26 May 2014, 19:25

I agree there's a use for this. Forums are great, for forum regulars. But sifting around, when you haven't been in a while, is way more work than people like to do. Forums prioritise topics over timeliness; and projects over news. So we could use a… ugh, I never did like the word, but yes we could use a blog.



Quite how it would dovetail with the forum, I'm not sure. Perhaps each blog post (or as I'd prefer to call it: news item) automatically creates and links to a topic in the forum with the same content, where all discussion takes place. There's much to be said for clean looking blogs with no comments, just full content posts.



No "read more" buttons please. People can scroll nowadays! The idea is to put all the focus on the posts themselves, including pictures, right on the front page. Each item can have its own URL of course for linking, but it's so much better not to require people to read them behind a click. Be different from the forum, or go home!