After many months of work and lot of issues to solve our first beta of the new MirrorlessRumor theme is online.
The first thing you have to know is that this isn’t just a redesign. We completely rethinked the way a rumor site should work!
What I learned from these years on MirrorlessRumors is that:
1) There are many mirrorless camera owners that have the knowledge and passion to share interesting news. They can finally do that directly without having to contact the administrators!
2) For me (the admin) it is impossible to be online 24h per day. And with your help I can avoid to miss important news or rumors. This will keep the site always up to date.
That’s why:
From now on this becomes a community where everyone can post directly news and rumors! To do so you are kindly invited to become a member of this site. Check out what you can do by clicking on the Member Panel you see on top right of the site (it shows only after your registration and login).
How it works and what you can do:
1) You can submit articles that will be reviewed by our admins (for now this is just…me). If approved they will get online.
2) You can comment articles
3) You will get votes for approved posts (100 points) and 1 point for every like on your posts or comments (or -1 point if someone dislikes)
4) If you want and I can trust you…than you can ask to become an admin. As admin you can write posts without my moderation and review other members articles.
What do you gain by joining the community?
1) You can promote your work, your sites and let the community know who you are! You are free to write post and link back to your Blog and Portfolios. Use MR to get known!
2) Less trolls. Now only approved members can comment and heavy trolls will be first warned and eventually kicked out if they don’t follow the very basic rules of respect.
…and many more “reasons” to join will be online soon!
Remember:
This is just a very early beta. We need to launch the site as it is to check out if everything works fine before we do keep adding features. So please, join the site, try the features and I hope you will like what we have done so far!
Thanks a lot!
Peter, Andrea, Ale, Doug, Patrick, Stefan
P.S.: today there will be problems with signup from facebook and twitter until the domain propagates well.
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Yooooooooooo this is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks! 🙂
You missed Olympus in the manufacturers list.
Will add it now! Thx for your help 🙂
I agree, great idea. Try doing something like this in Google+ so members can have video “Hangouts” once in a while so we can talk about products and give our opinions from enthusiast to professionals. 🙂
Regards
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yes! It’s also our plan to add a product database and community around sinlge cameras. But for the next weeks we have to work to sort out all bugs we find 🙂
looks and sounds all good, maybe add a live search facility?
I will put this on the todo list of coming features! Thanks! 🙂
Excellent idea. Why don’t you start reposting mirrorless rumors/news deals from your other ____rumors.com sites here?
It is a possibility to use this framework as root for all sites. But first we need a couple of months to test it, add features and learn from your feedback.
P.S.: An idea could be to redirect 43rumors.com to a subpage on mirrorlessrumors with Panasonic/Olympus news. But I am not conviced about it. The truth is also that we have different owners for all sites. And they all have different ideas about how a website should work.
Interesting situation :). It is daunting to check multiple sites, one unified would be much better and much more popular IMO. But the decision is up to you, the authors, not us.
Clean, no clutter, I like it!
Yes! About time to get rid of some unneccessary stuff 🙂
This is great. where did you get it?
what…the theme? We made it 🙂
Yes, that’s what I was referring to. I am doing a food blog, mind if I copy some?
If you mean the design than this one is based on a bootstrap template. You will find it here somewhere:
https://wrapbootstrap.com/
Thanks!
Sorry, but this new theme is not very good if you’re reading in a normal web browser. Two problems which I hope you can fix…
1) When you press the Page Down key, it scrolls too far, so I have to manually scroll back up to get to the right spot. The source of the problem is that your menu bar is covering the text in the position paged-down to. CSS coding error.
2) Three columns on the home page is just too distracting. Please reduce to 2 columns like the old site — much easier on the eyes.
I really enjoy reading your site, but the new theme is so unpleasant an experience, I’d have to access it via an RSS reader. More hassle = fewer visits = less traffic for you.
FYI, the same thing happened with Kirk Tuck’s site last year — with (I assume) a similar drop in traffic, because he’s now scrapped that theme in favour of something more normal and usable.
Good luck with your site. Really hope you can fix these problems. It would be a shame that you did all this work, only to hurt your traffic numbers. Thanks for your efforts.
We will change many things the coming weeks and months. A more detailed and closer to final design is still being made. I also do think two column design is more appropriate.