A Suggestion for 8.1 Homepage

I'm not nuts about the new homepage but I can live with it. However, please, when you make it customizable, please bring back the "excerpts from your resources." That has consistently been my favorite thing on the homepage as I'd sit there and go, "Wow, that's a cool resource I didn't even know I had."

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David Taylor, Jr.

Agreed

Myke Harbuck

please bring back the "excerpts from you resources." That has consistently been my favorite thing on the homepage as I'd sit there and go, "Wow, that's a cool resource I didn't even know I had."

I completely agree!

William McFarland

Agree

J. Erik

A pretty yes please from me too!

Cynthia in Florida

A pretty yes please from me too!

[:D]

PetahChristian

please bring back the "excerpts from you resources." That has consistently been my favorite thing on the homepage as I'd sit there and go, "Wow, that's a cool resource I didn't even know I had."

I completely agree!

[Y]

SineNomine

[Y]

Richard Villanueva

bring back the "excerpts from your resources." That has consistently been my favorite thing on the homepage as I'd sit there and go, "Wow, that's a cool resource I didn't even know I had."

👍🏽

Stephen Terlizzi

Yes! [H]

Daniel Di Bartolo

I'm seeing a lot of [Y]s in this thread! Does somebody need a ride?

Dream with me a little bit here. We removed excerpts because we did hear from many users that our content seemed random and unhelpful to them.

What if we brought it back... but smarter.

One thing we'd like to explore is introducing excerpts of content that are bubbled up by things like "commonly cited", "most highlighted", popular topics, commonly used media or Popular Canvases and Workflows.

What kinds of content would you like to see? How would you like us to organize it? When did you find yourself looking for content to read and in what contexts?

Also, some other random Qs for you: did you fire up the app with the sole purpose of reading excerpts-- or did you just come across it while doing Bible study?

Cynthia in Florida

I'm seeing a lot of s in this thread! Does somebody need a ride?

Dream with me a little bit here. We removed experts because we did hear from many users that our content seemed random and unhelpful to them.

What if we brought it back... but smarter.

One thing we'd like to explore is introducing excerpts of content that are bubbled up by things like "commonly cited", "most highlighted", popular topics, commonly used media or Popular Canvases and Workflows.

What kinds of content would you like to see? How would you like us to organize it? When did you find yourself looking for content to read?

Also, some other random Qs for you: did you fire up the app with the sole purpose of reading excerpts-- or did you just come across it while doing Bible study?

Daniel: I do like the idea of excerpts of content as commonly cited, etc. , but the thing for me personally was that I felt like although excerpts was random, it exposed me to things in my library that I needed to explore. Excerpts of commonly cited, most highlighted, etc., means I’m regularly exploring them already. Excerpts allowed me to become exposed to items I already own and may have not realized was in my library, thus it was like opening a gift at Christmas! It was my favorite thing about the L7 homepage. As the homepage is now (and I’m only saying this because you asked), I would actually skip it and just set it to go straight to my workspace.

For me, I didn’t fire up the app with the sole purpose of reading excerpts, but it was the sole reason I looked at the homepage.

Thanks for asking and more important, listening and wanting to know our views. You guys rock!

Myke Harbuck

did you fire up the app with the sole purpose of reading excerpts-- or did you just come across it while doing Bible study?

Not exactly. I always had other purposes (ie: Bible study), but often was caught by those excerpts and then wound up reading a resource just because the excerpt caught my interest...or I would Favorite the resource until a later time.

Myke Harbuck

did you fire up the app with the sole purpose of reading excerpts-- or did you just come across it while doing Bible study?

GaoLu

I'm not nuts about the new homepage but I can live with it. However, please, when you make it customizable, please bring back the "excerpts from your resources." That has consistently been my favorite thing on the homepage as I'd sit there and go, "Wow, that's a cool resource I didn't even know I had."

This says it pretty well.

1. Fix the Reading Plan, Prayers, Saints.

2. Don't surprise us by closing down our current layout.

3. Like Cynthia says, bring back "excerpts from your resources."

4. "What if we brought it back... but smarter." Wonderful idea.

5. "excerpts of content that are bubbled up by things like "commonly cited", "most highlighted", popular topics, commonly used media or Popular Canvases and Workflows." Well worth a try. Maybe. Keep an eye out in case people strongly dislike it. My opinion is to Keep Logos Proper a Bible study software and not a social media showcase.

6. Help Videos are always good.

7. Ads aren't all bad, but make them smart. I never bought anything and probably never pursued anything from the Home Page--buying is not my intent or mood when I go there and it isn't a good store. Online is a much better store. Advert marketing that works for me is special sales and resources to fill out courses, I wonder if an algorithm could be smart enough to look at my wishlist, maybe my courses in progress or lined up to go and guess what I might soon want to buy and tell me why I might want to buy it?

Michael Frederic

Yes, Please Bring Excerpts Back.

abondservant

Curated exerpts sounds wonderful.

Instead of JUST most popular (et al) you could add in a few traditions, baptist, reformed, (etc - maybe one per BP tradition).

Then each tradition could have "most popular", "most cited", etc. Add a couple a week to each, and before a year is past you'd have quite a selection of excerpts... Bonus - you could make the excerpts show up whether we have the resource or not... Might help us decide to buy something. Or bid on a CP, or PP, etc. If we see it as useful were more likely to buy it. Well I am any way. Flashy banners do little. Substance does more to influence my purchase decisions.

MJ. Smith

I believe that the excerpts came from a dataset:

Excerpts
DB:EXCERPTS
2018-07-03T20:50:24Z
excerpts.lbsexc

Jack Hairston

[Y]