A Tangsty Renewal
If you haven't noticed, changes have been happening over the past week or so to the formatting of Tangst and The Official Tangst Blog. All summer we've been talking about making updates - we even had a running list of what we wanted to do - but now we've finally put some in place.
As always, we like having a consensus amongst the admins before making any large changes, but since it's summer, and varying numbers of admins have been unavailable at different times, we couldn't really get a good gauge on things. So we (the esteemed 龙年 and I) have implemented a few minor changes that we believe make the Tangst Group sites easier to read, easier to understand, and easier to use.
To be honest, a lot of the new things are purely superficial, such as going from "Posted by" to "Published by" on the bottoms of posts. Others, like cleaning up the sidebar and making it standardized across all the sites, were actually functional. Adding in the Resources section - the links on the sidebar to sites with actual information (Scarleteen, Hopeline, Planned Parenthood) was my favorite. And standardizing the admin contact info was probably a good move, too. When we finish doing everything (after the admins finally get together for voting and whatnot), there will be a huge site update notice, wherein I'll publish the list of changes we were thinking of making and a list of what actually got done.
A couple changes, I think we'll leave up to you, the Tangst users. If we decide on this, we'll put up poll notices. Polls would be open for a week, the same as posts. Or we could just write up a post detailing what we're thinking, and leave everyone to comment on it. Of course, these are just options, but it is something we're seriously considering. Any changes that occur can always be undone - everything is up to you guys, the users. Because everything is for all of you.
One of the biggest issues is about the contributors list and the duties/responsibilities of the admins. We've been putting this off since about Spring Break (which was in March), so I think we've stalled long enough? It'd be nice to go into a new year with this resolved.
Anyways, these are just some of the things going on behind the scenes that the admins felt users should know about. Changes will always be happening to make the site better, so no worries.
If there's something you'd like us to try, or have an idea you'd like to share, leave a comment or send an e-mail (they both go to the same place - my inbox), it'll get read within a day.
As always, we like having a consensus amongst the admins before making any large changes, but since it's summer, and varying numbers of admins have been unavailable at different times, we couldn't really get a good gauge on things. So we (the esteemed 龙年 and I) have implemented a few minor changes that we believe make the Tangst Group sites easier to read, easier to understand, and easier to use.
To be honest, a lot of the new things are purely superficial, such as going from "Posted by" to "Published by" on the bottoms of posts. Others, like cleaning up the sidebar and making it standardized across all the sites, were actually functional. Adding in the Resources section - the links on the sidebar to sites with actual information (Scarleteen, Hopeline, Planned Parenthood) was my favorite. And standardizing the admin contact info was probably a good move, too. When we finish doing everything (after the admins finally get together for voting and whatnot), there will be a huge site update notice, wherein I'll publish the list of changes we were thinking of making and a list of what actually got done.
A couple changes, I think we'll leave up to you, the Tangst users. If we decide on this, we'll put up poll notices. Polls would be open for a week, the same as posts. Or we could just write up a post detailing what we're thinking, and leave everyone to comment on it. Of course, these are just options, but it is something we're seriously considering. Any changes that occur can always be undone - everything is up to you guys, the users. Because everything is for all of you.
One of the biggest issues is about the contributors list and the duties/responsibilities of the admins. We've been putting this off since about Spring Break (which was in March), so I think we've stalled long enough? It'd be nice to go into a new year with this resolved.
Anyways, these are just some of the things going on behind the scenes that the admins felt users should know about. Changes will always be happening to make the site better, so no worries.
If there's something you'd like us to try, or have an idea you'd like to share, leave a comment or send an e-mail (they both go to the same place - my inbox), it'll get read within a day.
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