Complete A quick UI update

[Admin]

Dear Acorn Domainers,

We have just a quick UI upgrade that shows that the user is active. Just check it for yourself.

And just keep domaining!

 

[Helmuts]

Super!! Great job

 

[MapleDots]

Nice, I switched away from the standard green person silhouette to a green dot long ago. It was one of the first things I did. The dot obviously goes away when not online.

I see you surrounded the avatar in red, and I assume green when online.

The only feedback I have on that is the red looks like the user has been warned or something.
That was my first opinion when I saw admin surrounded in red, it looked commanding and something that required attention. In actuality it is the reverse, red means the user is offline and it requires no attention.

 

[DarkSky]

this doesnt seem intuitive. a standard green dot by the avatar would be sufficient and easily understood. a red dot for offline is not necessary.

 

[Admin]

That was my first opinion when I saw admin surrounded in red, it looked commanding and something that required attention. In actuality it is the reverse, red means the user is offline and it requires no attention.

Yes, this might be because the theme and the red color clash.

this doesnt seem intuitive. a standard green dot by the avatar would be sufficient and easily understood. a red dot for offline is not necessary.

You are right! Shall we only include a green circle when the user is online and remove the reds? @Helmuts what do you think? Or maybe black/grey for offline users that doesn't attract attention?

 

[MapleDots]

Grey is the universal sign for off or offline.

 

[MapleDots]

It also detracts from the avatar itself making the site look cluttered.

See the dot I use on my forum avatar vs acorn, it was a subtle change to eliminate the person silhouette and even that de-cluttered.

One of the changes we made is when the member is verified the verified website address appears under the avatar. I restyled the field into a box and the website of the verified member there cannot be changed from the time they got verified unless they ask for assistance.

It also logs the country one is posting from with a flag which follows the member from country to country when travelling. So we know if it is a Canadian member or someone from a high risk country. Only a mod can change that flag.

However, what you are doing fundamentally changes the appearance of a members avatar and a lot of times the avatar is a brand (as in my case) and technically one does not alter someones brand.

 

[Admin]

@MapleDots we also do have the "Green Dot" but thought the circle would be more obvious. But yes, you are right about other things.

 

[MapleDots]

/* Change online indicator */
.message-avatar-wrapper .message-avatar-online::before { content: "\f111"; }

Add that to extra.less and it will remove the little guy in the green dot.

You can style it to any awesome font and change colours as desired by adding one line under the css.
Technically that is all that is required, it's discreet and does not distract.

If you are intent on keeping the circle consider getting rid of the gradient and using the same green as the dot green for online and a standard grey for offline.

 

[Helmuts]

this doesnt seem intuitive. a standard green dot by the avatar would be sufficient and easily understood. a red dot for offline is not necessary.

A very good idea. Tx

 

[philiporchard]

All credit to keep persevering! There is an opportunity cost to keeping going with Acorn though. Clearly you do have some great contacts and have had success in other areas of business.... it makes no difference to me either way if you push on with AD or not, but green dots or grey dots makes no difference as Acorn feels as dead as it ever has.

 

[Helmuts]

All credit to keep persevering! There is an opportunity cost to keeping going with Acorn though. Clearly you do have some great contacts and have had success in other areas of business.... it makes no difference to me either way if you push on with AD or not, but green dots or grey dots makes no difference as Acorn feels as dead as it ever has.

Good morning Phillip,

Thank you We have a list of things to be done here at Acorn.

As for the activity, yes, few have stopped posting here - it is ok

I have just made a fresh screenshot of stats covering the last 30 days:

As for the newsletter, so far (still working on the best way to gather these) our stats show that within 12 hours is is open by a average 810-820 users. @Admin, is this correct? Tx

Acorn Domains has always been a discussion forum and UK domain marketplace. And, forums are always one of the best places to buy domains for the liquidation/wholesale prices.

Philip, by the way, what do you do? Have we met before? .. my apologies if we have and I don't remember this .. What are the domain names you invest in?

 

[DarkSky]

The newsletters are too frequent, I dont open them.

Also, I believe the 810 users are those which click a link in the newsletter, not just open (no way to know this unless the recipient has allowed remote content)

 

[Helmuts]

The newsletters are too frequent, I dont open them.

Also, I believe the 810 users are those which click a link in the newsletter, not just open (no way to know this unless the recipient has allowed remote content)

Good morning,

We try sending out the newsletters every Tuesday - once a week. If memory doesn't fail me, so far, we've missed only 1 and 1 was sent on Thursday.

Going strong

Those 810 email opens - I think the time when we measured them, it was done by counting the load times of a small specific .png image in individual emails. And, yes, you are correct - the system is able to count these loads only if a user allows this. At the moment @Admin is looking in alternative (already running tests at DNF).

What we care the most > are names purchased from the newsletter. And, yes, I can confirm > they are! This is the ultimate objective for the newsletters > to provide good names for investable prices.

Do you have experience in sending newsletters? It would be great hearing your experience. Any suggestions? Tx

 

[MapleDots]

You will always have email delivery issues if you send out weekly newsletters, I unsubscribed pretty fast. Most people inboxes are so full they get overwhelmed. Then your server gets marked as a spam server and your important emails fail.

My sites sends out 1-2 member emails per year and that is it. You can always make a site announcement that shows up on site visit to inform of important changes. The important part about that is to make sure the announcement can be dismissed so its not in your face every visit.

As you can see with your email delivery issues, newsletters sent by board software cause a world of email delivery issues because people are so used to just hitting the spam button.

Ideally you use a completely different domain like newsletter@acornondomainsmail.com to assure your acorndomains.com domain does not take a rating hit with gmail/hotmail etc.