporate blogs are giving corporations and obscure brands the...
- Tags: beth.blakely@..., blog, blog roundup newsletter, blogging, blogs, feedback, http://techrepublic.com.com/5254-6257-0.html?forumID=99&threadID, site improvements, WEEK'S BLOG ROUNDUP HIGHLIGHTS TR
- Discussion threads 2005-09-06
- Check out improvements to TR blogs
- Check out improvements to TR blogsTECHREPUBLIC BLOG ROUNDUP NEWSLETTER for August 24, 2005CHECK OUT IMPROVEMENTS TO TR BLOGS Have you visited our main blogs page lately? If not, check it out as we've made a few improvements. http://techrepublic.com.com/5258-6257-0.html First, we've improved the newest and hottest blogs feature. We...
- Tags: beth.blakely@..., blog, blog roundup newsletter, blogs, Featured Bloggers, feedback, site improvements, TR Blogs
- Discussion threads 2005-08-23
