Force Academy

I agree that Kira's design is super spiffy and want to use it.

I think we're still kind of wandering around the "how big do we want this" question.

LARGE

A big site might have a CMS that allowed whole areas for the Aspects and other sites to control their own look and content, with hosted blogs, multimedia, etc.

Medium

A medium site would be a board, a frontpage (probably Wordpress for simplicity), and a wiki. This would be what the old co.uk site is, with functional systems and more control. Easy to add pages to and theme up nicely.

small

A discussion board.

Of these, I think the Medium one is shaping up to where we want to be, and it could have options to grow into Large. The cost and hosting differences between Large and Medium are about the same. A small site is pretty cheap.

Question: Is there any functionality people would like beyond:

• Nice frontpage
• Discussion boards (like we have right now but with some pretty)
• Wiki (Mediawiki, like before)

If that's a good package for people, we can go with it.

I like medium.

Medium works though I do hope we move into Large some day.

My frontend pages could go up as they are now (with a few update tweaks) since they were designed to just be easy html/css pages. I don't mind drafting a wordpress in the background to be swapped in when ready. Perhaps a wordpress install can be loaded under a subdirectory and then have the domain point to it when it's ready?

I can also help with the board theme design if desired. I think we're all sick of the blue by now.

That would be fantastic, Kira. I’ll ping you about getting a zip of updated files to put into place this weekend.

Medium seems appropriate to me. But is there a way that we might be able to get something that would integrate the other items with Large later on if we get more activity and see it as warranted?

Setanaoko wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 23, 2018 10:49 pm

Medium seems appropriate to me. But is there a way that we might be able to get something that would integrate the other items with Large later on if we get more activity and see it as warranted?

Yes, definitely, we could scale up.

medium is more than enough. We have never had enough traffic to warrant a large site.

Raven wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:27 pm

medium is more than enough. We have never had enough traffic to warrant a large site.

Not only that, but in general larger sites with lots of features tend to scare away newer people, as feature-rich usually translates into a more cumbersome user experience.

And it is a nightmare from the maintenance point of view.

Medium should be more than enough.

I concur that the medium package is the way to go for now.

I like how the discord chat is connected into the forum. If we could do that with Wiki spaces as well; that is something I would like to see. Simply because I think it would be far less unwieldy than having a forum based library.

In terms of actual forum spaces; I think we can get away with just the three "aspects" of discussion, a general discussion, and an open Journal Space for people who are not affiliated with any of the groups.

Also; thank you for the Embassy row space. A solid idea I hope will see more use.

Glad to! Medium site is a-go-go, watch for announcements over the weekend.

Open Journal area added, will do the Wiki link when that comes live.