Hi folks, Iβm just taking a breather from redeveloping our beloved community website. Weβre working on a whole host of improvements to Which? Convo and we need your helpβ¦
Itβs sometimes hard to believe it, but we launched Which? Conversation five years ago. Like me, some of you have been on the site since the beginning. Others have only just dipped their toes into the deep ocean of discussions weβve been having.
Weβve come a long way and I like to think that together weβve built a vibrant community of different types of people from different backgrounds, each with differing points of view and expertise. It’s now time to super charge that. We want to attract even more people to our community, where they can debate the issues that matter to them.
Making Which? Convo better for you
So weβve been working hard to rethink the site and what we need to do to make it better for you. Hereβs just a flavour of what weβre looking to do:
- We want to make it easier for you to find the issues that matter to you. If you want to chat about rising energy prices, youβll be able to find those debates with ease. If youβre into exploring the ins and outs of returning faulty goods, weβll help you get there too.
- We want to reward you for the contributions youβre making and also encourage new people to become more active in the community.
- We want to bring you closer into the rest of Which?. Weβre proud of the community weβve built together and we want to start showing the discussions weβve been having together on other Which? websites.
Thatβs the big picture, but weβre also looking to fix some of the niggly things that have been frustrating you over the years. Why canβt you have access to a feed of all the comments youβve made? Why canβt you log in when and where you add a comment? Why canβt you edit damned typoz in your comments!?
Iβm excited and I hope you are too! I canβt promise weβll get everything right first time, but weβre working hard to make this the best community website we can.
We need your help
Of course, the site wouldn’t be a success without you. So weβve put together a little surveyΒ (itβll take you under 10 minutes to complete) about what you think of the website now and what youβd like to see from the new site. Weβre also looking for a group of Convo users whoβd like to help us test things as we go – if youβre interested make sure to let us know towards the end of the survey.
Something I thought you could help us out with here and now is our new user levels. As you make more comments on the new Which? Convo youβll move up the ranks, from a beginner to a regular to a super user. It would be nice to have some meaningful but light-hearted names for these new levels, whether itβs βConversationalistβ, βChampionβ, or βTop CoCoβ (as Em likes to call Conversation commenters). Anyway, Iβm all ears. And feel free to share any other thoughts about the improvements you want to see to the site below.