joshroot Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hey everyone, <p> Got something to get off your chest? Hate a part of the site so much that you want to scream? Think I am doing a terrible job? Want to tell us that you love everything about photo.net? Then do us a favor and fill out the <a href="http://www.photo.net/survsimp/one?survey_id=102">Photo.net 2008 User Survey</a>. <p> The goal is to find out some information about the photo.net user base, and to help us direct our resources at the most important problems and projects. <p> <a href="http://www.photo.net/survsimp/one?survey_id=102">User Survey - Click Here</a> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m3rdpwr Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Will everyone see our responses, or? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 No, I should have made that clear. The responses will only be viewed by the admin staff. And at the moment, the responses are "anonymous" even to us. I won't lie, it is likely possible for us to go in and see who left what comment. But that's not our goal, we just want to get some feedback from our user base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles_Webster Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Josh, the system allows me to complete the survey multiple times. Something that should be fixed to prevent the "vote early, vote often" approach to skewing the results. <Chas> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Very interesting. Thanks for noticing that Charles. I'll get someone to fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sullen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I better hurry then and vote to banish the rating system 50,000 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sullen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I was just kidding about the multiple replies and I don't care if you see mine.<br> How long will the survey last? And can we see some results when it's all said and done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 I'm hoping that I'll be able to cull together some results that are interesting, and yet still do not single out individual user responses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sullen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Yes just majority type results, no personal info. I think it would be interesting as a member to see the results of some of those questions. The result of questions 2,3,4 and 5 interest me the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beauh44 Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi Josh, Right off the bat - and I have no idea why - but Photonet has to be the *slowest* loading site I visit regularly, bar none. Even at 4:00 am EST it loads like a slug, so it's not a time-of-day thing. I'll click on the "Forums" link and it can take a good 30-45 seconds (sometimes much longer) to load a page of... text. I'll then visit *any* other website and Bang! *All* the others load many times faster, with graphics, without exception. I have a DSL connection and am not on dial-up. I've tried deleting cookies, dumping my cache, changing browsers, nothing seems to help. I just can't figure it out why and thought I'd let you know... I'll go take the survey now. Thanks for everything you guys do - it's still a great site! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. sullen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 In six months I have not had a problem, I visit almost every day. I just now clicked on forums and it took about one second to load. I'm using a wireless cable internet and either firefox or IE7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lex_jenkins Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Beau, it could be your ISP. Reportedly, some ISPs are engaging in deliberate slow-downs to discourage users from accessing sites that strain resources. There are proposals by some ISPs to bill customers who are high users of P2P services. Comcast has been accused of deliberately slowing down P2P access. So if your ISP is one of these tricksters *and* it regards photo.net as a peer-to-peer site or otherwise making high resource demands (possible, depending on your viewing habits, such as participating in the critique forum), the problem might be on your end. The only time I experience frequent slowdowns is trying to access my own photo.net workspace page. Otherwise the occasional slow-downs are no worse or more common than with other sites. Certainly nowhere near as bad as some blogs and, in particular, myspace, which must have the most inefficient interface on the web. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Thomas Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Q11 seems to assume all of your respondents are in the USA, and to clear that up, it would be interesting to know how many people are where. Maybe add that question? I know you could probably work it out by processing the web logs, but I'd certainly be interested to find out. I know the site is US founded and run, but I suspect it has a very broad international readership. Most of the US posters in forums seem to assume everyone is in the US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nealcurrie Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I noticed landscape wasn't one of the photography styles on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 <i>"I noticed landscape wasn't one of the photography styles on the list."</i> <p> While we aren't trying to offend anyone, there was a limit to how many different genres we could reasonable list. We had to draw the line somewhere or it could have been 100 different choices. I think landscapes fits well enough into "nature/animals" or simple "other". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachelle_m. Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 I also noticed that the only type of film camera choice is 35mm. What about other formats? I'm not suggesting to list them all, but a 'film camera - other formats' category would be useful I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 <i>"I also noticed that the only type of film camera choice is 35mm"</i> <p> What question are you looking at Rachelle? For question #6 I see choices of: 35mm, medium format, and large format. In all honesty, while there are other film formats, their number of users is small enough that they can be grouped in "other". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qi_peng Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I would love "art/conceptual photography" to be seperated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
color Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 I took a look at the survey and I didn't fill it out because I couldn't leave out the parts that make me/us marketing targets, like age, sex, income, what brands of equipment I use, etc. I'm still curious how much it would cost us members to make up for the loss in income if advertising were eliminated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 <i>"I'm still curious how much it would cost us members to make up for the loss in income if advertising were eliminated"</i> <p> A lot. More than most users would want to pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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