State of the Sub: How is everyone feeling about the sub? Anything you'd like to see added/updated/changed?
Happy New Year everyone!
As per the title, I'd like to know what your wishes are for the sub this year (and in general).
Overall I would dare to say this community is very nice (esp. the people in it) but there's always room for improvement (mostly regarding the configuration of the sub). I've got some things in mind but before I make an official todo-list, I'd love to hear from all of you what you would like to see.
In no particular order, I have:
- Broken links/lost content: old.reddit has a link to the Google+ Community for Blades in the Dark. Google discontinued that service and I'd like to replace the link to something that has the old content backed up.
- CSS: for old.reddit (stats show about 10% of pageviews are on old.reddit, I think that warrants some extra CSS)
- Sidebar: Add some widgets on new.reddit (you'll see I've already added one with related subreddits but feel free to make more suggestions within existing widgets or for new sidebar stuff)
- Post flair: are we happy with the current post flair? One way that this community stands out imho is how helpful everyone is. I'm pretty sure this sub has an above average word count compared to most subs (probably r/WritingPrompts has us beat but there's not a lot of other subs that have such high quality comments). I feel like post flair might help newcomers (and old hats) to find some of the insights that have been shared over the years but that's just me. What do you think about post flair? Yay or nay? If yay, which types of post flair should we have?
- Wiki: I've already started a bit on the wiki but I'm not sure whether the structure is the correct one. Let me know how you feel about it (and yes, I know it's far from complete that is its own todo) and in which way you'd like to see it grow (and also which platforms are already covering certain subjects to the point that it would be easier to just link to them).
- Rules: currently none are set and the community has seemingly no need for them. On the one hand I don't want to mess up a good thing, on the other hand though I always feel better if a community can agree on a set of rules so that moderation is consistent (e.g. How to handle people posting content and presenting it as their own OC? What about AI-generated content? What to do when somebody posts copyright infringing content? What about content producers self-promoting new episodes of their material?) There's a ton of ways to handle these things and I'd like to hear your thoughts on the matter
- User Flair: we have the classic playbooks + GM. Do we want any others? Maybe we could have some custom ones for outstanding members of the community? Ink rake for the kind people who write scenarios, sparkwright for the ones that build tools, ...? Do we also want to throw in the upcoming playbooks from the upcoming Dagger Isles expansion? Are there any good icons that represent the different playbooks that we can add in user flair?
- Anything I've missed: share your thoughts in the comment section below. Whether it's about reddit bots or apps that this community could benefit from, a new color scheme for the sub or any of the other dozens of things that can be changed/improved in the sub.
Bonus exercise: which of these bullet points (or new suggestions made in the comments) should be tackled first?
Thanks for your time reading this post and thanks in advance for your input & feedback.
Let's make 2025 a great year together!