The Iron Heart Gallery - Is it a useful resource
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Like these?
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Giles original post is literally the first time I have ever gone to the gallery.
I would imagine it is definitely useful for some folks when they are on the fence about an item but in general I feel like the quality and number of pictures on the product pages and in the forums is more than sufficient.
The whole crew as well as forum members always are happy to oblige when someone asks for fit or detail pics as well.
Like others have said, maybe take the well worn garment photos and create a new 'Hall of Fade' thread or sub-forum (separating out tops, bottoms, jackets, boots, etc. into their own threads).
As a whole, if it's a hassle to maintain I would cut bait and run.
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When I first found my way to IH I would look at the gallery, but I never found it that useful or compelling and haven’t looked at it in quite some time. The product pages and forum I’m looking at all the time.
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It sounds like, for the most part, for customers which are strong forum users and longer time IH followers, the gallery may be of marginal utility. But this sampling of opinion misses out completely on those customers who are not forum members, or are recent IH customers. If a significant portion of IHUK sales goes to non-forum customers (which sounds likely to me), this conclusion could well be way off.
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@motojobobo You are of course right, I just don't know how to sample the "others"….
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@motojobobo You are of course right, I just don't know how to sample the "others"….
IG post/poll??
That's all I got…could be a terrible idea.
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I don't find the gallery very useful either.
What might be cool although I'm not sure how feasible, is perhaps adding a hashtag feature to the forum as a sort of quick way to see all posts/images of a certain item.
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What might be cool although I'm not sure how feasible, is perhaps adding a hashtag feature to the forum as a sort of quick way to see all posts/images of a certain item.
You have no idea how great this would be. The mods, the Stubborn Crew and the web designers have deliberated over how to do it many times, but the truth of it is that the processing power needed to do it belongs only to the sites that do it now. Twitter, FB, IG etc. Smaller apps integrate it through these sources however, so migrating the forum to another platform may make it possible.
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Was looking at the 634xhsib and couldn't tell from the product page whether it had a selvedge fly detail (634xhs original did not), so I clicked the gallery link and boom, there's the extra pic, yes it does, question answered.
I also like the fit and fade link.
And the gallery was ironheart.co.uk, is that new?
