Seun:
See the Romance section.

i hope you'd do the same for the anti men trends . If not, you only adding petrol to an already burning fire .

That's the right way to go, before marketing myopia finally sets in.
Nairaland is our homegrown and I look forward to seeing it succeed and thrive.

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

I'm pleased to wish you a Happy New Year!!

2024 will be the year of Nairaland's resurgence. I will face Nairaland squarely like I used to before the discouraging Data Loss Incident of 2014. I will hire more hands to help us to improve Nairaland.

The problems of Nairaland that we should have solved years ago will be solved.

* We will defeat tribalists, trolls, & spammers.
* We will complete our advertising platform.
* We will improve the UI and UX.
* Home page topics will be educative & fresh.
* We will reverse the anti-women trends.

However, I must warn you that things will get worse before they get better. Please stand with us and fight for us as Nairaland faces the tough challenges of 2024, which have already started.

Happy New Year and thanks for using Nairaland!

Seun Osewa,
Nairaland's Founder.

Seun, I am happy you are now taking decisive steps to sanitize Nairaland.

As part of improvement initiatives, consider making phone number verification a requirement for new membership registration. This will significantly curb the menace of trolling as it will make it hard to recklessly create new accounts

Meanwhile, what does it take to be a moderator? What are the requirements and job description? I could be interested

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

I'm pleased to wish you a Happy New Year!!

2024 will be the year of Nairaland's resurgence. I will face Nairaland squarely like I used to before the discouraging Data Loss Incident of 2014. I will hire more hands to help us to improve Nairaland.

The problems of Nairaland that we should have solved years ago will be solved.

* We will defeat tribalists, trolls, & spammers.
* We will complete our advertising platform.
* We will improve the UI and UX.
* Home page topics will be educative & fresh.
* We will reverse the anti-women trends.

However, I must warn you that things will get worse before they get better. Please stand with us and fight for us as Nairaland faces the tough challenges of 2024, which have already started.

Happy New Year and thanks for using Nairaland!

Seun Osewa,
Nairaland's Founder.

Hire me to help you.

Seun:
See the Romance section.

Seun, it will also go a long way for people to give permission to whoever wants to follow them.
The era where anybody from nowhere can just follow you without your permission on Nairaland should be over.

LivingSage:
If possible, It'll be better the IP address of serial defaulters, especially those with different ( hundreds of ) monikers be ban instead

This site will become a shadow of itself. Just try it.

Thazard:
Yes, i agree. Seun please act as this person said,it's very important. Also, increase the number of followers one could have or could follow. Also giving verification badge to certain users with lot of followers would bring more fun. I joined Nairaland because of Explorers,Techcapon,Autojosh.

And also Nairaland should try and have a physical headquarters

omohayek:

Well, for one thing, you could make new members wait for a certain amount of time before they can actually post comments. Another useful tool would be to allow individual users to block comments from certain others - this reduces the incentive for notorious trolls to spout their usual nonsense, as they know most of their intended targets will never actually see what they write.

The only thing insisting on phone-numbers or other personally-idenfiable information would achieve would be to kill this site in one blow, by driving away anyone who cares about privacy.

Weak. The person capping nonsense is undeniably Gbawe of old and he knows what ID based registration means for bullies like himself.
When those afraid of ID run away others not afraid of it will draw nearer. What attracts neutral guest here is good content from search engines and not stupid epistle of partisans. I implore Seun to ignore this one who once called pastors Mafia. He is now a minister and cannot do anything meaningful with his position other than being celebrated as a local champion in uvwie.

All the best Seun. I wish you success in your decision to refocus Nairaland.

Thazard:


Seun I think phone numbers should be use for registration instead of email.

people loose ownership of their phone numbers from time to time. Especially in a case of theft and some that also Japa. Email is actually better, except there is an option to edit phone number.

mrjojo:
Nairaland is a 2 billion naira worth at the minimum of venture if seun decides to take it seriously

Seun still runs this as a side project from his "cubicle" in sango-ota .

Knowing Seun to be an introvert who doesn't like the spot light or want to be popular just as myself, if I were him

I will

Run Nairaland as a business' by

1. Opening a physical office space in Lagos, Abuja, Sango-ota as HQ

2. Employ a CEO to run it while I continue to serve as founder and CTO

3. Employ a full team of enginneers, UX front end designers, marketers

Phase 1
Manage

1. Front page should be very current with update as it happens, ( I see a news/even on instablog and see it days after on the frontpage), alot of people only visit the front page, so it must be regularly updated and of high quality

2. limit posting to some section for new accounts, like have some way you rank accounts, new account should have a 3 month sandbox restriction.

3. make it impossible to register multiple account from thesame device,

4. Use text verification and real email ( no temp mails) for registration

5. Moderation : Each section should have atleast 2 mod and very active section 3 with 1 supermod.

6. Tribalism and hate speech should attract ban, device ban, email ban ,phone number banif possible an IP ban after two warnings




Phase 2

Build

Implement new feature,

One of the allure of Nairaland is it simplistic UI and fast loading time

That doesn't need to change but it can be better,

1. Add Night mode, this will switch the background to black which is easy on the eyes at night, users can toggle on off

2. Add a bit of self moderation by adding a dislike button (when a comment has so many disikes, a moderator manually access if it should be hidden, users can still view the comment if clicked

3. An email system should be designed, communication stays on nairaland instead of third part email (all nairaland user get a user@nairaland.com email after 6 months of active usage provided the haven't been banned more than thrice,.

4. Build a robust ad management system, from creation, funding , moderation,

5.make it easy to share, the share button can be linked to whatsapp, fb, tiktok, IG, so when someone click on share they can also share outside the platform
a short url like naira.land(a business savvy person will buy this domain and sell it to Seun when he wakes up for 10m)will also make sharing easy

6. native ios/app with great push feature

7. Add some other Africa countries section based on data and traffic from those countries


maybe more later if I think of more but these will increase traffic(currently <30million Monthly according to similarweb ) by atleast 30% within 9.5 month

@ no 7. In my opinion, social media is social media, nairaland is nairaland. A lot of people like their privacy. Linking it to all this paltforms might demotivate people to be on the forum.

Addme:

Seun, it will also go a long way for people to give permission to whoever wants to follow them.
The era where anybody from nowhere can just follow you without your permission on Nairaland should be over.

.
I agree with this.

Prigidypogodo:
I love nairaland
I love Seun Osenwa
I hate trolls and bigot
I hate Tinubu
I love yoruba
I love Igbo
I love Hausa
I love other tribes
thunder scatter Tinubu
thunder scatter Apc
may God punish them and theirs.

God bless Nairaland and its founder 😍❣️❣️💕💕

I know you part of those fighting between tribe.

Seun:

My supermods were reluctant, so I banned a ton of people myself. For hours and hours. But I couldn't sustain that indefinitely. It's like cleaning a house with multiple toddlers. As soon as you stop cleaning, the house will get dirty again. My supermods could not be persuaded to handle the spammers the way that I wanted them to.

What has changed is that I am ready to bring in new people to do the job and if they fail I am ready to replace them as many times as necessary in order to find someone who will do it. The problems of Nairaland will always be on my mind due to my presence. Solutions will be found.

But I need the assistance.of Nairalanders. I cannot do it alone. We need people who can be trusted with responsibilities such as the ending of name-checking on the crime section of Nairaland.

I am in.

Remember that not everyone lives in Nigeria, except users can use their foreign numbers too

Seun:

I think you are right about that.

Nothing needs to get worse before it gets better.

But people can abuse it just like some people report folks for divergent views that are not abusive or controversial.

Ireportlive:




Happy New Year Bro... keep up the Good work


God bless Nairaland!!!


Nairaland needs block button



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Seun, I’m not a fan and have no idea if you’ll read this.

But you need to add the ability to pin a topic on the front page.

Topics like live election updates, BBN finals, ongoing soccer matches and news that run over a specific period of time should be pinned until the event is over.

Akuko

Technology can actually bring it to a dead halt.

12inchess:


Yinmu..Tribalism can never leave Nairaland so long as Nigerians themselves are tribalistic.

Seun speaking like a typical Nigerian politician. "We will"


"We will defeat Boko Haram"

Employ me boss, I have spent more than a decade of my life in this platform.

Ireportlive:


The feeling is mutual, I will block your kind within a second never to see you on my timeline

will you block me too ?

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

I'm pleased to wish you a Happy New Year!!

2024 will be the year of Nairaland's resurgence. I will face Nairaland squarely like I used to before the discouraging Data Loss Incident of 2014. I will hire more hands to help us to improve Nairaland.

The problems of Nairaland that we should have solved years ago will be solved.

* We will defeat tribalists, trolls, & spammers.
* We will complete our advertising platform.
* We will improve the UI and UX.
* Home page topics will be educative & fresh.
* We will reverse the anti-women trends.

However, I must warn you that things will get worse before they get better. Please stand with us and fight for us as Nairaland faces the tough challenges of 2024, which have already started.

Happy New Year and thanks for using Nairaland!

Seun Osewa,
Nairaland's Founder.

Monetize it...Let people earn money too by using Nland ...

Seun:
We will ban then and delete their tribalistic posts. We will ban everyone that uses ethnic slurs.

Well, it quite easy for people to register multiple account on the platform. Therefore, does ban mitigate such?

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

I'm pleased to wish you a Happy New Year!!

2024 will be the year of Nairaland's resurgence. I will face Nairaland squarely like I used to before the discouraging Data Loss Incident of 2014. I will hire more hands to help us to improve Nairaland.

The problems of Nairaland that we should have solved years ago will be solved.

* We will defeat tribalists, trolls, & spammers.
* We will complete our advertising platform.
* We will improve the UI and UX.
* Home page topics will be educative & fresh.
* We will reverse the anti-women trends.

However, I must warn you that things will get worse before they get better. Please stand with us and fight for us as Nairaland faces the tough challenges of 2024, which have already started.

Happy New Year and thanks for using Nairaland!

Seun Osewa,
Nairaland's Founder.

you also need to address the issue of old news. If we can be getting it hot as e dey happen. Not 5days or a week news