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Community Health Check - Seeing What People Are Thinking

posted by NCommander on Tuesday November 17 2015, @10:32AM   
from the prevention-goes-a-long-way dept.

So, every once in awhile, if things have been quiet, I like to pop a post seeing what the general feelings of the community are towards the site, seeing what we could do better, etc. I think its been a few months since the last time I posted in Meta, so I think this is a good time to get a pulse on the community, and provide a venue to get any feedback (good or bad).

On the staff side, I know things have been relatively quiet over the summer due to most of us being busy with life and such, which is why we haven't made a major site upgrade since the original rehash upgrade at the end of May. For myself, I've been working at a new job, and dealing with a fair bit of non-Soylent related things to the point that I really only have the time or energy to post, and occasional check in, and I'd like to thank the rest of the staff, and mrcoolbp in particular for holding down the fort for me.

Anyway, in contrast to my usual posts, I'm going to cut this off here, and will be looking forward to your comments below.

73 from NCommander

• Hard to tell how the site is doing Hard to tell how the site is doing (Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Tuesday November 17 2015, @03:12PM

  by SanityCheck (5190) on Tuesday November 17 2015, @03:12PM (#264355)

  At a glance it's hard to tell how the site is doing. We want to know... how about some analytics, like visits in last 24 hours type a thing.

  The goal bar is also nice, but how about breaking it down and showing number of people who donated?

  Is there any chance we can get an API?

  Starting Score:	1		point
  Karma-Bonus Modifier		+1
  Total Score:		2

• Re:Hard to tell how the site is doing (Score: 2) by NCommander on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:09AM

  by NCommander (2) <michael@casadevall.pro> on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:09AM (#265179) Homepage Journal

  There's a stats system backed into the codebase, but that code hasn't been well checked to make sure there isn't any obvious SQL exploits. The admin code in general is pretty horrific and not well documented or tested by the original authors.

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• Re:Hard to tell how the site is doing Re:Hard to tell how the site is doing (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:53AM

  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:53AM (#265219) Homepage Journal

  Is there any chance we can get an API?

  You already do: http://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/ApiDocs [soylentnews.org]

  Doesn't do polls yet but most site functionality is there in rather simplistic form.

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  • Re:Hard to tell how the site is doing Re:Hard to tell how the site is doing (Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:26AM

    by SanityCheck (5190) on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:26AM (#265232)

    Noice

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    • Re:Hard to tell how the site is doing (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:54AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:54AM (#265246) Homepage Journal

      Some of the features (like two or three) are currently only available on dev but they should be noted in the docs.

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