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Robbie
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 Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:23 am Post subject: Category updates |
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Hi,
Thank-you to those who expressed their opinion about the categories - we had 101 people respond which is far more than we expected. It's encouraging us to make changes.
Here's an update....
The following categories have been culled (for now). We've only "moved" them, so let us know if you want them back - provided you've got something to put in them:
- 4400
- Aeon Flux
- Alias
- Alien/AVP
- Andromeda
- Carnivàle
- Constantine
- Deadwood
- Due South
- Gilmore Girls
- Grey's Anatomy
- OC (The)
- Pretender (The)
- Prison Break
- Resident Evil
- Veronica Mars
- West Wing (The)
- Witchblade
- Without a Trace
We're still checking up on a few others, so there may be a few more changes.
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Our plans now are to:
- Move the story of the day back to the front page at the top. Some people apparently miss it.
- Create a "Your favourite categories" section (obviously you'll need to be a member). This will show below the SOTD.
- Show 6 "Most Popular" categories, that will actually be made up of
o 4 most populated (so Tolkien will always be number 1)
o the latest category to have a story posted to it, and
o the latest story to have a review posted to it.
Although all 6 will be different (if any overlap)
- Show the three latest categories you looked at.
News items will start being posted in the forum.
You can then drill down and look at all categories on one level (none of the "TV/Movies" and "Miscellaneous" hopping about - and this is why we want to cull some categories for now).
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We'll then look at adding in some categories, including:
- original fic (possibly locked to registered members only, we'll get back to that later) and
- anything else you may request.
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We've also done updates recently to include
- word count
- response to reviews
- optimisation of database for backups (the daily backup accounted for 2GB of traffic per month - we've made changes that will cut this down dramatically).
Comments or other suggestions welcome below.
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, more have just been culled:
Blakes 7
The Magnificent Seven
Moulin Rouge!
NCIS
Red Dwarf |
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DarkElfChilde
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I'll be looking forward to the new catagories. 
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Alassante
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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To cull down some more that may have 1 or 2 people intersted in them - couldn't you have a Misc. category that catches them all?
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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No, we've already been over this as to why. Scroll down to my first post in this thread.
do.
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Alassante
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| dolarabee wrote: | No, we've already been over this as to why. Scroll down to my first post in this thread.
do. |
Ohhhh okay - gotcha. Makes sense now. How do you remember all this stuff Do? 
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Sulriel
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:46 am Post subject: Re: Category updates |
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| Robbie wrote: | ///snipped//
We're still checking up on a few others, so there may be a few more changes.
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Our plans now are to:
- Move the story of the day back to the front page at the top. Some people apparently miss it.
- Create a "Your favourite categories" section (obviously you'll need to be a member). This will show below the SOTD.
- Show 6 "Most Popular" categories, that will actually be made up of
o 4 most populated (so Tolkien will always be number 1)
o the latest category to have a story posted to it, and
o the latest story to have a review posted to it.
Although all 6 will be different (if any overlap)
- Show the three latest categories you looked at.
News items will start being posted in the forum.
You can then drill down and look at all categories on one level (none of the "TV/Movies" and "Miscellaneous" hopping about - and this is why we want to cull some categories for now).
**************************
We'll then look at adding in some categories, including:
- original fic (possibly locked to registered members only, we'll get back to that later) and
- anything else you may request.
**************************
We've also done updates recently to include
- word count
- response to reviews
- optimisation of database for backups (the daily backup accounted for 2GB of traffic per month - we've made changes that will cut this down dramatically).
Comments or other suggestions welcome below. |
You guys are awesome!!
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Robbie
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| Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Alassante wrote: | | dolarabee wrote: | No, we've already been over this as to why. Scroll down to my first post in this thread.
do. |
Ohhhh okay - gotcha. Makes sense now. How do you remember all this stuff Do? |
Beacuse we discussed it again yesterday, but found no reason to change.
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 1:11 am Post subject: |
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| Robbie wrote: | | Alassante wrote: | | How do you remember all this stuff Do? |
Beacuse we discussed it again yesterday, but found no reason to change. |
Yeah and I'd also just gone through that thread to double check on the list of requests.
That said, it's not to say we won't look into a way to make a misc melting pot work at some point. Maybe. If it's even feasible to way the database is set up. But it won't be in the near future (unless Rob suddenly cries eureka whilst sitting on the loo or something!).
do.
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dolarabee
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Some of you might have already noticed the new ones we opened last night. Here's the official announcement! 
It's with pleasure that we open the door to ten new categories:
Dexter
Splinter Cell
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
28 Days/Weeks Later
BLEACH
Eureka
Ghost in the Shell
Half-Life
Phantom of the Opera
RENT
In case you're looking for some categories that used to be on the front, the following have now been moved to Miscellaneous since they still didn't hold any fic:
Farscape
Underworld
Van Helsing
And one more category was culled last week:
Law & Order
We are still working on an Original Fic section, and if we get more interest for other new categories, we'll look into it.
Thank you,
do.
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dolarabee
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Magnificent Seven was already there. We had to take it down because after over a year it still held no fics....
Now if you tell me you have stories ready to post to it, we might consider resurrecting it.
do.
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Alassante
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A-team? Remember who was in that Do?? Dirk Benedict AKA the original Starbuck. *sigh*
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