With support section, I think splitting Docker into different sub-category would be helpful. Many of the simple questions asked have completely different answers when it comes to bare metal and Docker, and it can just end up wasting a bunch of time if not specified in the initial post.
I would also like to have a dedicated section for Plugins/other 3rd party tools, where each plugin/tool could have a dedicated post instead of them being under general “Plugin support”. It would make it a lot more organized.
Having more usage tailor sections also would allow us to promote contributors to “moderator” role of those specific sections.
I agree with having a dedicated section for StashDB.
I think as a baseline, this looks okay, but it’s hard to say how I feel once people start using it. The major difference between Discourse and Discord is that we can easily move stuff posted in incorrect categories, so organization should be a lot easier.
Great feedback. I’ve added Docker support to the Support category and added a top-level Plugins and 3rd Party Tools category, in the original post.
Regarding backers: yes, we probably should add some sort of backer section. I will probably start with a top-level Backers category, and we can expand into sub-categories as the need arises.
As an aside, the process of maintaining the backer list is onerous and time-consuming to maintain and this will require an additional place to maintain backer status, unless we can somehow link Discord and Discourse accounts via webhook or something, which is probably not ideal anyway. I currently maintain a local spreadsheet matching txn numbers with Discord accounts and check monthly for canceled transactions. This is probably something for a staff discussion, but I’m open to ideas as to how to improve this process.
unless we can somehow link Discord and Discourse accounts via webhook or something
Since OpenCollective is relatively transparent, Collectives | Open Collective Docs tracking backers and cancelled subscriptions can be made much easier once you associate the discord user to the MemberID. If there’s any interest I can try whipping up a POC
I can see the value in having a general plugin development sub-category, my two cents would be to move it to sit under Plugins, rather than Development. It makes sense to me to have everything plugin-related under that category, as it’s a different beast to Stash development.
I very much like the idea of having a dedicated support thread for each plugin, that will make it a lot easier to track.
Is meant more as index for all the available plugins. With the idea of it eventually replacing plugin list on Stash-Docs. I updated category description to better represent that. It’s also limited in who can create a new topic.
The other category is for all the discussions. The naming and placement is definitely not final, so feedback is appreciated.
On Discord I have found there is a lot of overlap in the topics between Ministry of Truth and StashDB-General, almost making the distinction moot at times. Has anyone else shared that perception?
If this platform works better with less categories or is better at partitioning topics, consider consolidating Ministry of Truth into the StashBB category.
I’m thinking that StashDB-General should be for the usual quick questions etc & Ministry of truth can be the “Bible/Library” for threads explaining why certain approaches are taken for some studios even if the guidelines in general make them questionable.
And a longform guide of how to successfully shoehorn JAV into StashDB
@Ronnie711 That is probably a better suggestion than mine. Maybe the category description could better reflect your suggestion though if it’s adopted.
Definitely. To make that separation more clear posting to Ministry of Truth is limited to people that are StashDB Editors, while everyone can read it. How do people feel about this?
move Development -> Plugins to Plugins -> Plugin Development
rename Development -> Scrapers to Development -> Scraper Development
@DogmaDragon can you confirm if you’re happy with the above and one of us can do the changes.
Fair question. For a scraper that performs more like a tool, I’m thinking that it probably belongs under Plugins -> Other Tools with a scraper tag. Happy to hear other proposals though.
