IMPORTANT- Poll

[phantisma.livejournal.com]

Hey everyone, your friendly neighborhood mod here. Under the cut you will find a poll that we would like everyone with any interest in the community to respond to. We will be implementing some changes to the comm based on responses and the discussion it generates, both with the users and the mod committee.

This comm has grown well beyond anything I anticipated when we started out and I want us to continue to be a welcoming, happy place for folks while easing some strain and making things easier behind the scenes, so please take a minute and answer the questions. The poll will stay open until Wednesday.





[Poll #1743747]

Comments

[jennytork.livejournal.com]

From the way the formatting is described, we are to write our prompt, go back and search for the original prompt, and put that link into the post with our reply. If I am misunderstanding, then I apologise, but I just do not have the time to go back through hundreds of posts and find the original prompt.

I really, really hope I have misunderstood this.

And I am referring to the Delicious archive. It is slow and clunky and HUGE and in my chosen genre there are over 500 pages and I get overwhelmed by the sheer SIZE of it.

I had never seen the "all tags" bar and next time I am there, I shall search for it and take advantage of it. I tended to look at the size and gulp, fruitlessly search for a few minutes, then give up in frustration. I didn't know that bar existed and I will definitely take advantage of it.

Perhaps that will ease my frustration a little bit. Thank you for pointing that out!

[havenward.livejournal.com]

I'll keep what you said about Delicious in mind. Hopefully we can find something more user friendly. :)

As a quick note about the lonely prompts - your fic responses should always be made to the original prompt, whether you're answering on the day the prompt is left, or later as a lonely prompt. (If you're posting the fic to your own journal, we request an excerpt plus a link to your entry in the comment.) When you sort through the index and click on the bookmark link from Delicious, it should take you directly to the comment the prompt was in. (Some posts have been deleted by users who closed their LJ accounts, and we address those on a link by link basis.)

If you need to retrieve the URL of the comment, at the bottom of your comment is something that says "Link". This is a link with the URL pertaining to that comment in particular out of a whole theme. This is what we use for archiving, the URL you should save if you plan to write a prompt later, and the URL we request during challenges. Other than the difficulties in searching through Delicious, you should not have to sort through posts on the comm to find your prompt.

I'll see about adding this information to the FAQ to prevent further confusion, though I may wait a little to see what changes we end up implementing.

[kaylynnkie.livejournal.com]

I'm going to butt in here because I had an idea about Delicious. Going into the archive for the first time is incredibly daunting (I know it was for me) and I'm wondering about creating a tutorial (with pictures) for those going into it for the first time or not, specifically because of comment_fic. I think delicious offers a lot of versatility and detail for hard to find prompts if you know how to exploit them. There are also lots of tricks and add-ons from a variety of browsers, though in my experience google chrome simply gels the best sans add-ons, that make delicious faster and more accessible. It would make an awesome addition to our links section. "Delicious: A Guide" or something like that.

[jennytork.livejournal.com]

Then I DID misunderstand.

Thank you for that assistance!

[camshaft22.livejournal.com]

I don't know if this is the right spot, but thank you all for talking about this.