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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

• Re:All's good Re:All's good (Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 17 2015, @03:30PM

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday November 17 2015, @03:30PM (#264380) Journal

  We need more submitters at times, otherwise all's good.
   
  Agreed. I really think having a story rejected without knowing why turns infrequent submitters away.
   
  Anecdotally, after the last Meta thread several people said they want more polls. (Still a popular position)
   
  So I decided to try to come up with a poll idea every 10 days or so.
   
  They don't all need to be posted, of course, but recently they seem to all get rejected. With no feedback as to why I've basically just stopped submitting them.
   
  I think it should be a high priority to get some sort of submission feedback mechanism working.

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• Re:All's good Re:All's good (Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @12:35AM

  by cmn32480 (443) <{cmn32480} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Wednesday November 18 2015, @12:35AM (#264627) Journal

  It is my understanding that this has been coded and is to be included in the next code update around the first of the year-ish.

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  • Re:All's good (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:13AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:13AM (#265204) Homepage Journal

    Yep, the pull request has already been merged. It'll be up on dev shortly and go live sometime around year's end.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.

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