Your thoughts? Scheduled online chat sessions joined by experts

Me too any time, sounds a good idea.

Be worth trying. Availability depends on the dates but guess early evening might be good for most.

My iPhone and iPad always offer a " Chat " tag which can be pressed to join a group chat or chat to an individual member , but I never see anything on my laptop which is windows ? Just interested

Sounds interesting and early evenings would be better

Bri

Add my name to the list please. Like the Martini advert, any time, any place, anywhere works for me.

Thanks everyone for this feedback -- if anyone else has thoughts or ideas please share them!

Hi Art, I posted an update on that in August: http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t10207-Participate-in-user-testing-to-help-improve-the-community-platform#post133707

Hi Alan,

Another thing we changed was to amend the navigation to make it easier for logged out users to find the link to Join the community or Sign in, which when logged in turns into that big green My Conversations button so you can quickly get to the conversations you're participating in. And we made it so the big topic areas - 'Diagnosis', 'Treatment' etc, open up and show their subtopics when you click on them, instead of going to a page showing all the conversations in the subtopics, which was really confusing. And we intend to make it so people starting a new conversation can't accidentally select a read-only subtopic.

On our list for considered improvements are:

- Getting the main site navigation out of the way so the community nav is more prominent

- Simplify search

- Improve the wording used around searching and password changes

- Replace infinite scroll with simple pagination

- Make it easier to see who's online

- Make it easier to start a new conversation from more places around the site

- Some bugs on iPad

Sadie

Thanks for your reply above. I have assumed that your “list for considered improvements” are those changes identified at the last event which will be introduced at a future date.

I would like to pick up on Roy’s point, which was also mentioned by Lyn in an earlier posting on a different thread. The point is that it would be very helpful if the numbers who have viewed each post could be shown.

In August I set up a new thread about travel insurance, see the link below.

http://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t10970-Travel-Insurance-and-the-European-Health-Insurance-Card#post133777

After 5 days there were 2 replies on the thread and 6 “thanks”. I spoke to Steve in your office to find out how many people had read the thread. In the 5 days there had been 1,554 viewings by non registered readers and 32 by registered members.

I know you already show the number of replies to each thread in your system so could you arrange to show viewing figures to be shown for each post as well? 

This confirmed what I have thought for some time that since the Message Board was opened up to non members the interest from registered members is very small compared with the interest from non members. It is worth mentioning the warning given at that time that because non members will have sight of postings, but not the personal details in profiles, we need to be a bit discreet with the personal information, experiences and whatever shown in postings. Just a thought.

Alan

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Hurray! Someone else raises the issue - thanks Art. Some of us are far too casual about personal details - real names, grumbles about employers, where we live - certainly enough information to be recognised by a casual googler (or worse, the boss or a partner / ex!) 

I shall stick to referring to people by their log-in name when I reapond to things just in case. Doesn't matter to me if my real name is used as I don't have an employer and John isn't bothered what I share with you all!