The design of the site isn't what has been responsible for driving a lot of dedicated editors and general contributors away, it's the bugs. The site is nearly a year old and it seems no one paid to work here has noticed this.jchamberlinIt's quite a coincidence, isn't it? It also proves that I'm right about this subject. Get more QA people to focus on this site, and you'll see more big contributors stick around. This is also an issue the staff has to bring up to their superiors/supervisors. The only reason people come to this site is because of the content and the people who provide the content, us. No content means no site. No site means you'll have to find employment elsewhere, so if you need a selfish reason, think of your own pocketbook.
Every few months...
by jchamberlin on Comments
Every few months we lose a few big contributors for one reason or another, and 95% of the time it's because of bugs which have yet to be squashed. It looks like we're losing The_Unknown2 and The_Huntsman, which is another big shock to the site. I was pretty surprised when I read The_Huntsman's blog about his reasons for leaving (for the most part). Any staff member threatening to ban someone for merely being persistent in his questioning of icons should be punished, plain and simple. Will this happen? I seriously doubt it, unfortunately. While we're on the subject of staff, I'd like to apologize to freaksngeeks. I know it may have seemed that I was singling him out, but that wasn't exactly my intent, but rather raise attention to the fact that the site didn't have enough bugs worked out before going live. In my eyes, I never got a satisfactory answer to this subject, but it looks like more of the bugs are getting fixed now. CybertronR has been quite active in the Technical Support Forum over the past few days, squashing several of the bugs which have come about since the style was introduced. My only wish is the staff had a public bug list so that we knew what was logged and what wasn't. This is needed for not only the new bugs, but bugs which have been around for several weeks and months. When a bug has been around for a certain period of time, you can't help but wonder if the staff knows about the bug. Being unsure means another forum post or another private message to the staff, and you're really not sure which ones are being read unless someone responds to them. The issue of bugs brings us right around to to what I mentioned at the start of this blog, and brought up the other day.