Dave Crossland <d...@lab6.com> skribis: > Continuing to noodle on this, I suppose we (I) should reach out to the > users and ask them what they want out of OFLB.
Quit trying to be fancy and do so much at once. If you cannot provide easy, editable uploads and easy, straightforward downloads with a _usable_ font display in between, the rest is garbage. Somehow OFLB has managed never to achieve any of this, or even come close to it, while instead pursuing the next trendy framework or advanced functionality, which is just as quickly abandoned. Also you must never, ever, ever again delete everyone’s work and make them re-participate from scratch. Furthermore, uploads need to be managed, whether or not you like it, or OFLB is a trojan horse site. Users need to be trusted people, or submit only through a moderator. Likewise, wiki needs to be managed, because we know already (based on experience) that OFLB will not get the attention needed to deal with spam as it occurs. In short: have extreme patience when it comes to doing anything other than the basics -- don’t even think about it too much until you have the basics firmly under control -- and never do anything badly. If none of this seems attractive, an alternative is to move to other projects. There was a need for a free software clipart site, but free software fonts are easy to obtain already. Other sites may not have the features one wants, but see what I said above about ‘the basics’ and ‘patience’.