I started with re-organising our discussion categories, there are now 4 main sections:
- Announcements (posts from the volunteers team, our community newsletter, the online events)
- Conversation (general conversation on the online and offline community and directional discussion for the project)
- App (all things related to the Couchers webapp: feedback, feature discussion, updates)
- Forum (for discussing the forum itself and how we best approach moderation matters across the platform)
You can get an overview of our forum structure on the Categories page.
Going forward, we will next make some theme changes and enable read-access without the need to be logged-in.
Also implemented these changes. We added banners to each category that show the category icon, name and about text. Before we had this brief information about each category in a pinned topic within the categories:
Also enabled read access to all topics without the need to login. You can now link to any topic or post on the forum without visitors needing to sign-up or sign-in to read it. You still need to be signed in to post or access user profiles beyond the user name and miniature avatar that’s visible on each post. You can read more on these settings in Remaining anonymous.