NS facebook over posting?

[.Roockley.]

I've noticed over the last few weeks that the NS facebook posts a metric ton of content everyday.

However it seems that some of the posts aren't stacked in regards of quality. When you notice there's been about 23 posts in the last 24 hours it strikes of overkill and buzzfeed-yness.

Don't get me wrong it probably brings in a bunch of traffic for the site but I'd love to see the posting there focus more on quality edits/news stories/pictures than quantity. Surely even 10 quality posts a day would bring in the same amount of traffic right?

You may completely disagree but thought I'd post my thoughts, sorry if it wasted your time

 

[bait]

I believe its automated, and yes I think the algorithm should be changed to post at least half as much as it currently does.

 

[kstanz]

Even though they do post a lot - it's not a bad thing for me. Almost every time I see something they post, it brings me to the site. Whether it's a flashback of an older edit or a new thread topic, it's a lot better content then all that crap on my Facebook these days. I'd rather spend my time here haha.

I'm also thinking that maybe they don't post that often but like has been said there is an algorithm that brings it up on your newsfeed a lot.

 

[Kretzschmar]

At night for US users, we have automated posting that is based on an algorithm on what gets posted although I do monitor that daily.

In terms of post volume, we/I post more often than your average skiing page but if you look at pages like Vice, HuffPost, most news sites who post up to 3 times an hour all day it's not that horrible but I do understand your point.

I will say, that what I post on FB is more for the "less active" skiers that our page has. People like you or anyone that browses NS often is going to see these on the FB page after you already did on NS in most cases. In addition, FB really limits who sees what on our page.

I do post quality content and try to let it "breathe" as a highlight on the page but the fact of the matter is, sometimes FB shits on quality posts, sometimes they don't. Social media for us is currently a weird fucking game of getting a proper mix of posting rad shit but also getting shit out for the Jerrys to enjoy too that is "buzzfeedy" or whatever and drives traffic to the site. After all, we are a business.

As winter comes and better content starts to roll in, I'm sure my posting habits will change just like they always do.

Hope that gives you a bit of insight into what I'm trying to do.

 

[Mr.Bishop]

I've noticed over the last few weeks that the NS facebook posts a metric ton of content everyday.

However it seems that some of the posts aren't stacked in regards of quality. When you notice there's been about 23 posts in the last 24 hours it strikes of overkill and buzzfeed-yness.

Don't get me wrong it probably brings in a bunch of traffic for the site but I'd love to see the posting there focus more on quality edits/news stories/pictures than quantity. Surely even 10 quality posts a day would bring in the same amount of traffic right?

You may completely disagree but thought I'd post my thoughts, sorry if it wasted your time

I believe its automated, and yes I think the algorithm should be changed to post at least half as much as it currently does.

At night for US users, we have automated posting that is based on an algorithm on what gets posted although I do monitor that daily.

In terms of post volume, we/I post more often than your average skiing page but if you look at pages like Vice, HuffPost, most news sites who post up to 3 times an hour all day it's not that horrible but I do understand your point.

I will say, that what I post on FB is more for the "less active" skiers that our page has. People like you or anyone that browses NS often is going to see these on the FB page after you already did on NS in most cases. In addition, FB really limits who sees what on our page.

I do post quality content and try to let it "breathe" as a highlight on the page but the fact of the matter is, sometimes FB shits on quality posts, sometimes they don't. Social media for us is currently a weird fucking game of getting a proper mix of posting rad shit but also getting shit out for the Jerrys to enjoy too that is "buzzfeedy" or whatever and drives traffic to the site. After all, we are a business.

As winter comes and better content starts to roll in, I'm sure my posting habits will change just like they always do.

Hope that gives you a bit of insight into what I'm trying to do.

I actually kind of wonder if Facebook has changed something recently.... @.Roockley / @bait - The facebook guidelines of the past said that it did a fantastic job of filtering what is popular and what isn't. So the strategy of posting a ton of stuff was really good... because Facebook wanted to filter out everything and tailor it to your various fans.

Do you guys have specific posts which you thought were substandard? How long have you felt this? How many posts a day do you get from us?

NOBODY visits our page directly and looks at posts, its all in their feeds. So the logic goes that if you only look at what comes up in your feed, it should be good. If you're going to our facebook page, you should just be going to our homepage.

We always need to tune things to match changes to user behavior and social media algorithms.... so no problems on tuning the setup.

Anyone else have a negative experience? Anyone else like what they see from us on Facebook?

 

[Mr.Bishop]

Even though they do post a lot - it's not a bad thing for me. Almost every time I see something they post, it brings me to the site. Whether it's a flashback of an older edit or a new thread topic, it's a lot better content then all that crap on my Facebook these days. I'd rather spend my time here haha.

I'm also thinking that maybe they don't post that often but like has been said there is an algorithm that brings it up on your newsfeed a lot.

So yeah that is what is interesting here - You are getting the experience which we expect. There's a lot of stuff posting, but you only see the stuff which is going to interest you.

How much Newschoolers content comes up in your feed?

 

[Mr.Bishop]

I've noticed over the last few weeks that the NS facebook posts a metric ton of content everyday.

However it seems that some of the posts aren't stacked in regards of quality. When you notice there's been about 23 posts in the last 24 hours it strikes of overkill and buzzfeed-yness.

Don't get me wrong it probably brings in a bunch of traffic for the site but I'd love to see the posting there focus more on quality edits/news stories/pictures than quantity. Surely even 10 quality posts a day would bring in the same amount of traffic right?

You may completely disagree but thought I'd post my thoughts, sorry if it wasted your time

I believe its automated, and yes I think the algorithm should be changed to post at least half as much as it currently does.

Also final point of clarity - Are you making these statements because your feed is full of our stuff, or because you're looking at our facebook page?

 

[kstanz]

A quick scroll through my facebook feed brings up about 4-5 posts from NS. Similar to the amount I see from Freeskiier, slightly more than Powder... for comparison. I was never really sure where he got 20+ posts from but I related to there being more than average.

For me it's been far from a negative experience. I actually remember thinking about a year, maybe 2, ago when you guys started posting more on the page how rad it was bc I was seeing way more content I wouldn't of otherwise found/been looking for. It felt like a good replacement when the NS front page updated around that time bc I previously relied on scrolling through that.

Lastly, I've used the save button on news feed on quite a few NS posts haha so that would further attest to it being good content that I want to watch/read later or multiple times. Probably also a big part of the reason I was drawn back to these crazy forums.

 

[Mr.Bishop]

It felt like a good replacement when the NS front page updated around that time bc I previously relied on scrolling through that.

Ouch. Well fuck, we need to fix that!

Which update are you referring to? Why did the update make you not get what you wanted from the front page?

 

[kstanz]

Ouch. Well fuck, we need to fix that!

Which update are you referring to? Why did the update make you not get what you wanted from the front page?

haha whoops that that didn't all come out how I was thinking in my head. A replacement at the time of that certain update, the front page is perfect how it is now!! I can't remember the details of the update now, but the front page changed so much as I couldn't go through the news section like I previously could and find/easily scroll through the original NS content I liked. Like I said it is all good now, but back then I just remember not enjoying the original update.

 

[Mr.Bishop]

haha whoops that that didn't all come out how I was thinking in my head. A replacement at the time of that certain update, the front page is perfect how it is now!! I can't remember the details of the update now, but the front page changed so much as I couldn't go through the news section like I previously could and find/easily scroll through the original NS content I liked. Like I said it is all good now, but back then I just remember not enjoying the original update.

So you mean like when it went from having a news listing which was all written by Schmuck to the tiled layout which was populated with all types of community content?

Somewhere around say 2011-2012 or so?

 

[kstanz]

So you mean like when it went from having a news listing which was all written by Schmuck to the tiled layout which was populated with all types of community content?

Somewhere around say 2011-2012 or so?

Yes that sounds just like it

 

[milk_man]

I have you guys set as "see first," but after reading this it seems like it would be more productive for both of us if you just came up as a regular page in my feed. I do check some of it out, but most of it I end up scrolling past just because I see all of it. I'll switch you off "see first" and I guarantee I'll end up clicking on more of them.

 

[Mr.Bishop]

I have you guys set as "see first," but after reading this it seems like it would be more productive for both of us if you just came up as a regular page in my feed. I do check some of it out, but most of it I end up scrolling past just because I see all of it. I'll switch you off "see first" and I guarantee I'll end up clicking on more of them.

Ahhhh..... Interesting.

Does anyone else have this set up?

That is a good point though, that "see first" would probably have your feed full of stuff from us.

Try turning that off and let me know if it seems better.

 

[eheath]

I have you guys set as "see first," but after reading this it seems like it would be more productive for both of us if you just came up as a regular page in my feed. I do check some of it out, but most of it I end up scrolling past just because I see all of it. I'll switch you off "see first" and I guarantee I'll end up clicking on more of them.

Yeah for people who frequent the website, the facebook page would show you a ton of content you have probably already seen on the website. The facebook is mostly beneficial to people who do not frequent the site.