Thank you to everybody who took part in this year's Feedback Survey - over 120 responses were received for both parts combined! This thread will contain part of the results where no real further discussion or feedback is needed, however, feel free to post any thoughts in here relating to these questions.
In this temporary forum, you will see some questions have been given their own thread - please do check these out and help the UKMIX team to gain more feedback based on the results.
PART ONE
Do you think the current UKMIX rules are fair?
Do you think UKMIX has a friendly community?
Do you engage with UKMIX’s social media profiles?
Are you satisfied with how UKMIX is moderated?
Which three forums do you visit most on UKMIX?
Most visited:
1. Artist Chart Analysis
2. MariahMix
3. General Artists Discussion
4. Games & Survivors
5. Pop
Second most visited:
1. Pop
2. General Artists Discussion
3. Artists Chart Analysis
4. Chart Analysis
5. Personal Charts
Third most visited:
1. The Lounge
= General Artists Discussion
3. Chart Analysis
= Pop
5. Artist Chart Analysis
Does UKMIX need a new style i.e. logo, colours?
Wayne has informed the team that the medium-term plan for UKMIX is to explore additional designs over the next 6-12 months, where users may be able to choose an alternative to the traditional orange and blue design.
How often do you post on UKMIX?
What do you enjoy most about being a member of UKMIX?
In order of most-mentioned themes:
- Nice people/strong sense of community
- Sharing music tastes/views
- Charts/chart news
- New music
- Sharing of information/news
- Broad discussion
- Diversity/inclusion
- Games
- Artist discussion
- Mariah Carey/the Lambs
- Escape from real life troubles
- Freedom to express opinions
- Simple/easy to use
- Madonna news
- Activity of site/constant updates
- Ease of use
- Upheld rules
What do you dislike most, or would improve, about UKMIX?
In order of most-mentioned themes:
- Nothing
- Mobile site layout/not user friendly
- Stanning/trolling
- Moderators lack of professionalism/objectivity
- Fonts/emojis/colours
- Rudeness of users
- MariahMix (change it back)
- Stricter rules needed around bullying/behaviour
- Banning procedures
- Over-moderation
- Bring the old homepage back
- Dislike the upgrade
- Obsession with Mariah Carey
- Removal of the old “view your posts” feature
- Lack of “last/latest” posts feature
- Too many threads not updated regularly by original poster
- Immaturity of younger members
- Indexation is convoluted
- Orange layout is dated
- People who quote to much text
- Not being able to post GIFs
- Lack of music taste diversity
- No option to delete posts
- Adding extra features to posts (i.e. images) is complicated
- Can’t change username
- Locking of threads
- Rep system, bring in a like button
- Get rid of album/single tags, too messy
- Show the last thread title on the main forum page instead of the last poster username
- Flaiming/baiting
- Users coming into threads to purposely ruin discussion/piss people off
- Spam topics i.e. What Are You Listening To?
Rest assured, all of your comments have been taken on board! The moderators and admins have been discussing them at length and feel generally really happy with members' satisfaction of how UKMIX is run and the posting experience. Obviously there will always be niggles and differences in opinion, however, some of the issues raised above will be addressed in other parts of the feedback - if you still feel a query you raised in this survey hasn't been addressed or resolved, do message one of the UKMIX team.
In this temporary forum, you will see some questions have been given their own thread - please do check these out and help the UKMIX team to gain more feedback based on the results.
PART ONE
Do you think the current UKMIX rules are fair?
- Yes [97.56%]
- No [2.44%]
Do you think UKMIX has a friendly community?
- Yes [92.68%]
- No [7.32%]
Do you engage with UKMIX’s social media profiles?
- Yes [17.07%]
- No [82.93%]
Are you satisfied with how UKMIX is moderated?
- Yes [89.02%]
- No [10.98%]
Which three forums do you visit most on UKMIX?
Most visited:
1. Artist Chart Analysis
2. MariahMix
3. General Artists Discussion
4. Games & Survivors
5. Pop
Second most visited:
1. Pop
2. General Artists Discussion
3. Artists Chart Analysis
4. Chart Analysis
5. Personal Charts
Third most visited:
1. The Lounge
= General Artists Discussion
3. Chart Analysis
= Pop
5. Artist Chart Analysis
Does UKMIX need a new style i.e. logo, colours?
- Yes [12.20%]
- No [87.80%]
Wayne has informed the team that the medium-term plan for UKMIX is to explore additional designs over the next 6-12 months, where users may be able to choose an alternative to the traditional orange and blue design.
How often do you post on UKMIX?
- Several times a day [47.56%]
- Several times a week [20.73%]
- Once a day [9.76%]
- Several times a month [8.54%]
- Once a week [7.32%]
- Less than once a month [4.88%]
- Once a month [1.22%]
What do you enjoy most about being a member of UKMIX?
In order of most-mentioned themes:
- Nice people/strong sense of community
- Sharing music tastes/views
- Charts/chart news
- New music
- Sharing of information/news
- Broad discussion
- Diversity/inclusion
- Games
- Artist discussion
- Mariah Carey/the Lambs
- Escape from real life troubles
- Freedom to express opinions
- Simple/easy to use
- Madonna news
- Activity of site/constant updates
- Ease of use
- Upheld rules
What do you dislike most, or would improve, about UKMIX?
In order of most-mentioned themes:
- Nothing
- Mobile site layout/not user friendly
- Stanning/trolling
- Moderators lack of professionalism/objectivity
- Fonts/emojis/colours
- Rudeness of users
- MariahMix (change it back)
- Stricter rules needed around bullying/behaviour
- Banning procedures
- Over-moderation
- Bring the old homepage back
- Dislike the upgrade
- Obsession with Mariah Carey
- Removal of the old “view your posts” feature
- Lack of “last/latest” posts feature
- Too many threads not updated regularly by original poster
- Immaturity of younger members
- Indexation is convoluted
- Orange layout is dated
- People who quote to much text
- Not being able to post GIFs
- Lack of music taste diversity
- No option to delete posts
- Adding extra features to posts (i.e. images) is complicated
- Can’t change username
- Locking of threads
- Rep system, bring in a like button
- Get rid of album/single tags, too messy
- Show the last thread title on the main forum page instead of the last poster username
- Flaiming/baiting
- Users coming into threads to purposely ruin discussion/piss people off
- Spam topics i.e. What Are You Listening To?
Rest assured, all of your comments have been taken on board! The moderators and admins have been discussing them at length and feel generally really happy with members' satisfaction of how UKMIX is run and the posting experience. Obviously there will always be niggles and differences in opinion, however, some of the issues raised above will be addressed in other parts of the feedback - if you still feel a query you raised in this survey hasn't been addressed or resolved, do message one of the UKMIX team.
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