howdy everypony, so i for the last few weeks i have joined in on the radio chat and on several occasions i have been the only person there. i am not an official mod of the site or anything along those lines but i wanted to post this to tell every one that is on this site that does not know that not only can you listen to pony music but you can also get involved in the chat that goes along with it. we don't only talk about the music, we talk about anything. i wanted to tell all of you that anyone is welcome to stop by and have a chat. it is time that the radio chat got popular again. i also forgot to mention that when a DJ is online on the radio you can use the chat to request songs to be played. the radio comes in two forms, a standard radio and a radio which has the music videos to go with the songs being played. it will be amazing to see some new names appearing on the radio chat. hope to speak to some of you soon. peace out ~ L . S ~
I've only been on the radio like 3 times out of the years I've been here. Honestly, I just never saw the attraction.
To be brutally honest, the simple fact of the matter is that our radio hasn't moved with the times. There are now plenty of much bigger, better and more fully featured and scheduled radio stations out there. That's why we've got next to no audience... That and I do think the fandom is losing it's grip, slowly, but surely.
This whole post sums it up really. Especially the "fandom losing it's grip". Even I've noticed a decline from Jan to now of the fandom as a whole, I'm hoping S4 will bring in some new people too to the fandom/site.
I think it's also in part that brony music -as a whole- has not really moved with the times. All the great brony artists from way back haven't released anything new in a long while as far as I know.
In my honest opinion, I think the radio needs to go to some degree. It hasn't been getting the attention it needs to thrive and as a result it's died over the time it's been here. I mean, the DJs used to do 24 hours shifts competitively, and when I stepped down I could barely recall a DJ doing a noteworthy shift. I don't know how it is now, but unless you guys are willing to step up to the plate with improving the radio, you'll be better off removing it and prioritizing on other aspects on the site such as EPTV, Greenlight, and keeping the site bustling with new events.
If I was a DJ I would try my best to do those kinds of hours and it also wouldn't only be dubstep. I would find out what everyone wanted to listen to by posting a request thread. That is just an idea anyway. I think the radio needs new DJ's to either take over or to just be involved to improve it.
The problem is, everybody has this mentality at first, and then it usually fades. The golden age for the radio came and went but I'm not saying that a new one can't spring forward. A tip to the DJs: schedule a set time each day that you'd DJ so that people can attend during those times instead of just hoping for a DJ to be online. If you all collaborate and get a working week long schedule going and post it somewhere on the site, and stick to it, the radio will become immensely more popluar. Another tip would be to do what the old DJs used to do, and keep track in a notepad favorite songs of regular radio-goers, so that when they happen to be there you don't have to wait for them to request to set up their favorites. Maybe challenge each other too, set some goals. Best DJ for the week gets a day off or something. I dunno, it's not much job to come up with motivation for you guys to do this.
This is trufax. The only way the radio is going to die is if they do nothing. They're trying now. Have a little faith.
Show those new radio shows live, or broadcast re-runs at intervals. Mentioning them in a small sentence in CP's ain't gonna cut it. Make little banners w/ date & time of showings for them even, there's space.
The Radio page could do with a makeover for a start, and it needs some SEO work (Something I planned, but never did get around to). Take a look at the description for it in google: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=e...chrome..69i57.2990j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Could do with something a bit more appropriate and enticing.
Yeah...radio.php and home.php?pageid=radio are technically the same, which looks to be why it goofed up any SEO (oops). As you know the pageid=X are those vBadvanced pages -- radio.php is just a copy for convenience. Months back I tried just scrapping pageid=radio and making a static radio.php. That ended with people wanting the ability to move the modules around to return. I'll see to getting the search optimization sorted out. meta description however should be sorted now, just gotta wait for robots to re-index it.
Erm... I'm sorry if this sounds a bit rude, but... could you explain what you guys are talking about in a fashion that'd make sense to people that have no idea what this whole coding business is about, like myself? =S
I didn't figure anybody would care outside of those who actually are familiar, but okay. Everypony's radio page runs on a plugin, and by design, the plugin gives your pages a less than user friendly URL: www.everypony.com/forums/home.php?pageid=X where X is the title of the page (specified by the Administrator). I created a simpler URL just www.everypony.com/radio.php for sake of convenience, but really it's just a copy of the same location. Optimally, in terms of search results, only one radio page should show up. All in all, the impact on the search results was an oversight on my part, I'll work on it. There's actually quite a few old urls I've noticed that need to go as well.
