₦airaland Forum

Heh.

Oh dear. Terrible.

Why? You want more competitors? Why not just hire more employees and train them to assist?

Hmmm, I suggest providing consultancy services to companies whose websites have been or could be hacked.

Try https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?action=profile;sa=showPosts

Also, click the "subscribe" button on any topic you want to follow.

Then when you're ready, go to http://www.nairalist.com/

Try again.  Nairalist now supports picture uploading!  http://www.nairalist.com/

For example, this tokunbo Mazda was posted yesterday:
[img]http://www.nairalist.com/im/fh6v9KUYNDjVsHSk_amwRQ==.jpg[/img]

Some examples (now with pictures):
- http://www.nairalist.com/lagos/housing/302
- http://www.nairalist.com/lagos/services/398

Raymond88 has been banned for 7 days.

Why not? Sebi it's a matter of throwing it into the washing machine?

Cross-posted on Nairalist, with enhanced pictures: http://www.nairalist.com/lagos/vehicles/170

Hello,

Where in Lagos are you based? Let's say someone wants to come for a test ride?

Regards,
Seun Osewa.

I don't believe I actually have to say this, but don't go there. Thanks.

Sorry about this. So sorry. Your friends are not your friends; get rid of them. Talk to the police, etc.

Your advert will get more attention on Nairalist, seriously!

True talk. This topic has been locked by Seun Osewa.

If you think she's arrogant, it will never work. Just move on.

You're right that there's a lot that can yet be done about Nairaland, too. But alas, it's a big project.

Thanks, guys, for your continuous reviews and suggestions.

@Lekel: I made a decision to start this way because I felt it would be easier to attract people to post on a limited number of sections. I didn't think too much about the future when making that decision, and it may turn out to be a mistake. But there is a way I can improve the categorization without adding major sections to the website. We'll see how that turns out.

The issue of delisting is another thorny one. Due to the deliberate unstructured nature of the site you have to email for express deletion of any post. Also, we don't really want people to delete their posts, so, there's a perverse incentive not to implement it. There is a plan to automatically expire posts after 3 weeks or so, though. How about that?

Great idea, but it's been featured before!

Why can't they have a joint account for the rainy day? An account they can only withdraw from by agreement?

It's funny how no one has recommended a graphics thread to be featured on the home page.

Drunk drivers kill a lot of people. It's just 5 years, she'll survive. Usually they deduct the years awaiting trial.

I've already featured that one. Any other one?

Which specific threads would you like me to feature? Post a link to each one here.

On the 25th of May, 2009, there's going to be a friendly match between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Irish Team.  What's your prediction?

I've done that.  Hope you like it!

Cactus:
In my opinion, I will advise you to

1. Create a custom search engine for the site instead of using the Almighty Google.

Google pays me cash for using their search engine and it has the trust of the entire Internet. But it's slow to index new pages.

2. Hide poster's email address. This is because email harvesters can harvest and start spamming the poster.
- generate a random string in email format
- the new string is only valid for the duration of the post
- match strings to provided poster email
- send mails if information matches

I don't want spam replies to be associated with my mail server.

3. Though I read you tried simplifying the captcha, I shall advice you look for a stronger spam control captcha. What you have currently can be read easily

Nigerian spammers don't use robots, so a captcha is of no effect to them. It's just to slow ppl down.

4. In the dating section you requested for users to post phone numbers. I may may consider no phone numbers . People can do prank calls. Even in other sections do not permit phone numbers.
- you can block post by looking for numeric strings above certain length
- if they have white spaces, use a replacement string.
- or look for people trying to type alphanumeric and replace all strings.

If I block phone numbers and prank calls and email addresses, how will people contact each other??

5. I would include a numeric pagination in addition to the existing previous and next buttons. So users can jump to pages as they wish. It annoys me for sites that have only previous and next. I do understand the need to try to force progressive or regressive flow of information. But sometimes, having the option to skip pages is great.

Hmmm. Thanks for the suggestion.

If you buy a branded system, genuine windows comes with it. If you assemble your system, I'm sure you did not get the monitor and CPU and hard disk and RAM for free, so why not just include genuine windows in your budget?

There are many 80 year olds with sharp minds, but I guess 70 is more realistic.

Not yet, but it's coming soon. www.nairalist.com