On Apr 9, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Lije Carpenter wrote: > I know Dreamwidth is striving to be different, but there's the whole > devil-you-know problem to overcome. If you don't offer maintainers > something concrete to better the life of their community, what > incentive do they have to switch?
Things I can think of to better the life of communities or their stewardship that are pretty much a go: * Letting maintainers put in LJ cuts for a post (so you can cut things for you members without asking and waiting or just immediately deleting), increase the security level of a post (for friends only comms), or adding an adult content warning (for comms who want to mark adult content). * Increasing the granularity of maintainer and moderator permissions-- we have a rough sketch up of the general idea here: http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Community_maintainers . It would make it easier to split up community management duties (like playing with the style), without taking the risk that somebody you've assigned to do something will steal the community out from under you. * I *think* paid communities will get Google Analytics--at the very least, it's planned for personal journals and nobody's saying it *won't* be for communities, which means it might just take a little extra elbow grease. That will let you observe your community's traffic and where it's getting linked from. Other things that aren't really officially in the pipeworks, but that I know I support and that don't run into the same technological and social issues community importing does: * A maintainer log that keeps track of who did what action when * Notifications when posts in the community are deleted * Community posting templates * A chatroom for paid communities on DWTalk * A contact form that members can use to contact all moderators at once * Possibly a way for moderators to have their own filter to post to in the community, so they won't have to create separate mod communities to communicate Please note that I'm not saying this makes up for the lack of importing--it's just that importing is very difficult for a variety of reasons, and it's very possible that it will end up as a compromise or a hurdle that some won't be able to pass. But that doesn't mean that Dreamwidth isn't working on making maintaining communities better. -- foxfirefey _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
