So here is the background for this suggestion, and I've already hinted at this to the powers that be:
The people that have historically (the volunteers) provided this portal with content, either in the form of guides, news, reviews - when it comes to other games. They need to have this option given back to them.
Even though Stratics might have lost community members that weren't here for UO, we'll need to rebuild and repopulate for the future. What happens when UO will have its last session running? (I'm not saying the game is dying, but I am saying that this is a game kept alive by someone "not us" - hencewhy its a remote posibility).
As someone who took it upon himself to migrate data from Drupal to Wordpress. I have been through transition after transition until the word itself changed and became defacto "loss". Loss of time spent, loss of time waiting for the system, loss of time and resources invested, loss of content and finally loss of community (here).
If we need to migrate into "future Stratics". We need to do so with the promise to open our arms to embrace other people. We need to become like the US was 200 years ago - built by immigrants. Provide the freedom and ability for people to build themselves and with others.
I propose that whatever option is chosen, that this new content system does not change for the next foreseable future. That the leadership commits to a 5 year plan that will deliver an easy to use system, which allows for the most common things that we use now. It doesn't need to be the best. It just needs to be stable and that also means to allow for only minor tweaks over this timeframe.
Give us a stable frame for 5 years, and I guarantee that you'll see Stratics become Emergent again, with new communities sprout up.
The people that have historically (the volunteers) provided this portal with content, either in the form of guides, news, reviews - when it comes to other games. They need to have this option given back to them.
Even though Stratics might have lost community members that weren't here for UO, we'll need to rebuild and repopulate for the future. What happens when UO will have its last session running? (I'm not saying the game is dying, but I am saying that this is a game kept alive by someone "not us" - hencewhy its a remote posibility).
As someone who took it upon himself to migrate data from Drupal to Wordpress. I have been through transition after transition until the word itself changed and became defacto "loss". Loss of time spent, loss of time waiting for the system, loss of time and resources invested, loss of content and finally loss of community (here).
If we need to migrate into "future Stratics". We need to do so with the promise to open our arms to embrace other people. We need to become like the US was 200 years ago - built by immigrants. Provide the freedom and ability for people to build themselves and with others.
I propose that whatever option is chosen, that this new content system does not change for the next foreseable future. That the leadership commits to a 5 year plan that will deliver an easy to use system, which allows for the most common things that we use now. It doesn't need to be the best. It just needs to be stable and that also means to allow for only minor tweaks over this timeframe.
Give us a stable frame for 5 years, and I guarantee that you'll see Stratics become Emergent again, with new communities sprout up.