New Forum Feature - Member Reviews

[Tim Mayo]

I've just added a new feature to the forum that lets members leave their own reviews on the cameras and lenses that you have in your gear bags.

You'll find a new 'Reviews' link in the main menu, or you can just click here.

If you want to leave a review on a particular item, say the Canon R5, just click this item and this page will load. You now just need to click the 'write a review' button like in the screenshot below.

This will bring up the review editor when you can give a star rating, a title, list pros and cons, write your review, and also upload images.

It's also possible to ask questions on items as well.

Obviously since I've only just implemented this there are no members reviews at present. But hopefully overtime as members leave their own reviews this will become a useful tool in helping you to make purchase decisions.

Feedback is welcome and appreciated!

Tim

 

[billsmut]

Sounds like a good idea to me

 

[Greg]

This is brilliant. A one stop place for all newcomers and those thinking of buying to see what real people think of a product. I hope this section of the forum can be found on the internet with a simple search, such as "Canon RF lens".

 

[Tim Mayo]

This is brilliant. A one stop place for all newcomers and those thinking of buying to see what real people think of a product. I hope this section of the forum can be found on the internet with a simple search, such as "Canon RF lens".

Cheers Greg. Hopefully over time the reviews here will grow and become a useful resource for members. It will take a while before this forum ranks well for various search terms in Google because it's so new, but we'll get there I'm sure.

 

[Greg]

I think I mentioned earlier I used to be a website designer. In my day as long as you put in enough key words you were bound to be in the top ten, but that was back in 2000 to 2014. So few websites in 2000 you sort of got to the top in 6 months or less just because you were there. By the time I stopped the only way to get in the top ten was to employ a specialist. Yesterday google messaged me to say they were going to remove my website business account. Heaven knows what that is, its not something I have paid for or even expected to survive the past 7 years.

 

[Tim Mayo]

I think I mentioned earlier I used to be a website designer. In my day as long as you put in enough key words you were bound to be in the top ten, but that was back in 2000 to 2014. So few websites in 2000 you sort of got to the top in 6 months or less just because you were there. By the time I stopped the only way to get in the top ten was to employ a specialist. Yesterday google messaged me to say they were going to remove my website business account. Heaven knows what that is, its not something I have paid for or even expected to survive the past 7 years.

Yes, I only started building websites and experimenting with SEO around 2010, although it wasn't just a case of throwing keywords into some metatags, it was definitely a lot easier than it is today. I just read that there were around 200 million websites in 2010 and today there are around 1.2 billion! Maybe a Google My Business Profile?

 

[Greg]

When I started, the Internet was only 7 years old, you can imagine there were hardly any websites, a bit over 17 million. No ebay, facebook, google. AOL was big, so was IBM. I used to go up and down high streets trying to get shop owners to have a site, no one was interested. Some sites looked like they were done in prep school. I was getting about £450 per site. As the trend when to CMS I wasn't getting enough work and sold what I had off after 14 years.

 

[dmiller68]

When I started, the Internet was only 7 years old, you can imagine there were hardly any websites, a bit over 17 million. No ebay, facebook, google. AOL was big, so was IBM. I used to go up and down high streets trying to get shop owners to have a site, no one was interested. Some sites looked like they were done in prep school. I was getting about £450 per site. As the trend when to CMS I wasn't getting enough work and sold what I had off after 14 years.

Funny... I was the lead engineer on Microsoft.com in 1997-1999 when it was the most trafficked website in the world. Internet has come a long way. I ran one of these boards for a while before Facebook groups pretty much killed most of them.

 

[Greg]

Kids today have no idea how simple technology was. No smart mobile phones or digital cameras. The fax machine was the quickest form of transmission of pictures. And Kodak was history after 74 years

 

[dmiller68]

yeah, tech was a far cry from today... It took 36 Compaq servers, we only had 4GB drives so each server had 21 drives I believe in 3 attached arrays with discs in the server. Not sure if it is completely correct brain is old now, basically two servers in a 42u rack. Today you can get a 1u server that is many many times faster with a ton more storage. Now days of coarse everything is in the cloud...

 

[Greg]

I still don't trust the cloud. I like my docs and pics where I can get at them without a password

My first computer an Amstrad with 265kb memory running at 4mh. Single core. Current computer 64mh don't know how many cores a i9 has, 8 gb ram. It cost less than 2x the Amstrad.

Personally, in my opinion, if you were born after WW2 we have had the best of it. Now it looks like everyone will be infected with some sort of plastic poisoning or a so called act of nature.

Sorry, getting bit morbid. I'll go away and play with my camera