Zoom Call with Ben Kinney Progress with ActiveRain Updates
The call was to have been with Ben Kinney, but he was a no show so Casey Sanders and Josiah Ubben, members of the development team offered the changes that have been implemented since the last update call.
Work has been done to the spell check and the version that had been part of the blog platform has been taken out and replaced with a Windows version. It was noted that the spell check in the comments area is still not working properly and that will be addressed.
In response to the issues with uploading photos, the program was changed to keep just 450 photos on immediate memory screen. Nothing has been deleted from our archives and at some time in the future they will again be accessible to us. If a similar photo needs to be used, it should be uploaded but change the name to not delete the original from its original blog. Those photos are still there, just temporarily unavailable.
The Groups tab has been placed at the top of the primary blog roll page for easier access.
It used to be that posting blogs to a group would get more possibility of longer exposure to ActiveRain members and also a potential for more comments.
Each group has its own criteria for posts and they are moderated for compliance within the group.
Work is still schedules regarding updating the personal Profile pages as well as work to improve the SEO of the platform. It is interesting that both Casey and Josiah made mentions of the changes in criteria for being picked up by the internet spiders.
Ironically when they made a robot inquiry of Alexa on a stain removal, it was an older ActiveRain post that was offered. They are working to be able to get the platform to respond to a no-click inquiry and to this end are making sure the coding works to identify EAT.
I found that interesting since it was on the Zoom Call with Katerina Gasset back in October when she detailed what EAT means to getting recognized by the internet crawlers.
Expertise Authority Trustworthiness which means to be able to get exposure with the changes to the Internet, the manner in which we write and post our blogs will need to be changed.
A question was offered as to how to get response from the Support label on AR. The development team are not the people that handle support issues. When AR had a large staff in their office response was much quicker. Casey did acknowledge the frustration and also let it be known that behind the scenes this is being addressed.
Without Ben Kinney on the call there was frustration for not hearing from him the timetable they are working to getting ActiveRain more responsive and attractive to new members.
Zoom Call with Ben Kinney Progress with ActiveRain Updates
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