Letter from the Editor: What can we do to make Gossip On This better?
Author: Staff | Date: December 31st 2008 | Filed: PSA
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Does anyone besides me feel like the year 2008 just came and went? I mean really, it just seems like we were just closing out 2007 and bringing in 2008. And here it is, exactly one year later, and we’re closing out 2008 and bringing in 2009. Anyway, I’m going to start something new here at Gossip On This. Every few months or so, I’m going to write you guys (the readers) a letter, letting you know about future plans for the site, and to generally ask of your opinions on the current state of the site: what you like, what you hate, what you wish we did more of, what you wish we did less of, celebrities you want to hear more about, celebrities you wish we’d stop talking about, features you’d like on the site, features you hate on the site, and anything and everything else you can possibly think of.
2009 is right around the corner, and with us being online for about 2 years, we’ve become a little seasoned (in blogger’s terms). New celebrity blogs open up every day, and most don’t even make it to 6 months without the writers getting bored and just giving up and closing up shop. Well, we here at Gossiponthis.com are not bored and plan to be around for a very long time. With magazine subscriptions on a slow and steady decline, and subscriptions to celebrity blog RSS feeds on a fast rise, all celebrity blogs are going to be around for a while. Hell, we just got here!
But with that said, I wanted to ask you … all of you. What exactly do you want? What exactly will bring you back here every day, several times a day? What will spark your interest and make you want to become an active commenter? Without the thousands of you that visit the site every day, we wouldn’t even exist. So your opinions and suggestions do matter. So drop us a comment and let us know what will make Gossiponthis.com home for you every time you boot up your computers and laptops and hop on the internet.
Positive (and negative) comments are both welcome. Just don’t go in too harsh on us, hehe.
Sincerely,
Dustin Gary
Owner & Editor-in-Chief
Gossiponthis.com
leana
December 31, 2008 at 9:08 AM
i love this site, but it should be more accessible to mobile users too. opening up a mobile GOT.com would be the thing that you need, in my opinion. also instead of having rihanna featured in almost all the “who wears it best” is getting boring. rihanna get beating everytime. and can you add the members area again so i can get emails of certain postings or all postings.
thats all i can think of for right now. GREAT SITE!!
leana
December 31, 2008 at 9:19 AM
sorry i just thought of something else. you guys should also do movie reviews or something to do with movies. also you guys can do a “where are they now” catergory in the blog. im finally done
Dustin
December 31, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Leana, thank you for your suggestions. All of them will definitely be taken into consideration. We actually have plans to re-open user registration in the future, but for now, we’d rather limit user access to the site to simply commenting. Once that builds up, we will definitely open up user registration to the site and introduce more features to the site to increase user interaction and activity. Facebook actually has the capability of linking websites with users’ FB profiles, so that’s also something we’ve been looking into recently. The way Facebook is growing, it’s actually beating out MySpace in overall traffic and the number of users grows every day. So theoretically, pretty soon most of the people who visit Gossip On This will most likely have a Facebook profile. But with all of that said, we won’t make any concrete moves until sometime in 2009 or 2010.
Now the mobile website is something that you all will see in the coming weeks. We’ve been working behind the scenes on that for about a month now trying to make that happen. Be on the look-out for a post with all of the details.
leana
December 31, 2008 at 12:36 PM
cool cool. soon i will be able to look on my phone instead of waiting to come home. thank you for reading my suggestions.
Simeon
December 31, 2008 at 12:43 PM
I don’t think u should stop talkin about any artist bcuz this is wat blogging means state ur opinion and everybody is entitled 2 their opinion. I love the site i don’t think u should change anything about it but i will welcome enhancements. Oh and i love the graphics that u guys do (especially the Christmas themed graphics). Like I said I love this site and everything about it. Keep up the good work and I wish you a blessed New Year.
ebonyhud
December 31, 2008 at 1:02 PM
i know you don’t have control on celebs like that but more interviews would be cool because i like the questions you guys and stuff.
Adam
December 31, 2008 at 2:16 PM
I’ve been trying to contact you guys for awhile but no one seems to answer the emails. I’m not sure if you aren’t interested or don’t ever check them? Eitherway, that’s just something I’ve felt like (most) sites have been missing out with, like user interaction.
Usually, if you respond to everyone’s email you get that special connection with the reader. They know you’re interested in their ideas (like what you’re doing doesn’t hurt :)
Anyway, my feedback doesn’t really count as I just stop by to check out your ever-changing kick ass layout lol.
PS: scrolling suuucks.. is there anyway you can get back a link somewhere to get the homepage you had before with the sections?
Dustin
December 31, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Adam, we actually do read ALL of the e-mails, but we get a ton of them so it’s sometimes hard to respond or reply to all of them. But we do read them all. In the future, we will work on responding to them all though, since you’ve mentioned that users like to know that their voice is heard. Even if it’s just as simple as a “thank you.”
About the scrolling issue … I’m not sure if I’m following you. What link are you talking about to get back to the home page?
Damien.
January 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM
I LOVE the site. I think you guys are doing an excellent job, so it’s hard to even come up with any suggestions that would be worth considering. I do believe that if you guys open up a forum/message board, you’d get tons more hits and loyal readers. Message boards these days draw people in, and they’re going to continue to read the blog posts so that they’ll know what’s going on in the forum. I also want you guys to continue doing the contests ever so often, the exclusive givaways. Some movie posts would be nice, also. I’m always missing out on the latest movies because I’m too busy to watch tv for trailers. That is all…for now. Keep up the good work! ;)
Dustin
January 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM
So I see a lot of you guys like movies, huh? We started doing a few things with movies last year, but that’s something we can definitely bring back for ‘09. Also, thanks for the love Damien!