One of the tasks that we'd like to do for the 2.0 release is to replace hobocentral.net and cookbook.hobocentral.net with a single site based on the bootstrap theme.
I've started on it here: http://staging.hobocentral.net/. It's in the bootstrap branch of https://github.com/Hobo/hobocookbook if you want to help out. The task items are here: https://trello.com/b/fvuauN0Q Some of the task items are straight forward, some of them require discussion. One of the items that requires the discussion is "what should we do about Questions and Recipes". Let's table the discussion about "questions". It's really a small part of a larger discussion about what to do with the "community" section of the web site. But "recipes" is a genuinely useful and different from "community". Currently, it has problems with discoverability (searching, browsing), it doesn't really have a great mechanism for updates by anyone other than the author. It was also severely crippled when I introduced a half-baked moderation scheme to deal with the spam issues we were having. The following solutions have been proposed: 1) fix up the current mechanism. Add better browsability (tags?), add editing capability, improve the moderation scheme. 2) add a user-editable page that contains an organized list of links to hobo-users, since that's the primary place where people post problems & solutions 3) build something around the github gist system, gists can have comments, syntax highlighting, editing through forks. We already use Github for our other user-editable pages, so requiring a user account there instead of at hobocentral.net is not a big imposition. I presume that Github has already dealt with the spam issue. 4) stackoverflow. Although more suited to "questions" than "recipes", stackoverflow raison d'etre matches up very closely with what we need, and they do it well. 5) use a wiki of some sort 6) merge with the current tutorial section. RIght now any of our tutorials may be edited by anybody with a Github account (although editing agility is a little more difficult due to it's extra features). Perhaps we can migrate existing recipes here and create an "create a recipe" link that edits a template on Github. thoughts, Bryan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
