01-10-2020, 06:10 PM
(01-07-2020, 03:06 PM)tophneal Wrote:(01-07-2020, 03:02 PM)Luke Wrote:(01-07-2020, 01:57 PM)tophneal Wrote: @Luke We need a twitter-like feed of your shipping updates. Would probably answer most new questions very quickly haha
This is actually something I've been thinking about too to be honest. As much as I understand and appreciate the importance of updating people regularly, doing so on a per-person (almost) basis starts becoming pretty exhausting.
So, then, the question is: where is the right place for such a feed? main page? special 'update webpage'? the forums? twitter/mastodon? - suggestions and alternative options very welcome (as always).
Heck, go with what's easiest to start. Twitter would likely work well, since Pine already utilizes it, and visitors don't have to have an account to see (most?) posts. (I have no idea how many tweets a guest to a twitter page can view before being blocked by a login/signup. I know I've seen it with trying to view a page's media posts. If they have some kind of pinning/sticky option, that should negate any concern over that.)
IDK, Mastodon seems to be better than Twitter for PINE's target demographic (they're how I found this company), but might be worse for non-technical users.
Either way, since people interested in exact shipping details are likely going to be seeking it out, I think it's sufficient to have it on a webpage like the existing shipping info page at the top of the website.
Maybe something simple that can be automatically updated either live or at regular intervals, like the total backlog size, or the oldest order in the backlog, or something like that. The counter could be auto-posted to social media by a bot e.x. every 24 hours?
