It's been broken for a minute.

 

I honestly hate tappatalk. There will not be any need once xenforo is implemented because of how well it scales

 

Maintaining apps in addition to the forums themselves isn't sustainable. Xenforo will help a lot -- we're getting closer.

 

It's a very crude measure, but basically it's looking that every story has at least a few posts on it. Driveby ratings are less important than someone actually typing out what they mean and why they did or did not like the story.

Priority could honestly be hidden. It's measuring how few posts and ratings a story has -- so if a story has few ratings it's not likely to be very accurate of a rating.

I weighted posts higher if I recall, but I'd have to look at the code. It's probably due for a refresh anyways -- it'll have to be refreshed during the move to Xenforo.

 

I agree. A general organization of the forums for flow and the sub forums would he nice. Like with Other Fandom WbA. Just seems cluttered now and considering lots of people access it maybe more thought can be put in to it now that we have a general idea of what is popular and what isn't.

Also, with the different WbAs at the bottom I was thinking we could merge them all and use tags for the Fandom. Like the WiP etc. Since we don't have the thread images anymore. And HP WbA isn't as popular as it once was. So merging wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

This is not exactly high priority but I thought I'd bring it up again.

Now that we have a shiny new forum and all I was wondering if would be a good time to revisit the idea (OK my idea) of having a Photoshop competition to re-design the top banner(s) for the site. As much as I am fond on Anikan!Harry he does look a little 2005. We've got a lot of talented artists on here and I for one would like to take advantage of their time and good nature.

Edit: Also in the running for the pettiest complaint ever: I don't suppose out prestige titles and prestige banners could go back to being flamenco pink rather than baby pink could they? Its just like, not a nice contrast with the green.

 

If you want to make a thread for that then by all means, I think it'd be fun to see the results. If something good comes out of it we'll definitely consider it, but I don't think we'll commit to replacing it beforehand.

 

Thanks @Jon, that was what I had in mind in anycase, I will make a thread. Do you reckon I should put it in the feedback forum?

(Since you are feeling magnanimous, don't suppose you could tweak the prestige banners to better match aswell could you? Like pink background with a darker font or something, they are so bright.)

 

Official writing competitions

So I was thinking, would it be a good idea to run monthly or bi-monthly DLP short story writing competitions? They work pretty well over at the super pink club house and we've had some good stories out of them. They would give new writers a chance to put something out there and old writers a bit of practice/ a break from their longer projects.

I could just throw one out there but it would probably get lost soon enough. It would be cool if it was an official, pinned event run by DLP that gave new (and old) writers a space and an excuse to put something out there and get some detailed feedback. (Its a condition of voting in the ones we run which is I think worth keeping.) Perhaps they could get a small prize for winning like a special banner or a custom title?

It might come to nothing and nobody would be interested, but DLP has proven to be a good place to foster writing talent. It would be cool to do that actively.

 

It is possible, I think its a mod. Indent doesn't really carry over well when you're on mobile. There's an advanced WYSIWYG editor that does it, I think SB and SV uses it. There are a bunch of things about it I don't like though. Some of it seems half thought.