DealerRefresh Roadmap - taking requests

[Rick Buffkin]

@Alex Snyder, I have a quick question. The old UI had a setting that I could change the number of post that shows in the forum feed. I can't find it now. Is that feature gone?

 

[Alex Snyder]

@Alex Snyder, I have a quick question. The old UI had a setting that I could change the number of post that shows in the forum feed. I can't find it now. Is that feature gone?

It is for the moment. That old UI threw millions of errors over the time we had it because the maker stopped supporting it. Jeff and I kept it around because it was the way so many of us navigated the site. The new one is built from the ground up. We own it!

I need to make two adjustments to this new one. I'm working through a bunch of things and will get back to it soon.

Is there a way to EXCLUDE "community review" posts from displaying in the new Daily Activity Feed feature? When this was a xenforo add-on "Modern Statistics", there was the ability to exclude categories and forums from showing up and taking over the users view.

You are currently publishing Community Review posts under Deals & Reviews > Sales Operations. Why not publish them under their own Category > Forum (Community Review) and then omit Community Review forum from showing up in the daily activity feed?

Maybe.... probably... I mean, we can just about do anything.

 

[Jeff Kershner]

2023 Concept: "Tech needs car ppl more than car ppl needs tech" [link to post]

Uncle Joe's DealerRefresh Top100 Mock
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Twenty years of threads. A million posts. Who are the best and brightest — the ones sharing the ideas everyone else came here to read? We classified every post to find out.​

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PRD: DealerRefresh Top100.

Been reading through this Joe. I like it!

 

[joe.pistell]

Been reading through this Joe. I like it!

DR attracts the brightest minds. Many of them are readers only.

I'd love to have long time readers, get a popup modal with an invite to drop a short thank you note to share with the audience.
or a 'what does DR do for you?"
or... "[Check here] if you've come to see what mad scientist work is @Ryan Everson upto this month.

 

[Alex Snyder]

@Alex Snyder, I have a quick question. The old UI had a setting that I could change the number of post that shows in the forum feed. I can't find it now. Is that feature gone?

It is back. And @Jeff Kershner has his username hover overs again.

 

[Alex Snyder]

@Jeff Kershner we have a new feature in the Admin panel that allows us to remove entire Nodes from the Acitivty Widget on the home page:



I have already taken the reviews Nodes (forums) off. We can turn those back on once all the reviews are built.

 

[joe.pistell]

we have a new feature in the Admin panel

dammmm... u are rocking!

 

[Alex Snyder]

New registration page is up. Callout to Todd Caputo for the quote that can't be seen in this screenshot.

I've been heavily concentrated on making the Guest experience better with the hopes it will lead to more people becoming members. Membership grows the community and is good for all of us!

 

[Alex Snyder]

Big update today in the backend. DealerRefresh now has a complete end-to-end lead-to-sponsor-to-banner-ad-to-accounting management system.

Think of it as a CDP and CRM custom-built for our needs that flows directly into a DMS with two-way sync. Not anything anyone other than Jeff, myself, and staff see, but I wanted to nerd about it here.

The banner ads you're seeing are 100% hosted and served by this system.

AND the ads are contextual. When we create a sponsor, an API examines the ad and the sponsor to generate keywords for the ad. If a keyword matches the AI summary about a thread, that ad scores higher for placement. When an ad doesn't match a keyword, ads are displayed randomly. There are also some performance algorithms built into the ad server. This all helps our sponsors reach the right eyeballs. 97% of DealerRefresh traffic is not from members; it is from lurkers.