Any news on when the new Secret Leeds website is to come active.

Post by **cnosni** » Sat 28 Jun, 2014 1:58 am

weenie wrote: Hi all ive not posted for ages, although i do look every week if not daily without fail, i also before googling anything i try here first if its relevent to leeds and surrounding area's, to be honest the FB group i click on like on picture/posts if they appear on my newsfeed, i also direct friends here rather than fb. i dont think this has run its course at all, they may not be anything relevant for me to post, but that doesnt mean i dont look /read. just wanted to say hi again really and keep up the good work cheers Weenie Cheers Weenie, keep popping in and get some posts in, maybe even start a thread up!!

Jay Cartay · Post by **Jay Cartay** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 10:34 am

Hi all. I hardly ever post on here, as I am more of a lurker. I regularly read the forums but have often noticed that it's slow to see new content. On the flipside of that, being a lurker and not actively posting is part of that problem, but when so many are so knowledgeable, it's difficult to see where I can contribute at times. I am looking forward to the new site though and although it is probably a bit late for suggestions, I was wondering how admin would feel about having a news page on the site, with brief local news stories. My thinking is that the forums could use tags and the articles could also be tagged. Readers could then click into them and be taken through to a list of forum threads with the same tags attached?

Post by **dsco** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 11:18 am

Hi Jay, one of the good and bad things about web development is that it's never too late to suggest a new feature A news section would be relatively straightforward to add, but running and administering it would take some thought. Let me stew on this for a bit - I'll keep it in mind for future development ideas!

Jay Cartay · Post by **Jay Cartay** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 11:35 am

I work in IT myself, so have a bit of an idea what you mean, although I'm not a web design type I wasn't thinking anything too substantial, with reports needing to be written etc. More just "BBC Report on Trolleybus" with a link to their article accompanied by one paragraph of description and either a link to search for threads tagged with Trolleybus (or Follybus ) or perhaps you click on the picture and that takes you to the search results. Whichever works best really.

Post by **cnosni** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 12:01 pm

Leodian springs to mind as he is a bit of a roving reporter.Sorry Leo.

Jay Cartay · Post by **Jay Cartay** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 12:05 pm

cnosni wrote: Leodian springs to mind as he is a bit of a roving reporter.Sorry Leo. I thought he just liked wandering around town aimlessly, going by his posts!

kango · Post by **kango** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 3:42 pm

To paraphrase Richard Boone "Have camera will travel"Sorry Leo couldn't resist

Post by **dsco** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 5:40 pm

Jay Cartay wrote: I wasn't thinking anything too substantial, with reports needing to be written etc. More just "BBC Report on Trolleybus" with a link to their article accompanied by one paragraph of description and either a link to search for threads tagged with Trolleybus (or Follybus ) or perhaps you click on the picture and that takes you to the search results. Whichever works best really. Yeah that sounds workable. There's loads of other stuff to sort out first though - the wiki is next on my list. If someone wants to curate a news section for us though I'd be agreeable to palming off responsibility on them

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 5:47 pm

I'm assuming that when the new site officially goes live,the secretleeds.com and .co.uk addresses will point to the new site?I only ask because at present I can access the site at work at lunch or break ,but on trying the link to the new preview it was blocked by our security wall.

Post by **dsco** » Wed 16 Jul, 2014 6:13 pm

Yes Steve, the new site will be accessible via the current addresses when it goes live, that other address that starts with 's10-preview...' is just that, a preview site address for testing purposes.