Feedback

I think it's important to upgrade the news in time.
When I found some incorrect infomations, I will tell you.
I'm appreciated of this new website.
ZOE

Hi JJ
So far so good!
A great improvement on the old site.
I hope more expats take an interest and join and stay active on line.
Keep up the good work
Alfa

Thanks Alfa :)
I will try my best:)

congratulations on a very nice and informative site, new site definately looks better.

JJ,
Can you please inform everyone what kind of posts will be deleted? I see that the "satellite service" posting has been removed, so I assume that anything that makes the Middle Kingdom seem anything less that supremely Harmonious will be removed as well? I'm actually being serious...what are the guidelines on this site? Thank you.

JJ,
Can you please inform everyone what kind of posts will be deleted? I see that the "satellite service" posting has been removed, so I assume that anything that makes the Middle Kingdom seem anything less that supremely Harmonious will be removed as well? I'm actually being serious...what are the guidelines on this site? Thank you.

Update: I owe an apology...I see the post in question is still there. I apologize for jumping to conclusions and being (overly-even for me!) sarcastic. Still, I just want to know...what will and won't be tolerated? Thanks!

I think it is clearly mentioned that on this new website, the community plays an active role in monitoring content: when a vip member clicks on the "flag this" link, the content becomes hidden until it is reviewed. Same thing happens when 3 different members click on it.
So if one of your post disappears temporarely, don't panick :)
(but I checked and your post hadn't been flagged Canrun, so I think you just did not see it)
We have guidelines in our Tips and on the top of each submission page... and I don't think we are being super strict: no rudeness, nom pornography, no racism and must respect the laws of PRC.
I want to add however that this is definately not a political website and if you have some serious issues with the way this country is being governed, this is not the right platform for you to express these feelings.
In the last three years though, I did not have to delete one single post regarding this.
Hope this is clear enough, if not, let me know :)
JJ

Query or maybe a suggestion ,

I wanted to put an Buy classified for a pool table but the categories are :

Tickets
Villas
Phones
Motorbikes
Hi-Fi
Furniture
Computerware
Cars
Bikes
Appliances
Apartments

well, Is there an option for adding the category?

oh ! for now my classified is under the category 'furniture' ... he he he .

Hello Anu,
There is no option for users to add categories cos I am afraid the list would then be endless and therefore not user friendly.
You can however suggest one to us, and we will probably add it :)
I noticed that the 3 items for sale at the moment are cameras, and I don't have a category for this so they had to choose "other" ...
Anybody knows in English a good generic word for tv, camera? I can't find one!!
Thanks
JJ

1) 'Electronics / Appliances'. should be fine for TV / DVD / camera/ Mp4 etc.

2) maybe you can just add 'Others' field in the categories.

3) maybe you can also add 'Sports' category for people who wish to buy/sell tennis rackets, bycycles, excercising equipments etc.

Great ideas Anu,
Thanks a lot :)
JJ

How about "Recreational Equipment". It covers a multitude of sins.

That's great Chinamonty... thanks a lot :)
JJ

Man, I'm really gonna miss those Paris Hilton, Viagra and luncheon meats adverts that used to appear from time to time on the old web site... ;)

Ha ha! Very funny Canrun :)
I may add a secret section just for you :):)
JJ

Really ! I never realised they were there ...

Well, it was a hard job to delete them, especially because I had to wait until Canrun had a look at them :)
JJ

ha ha ha ... but the new site is cool ..

Macau and HK's forums are quieter than here~!

ZOE

Canrun, can i subscribe to those posts too... Life is getting a bit boring now since i can't find any interesting bugs anymore in the website... JJ is doing his job too well.

JJ,
i have a suggestion to increase my points on the list. Delete the accounts from everyone above me in the points ranking and let me invite them again :-))))))

Seriously, can we ever hope to read a bit about the tech specs from the serverpark hosting this site??
I love the speed from the video streaming.

Hi Edwin,
Still a few bugs I am afraid (:
For the fast streaming, this is thanks to my great hosting company www.hkhosting.com .
JJ

Oh, bugs... You should call them random features. Things that occur when you least expect them to occur.

We love that. Makes life fun trying to find them.

One suggestion would be to put a link to the next post at the end of a thread.

After reading a long thread I have to scroll right up to the top again to click on the link to the next post. If you could put a link at the end of the thread, maybe between the area where u type your new post that would be most convenient !

Ta

This site is very informative and useful. Congratulations!!!!

be able to set individual user preferences, such that you can view the most recent posting either at the top OR at the bottom of the list... just a thought.

regards,

T. Tempest. DCA
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"I'd love a thousand words in a foreign language." Tang Yuchuan

I agree to Allycat .. a link to the next thread at the bottom of the page will be a good idea.

-Anu.

hello there,
Thank you all for your feedback and requests...
Not sure I can inplement all of them, but we can try :)
Please be patient a little and do carry on telling me what is wrong and what could be improved...
Many many xiexieni!!

Hi,
It's the first time to check it out after a long time and it's great.

Bruce.

How to Post the poll ?

-Anu.

Hover Magazine with your mouse until drop menu appears, then click on post a new mag, then choose post a poll.
Or, if you are VIP member, just click on the following link:
http://zhuhai.expat9.com/info/post-a-new-mag
JJ

Ummm :(

can open the page but cant find options to create a new poll .. anyways maybe something wrong with my computer.

-Anu.

Ah? I am very surprised... Does the page starts with dear VIP members? Could you send me a screenshot?
Thanks Anu :)

Which email add should i send the screenshot ?

-Anu.

How can i remove my Classified AD in buyers.. i already bought what i wanted :)

-Anu.

Hi JJ,

having read through many of the postings in the forum, it looks like it may be useful to have some facility that allows for a 'meet and greet' posting would be useful, sort of like an extention of the Calendar, so to speak.

Example 1: a few people have asked about playing Mahjohng, now I'm a little confused. It seems that Wednesday Coffee Morning has moved to Mondays and been replaced by the mahjohng activity. A bullitin board posting of who's gonna be there on a particular day, would help others coordinate turning up.

Example 2: a few people have asked about Yoga classes. Now I know that there are a few around so, Yoga in Jida, Yoga in Xiangzhou, or Yoga at Huafa could also be easily managed through a bullitin board where those who are going (or not going) can make a quick notice and the rest can take that into account.

Example 3+: a few people are interested in 'bushwalking,' 'day hiking,' 'photography walks,' 'island hopping,' and so forth. To coordinate such events, especially when they become repeat events to different places becomes difficult and potentially tedious via the current forums. Having a bulitin board tied to the calendar would certainly make life easier for all and sundry.

What do you think? Is it possible? Is it feesable? Who would use such a feature if it existed?
regards,

T. Tempest. DCA
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"I'd love a thousand words in a foreign language." Tang Yuchuan

Hi Doc,
I agree with you: forums are limited as the threads go down and down and eventually get lost.
In my eyes, Forums are mainly for asking questions and also discussing stuff.
This is why, on this new site, I have given permission to all members to post classifieds, events and A to Z reviews.
Regarding what you are talking about, I think the event page is quite suitable:
1)You can create an event
2) you can ask people to use the comments to say wether they want to join or not. Or even give their opinion on the date, place etc...
3) you can edit your event to change the date or the place etc...
4) this is good for repetitive events as well: no need to rewrite all the event, just edit and modify the date and there you go :)

In fact, this is the big change with the previous site: comments have been enabled in nearly every section of the website...
I have done this to try to prevent people posting all information the forums... and try to organise the info in a more friendly user way :)
Let me know what you think Doc, ok?

Cool JJ, I'll give it a go.

btw, I know there are many, many fantastic looking sites out there, and this is a great improvement over the old macauzhuhai site, congrats! By happenstance I stumbled across the following site:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendi...

Now, don't let the content bother you (anyone) take a look at how they present the space, really very cool effects, especially the transparent forum over the background. I don't know if that's something you can beg, borrow, or otherwise acquire, but I thought you might like to look at it. Can you use it here? I have no idea, but it could be a way of giving different sections of the site their own characteristic or flavour, eg. A to Z?

regards,

T. Tempest. DCA
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"I'd love a thousand words in a foreign language." Tang Yuchuan

Hi JJ,

Oops ! i posted a comment and then while posting i thgought the screen was frozen .. so i clicked on the submit button twice .. now the comments page shows two same comments... what should i do to delete my comment .. i know i can edit .. but what if i want to delete my comment .. or should i logg off and flag the comment ?

-Anu.

I have not actually relocated to Zhuhai yet, but will be there in August. I have to say I have found this website to be incredibly useful. I would encourage the members to add more to the A-Z as I think it could be more helpful to the Zhuhai newbies. But overall, a great job from my point of view!

Big secret.
If you want to go back to the top of a thread instead of scrolling go "CTRL" "Home" pressing both at same time. This also works in Excel and quite a lot of forums and programmes.

Good tip Chinamonty! The corolary to this is "CTRL" + "END" if you want to go to the last/latest post(s) instead of scrolling down.

regards,

T. Tempest. DCA
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"I'd love a thousand words in a foreign language." Tang Yuchuan

JJ, I am afraid, invitation function doesn't work. Or my friends really ignore me :)I sent several invitations

Humm .. something not working there .. or maybe sometimes it works .. coz my other friend tried it and it worked for him ...

-Anu.

Invitation: I tried a couple of times before launching the website and seemed to work fine at that time.
I need to do more testing...
If not working, I may have to disable it for a while until I find the time to fix it... not too soon cos the next 2 weeks, I'll be in Macau most of the time, try to get more Macau people to use this site, haha :)
Anyway, thanks Nat ( and Anu) for reporting this!!
And thanks ChinaMOnty for this great trick... so I don't need to add a link at the end of the forums, or reverse the order of the comments, hehe... wonderful!
JJ

I have a question. I use a couple of different computers with different size monitors. One is a 14 inch widescreen.

You web site fits nicely in both screens and looks great. Yet many web sites for major global banks do not fit properly on different screens.

Why can you make your site function well yet these billion dollars banks and other corporations can not?

I can not understand this. There must be a reason.

Thanks

Its coding during the site designing .. very simple .. you can google it :)

-Anu.

Like Doc ' suggestions, it may be a good idea to have a simple "calendar diary". ie. people who want to see what is happening on a certain date or day of the month(something like in your handphone , to do list etc).
U click on the date to see what are the activities or events. with the date , time and meeting place. Those who wants to have more information can click on a short cut link that take them to the event section where the full descriptions is posted. You colour code the canlendar i.e. when there is activities or events on that day u can see for example Red color on the date in the canlendar.

Or if it is not too difficult to program.. you could have the date scrolling along the top of the page... going by the dates
(something like u see the financial data being displayed on your tv screen) It is just and idea.

I see the calender on the main page of this site .. did you notice ? i guess it does what you just mentioned.

-Anu.