# Some Additional Suggestions - The Lounge Group
Another week on our new CW site. Here’s some additional thoughts I’ve gathered from other Legacies & my own use:
1) “Ward B” Group is not showing up in Notifications. If we Subscribe to any Group, it should show up in Notifications & Feed. Posted in The Lounge by Deputy Mayor of CW on March 26 2020 3:48:28 PM
- **Group:** [The Lounge Group](https://www.cigarworld.com/groups/the-lounge/)
- **Posted by:** Deputy Mayor of CW
- **Date:** March 26, 2020
Another week on our new CW site. Here’s some additional thoughts I’ve gathered from other Legacies & my own use:
1\) “Ward B” Group is not showing up in Notifications. If we Subscribe to any Group, it should show up in Notifications & Feed.
2\) Site is still too random for majority of readers (most current everything is same as random to a reader). It is impossible to keep track of our favorite threads. We Subscribe to Groups, but that is a superset of lots of threads. So we see ALL the most recent comments across ALL threads, no matter if we’re interested or not in all the posts/threads. And with no way to compress each entry, we have to scroll through pages & pages hoping to find something we might be interested in. Most members don’t have that kind of time, or patience.
In CW2.0, vast majority of members followed a handful of specific threads each, ones that many of us found most entertaining, thus clicked into a \*\*couple times daily
\*\*, thus building community. For example, the “Good Morning” thread, “The Story That Never Ends”, the “Famous Quotes” thread, “What’s Cooking Today” thread, our annual Secret Santa/Secret Easter Bunny, and more. We’ve tried recreating these here in 3.0, but it’s impossible to keep any kind of conversation going. They get pushed down too quickly, even when you do want to find them. So they’ve all basically died…& the majority of Legacies are NOT returning.
3\) Would like to Like/Unlike Comments & Replies, too.
4\) Would like to be able to re-arrange our own subscribed Groups in the My Groups tab so we can see those we value most.
5\) Would like to see in Notifications when someone responds and/or Likes something we Post/Comment/Reply to.
6). We still think a Back button is needed after create a Post, Comment or Reply.
6.5). Related, really need this so we can easily return to CW after clicking a Feed or News link that goes offsite!
7). Still need a way to see a simple list of all possible Groups across the entire site, at any time (not just at signup).
8). Would really really like a way to see total # of entries for each member next to their name at each entry.
9). Would increase interactivity if members could Tag a GCC cigar in our entries, too. For example, I’m smoking a CAO Flathead as I type this. When I post it, it could be “Smoking a #CAO #Flathead Maduro 660 - awesome cigar! Making me reconsider Flatheads again!”. This would allow a ton of options:
9a). Searches for specific Tags.
9b). Display a Tag Cloud on website, to show visually the volume of text for each Tag.
9c). Could allow auto-linking to on-site brand reviews & info !
9d). Could allow multiple actions (“Click here to post your review of your #CAO #Steelhead, too.”) at the time of that post!
**Possible Solutions:**
1\) The My Groups tab/link is a good example of a compressed view, with just the icons. Recommend allow members to see ALL our subscribed groups in this tab as icons, and, allow us to organize these in our own preferred order. \[Yes, aware of the All My Groups tab, but that’s a Venn Diagram amalgamation of Notifications & Feed - too much detail in no order.\]
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2\) Recommend allowing members to subscribe to POSTS, too. These should then be shown in Notifications & Feed, listing our subscribed POSTS first, above subscribed Groups.
3\) Another idea, if do both 1 & 2, you could change the All My Groups tab to instead be All My Subscribed (or All My Pinned, if you use that terminology) - same design in that tab, but instead showing everything we’ve subscribed to BELOW the Group level. So 1 tab for My Groups, and 1 tab for the individual threads we each care about. That lets us create structure ourselves, without breaking current design.
Doing 1,2&3 solutions above would allow returning members - new & Legacy - to start rebuilding a community again. We’ll be able to focus on key threads that make us … Ward B.
4). Some other ways to allow the majority of the above in your current design :
4a). Allow all/some/selected members to create new Groups.
4b). Allow Posts & Comments from ANY Group to be “pinned” (subscribed), so they always appear at top of Notifications & Feed & in those Groups for that member’s view.
I’ll offer again that we had 5 Legacy testers who are still willing to help. We are a mix of very-long time & newer CW Ward B members, IT and even web/user interface folks. We want to help; we want this to work, too!
So what does everyone think? LIKE if agree, Comments with more ideas.