One of the things I hated about NPR's site in the early days of social media was the comments section. By adding comments, it seemed like NPR was giving users a place to debate the facts of the...
One of the things I hated about NPR's site in the early days of social media was the comments section. By adding comments, it seemed like NPR was giving users a place to debate the facts of the article.
What are you intending people to say in the comments? Are you expecting the users are going to add something constructive to a post? Are you trying to engage the users and, if so, are you going to reply to each poster on each article?
What is the intent of the site? Are you (your team) writing articles, or is this Q&A, or a place for socializing?
Not trying to hate on your site at all, just trying to offer some prodding questions to help you think critically about the features you do or don't want to include.
Happy to help. When I was going through my master's program, I was really, super irritated that my committee chair would never agree to anything. Any project idea I had, anything I wanted to get...
Happy to help. When I was going through my master's program, I was really, super irritated that my committee chair would never agree to anything. Any project idea I had, anything I wanted to get done, I always had to fight him for it. Went through the whole process, and it wasn't until I was preparing for my defense that it really clicked for me - the master's defense is me providing qualified, objective reasoning for why project was worth pursuing and why anyone should be interested to hear about it.
It was a huge lesson for me, and in the context of the master's program all of the pushback made sense. Why should master's research be funded if I haven't given enough effort to fully articulate what I want to do? How can I be sure the project can be completed in a year or two if I haven't done the preliminary research to understand the scope of my proposal?
Then I left academia for industry, and... it just seems like nobody had the guts to push back on ideas offered up by management. I try to offer well-considered "pointed questions" but it seems like only about 10% of management cares to engage with my questions; I'm pretty sure the other 90% want to strangle me.
So all that is to say that again, I'm really happy the questions were well-received. They came from a place of sincere support for your project and I hope the results of any discussions you have lead to a successful site.
Something to address nice and early: Set up automated backups if you haven't already; then test that the system works (i.e. remove/destroy some or all of the data, then try to restore it using...
Something to address nice and early: Set up automated backups if you haven't already; then test that the system works (i.e. remove/destroy some or all of the data, then try to restore it using your backup system).
One of the things I hated about NPR's site in the early days of social media was the comments section. By adding comments, it seemed like NPR was giving users a place to debate the facts of the article.
What are you intending people to say in the comments? Are you expecting the users are going to add something constructive to a post? Are you trying to engage the users and, if so, are you going to reply to each poster on each article?
What is the intent of the site? Are you (your team) writing articles, or is this Q&A, or a place for socializing?
Not trying to hate on your site at all, just trying to offer some prodding questions to help you think critically about the features you do or don't want to include.
Happy to help. When I was going through my master's program, I was really, super irritated that my committee chair would never agree to anything. Any project idea I had, anything I wanted to get done, I always had to fight him for it. Went through the whole process, and it wasn't until I was preparing for my defense that it really clicked for me - the master's defense is me providing qualified, objective reasoning for why project was worth pursuing and why anyone should be interested to hear about it.
It was a huge lesson for me, and in the context of the master's program all of the pushback made sense. Why should master's research be funded if I haven't given enough effort to fully articulate what I want to do? How can I be sure the project can be completed in a year or two if I haven't done the preliminary research to understand the scope of my proposal?
Then I left academia for industry, and... it just seems like nobody had the guts to push back on ideas offered up by management. I try to offer well-considered "pointed questions" but it seems like only about 10% of management cares to engage with my questions; I'm pretty sure the other 90% want to strangle me.
So all that is to say that again, I'm really happy the questions were well-received. They came from a place of sincere support for your project and I hope the results of any discussions you have lead to a successful site.
Something to address nice and early: Set up automated backups if you haven't already; then test that the system works (i.e. remove/destroy some or all of the data, then try to restore it using your backup system).
One request: An rss feed!
I do...or did, but the password isn't in my manager and I'm too exhausted to search for it atm. I'd appreciate if you added it.
Congrats on getting things going! I added a test comment and an issue :)