Increasing traffic on PGD...

[Eric]

So who here actually wants PGD on DelphiFeeds or thinks we should be on there?

I was surprised it wasn't, maybe when it was submitted there weren't enough things in the RSS? or they had some issue accessing the RSS?

I wasn't aware it was submitted and there was a vote, maybe submit it anew and have us notified so we can vote!

Also, you may want to expose it through feedburner: the RSS can be requested quite often as it's a polled protocol. Using feedburner will redirect the load onto google's servers rather than PGD's. At least for my site, before moving it to feedburner, at some point it was the #1 source of bandwidth consumption.

[WILL]

I have just posted a new suggestion about adding PGD's News & CMS to DelphiFeeds.com. Vote on it here http://delphifeeds.uservoice.com/for...-news-cms-feed (You'll have to create an account.)

[WILL]

IOTW is a cool idea, but I can see if falling apart if each week we don't have a new image to post. The other issue is the software. I can think of a way to add it to the front page and have a sub-site that uses the PGD database to add new images so that it's fairly seamless. I'll think on this more and if I think it stands a chance of success I'll put it up to a vote. Get enough interest and I'll consider putting one up.

Right now however I want to focus on beginners tutorials. Who is interested in writing? I'll give assignments to each person that contacts me at contact@pascalgamer.com.

[Eric]

IOTW is a cool idea, but I can see if falling apart if each week we don't have a new image to post.

Yeah, there would need to have a handful of images always in the pipe to handle the downtimes.

[SilverWarior]

It doesn't have to be Image of the Week. It could be just a random image from random project. This will help promote users projects a lot. And it would be best if clicking on image would take wiever to site with short description of the project or even better to projects website if it has one.

[WILL]

Hmm yeah we could just make it something like a Screenshot Showcase instead. Adding a box to the front page showing the "Current Screenshot Showcase" would be easy and I can custom-make the script to upload the images, etc...

Submissions could use a form and accept a screenshot, caption, project url/homepage. I could then tie it into the PGD site it's self, but have it separate, much like the AJAX Chat system works. Only it would enforce loggin in.

It doesn't have to be Image of the Week. It could be just a random image from random project. This will help promote users projects a lot. And it would be best if clicking on image would take wiever to site with short description of the project or even better to projects website if it has one.

[Eric]

Hmm yeah we could just make it something like a Screenshot Showcase instead.

That could be used as a fallback, but IME screenshot showcases don't draw the same kind of interest/discussions, because they're not "news", but more like a rotating banner/add/random pic.