The future of Scans Daily (yes there is one)

[schmevil]

First off, it's been wonderful to see you all come together. You guys did a great job of linking up my info post. Keep linking. There are already enough rumors, we don't want to encourage their spread. The other reason I want you guys to keep linking, is that I want to give as much of the membership as possible, a chance to connect with each other

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[stubbleupdate]

I'll echo most of what's been said here.

I won't be part of the Insanejournal stuff, but I'll be in charge of Noscans_daily, which is currently fuck ugly. So, if anybody has any ideas on layout etc, let me know.

The best thing that the community can do is group together on Noscans_daily, and actually show that we're the clever, rational and fun community that people have been saying that we are and not the pirates' cove that other people have been saying that we are.

[evilgrins]

IF it had any kinda mood theme thing going on, other than basic standard, I'd recommend the Disjointed theme. Least it looks a little better than what's there now.

[markpoa]

I'm into scans_daily more into the discussions, which I admit was kinda making my head hurt around the time of Batman:RIP and Final Crisis vitriol was being tossed around. I'm absolutely fine with noscans_daily.

[foresthouse]

Might I be completely shameless and suggest the Cable & Deadpool moodtheme that my friend addygryff and I did awhile back?

humbly submitted for your perusal.

I can also try to think of a good design. :)

[skalja]

Kurt Busiek has also made comments of support - here.

Once we've gotten things into a holding pattern, we should look into Dreamwidth, I think. I don't suppose any s_d member has an in with the internal beta, or knows one of the people who makes Dreamwidth run? It would be great to talk to them and find out whether a new, improved s_d could find a home there.

[schmevil]

I'm all about Dreamwidth too. :) I think I'll message synecdochic directly about it.

[skalja]

*thumbs up!*

[foxhack]

Dreamwidth? Whuzzat? I'd check for myself, but my internet connection is incredibly slow and I'm literally waiting several minutes for a single page to load...

HEY!

[skalja]

Guys, I've just realized, we have tags again! XD

Re: HEY!

[schmevil]

Ooo! We can make them sensible this time.

Re: HEY!

[foxhack]

I tried to add them to my post but they didn't work!

Re: HEY!

[skalja]

Sorry, it was set to maintainer-only creation - I changed it to members-only, to help minimize tag-insults, which happened sometimes on lj. It should work now!

[loqia]

Seconded on Dreamwidth, but the other option here is a multi-user, privately-hosted blog. OpenID enable it so that people can use their LJ identities, the push the RSS feed into LJ. If the feed gets ToS'd... meh.

[foxhack]

Good idea, but I don't think people would be able to make their own posts that way.

Or can they?

If such an option is possible then I'm all for it and would help with design and such.

[loqia]

I wouldn't have suggested it if they couldn't. ;)

Multi-author support ships out-of-the box with WordPress; most people just don't use it. /shrugs

[foxhack]

I use Wordpress at my website, but as far as I knew you couldn't create a blog like that and have just about anyone become an author.

If I'm wrong, well, that's a plus. :)

[mullon]

So is this the place to go now for scans_daily related news?

[schmevil]

Well, it's a good place since I'm on the mod team for both the new comms, but I'll x-post everything to noscans_daily and Scans Daily 2.0.

[mullon]

Well, like I said somewhere else, I'm glad to see you guys not taking this lying down. Though now it is a bit weird juggling through three websites. Not impossible, just different.