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We are back! Now what?
croxis
I am the walrus
Now that we are back we need to figure out both short and long term plans.
* Use the modern discussion layout or the old school categories. I prefer the modern one as it puts discussions first and help make the site look more alive. It does not leave a good impression if the first thing a new user sees is a bunch of categories where the newest posts are from 2001.
* Skinning. This will take a bit of research but I would like to find something sci-fi ish and modern. Trying to apply the old color scheme on this new system might not be worth it.
* What should we do with the old categories so it doesn't pollute the new discussion category list?
* There is a new social addon where users can use their facebook or twitter login for their user account. I am sure there are more in various plugins. Should we enable this?
Long term discussions
* What role/community start to cater to?
* How do we get our name out there so people come here (example, force Darth_angelus to host his machinma community here, or get a modding community for an upcomming scifi game here)
* Use the modern discussion layout or the old school categories. I prefer the modern one as it puts discussions first and help make the site look more alive. It does not leave a good impression if the first thing a new user sees is a bunch of categories where the newest posts are from 2001.
* Skinning. This will take a bit of research but I would like to find something sci-fi ish and modern. Trying to apply the old color scheme on this new system might not be worth it.
* What should we do with the old categories so it doesn't pollute the new discussion category list?
* There is a new social addon where users can use their facebook or twitter login for their user account. I am sure there are more in various plugins. Should we enable this?
Long term discussions
* What role/community start to cater to?
* How do we get our name out there so people come here (example, force Darth_angelus to host his machinma community here, or get a modding community for an upcomming scifi game here)
Comments
My vote would be to keep the old categories but rearrange them so the most active areas (such as Zocalo) are at the top. Forums that aren't used so much, it would be a shame to delete them but perhaps if they're at the bottom of the list, it won't be such a problem?
If that doesn't work out here are my thoughts for some of the current categories:
Combine all B5 tvshows/movies into one category.
Remove all 0 post categories.
If a mod has subcategories combine them into their main category.
Combine any remaining subcategories in archive into archive.
There is a tag plugin which *could* be used in some cases. For example the worldwide threads can be tagged with their language and all moved into worldwide.
Given the number of posts we had here *before* we got hacked to death, we'd probably be fine with just the Zocalo, and archive all the rest.
Also, apparently they don't like the font color tag on this board
*Just realizes he's been a member of Firstones for 15... FIFTEEN years...
Dang... That is literally half my life. Just turned 30 a couple days ago.
Missin ol' blue though.
Man how life has changed since the last time I was active!
Jake
I just looked at my profile... it's been 15 years since I joined. Holy *Beep!*
And of course the topic got derailed... now what was the question again? LOL