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Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
As at 18th January 2025 07:46 GMT
 
Re: Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
Posted by bobm at 20:12, 15th January 2025
 
Used to be so easy when you submitted your site to Google to index or then added tags to the header.  It isn’t just the luddites here who hanker for the old days. 

Re: Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 19:42, 15th January 2025
 
... which tends to confirm that Artificial Intelligence is rather more 'artificial' than it is 'intelligent'. 

Chris from a coffee shop. 

Re: Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
Posted by johnneyw at 19:31, 15th January 2025
 
As a brief aside.  A Google search under 'Great Western Coffee Shop Index' brought up this interesting AI generated summary:

"The Great Western Coffee Shop Index is a resource on firstgreatwestern.info that provides information on how to travel to coffee shops by bus and other means.
The index may also include information on other ways to travel to coffee shops, such as plane, ferry, car, or taxi.
The index may also include information on mixed mode travel options."


Well, that's nice to know!


Edit to correct text.

Re: Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
Posted by Chris from Nailsea at 01:06, 14th January 2025
 
I may have to explore more fully!

Please do - it's rather like an encyclopedia of public transport (and other) issues here.


Re: Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
Posted by grahame at 22:30, 13th January 2025
 
I'm not sure I've ever looked at the Home page.  I stumbled across the Forum many years ago and soon saved "Recent Unread Topics" as a shortcut.  I may have to explore more fully!

  - Fora are like that!

Re: Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
Posted by Ralph Ayres at 17:57, 13th January 2025
 
I'm not sure I've ever looked at the Home page.  I stumbled across the Forum many years ago and soon saved "Recent Unread Topics" as a shortcut.  I may have to explore more fully!

Changing content of the domain home page as the new Coffee Shop settles in
Posted by grahame at 11:31, 13th January 2025
 
Just over two weeks ago, the Coffee Shop moved from http: to https: and with a new page at the top of the domain. And at that time, the main thing for that front page waste say - to regular members - was, yes, this is the Coffee Shop and provide navigation.

The purpose of the page changes ... rather than the short term re-assurance that it IS the Coffee Shop, we can take up the "real estate" of the big headline with:
* A welcome to newcomers including data on how to reach us
* Status data on the Coffee Shop's recent operation
which is more useful in the longer term and with the changing need of that page.

The page still - and will continue - to carry the main navigation icons and links to the resources on the Coffee Shop which are either to the right on a laptop, or below on a narrow device such as a phone.

Description here - if it's useful to you - on the status line which flags (from latest first) the most recent activity. At this stage, a link on a single letter (occasionally symbol) indicates a public post which is the most recent addition to a thread, the letter or symbol differing from board to board.



Here are some of the status letters
@ - Who's Who
B - Fares Fair
C - Buses and other ways
[ - Help and assistance
It's just one line on the report - very useful to me. If you don't like it, please ignore.

 
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