With the New Rules having been introduced and not being met with outright rejection, the Projects Section being opened up again, and the Wiki settling into a stable/usable state, we are moving forward with that as the foundation to build off of moving forward.
I’m hoping to be able to be able to continue to get feedback, critiques, and suggestions from the community moving forwards to get the site to what the community needs it to be and to have a readily accessible means of publicly responding and updating folks on what’s happening and a way to give your voices a place to be heard and shared. I apologize for the somewhat unorganized means of delivering this information so far, the previous topics were my attempts at a quick stop gap measure to get things out in the open sooner while we figure out a better long term way to go about it. This thread being what we came up with.
With that out of the way, the primary focus for this topic is that we are currently operating under the New Rules and abandoning the old ones the site has previously been using. However since there are likely things we’ve missed, or that some rules might need fine tuning and the like, we are using what I personally refer to as a “Soft Implementation” for the rules. For the month of April, we will be operating under the current new rules but also will be listening to feedback to allow for the rules to be discussed and actively refined by the community and the site staff together. Then at the end of the month the hope is that enough time and discussion has happened for the rules to be “Good Enough” to set them as the ‘officially agreed upon rules’ by everyone and we can “Finalize” them.
The secondary goal of this topic is to hear feedback and discussion for non rule related things that can be done for the site. Since we are in the process of a massive restructuring of how the site works, it seems like a good opportunity to give the site an update to address some of the legacy aspects that might be outdated or need fine tuning, hear suggestions or feedback on potential alternate ways of handling certain features, finding odd edge cases for interactions, addressing potential things that might get overlooked by the staff for being too close to the system backend to notice properly, and things like that as some examples.
We are bound by technical limitations and volunteer manpower however, so do keep that in mind with things you bring up. I do not say that to stifle creativity or feedback, but simply to establish that we can only do so much. But with that said, even if an idea might not be feasible, it could potentially lead to inspiration for something else that might be, so please don’t be shy with sharing your thoughts.
And since I know a lot of people tend to be ‘lurkers’ who tend to prefer to avoid engaging with stuff, here’s an anonymous poll to get a bit of a ‘vibe check’ to help us get a simple gauge for where we’re at. This is mostly me just trying to get an initial feel for what we’re doing more so than any ‘official voting/popularity poll’ type nonsense.
- This sounds like a good idea
- This sounds like a bad idea
- I don’t know/I don’t care