March 3, 2015 by warzan
It's time for a bit of early Spring cleaning for us here at Beasts of War. We've got a wealth of content on the website and sometimes it can get a bit hard to find it all so we're vowing to use this week to help make that process easier.
We want your help so comment below with what you have the most problems finding. Is it videos, themed weeks, articles or maybe even your favourite forum posts?
Help us do a bit of rejigging!
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Snatch Up Corpses With Warmachines’ New Necrohavester
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Fight Alongside DakkaDakka’s New Stormpride Sisters On Kickstarter
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Loads More Burrows & Badgers Previews For New Starter Set!
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Dive Into Bolt Actions’ 28mm Winter US Army & Airborne Collection
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FREAKZ! Mutant Murder Machines Available From Osprey Games
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New Ottomans & The French In Egypt From Perry Miniatures
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Build Your Crusader-era Islamic Army With Victrix Miniatures
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A New Crew Comes To Freebooter’s Fate & A Pirate Squirrel!
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Buckle Some Swashes With Two New Black Scorpion Miniatures
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Recruit New 15mm Desert Infantry From Slave 2 Gaming
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Battle Through New Micro Art’s Pre-Coloured Japanese Terrain
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Grab Digital Armoured Clash Rules From Warcradle Studios
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Steamforged’s Epic Encounters Hit The Ruins Of Symbaroum!
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Spectre Miniatures Reveal Limited Remembrance Diorama
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Explore Kromlech’s Ace New Fantasy Realms Terrain Range
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Add Macrocosm’s Mighty 28mm Dwarven King To Your Throng
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Pre-Orders Live For Studio Tomahawk’s SAGA: Age Of Chivalry
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At the start of this I was on board, tidying up the masses of content you guys have generated is a pretty solid use of time.
Then at the end you mention its about creating work for your younger brother. As an Elder brother, I believe this idea to be nothing short of vile, petty, evil certifiable genius!
As a start, I’d suggest a way to go straight to all the unboxings, and then from there to the unboxings for a particular range or theme and/or a mix of both.
Maybe when you click on a certain game you could have links such as getting started, unboxing, painting tutorials and battle reports so you can just see the specific criteria of a game. Just an idea
Also on the forums page at the very bottom of it you have a list of games if you could just and a couple more recent games e.g. WWX and BMG.
I’d love an easy way to find hobby labs, and anything related to making terrain and such.
I’ve been looking for those and haven’t had much success tbh.
also a separate tag for tutorials in general.
for when you feel like learning something new but don’t know what specifically.
Hobby lab’s are a pain to find if you could sort that out for me
Think i all honesty would like to see all old Vids on Youtube, and the just clear boards to all but recent posts.
Sort of refresh and update, allow new topics and ideas to spread. Move things around a little.
Would it be plausible to sub-divide categories into factions?
For example, I play primarily with Soviets. I have Soviet forces for Flames, Bolt Action and Dust to name a few. As a ‘Soviet’ player I’m interested in almost any Battle Report, Unboxing, painting guide, release news etc which relates to Soviet forces.
I’d imagine there may well be others out there just looking for news on Eldar or Cygnar for example.
I have problem with finding unboxing, Hobby lab, dividing it to factions as @stusidle would help, for me as Khador player. games review. Company/manufacture.
Just being able to remained logged on while I go between pages would be good
when ever that happens just click refresh and let me know if that works.
Is it possible to do something to rationalise the main feed on the front page? It moves very quickly and has an eclectic mix of items. Currently there’s this Vlog, the Bolt Action bootcamp vid, an article, news on Salute’s future, both Weekenders, a review, a news item on Leonard Nimoy’s passing, a couple of DreadBall videos, an interview with Burning Games, and a bunch of WWX content. The latest of these is five days ago. Could each new item be tagged, and feed offer the option of only seeing items with a each tag? So there could be tags… Read more »
I do know that there are genre tags at the moment, but these filter in the sidebar items and don’t break the feed down by content type. At least as far as I can tell that’s what they do.
Just a separate page that is marked as videos, and then on that page are all the different folders types of all ur vids, so people can also see other subject that might fancy looking at
My main use of BoW is to watch videos whil I paint. Categorising old video content so it is accessible as possible is no. 1 for me. By game system is minimum. Old hobby stuff is essential too as it is timeless and i may actually not need it for years, but when i do, i don’t want to have to rely on a search function.
For me id like more organization in the site such as categorizing your content so that all INFINITY has a section, all W40K has a section and so forth,
If you click on sci fi at the very top of the page then you can choose which game and all the content will come up, that might be what you mean
I have a mop and bucket if that helps
I am an information manager by profession. The biggest issue you have is everyone will want something different as has been demonstrated here by the posts.
I think that organisation of content needs to be done in a way that looks at its primary function.
on a site like this you have various different content types and many different topics.
the best way imho is improve the search functionality and ensure that each item of content is correctly tagged using a standard metadata schema.
Trello It! It will be great to have a Flexible Roadmap where we will be able to comment, add suggestions and see will be next. Obviosly all the disclaimers apply ( subject to change, content may vary, etc ), but is non the less a good way for you to organize the develoment priorities, get feedback and new content. Trello is 100% free and i’ll use it in so many projects that is first nature me to use that rather than stick paper to walls ( well never did that… i’m not that retro 😛 )
would be good if one of the tags was the year the content was made.
This might not help with the organization of the site much but as someone who came to the site fairly recently it might help new people settle in if you had an intro video. And have it be prominent and accessible all year (with a new one made each year). It could cover a lot of not obvious information that people might wonder about. 1. Who are the staff and what are their hobby is etc. I watched probably a dozen weekenders before I realized that Warren calling him Brother Lloyd wasn’t an inside joke, that they are actually brothers.… Read more »
Please make Hobby-lab and painting tutorials easier to find.
And I’d also like to see more episodes of Hobby-lab, the tips and tricks there are excellant!
Hobby labs for me. It always takes me a while to find them 🙂
I agree with Hobby Lab
Married?!? Shouldn’t you guys be there?
I find it hard to find Hobby-Lab and/or the Painting videos.
Logged in wiv me backstage profile where I should be accessing video using html5, but vlog video unavailable as shows that plugin is unsupported, have you gone flash only?
Just coming onto the site I think the content is astrounding. Perhaps oragnisation along the lines of topics within each game / subject so for example GW – modelling – painting videos. So essentially a person looks at a topic lets say WH40K and can go a topic of interest be it demonstration games, hobby discussions, new releases, AAR
grouping episodes of painting tutorials, or a watch all button would be useful :o)