As you may have noticed, I am the newest addition to the Riptide Lab team. Many of you know me by Kranny, Kojiro (MTGS), or kstube (Twitter). For those of you who don't know me, I'm an impassioned cube designer and Magic player and when I'm not spending time with family or playing old console games, I spend most of my free time writing about and discussing cube content. Thanks again for the warm welcome. I look forward to discussing cube with you all.
Over the past few weeks I've been working with Eric and Jason to help us identify some website goals like increasing membership, improving cube discussion, and providing some direction to the marketing and administration of Riptide Lab. We have a lot of pie in the sky ideas on how we want to manage the site and where we see the site going in the short/long term, but we understand that Rome wasn't built in a day, and we might have some issues with creating a compelling posting space by introducing big changes over a short window. That said, we don't think of Riptide Lab as our plane and you guys are just along for the ride. The success of Riptide Lab ultimately rests with our postership. We need your feedback in order to successfully launch the kinds of initiatives that will make for the best possible community and posting environment.
As we work through what kinds of initiatives we want to tackle first, you may or may not see threads like these pop up. We want honest and open feedback. In some cases, we will literally stop everything we're doing if we're met with strong opposition; in other cases, we may move forward anyway with the option of rolling back if it's not successful. There's also items that we may implement without consulting you all. I know I speak for all of us when we say that if you have an issue with the administration or direction of the site, that our inboxes are open and we're willing to listen to how you think we can improve.
As I said before, we want to start small, so I'd like to introduce the first item up for change as a part of our road map: forum reorganization.
When the forum was kicked off, it was decided that due to the low number of initial threads, that cube content threads and cube lists would be posted in the same forum. While this works for a smaller postership, the content can become unweildy if we were to take in another 20-30 active members. As one of our primary goals is to increase registered members, we want to have a forum that is primed for those users to come in, introduce themselves, post their list, and start contributing. The idea in reorganizing is that we're building with expansion in mind. The proposed change is to move cube lists into their own subforum and all other cube-related content including article feedback, MCD/SCD, variant ideas, etc. would be in the main forum.
I want to hear from you all. Are you okay with us making this change? What are the pros and cons? If you were to rate your support or opposition for the change on a scale of 1-10, what would you rate it?
Thanks for taking the time to respond, and I look forward to building this community with you all!
Over the past few weeks I've been working with Eric and Jason to help us identify some website goals like increasing membership, improving cube discussion, and providing some direction to the marketing and administration of Riptide Lab. We have a lot of pie in the sky ideas on how we want to manage the site and where we see the site going in the short/long term, but we understand that Rome wasn't built in a day, and we might have some issues with creating a compelling posting space by introducing big changes over a short window. That said, we don't think of Riptide Lab as our plane and you guys are just along for the ride. The success of Riptide Lab ultimately rests with our postership. We need your feedback in order to successfully launch the kinds of initiatives that will make for the best possible community and posting environment.
As we work through what kinds of initiatives we want to tackle first, you may or may not see threads like these pop up. We want honest and open feedback. In some cases, we will literally stop everything we're doing if we're met with strong opposition; in other cases, we may move forward anyway with the option of rolling back if it's not successful. There's also items that we may implement without consulting you all. I know I speak for all of us when we say that if you have an issue with the administration or direction of the site, that our inboxes are open and we're willing to listen to how you think we can improve.
As I said before, we want to start small, so I'd like to introduce the first item up for change as a part of our road map: forum reorganization.
When the forum was kicked off, it was decided that due to the low number of initial threads, that cube content threads and cube lists would be posted in the same forum. While this works for a smaller postership, the content can become unweildy if we were to take in another 20-30 active members. As one of our primary goals is to increase registered members, we want to have a forum that is primed for those users to come in, introduce themselves, post their list, and start contributing. The idea in reorganizing is that we're building with expansion in mind. The proposed change is to move cube lists into their own subforum and all other cube-related content including article feedback, MCD/SCD, variant ideas, etc. would be in the main forum.
I want to hear from you all. Are you okay with us making this change? What are the pros and cons? If you were to rate your support or opposition for the change on a scale of 1-10, what would you rate it?
Thanks for taking the time to respond, and I look forward to building this community with you all!
