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GReaper · 21 Oct 2007, 13:59

I'd say what the portal needs is a fairly dedicated portal manager whose only responsibility is to the portal and not the game. Every time effort is put in to sort out the portal it comes from the same coders who work on the game. Any work put into the portal seems to be a half hearted effort and comes as the expense of work being put into the game.

It needs a coder who has the time to finish a site and not leave it half done. Someone familiar with HTML and a programming language suitable for building the portal with. Someone who is willing to write content for it on a regular basis, if the portal is left alone for just a week then it is close to becoming a failure. A team of 2-3 people to manage the content for it, not a huge team of columnists from the community who write a couple of articles and get bored.

Don't just think of it as a news site, it could include a lot of other things which various other sites have (bcalc, search tool, etc) to build it into a full site. If enough effort is put into it then it could become a useful Planetarion resource, something which people might want to use.

21 Oct 2007, 13:59	#6
GReaper The BOFH Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 463	Re: The portal (again) I'd say what the portal needs is a fairly dedicated portal manager whose only responsibility is to the portal and not the game. Every time effort is put in to sort out the portal it comes from the same coders who work on the game. Any work put into the portal seems to be a half hearted effort and comes as the expense of work being put into the game. It needs a coder who has the time to finish a site and not leave it half done. Someone familiar with HTML and a programming language suitable for building the portal with. Someone who is willing to write content for it on a regular basis, if the portal is left alone for just a week then it is close to becoming a failure. A team of 2-3 people to manage the content for it, not a huge team of columnists from the community who write a couple of articles and get bored. Don't just think of it as a news site, it could include a lot of other things which various other sites have (bcalc, search tool, etc) to build it into a full site. If enough effort is put into it then it could become a useful Planetarion resource, something which people might want to use.