New Website: Nexuiz News

[Dokujisan]

But the thing is that the current site admin and server owner has told me he is not interested in the project anymore. My attempts to have the site transferred to me have gone unnoticed or unanswered up til now.

Those didn't go unanswered. I said "ok that can be done" and then I didn't hear from you anymore. The most reliable part of this site has been me, so don't act like I'm lagging. I'm always available. I'm always on IRC every single day. I am always accessible. If anything needed to be changed, I could be available to make the change.

As far as the blog features, defining what gets shown on the front page and what gets shown when you click on the blog entry, that is definable per entry and the editors would be the ones who would make sure that happens properly.

As far as leaving comments on blog entries, the idea was that we would use the forum for conversation and the blog entries would have links to forum threads. This would be better than having separate conversations on the blog and conversations on the forum. It's best to have it in one place.

The blog entries could be presented better. More images. Better formatting. All of that rests on the shoulders of the editors.

I think the main issue with this news site is that it is not part of the main alientrap site, so nobody even knows it exists. This thread wasn't a great way to announce it. The domain name isn't even in the title. It should say "New site: NexuizNews.com"

So since the site doesn't get much attention, contributors lost interest and stopped contributing. That almost changed when -z- suggested to pull in RSS feeds from NexuizNews.com into the nexuiz.com news page. But that idea got shot down by Div0 because he doesn't like that shaggy would be a contributor (even though we have an editor workflow in place).

[Dokujisan]

pinkrobot, how is one able to post comments on your blog?

No clue.

As admin the first thing I would change would be to make whole articles appear on the front page. Or at least show some more content of the actual post, instead of loads of whitespace.

What?? How can you say "no clue"? You were there when we had this conversation. Was I just talking to myself?

It would be a mistake to have the full blog entry appear on the front page by default. We had discussed having some pretty long and involved posts (like overviewing the latest map releases). If each post appeared 100% in full view on the frontpage, that would take up too much space and it wouldn't look right.

[Dokujisan]

One more thing, because the criticism of this project hits a nerve with me...

This project stemmed from the developer blog idea that I suggested. Remember that?
http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=3619

Well, that idea was for the blog to be "official" and not some grass roots thing supported only by the community and separated from the Alientrap site.

After I spent some time pushing the idea, finally Pinkrobot said, "why don't we do it ourselves? After all, this is open source". Well, this is the reason why not, because unofficial projects are at a major disadvantage. That is the #1 problem with all projects for Nexuiz. The Alientrap team doesn't focus on anything outside of programming, so those projects remain the responsibility of community members and so those aspects of Nexuiz remain neglected. That limitation has always held Nexuiz back.

I've always criticized Nexuiz for this, ever since I first appeared in this community over 3 years ago. Useful projects should be made official and they should recruit community members. Such projects should be a part of the Alientrap/Nexuiz umbrella, and be accessible from the Alientrap/Nexuiz website.

[Samual]

One more thing, because the criticism of this project hits a nerve with me...

This project stemmed from the developer blog idea that I suggested. Remember that?
http://forums.alientrap.local/viewtopic.php?t=3619

Well, that idea was for the blog to be "official" and not some grass roots thing supported only by the community and separated from the Alientrap site.

After I spent some time pushing the idea, finally Pinkrobot said, "why don't we do it ourselves? After all, this is open source". Well, this is the reason why not, because unofficial projects are at a major disadvantage. That is the #1 problem with all projects for Nexuiz. The Alientrap team doesn't focus on anything outside of programming, so those projects remain the responsibility of community members and so those aspects of Nexuiz remain neglected. That limitation has always held Nexuiz back.

I've always criticized Nexuiz for this, ever since I first appeared in this community over 3 years ago. Useful projects should be made official and they should recruit community members. Such projects should be a part of the Alientrap/Nexuiz umbrella, and be accessible from the Alientrap/Nexuiz website.

I agree, and well again I would be glad to do the "developers blog" if it is e.g. weekly or something like that.

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