[squeakland] on having two squeakland websites

[Timothy Falconer]

On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Rita Freudenberg wrote:

> - log in to the community section to create or change your own profile

Already works in beta, though haven't enabled photo yet.

> - find other users ( their profiles, projects or just people with  
> like interests or from the same country etc.)

Haven't added this, but it's very easy.   Could go into a more general  
search box/page also.

> - upload your projects, but every project you like to share without  
> having to worry about quality

Already works in beta, though I think you're referring to a new look  
as indicator you can "mess up the room".

> - tags

Already implemented, though I haven't surfaced these in the beta yet  
(would take an hour or two)

> - easy ways to give feedback, like comments on projects

Comments can be added by flicking a switch.  The hold up was our  
decision to moderate comments.  If you don't need moderation yet, we  
can add comments immediately.

> - users can become more involved by getting more and more control  
> over the community section

Other than adding comments and tags and projects, what do you foresee?

As it stands, we'll need more and more moderators to help approve  
projects for public display.  We'll need people to rank and feature  
projects too.   These are two ways people can contribute.


Four overall points:

1) everything you mention is applicable to the featured showcase as  
well.  Why wouldn't you have all these things there as well?

2) everything (except search users) has already been incorporated in  
showcase design, based on your suggestions in the past (and marta's)

3) Storymill has LOTS of social networking functionality that already  
works . . . it's a matter of flipping it on and surfacing the  
functionality on specific pages.

4) Please let's at least see the working showcase site in action  
before discussing what it still needs :)     Most of what you want has  
already been done.

Take care,
Tim