by AdminJason » March 29, 2026, 10:27 pm
Hey folks! Website admin here.
The other mods have been forwarding your feedback to me and I wanted to take a moment to address those things directly, along with some other ongoing things that are being addressed following the new website transition:
Port Report Pages
One of the guest users articulated it perfectly as far as the reasoning behind doing away with the manual port reports. The information is readily available on-demand through our AIS platform. To make this information more easily accessible, I've added a section on the sidebar of our homepage that has a dropdown menu of the ports and other waypoints that will take you directly to that port listing on the AIS site.
On this Day in History Posts
Folks have commented about the lack of photos on these posts, and that's something we've always intended on fixing after we got everything else up and running. The history posts were an absolute mess on the admin backend of the old site, so I copied all of that information over manually to give it a "clean slate" with the game plan being that myself and the rest of the team can chip away at re-adding photos to the posts as our time allows — much like a lot of the other ongoing projects we have, including updating and building out the vessel galleries.
AIS Issues
An unexpected snafu of the new website launch was that our AIS system (which is hosted separately from the main website) sourced all of its photos and images directly from the file systems of both past versions of the main Boatnerd website, and because I wiped our main host clean before launching the new site, all of those image links became broken.
Earlier today, I finished scouring my backup archives of both websites to gather those images and upload them directly to the AIS host, so that our AIS admins can work on getting those fixed.
Feedback Forms
I also have it on my to-do list to set up a feedback contact form on the main website so folks can more easily share feedback and ideas, or report issues and problems, so we can take care of these things.
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All of that said, I appreciate you folks bearing with us. All of us on the website team are working on this stuff in our spare time, myself included. It's gonna take us a bit to get this ship sailing smoothly, but I promise we're actively working on it!
Cheers!
Hey folks! Website admin here.
The other mods have been forwarding your feedback to me and I wanted to take a moment to address those things directly, along with some other ongoing things that are being addressed following the new website transition:
[b]Port Report Pages[/b]
One of the guest users articulated it perfectly as far as the reasoning behind doing away with the manual port reports. The information is readily available on-demand through our AIS platform. To make this information more easily accessible, I've added a section on the sidebar of our homepage that has a dropdown menu of the ports and other waypoints that will take you directly to that port listing on the AIS site.
[b]On this Day in History Posts[/b]
Folks have commented about the lack of photos on these posts, and that's something we've always intended on fixing after we got everything else up and running. The history posts were an absolute mess on the admin backend of the old site, so I copied all of that information over manually to give it a "clean slate" with the game plan being that myself and the rest of the team can chip away at re-adding photos to the posts as our time allows — much like a lot of the other ongoing projects we have, including updating and building out the vessel galleries.
[b]AIS Issues[/b]
An unexpected snafu of the new website launch was that our AIS system (which is hosted separately from the main website) sourced all of its photos and images directly from the file systems of both past versions of the main Boatnerd website, and because I wiped our main host clean before launching the new site, all of those image links became broken.
Earlier today, I finished scouring my backup archives of both websites to gather those images and upload them directly to the AIS host, so that our AIS admins can work on getting those fixed.
[b]Feedback Forms[/b]
I also have it on my to-do list to set up a feedback contact form on the main website so folks can more easily share feedback and ideas, or report issues and problems, so we can take care of these things.
------
All of that said, I appreciate you folks bearing with us. All of us on the website team are working on this stuff in our spare time, myself included. It's gonna take us a bit to get this ship sailing smoothly, but I promise we're actively working on it!
Cheers!