Fish here

[fifteenth]

I had a nice visit with Magik today. He's an IT whiz like Dahl and Mak and so many others of you who want what's best for us ... and ME. (And I'm not being sarcastic. For all the frustration, I'm flattered that we're all working through this transition.)

I had a long visit with SI today about trying to make 'Community' feel like it's own separate thing, and not connected to each story. I'm finding that to be y'all's biggest gripe. (Right?)

Now, the stuff about, 'I can't post a GIF' or whatever is universal. Every system has stuff I like or you hate or whatever.

I think what Magik has come up with here is fine; since I own the logo and stuff, nobody but me can get mad about it.

I'm told that direct URL here won't work in a beneficial way to what SI is trying to do with me ... But that doesn't mean this cannot exist ... or co-exist ... or be a transition through the pain .. as we get to HERE:

I'm also working with them on a FAQ.

And they are inviting MODS to a group session for training and junk, and Dahl and Mak and Magik (and Fiftheeen and Clutch??) I'd love you have you guys involved.

I appreciate y'all's patience (yes, that goes even for you impatient guys  .... Stick with me. My big priorities are
1) Learning the system
2) Mavs CONTENT
3) 'Community' functionality
4) Getting rich. 
5) Sharing my wealth with y'all in the form of beer.



we'll get there.
Love, Fish

Fish, that's a really cool response, thanks for that. 

I don't want to be a mod, but maybe I can contribute by communicating what the db.com peeps need and want (feel free to correct me db.com peeps).

Three things:

Ding (1)

"I had a long visit with SI today about trying to make 'Community' feel like it's own separate thing, and not connected to each story. I'm finding that to be y'all's biggest gripe. (Right?)"

That's sort of right. The BIGGEST gripe by most of the peeps is that 'Community' doesn't feel, look or operate like a message board. That involves way more than just not "feeling like it's own separate thing".

Ding (2)

Some of the things the SI platform needs to be able to do: 
The threads need to have thread titles (not just comments with no titles, and not titles created by working around the platform by double spacing inside the comment).
The threads should take up the majority of the width of the page, not be placed in a narrow little box. 
The threads should be delineated via formatting (using different shading, color, or lines to separate the threads.
The outside of the thread, when viewing the forum (all the threads), should include things like author, # of replies, date and author of last reply to go along with the thread title. 

...more items go on this list, but my next thing will take care of that...

Ding (3)

I don't think that Dahl, Mak and Magik need training from SI unless that training means that SI will teach them how to manipulate the platform and let them go to work in creating a message board using the SI platform. 

If the "work" of developing the platform will be done by SI staff, then I think Dahl, Mak, Magik, etc. could tell and show the SI staff what the end result should look like and how it should operate. 

I hope that helps, Mike, and

Have fun storming the castle!