Site Updates & Changes
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RE: The ParkFans Network: Site Updates & Changes
The ParkFans Landing page has been fixed.
Check it out: http://parkfans.net
The ParkFans Landing page has been fixed.
Check it out: http://parkfans.net
RE: The ParkFans Network: Site Updates & Changes
stay tuned...
stay tuned...
RE: The ParkFans Network: Site Updates & Changes
So today we announced that The BGT Buzz and The ParkFans Network were going to join forces. Everyone seems thrilled about the partnership, but a few of our members have already started asking me the same questions...
First Off: Why is The BGT Buzz an affiliate? Why isn't Viktor a Park Manager?
The simple answer: We've discovered that running blogs from afar, in practice, is next to impossible.
A few years ago Shane and I conceived the "Park Manager" setup and began to lay the structural groundwork for The ParkFans Network. Each park we covered was to have a __Fans branded website with custom art assets, a cohesive and familiar site layout, a dedicated hyper-specific color scheme, and a custom themed area of the conjoined ParkFans Network Forum. To get started, each park we'd officially cover would have a dedicated writer who would be given charge over their section of the forum. At the time it sounded like a fantastic concept and, honestly, it even worked for a little while. Unfortunately though, looking back on how Shane and I set it all up, I realize that it was always destined for failure.
Over the last few months, Nicole, Gavin, and I have been trying to figure out where ParkFans goes from here. The first thing we needed to do was to identify the problems with the previous structure. I think the weaknesses Shane and I failed to identify during the original conceptual stages of the creation of The ParkFans Network are as follows:
So today we announced that The BGT Buzz and The ParkFans Network were going to join forces. Everyone seems thrilled about the partnership, but a few of our members have already started asking me the same questions...
First Off: Why is The BGT Buzz an affiliate? Why isn't Viktor a Park Manager?
The simple answer: We've discovered that running blogs from afar, in practice, is next to impossible.
A few years ago Shane and I conceived the "Park Manager" setup and began to lay the structural groundwork for The ParkFans Network. Each park we covered was to have a __Fans branded website with custom art assets, a cohesive and familiar site layout, a dedicated hyper-specific color scheme, and a custom themed area of the conjoined ParkFans Network Forum. To get started, each park we'd officially cover would have a dedicated writer who would be given charge over their section of the forum. At the time it sounded like a fantastic concept and, honestly, it even worked for a little while. Unfortunately though, looking back on how Shane and I set it all up, I realize that it was always destined for failure.
Over the last few months, Nicole, Gavin, and I have been trying to figure out where ParkFans goes from here. The first thing we needed to do was to identify the problems with the previous structure. I think the weaknesses Shane and I failed to identify during the original conceptual stages of the creation of The ParkFans Network are as follows:
- Anyone writing or doing any other work for an entity like ParkFans is a volunteer. As such, they will come and go. Relying on one single volunteer for the stability of a community is a disaster waiting to happen. Under the original system, if a Park Manager left, the community was left high and dry. We need to find a way to diversify our information sources so that a situation like that doesn't happen.
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
A little consolidation has occurred at the bottom of the index page.
Obsolete subfora have been removed (read: PFN Wiki) and the General Discussion board has been assimilated into the ParkFans section. Also, more references to "The ParkFans Forums" have been removed. The official branding is "The ParkFans Forum" and anywhere a plural form of "forum" is necessary, "fora" will be used.
Anyway, very minor changes. Biggest thing is that General Discussion still exists- it has just moved a few lines up.
A little consolidation has occurred at the bottom of the index page.
Obsolete subfora have been removed (read: PFN Wiki) and the General Discussion board has been assimilated into the ParkFans section. Also, more references to "The ParkFans Forums" have been removed. The official branding is "The ParkFans Forum" and anywhere a plural form of "forum" is necessary, "fora" will be used.
Anyway, very minor changes. Biggest thing is that General Discussion still exists- it has just moved a few lines up.
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
I miss the icons at the top.
I miss the icons at the top.
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
The most requested feature in ParkFans history: Color.
There are concepts. Brighter times are ahead.
The most requested feature in ParkFans history: Color.
There are concepts. Brighter times are ahead.
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
"Gray would be the color, if I had a heart."
"Gray would be the color, if I had a heart."
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
I miss the ability to choose your own accent color...
I miss the ability to choose your own accent color...
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
Go to Preferences - Edit Options - Other Options and you can switch to previous versions of the forums. Beware though, they might be crawling with bugs considering I doubt those versions don't get any fixes anymore.
Curious as to what sparked this change. I mean come one, many aren't well versed in latin. Or perhaps we might be trying to be more classier and educated than say The Guardian (2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner) or he New York Times maybe.
I know it isn't wrong and actually both words are correct and accurate to use, but still the word seems ancient, elitist, and almost to an extent really snobbish.
Go to Preferences - Edit Options - Other Options and you can switch to previous versions of the forums. Beware though, they might be crawling with bugs considering I doubt those versions don't get any fixes anymore.
Zachary said:
Curious as to what sparked this change. I mean come one, many aren't well versed in latin. Or perhaps we might be trying to be more classier and educated than say The Guardian (2014 Pulitzer Prize Winner) or he New York Times maybe.
I know it isn't wrong and actually both words are correct and accurate to use, but still the word seems ancient, elitist, and almost to an extent really snobbish.
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Hasn't ParkFans always been elitist and snobbish?
Hasn't ParkFans always been elitist and snobbish?
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
Proper grammar =/= "really snobbish"
Just sayin'.
Proper grammar =/= "really snobbish"
Just sayin'.
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
I think we should start wishing employees happy birthday on our Facebook page. We'd be really professional and snobbish then.
Thomas said:
I think we should start wishing employees happy birthday on our Facebook page. We'd be really professional and snobbish then.
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
Forums is proper grammar. You can use either forums or fora, but fora is ignored and not widely used. It is more likely to be used in academic journals versus many books, newspapers, magazines, or even other forums on the web.
I'm saying it was a unnecessary change considering both forums and fora are proper grammar.
Joe said:
Forums is proper grammar. You can use either forums or fora, but fora is ignored and not widely used. It is more likely to be used in academic journals versus many books, newspapers, magazines, or even other forums on the web.
I'm saying it was a unnecessary change considering both forums and fora are proper grammar.
RE: ParkFans.net: Site Updates & Changes
If they're both correct, then the only thing here that is unnecessary is your bitching.
If they're both correct, then the only thing here that is unnecessary is your bitching.
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In academia the term fora is preferred. So I expect then that academia is ancient, elitist and snobbish.
So what you are saying is, if you speak eloquently you are an elitist snob. Fair enough, that is a very common view by much of the proletariat these days.
Issac Asimov (an author of books, which can be found in libraries within academia as well as other places) once said:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980)
I can see that he is right.
Party Rocker said:
In academia the term fora is preferred. So I expect then that academia is ancient, elitist and snobbish.
So what you are saying is, if you speak eloquently you are an elitist snob. Fair enough, that is a very common view by much of the proletariat these days.
Issac Asimov (an author of books, which can be found in libraries within academia as well as other places) once said:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980)
I can see that he is right.