First weekend feedback - from Team to Users

[Martin Bohnet]

Dear All,

it has been a ride - though the team prepared for quite some time, we all knew the first productive weekend would be a steep learning curve - some things went invisible for most of you:

• a few PNG-graphics were bound to clutter the error log
• as was a tiny uncaught condition in my Species-BBC-extension
• there was some access rights trouble when I changed the "Board Member" group from hidden add-on to visible for all (through 4 yellow squares below poster's name) - sorry Jane!

Others were more prominent:

• disabling font- and fontsize codes to prevent unintended text styling from copy&paste operations
• allowing non-registered users to view attachments - which of course makes it more difficult to know who's here, as several "guests" in the "Who's online" display shows, but also makes the forum more attractive to random passers-by (and to search engine bots)
• lots of discussions about image upload technicality

All in all we're really happy how things turned out for now:

• we're currently approaching 100 registered users, 25 of which already have posted
• there had been very little moderation work as to "topic discipline", and the cases that happened were more of the "technical attachment trouble"-type
• there has been absolutely no rudeness or aggression in this forum

Where do we go from here?

• We'll keep an eye on how topic density evolves and may or may not create a finer subforum structure if it seems fitting
• Depending on topic- and workload, we may appoint moderators for some areas
• and of course we want your feedback!

welcome to this new medium for the PBS!

your team