Isn't it exciting building an open source platform out of nothing?
We've re-thought the Assignment Desk to show the entire story on one page. That was pretty cool.
Then we took a good long hard look at our front page and asked "what is this page for?"
To give you the latest news in the site. True. But with the topic home pages, one for every subject we are covering, that's where the changes will be really happening.
Every topic has (or will soon) an editor. That's where the action is. We don't want to keep you on the "scoop" more than we have to (and we know you don't want to be there -- you want to get going on a topic).
So we've combined the assignment desk and the scoop into one page. It's a tight squeeze and it isn't as pretty, we know. But the old newsroom is still around. You can always visit it here. Note the nifty url...hehe. And we think this view is much more functional.
Of course -- this is everyone's site. If we get massive protest we will change it back. But before you leave a hateful comment -- think about functionality. From one page you can get the latest blog posts from the scoop -- and jump right into the story. If you want to see the editors blogroll -- go to the About page -- and visit "The Team" page. The same information is on the site -- and the most important information is now all on the front page -- info from the scoop -- and the evolving story itself. Me and Amanda will be cleaning up the other pages over the next 24 hours. I'll also be tweaking our new Assignment Desk -- which is directly underneath the latest blog post on the front page -- hot dog.
Note: as of writing this the "Assignment Desk" is still in the navigation. It will remain there until our AMAZING developers forward the existing links out there back to the home page --- only then will it be safe to dismantle that navigation bar.
The goal is to create teams. So go to a topic (the list is right below the latest blog post on the homepage) and join a team. Editors are standing by.
Much Love
David
aka: Digidave
bug report, re Tracker and Recent Activities
Hello David -
I submitted some content yesterday to
http://zero.newassignment.net/assignmentzero/what_should_we_know_about_wales (in 'talk through reporting with others; I would have put it under 'filed reporting' but we can't do so without "joining the team" and I didn't want to _join_ the team, just help it) -
but these submissions don't show up in the Tracker or in my own Recent Activities.
so in short here's the issue: i would like what i added to be visible so it can be helpful, but am not sure how to do that in a way that doesn't make me feel like i'm signing up for more than i feel comfortable about signing up for...)
Same problem...
I had someone throw me a great crowd-art link in e-mail and I couldn't file it without joining their team -- so I just joined it. Saying that I was joining the team didn't feel like a marriage on my part, more of a flirtation.