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[blinky465 17028xp 2]

I love the projects system. But it does feel a bit “clunky” if you’re writing a long post (I tend to hit the “ten items limit” quite quickly – and through trial and error discovered that a post with more than ten items would be prone to “disappearing” without saving anything back to the server).

I don’t know how the website is constructed but it feels like the entire project/blog entry is being posted in one hit – a bit of ajax which auto-posts media content while you’re writing a post, or uploads each section individually (maybe even after you’ve clicked the “create a new text box” button) instead of the entire post being (HTTP)POSTed in one go would probably reduce the number of “lost post” failures?

How many entries are created per day/week in the WAYPN thread? Would it be feasible to “curate” them periodically? Have someone apply tags to entries, to make them more easily searchable? (hey, in doing so, you might accidentally create some “here what our community members have been doing this week” type content to include in a newsletter).

When I ran the BuildBrighton project system (many years ago) we had something similar (what are you making now) and created a slightly more structured interface for people to link their own personal project blogs. It basically asked “which section(s) apply?” (an early version of tagging) and “what kind of response would you like to this?” – users could ask for feedback/praise, help/advice, discussion points, criticism. It meant that people just learning wouldn’t get swamped with posts like “why haven’t you used a switch mode regulator, your linear reg is less efficient” and left them feeling like they’d never get anywhere! They could post stuff just to show off and say “look at this cool thing I made” and acknowledge that it’s not the most amazing thing anyway, but here’s what I’ve been doing this week.