Swinging in the Zone
With 251 days remaining to rollout I figured I would once again give everyone an update- on the progress of what is sure to become one of the best swingers site ever. I have been working hard on the groups feature of this swingers website. When I wrote this feature on the Swapper Network website I failed to make this feature what I intended it to be. Well I have completely re-thought the entire groups feature.
You see when I originally wrote the feature it was my intention that people could use the feature to create- that close circle of friends and make it fun for those in the group to be a part of something special.
The entire feature failed for many reasons. The main problem was with the underlining way it worked. It had a founder that was able to control the group and approve postings as well as approve new people wishing to join the group. The problem was people would start a group get a bunch of people to join and the disappear leaving what I call a dead group with no founder. This group would remain on the system and take up space also causing people to get upset if they tried to join the group because no one would ever approve them to join.
My original thought was to make it so when the founder was not seen in a period of time then the first person that joined the group would be sent a message asking them if they want to take over the group. If they said no it would move down the chain by order of people that joined until someone either took over the group or it reached the end and just removed the group if no one wanted it. But the problem here was how long do you wait after sending a message before moving on to the next user in line. You could say if someone has not decided in 30 days after getting the message you move on right? Well that means the group is on hold until someone decided to take it over. It could take several months before someone decided to take it over.
After some thought I decided on a new way to take care of this issue. If the founder is not active in the group or they have removed their account from the website for one reason or another then I will create- a new status for the group. This status will allow anyone on the website to take over the group. Users may view a list of available groups that they can take over control over.
This is good because if it is a big group they do not need to make as much effort to get things started. Thus making it an instant success. So that will take care of that problem.
What about members of the group that are inactive in the group? What do you do with them? I decided that as the group moderator you can decide to enable a feature that if someone is not active in the group it will send out an automatic message to these users reminding them they are part of your group and you want them to be an active member or leave the group, but what is an active member? My definition of an active member is someone that has at least visited the group within a thirty day period.
When the moderator decides someone is not active it will leave it their hands to remove that user from the group or they can choose to have those people removed automatically.
Other problems with the group feature:
Well I have not only fixed all of the issues stated above I have gone one step further. I have created a new group feature that really puts what I did in the past to shame. This will make any other swinger website look like a joke in comparison. As a matter of fact it will do the same to any other website that has a group feature.
Next on the schedule is the party feature of the website. This feature will tie right into the group feature so getting parties going will be a breeze.
On a side note I wanted to thank everyone for the hundreds of emails with suggestions and encouragement and I am getting to them as fast as I can. I will try to answer everyone of them. With the clock running down for the rollout I am working on the website about 18 hours a day right now. Calling this new website the best swinger site on the net will not really do it justice more like one of the best websites on the net would be more like it. This website will have more than just the usual set of features. I am not letting the cat out of the bag on these items just yet. I will say that above and beyond all of these items it will have one other thing that no one has going for it. What is that you ask?
It will have Paul and Ann running the show. Two people that really care about swinging and running a quality website like no one else. It will also be affordable to everyone. Bring back the lifetime memberships is what I know people are shouting. I will do that and much much more. Tell your friends about us. In the end this will be the only place swingers will hang out. Get ready for a new concept for swingers. Get ready for a cutting edge website. Oh and get ready for the most fun you have ever had with your pants ON or OFF LOL!
We are going to begin by rolling out to targeted areas of the country first.
We will start with:
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Swingers in Florida. Why?, because we live here LOL.
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Swingers in New York
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Swingers in Illinois
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Swingers in California
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Swingers in Ohio
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and several more...
Once we rollout to these areas we will make sure everything is ok and move on the rest of the USA and then the rest of the world. Thats right this website will be world wide. This should add a whole new dimension to the website that it never had before.
Oh one more thing I have not mentioned yet. When I ran the Swapper Network website I always got mail from people that complained that they hated to scroll every single page. Guess what? Forget all that stuff. That was the old and outdated way that website worked. We now have a much better way. No scrolling the whole page ever again. Only scroll the data you want to see. It is amazing what you can do when you have a chance to start over again knowing all the bad points of something. Not only can you fix all that you can plan and implement a much better way of doing things.