Incorporating a News board/News threads?

[B]

So, the oft-quoted, almost memetic phrase "there's a site, too?!" has become a fun in-joke whenever someone asks a seemingly obvious question, if they had just checked the site. But one thing I've noticed is there really isn't a direct forum/website correlation when news pops up. Usually what happens is, in my experience, someone in some thread will link to a piece of news, typically a Japanese site, and then discussion rolls off from there. Eventually, a news post on the main site shows up, giving whoever posted the original news tip a thanks for the heads up, or even just mentions chatter on the forums. Or, the opposite happens: Kanzenshuu gets to the news first... and there's no thread or even conversation within a thread talking about it. At least for a short while, because it's not like the fandom misses a whole lot.

I bring this up because, to be honest, I only have the forum bookmarked, and I have to repeatedly remind myself "durr, check the site, check the site!" And just glancing around, I notice no one has brought up the new Kanzenshuu illustration posters that are going on sale, which you wouldn't probably know about without looking at the site. Maybe there's not much to say about those other than "cool." Maybe it's just my problem, and I need to bookmark the site proper.

Oh, the new CD releases for the Dragon Ball Kai openings and endings. There's been a wealth of things to talk about with Kai's return, but that news has seemingly been absent on the boards as well. Another thing that if someone didn't make a habit of checking the site, would almost seem like it didn't happen.

[hleV]

Bookmark the site, and if you don't see anything interesting in the news, click the big shiny FORUM button. That's how I do it, at least.

[VegettoEX]

We thought about it when we launched the combined site, actually. My thinking at the time was that it would invariably end up duplicating conversations. Like you said, news is being discussed on the forum already and/or it ends up getting discussed afterward. Having a news post thread directly embedded within a section of the forum would do little to change that - it would just be more of the same.

We're different from other sites that are more general. We've very specific to what we cover and therefore things (being "conversations") move incredibly fast.

So yeah. Just keep remembering (and reminding everyone else) that hey, Kanzenshuu isn't a forum. It has one, but it has a forum just like it has a podcast and it has a chat room. It's all of those things. It's a website that has all of those cool things as a part of it!

[Insertclevername]

Here's an idea that just popped in my head: What about a little side bar on top of the forum that scrolls through current news stories in the past few days, similar to a news station? It could perhaps keep people more well informed and could promote the main site as a user would be interested in seeing the full stories.

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Bookmark the site, and if you don't see anything interesting in the news, click the big shiny FORUM button. That's how I do it, at least.

That's how I do it as well, and it works fine for me.

[Tzigi]

Here's an idea that just popped in my head: What about a little side bar on top of the forum that scrolls through current news stories in the past few days, similar to a news station? It could perhaps keep people more well informed and could promote the main site as a user would be interested in seeing the full stories.

I like this idea - I don't browse the site unless someone specifically points to a news item that I think I should take a look at - and sometimes I miss important news so that would be great for me. On the other hand the idea of bookmarking the site and taking a look at it every now and then wouldn't work for me (my bookmarks folder has several thousand bookmarks - they simply are what I consider important for my PhD dissertation - and so bookmarking something doesn't mean I will look at it).

Also, no offense meant, but I dislike the look of Kanzenshuu's main page (I love the forum design but the site is too cluttered and has that fugly current-Toriyama-style [which makes me cringe] Goku on it) so I'm not really keen on looking at it often.

[ricecake]

I use the RSS feed to notify me when new news items appear on the main page.

[Ajay]

I use the RSS feed to notify me when new news items appear on the main page.

Likewise. I use Feedly to keep up with every bit of news from the sites I regularly visit. Much easier to keep up with things when they're all in one place.