Are there any ways the Mises.org experience could be better? Do you have any problems with how the website is structured? What could be added, or taken away?
The UI on the forums could be improved.
I wish the audio and video lectures were better organized. As it is now, the daily audio versions of articles are lumped in with lectures, which sometimes makes it a pain to navigate through the archives, especially for Rothbard. That would be my only suggestion; everything else is great.
A great addition would be a wiki, methinks. Though there are some libertarian wikis out there, mises.org should attract more authors.
Maybe I’m missing something, but when somebody replies to you in a forum do you automatically get notified? Whenever I post I am constantly checking back to the forums to see if anyone replied to my post.
I wish you could download the individual chapters of audio books without going to that chapter’s web page. For example, let’s say that chapters 1-10 of a book are listed, as it is now, you must click chapter one, then download that chapter once that chapter’s page loads. I think it would be better if you could simply right click on chapter one and download the mp3 file from there, without having to load another page.
I would love to see a mobile version of the site, m.mises.org or some such, with the content optimized for the smaller screen. It would also be great if the forums were Tapatalk compatible.
Jesus Christ, make me see again, for I am blind.
Though that’d be another point, make it more obvious … off to explore the pages.
“I wish the audio and video lectures were better organized. As it is now, the daily audio versions of articles are lumped in with lectures, which sometimes makes it a pain to navigate through the archives, especially for Rothbard. That would be my only suggestion; everything else is great.” - Lewis S.
That would be my wish as well, along with one other thing: public speaking lessons for the presenters. I love the lectures that are available, but some of them are hard if not impossible to listen to. I’m sure Joe Salerno is brilliant, but he stutters so damn much he coukld probably give the same lecture in half the time minus the stutters. And Thomas DiLorenzo has a tendency to start every sentence at FULL VOLUME and then trail off at the end, which has a tendency to put people to sleep. Some of the other presenters say “um” and “ah” between every word of every sentence for the entire lecture. When AH someone UM keeps AH saying UM and AH over UM and UM over AH and UM over AH again, it gets noticable and severely annoying. As a product being put out to the public, the presentation of many of the speakers could be dramatically improved with a simple public speaking class to make them aware of these speech habits.
Metus,
They only just launched it. That’s why you didn’t know.
Fix the quoting system.
When was the wiki launched? Just so I know. How did so many pages get already there?
Yep.
Also, when searching for mp3s on a topic, have the results be direct links to the mp3s, so that one can use a download manager such as Download Them All to download them all right from that page.
Fix the quoting system.
See, I would have loved to properly quote the above as the top priorty for improving the Mises forums, however I couldn’t because…the quoting system is broken. Fix the quoting system.
The Wiki was officially launched today. But it’s been live in development for several days.
Fix the forum in general, but make fixing the quoting system a priority.
I think it’d be nice to have more of a focus on current news. If that’s possible.
Make it so that clickable links in a forum post automatically open a new tab/page, it currently sends you from the mises.org forums to whatever page is linked.
Ok definitely would like mises.org to add a button to post mises daily and blog posts to twitter. Very similar in fashion to the button on youtube, which shortens the link and allows you to add a comment with it and post directly to twitter. I tweet a ton on mises daily articles and its a bit cumbersome to have to copy the link, go to bit.ly and shorten it, then open twitter and post there. Its particularly a pain in the ass to do that on my droid.
I would bet mises.org would get even more exposure on twitter if you added that functionality.