I am just starting to browse sajha.com for last few days. Of course site is great for its content however, as a web developer I would like to put some of the thoughts about sajha.com

NOT CRTICIZING SAJHA.COM , IT WOULD BE BETTER THAN THIS IF ALL/SOME OF THESE POINTS ARE CORRECTED.

DON”T BOMBARD YOUR POST ON ME. NO OFFENCE PLZ

1.Web site Interface. Look at the website design. Do you think this is a good website designing? Even as an individual you are thinking it as good, if we start a poll I am sure more than 51% people will say voter for no.

2.Login and email system. Great sites like sajha.com had a poor login system. User cannot create password while registering themselves, instead an email is send by the system which contains password. They said that email is send within 24 hours but I got it after 2 days.

3.profile maintenance : when I first tried to edit my profile it makes me laugh. Do you think u usually edit your profile like this way.

4.While logging in and out from the account there is one page is display showing “Click here”..OOOPSS. these guys even didn’t redirect it to another page after logging in. It’s not user friendly

5.We can upload photos but how other user will see.

6.We can not view the personal information of the user like firstname, last name etc

7.where is the search facility….we cannot search topics,threads and posts. Even we can not view the post which is posted by a particular user.

8.In the post archive page no paging like (1,2,3,4) is done. Instead one button says previous and next.

9.They use a dictionary system while we post that is great but instead of that they can use a button or toolbar to sugget new words. Free rich text tools are avilabe on internet. If we want to select the word and double clicked on it another page will open.. this is not user friedly… Is it? How many of you get bored from this.

There are other issues that I want to tell but I have to go to now…I will see what people are thinking about this post.

What happend???? Like one of the sajhain said don't be kaamchor by reading this post only. post comments on it......

Come on people.........WAKE UP.....I need comment...GOD OR BAD.....Anything u like even u want to kill me just post it .......

ho yar most of the points you state is absolutly correct. There are many kamjore haru in this website. many features is not added yet and some added features also make flustration using this system. like maile aile bharkhar type gareko eura word mistake bhayo ani word ma double click garera select garna khojda dictionary po khulchha
hehehe

ani pheri we cannot edit the post ourself etc etc haru
but anyway shaja is going day by day on the top and it's rocking among nepalese

I am wondering Why these guys are using Coldfusion.....There other better SSC than coldfusion. Does anybody know who owns this site or how we can contact them....

do_not_remember_me,

I appreciate your observations on sajha. I hope i can try to add my comments to some of your observations

1.Web site Interface. Look at the website design. Do you think this is a good website designing? Even as an individual you are thinking it as good, if we start a poll I am sure more than 51% people will say voter for no.

- It's not a good website design. I agree :) It started out as a hobby for me. I'm not even a - computer major. Am an Economics major. Just started learning web programming on my own and put my learning in to create sajha. There is so much to learn it's pretty overwhelming at times but it's nice that people still enjoy sajha inspite of it's mediocrity. The mediocrity of design is forgiven most of the time because of the sheer richness of the USERS who write here and post their ideas and thoughts in here. Sajha is not a great site as far as design is concerned, it's a great site because of all you visitors who visit the site and interact here.

Having said that, I do hope to make some changes at some point in time.

2.Login and email system. Great sites like sajha.com had a poor login system. User cannot create password while registering themselves, instead an email is send by the system which contains password. They said that email is send within 24 hours but I got it after 2 days.

- The reason users can't create their own password during registration is because many people would use fake email and register many diff usernames. I guess I could let people select their password, and verify using a link in the email. That's a good idea :)
Regarding password after 2 days: - It used to be that the server automatically sent the password right after registration. But then sometimes when people were banned for improper behavior they registered right away and got another userid with which they could continue to post and act improperly. Hence the requirement now for approval of registered members and hence the delay.

3.profile maintenance : when I first tried to edit my profile it makes me laugh. Do you think u usually edit your profile like this way.

- I am thinking of updating this section.

4.While logging in and out from the account there is one page is display showing “Click here”..OOOPSS. these guys even didn’t redirect it to another page after logging in. It’s not user friendly

- The reason for that is because sometimes people want to intentionally flood the server by reloading pages very fast. That is why I had to create a script to detect flooding of the server. That's why once in a while you will see that click here link...

5.We can upload photos but how other user will see.

- I am thinking about this as well. It'll be linked on from the profile section. Need to give more visibility to user profiles.

6.We can not view the personal information of the user like firstname, last name etc

- This can be covered during the profile update.

7.where is the search facility….we cannot search topics,threads and posts. Even we can not view the post which is posted by a particular user.

- You can view posts by a particular user by clicking on the person's name and click on his/her sajha postings link.

8.In the post archive page no paging like (1,2,3,4) is done. Instead one button says previous and next.

- Good suggestions. Not sure when I'll be able to get to it. Archives are not accessed too often so I haven't spent too much time on it.

9.They use a dictionary system while we post that is great but instead of that they can use a button or toolbar to sugget new words. Free rich text tools are avilabe on internet. If we want to select the word and double clicked on it another page will open.. this is not user friedly… Is it? How many of you get bored from this.

- Yes there are many wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editors available for use but that let's the user change the font size and many different options which could potencially skew postings all over the place because of wrong tags etc. Hence it's just easier to not implement such editors.

Below is another reply to a similar posting on 4/8/95 from - http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/OpenThread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=20861#128889

The reason that this forum is different from other forums that you see all over the internet is that this forum has been developed specifically for sajha. Old timers have seen the time when there wasn't even the option to register a username. As the site grew I needed to add more features and the forum as you see it right now is the gradual development according to necessity.

Unlike most other sites which use downloaded forums which require least bit of work, I chose to program this forum myself - approx. 97% of this site is my own programming. The programming continues in the backend as new issues arise.

As Nepalis when we talk about the food we used to eat back home in those small bhattis with home made specialities, we know how tasty they were. I would like to think of sajha forum as one of those home made dish, instead of a microwaveable food that you can buy off the shelf.

Thank God It's Friday!

yeh that's gonna rock more after next updates of the whole site
just improve n' improve. make the site best of all.

San bro.. don't get frustrated pls... we really appreciate what you are doing. The thing: 'bringing together nepali communities' its really working. we definatly get to share lot of infomation here. we all can see how ppl are trying to help each other... i see some ppl even posting their school assignment... and yes, some are gettting their solutions too..how sweet is that!!(eventhough some think its not a good thing lol) you have done beautiful piece of work opening this public forum bro. and not to forget.. we get to read some good stuff/ writings by sum_off, John Galt... i am totally enjoying every posting.. its really fun to read differnt views. so the bottom line: sajha is awesome. god bless.

Well said November..I completely agree...Way to go San..

I think "Admin" should be replying rather than "San". Else, it just looks like the site belongs to San as his personal blog. You know what I mean.

Thank you thank you and thank you again for your responses.....Saajha rocks,,,no doubt on that.......Hope we will be able to see the new site very soon......I would be more than happy if i get a chance to help you.......

CHEERS

mee to dai haru ho. i will be happy to help sajha in any matters that I am able and if they give me a chance

Kamjori kasko hudaina?

Of course,
Kamjori sabaiko hunchha tara ....... its bad when you repeate it.

Thanx alot to SAN for throughouly answers some of which i am looking

Thanx to do_not_remember_me who raised this issue.

cheers