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I have been neglecting you. Have kept having various things that I've meant to post here, but somehow never managed to find the time to be posting them. This is the result.
1. Site copy people! We have a fan! I received this in an email the other day:
I know what we do can often be frustrating because it feels as if we're just invisibly moving things about in the background, with nobody ever noticing us or thanking us, so I thought I'd pass this on to you (with permission) in the hope that you all get as much of a kick out of it as I did. We're doing a kick-ass job, and I'm proud of what we've accomplished.
2. FAQ editors, if at any point you see a FAQ that we don't have yet but that you think we need, but that doesn't really seem to fit into any of the existing categories, please throw up a quick and dirty FAQ in the misc category, and then we can polish and categorise later, depending on what ends up there.
3. When you need to reference an example domain in any site text or documentation, use example.com, which is set aside specifically for the purpose. I've seen one or two people using website.tld, which I'd rather avoid because I don't think that's as obvious to non-technical people.
4. When we first went into closed beta, I decided that I'd keep membership here open, since the only people coming in at the start of closed beta would be people working on the site. We're now well into the stage of accepting users, and open beta is almost upon us. However, we've had a bunch of people join the comm and absolutely no problems so far, so I'm going to keep membership open for now, and revisit in the future if we do have any problems.
5. I'm lousy at tagging. 9 times out of 10, I forget to tag an entry, and on the tenth time, I can never figure out what tag to use. I've opened up tagging to all community members. If someone wants to go back through old posts, tag them, and come up with a coherent tagging system, I'd very much appreciate it. Once we have a robust tagging system in place, I'll probably restrict the creation of new tags down to community admins.
6. I'm fairly sure I had something else I meant to say, but I can't remember it. If I end up posting another entry in 2 hours, then I apologise.
1. Site copy people! We have a fan! I received this in an email the other day:
I've just spontaneously squee'd at rah about the DW site copy and she says
you're the person to pass it along to. So forgive me if I become a little
incoherent here: god, I *love* it. Love it, love it, *love* it. *Wow* do I
love it. I click around to hunt something down and I wind up on a page
that's got information, it's got useful information, it's got clear
information, it sounds like it was written by a human being, and a helpful
and *knowledgeable* human being. (Also, and I've only just begun to
realize how hard this in particular must be to achieve, it doesn't make my
question sound dumb, and it doesn't make it sound like it'll be hard to do
whatever task it is I'm trying to do.)
It's, um, possible I may have clicked on a few links I didn't need just so
I could read a little more. Um, you know. As one does.
\o/
I know what we do can often be frustrating because it feels as if we're just invisibly moving things about in the background, with nobody ever noticing us or thanking us, so I thought I'd pass this on to you (with permission) in the hope that you all get as much of a kick out of it as I did. We're doing a kick-ass job, and I'm proud of what we've accomplished.
2. FAQ editors, if at any point you see a FAQ that we don't have yet but that you think we need, but that doesn't really seem to fit into any of the existing categories, please throw up a quick and dirty FAQ in the misc category, and then we can polish and categorise later, depending on what ends up there.
3. When you need to reference an example domain in any site text or documentation, use example.com, which is set aside specifically for the purpose. I've seen one or two people using website.tld, which I'd rather avoid because I don't think that's as obvious to non-technical people.
4. When we first went into closed beta, I decided that I'd keep membership here open, since the only people coming in at the start of closed beta would be people working on the site. We're now well into the stage of accepting users, and open beta is almost upon us. However, we've had a bunch of people join the comm and absolutely no problems so far, so I'm going to keep membership open for now, and revisit in the future if we do have any problems.
5. I'm lousy at tagging. 9 times out of 10, I forget to tag an entry, and on the tenth time, I can never figure out what tag to use. I've opened up tagging to all community members. If someone wants to go back through old posts, tag them, and come up with a coherent tagging system, I'd very much appreciate it. Once we have a robust tagging system in place, I'll probably restrict the creation of new tags down to community admins.
6. I'm fairly sure I had something else I meant to say, but I can't remember it. If I end up posting another entry in 2 hours, then I apologise.