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Jim's Lab Notes — Site News, Baseball Talk, and a Bunch of Other Stuff Wednesday, May 30, 2012BBTF.org BetaThe site beta launch is at hand. Today I am finishing up the creation of the Beta membership group and will be moving all the volunteers into that group. Starting tomorrow morning all of them will see a link to the beta at the top of the home page when they log into the site. Here’s a screenshot of the new homepage: For the most part the beta is self-contained; that is, you can view the site entirely within the beta, including using your mobile device. At this point the exceptions are the new member profile pages and the archives. The framework for the micros is in place: One of the primary reasons I am opening the beta is to get input from our new volunteer moderators on the design and to get help setting up our new moderation system. At the same time I’m looking for additional input and feedback on the updated mobile design. In conjunction with opening the beta I will begin work on the new archive by converting our older blogs to the new setup. This means some of this content will not be available on the live site until the redesign is finished. Sorry for the inconvenience. If you haven’t already and would like to volunteer to help out as a moderator or help out with other input on the beta follow the links. Thanks, Jim Donate to BaseballThinkFactory.org using PayPal.com
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1. Guapo Posted: May 30, 2012 at 03:54 PM (#4143272)FYI, not all page views have been created for this part of the beta. For example, the customized homepage has not yet been created. Additionally, the views for New (recently submitted content), Most Popular (stuff that people vote up) have not been added to the homepage or the micros. These views will be added in the next couple of weeks.
1) I would like to co-ordinate with other people in the Red Sox / ST micros, but I can't find any information on the site as to who the other admins are for the micro. How can I co-ordinate with them? Can there be a simple "admin list" area with contact links? Or is there one and I'm blind to it?
2) A thing I don't like: When I go into a thread, my "hot topics" bar changes to the "hot topics" for only that Micro. I checked out the Mike Trout thread, and I lost the full hot topics sidebar, to have it replaced with the sidebar for the micros linked in that thread (Padres and scouting). In order to navigate, I need to go back to the main page every time I want to see what the current active general threads are. This is annoying for me, and I liked it the way the old/current site works.
I see that there are two hot topics tabs - "hot topics" (which has the hot topics for the linked micros of the thread) and "my hot topics" (which has my bookmarked threads). Would it be possible to add a third tab, so that I can see in my hot topics bar "(general/newsblog) hot topics" (which would basically be the hot topics bar as it currently exists on the site) plus the "micro hot topics" and "my hot topics"? Does that make sense?
Since I'm here, though, I will answer your questions.
1) I haven't set up the moderator blocks and moderator areas yet. I want to get some ideas from the participants before doing so. At this point I plan on adding a moderator block to the sidebar which will contain a list of the moderators, including links to send messages to them. There will also be some embedded moderation links so moderators can easily change the entry status, fix typos, or close bad entries. There will also be a dedicated area for moderator discussions, including a page for each micro.
2) Actually the current site has different Hot Topics on each of the blogs. If you go to Sox Therapy the Hot Topics only contain Sox Therapy links. I can add another tab if other people feel the same way. We'll have to try it out.
Looking forward to more. Assuming at some point we can see members of each microblog, etc.
I just wanted to comment that while I like the layout (although I dislike the comic sansiness of it.) I do not like that when you click on an article about the Johan Santana no-hitter, it takes you to the Mets micro and all the hot topics are populated with only Mets threads. Maybe have two Hot Topics, one that's Mets focused and one that's the global one? Sort of like YouTube how it has "related videos" but then also has the other list from when you originally searched.
Just a thought. Thanks.
Thanks. Yes, it was deliberate. I want to keep things working essentially the same but streamline the setup (by making everything go through the frontpage) while also making it easier to both submit and find more specific content.
Shock, I changed the forum permissions so you should be able to see it now. I've had a few other people suggest an additional Hot Topic tab. I should be able to add it either today or tomorrow.
Wish I had more helpful comments, but that's really the main thing that jumps out at me.
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