Young Writers Society

Over the next couple weeks, there will be a steady phase-out of groups and all current groups will be converted into Pages. As part of the conversion process, all discussion topics will be kept; your group is not going to lose any data whatsoever.

Why are we doing this? The groups section is now redundant with the pages section, and the pages section offers more features. For one, a page admin can send out a newsletter to everyone subscribed to that page. For another, pages have profile walls that make discussion easier among people who have a shared interest.

Plus, most importantly, pages enable YWS to have unlimited groups. Part of the problem with the current system is that there's a limit to the number of forums YWS can have. Once we get to that limit of 1000, the site will stop functioning correctly. We're already at around 600 forums believe it or not.

So with that said, here's the three stage plan:

1. Stop creating new groups. This has already been happening as only one group has been created in the past two months.

2. Delete inactive groups. Any group with no activity in the past three months will be archived. After another few months, it will be deleted if no one claims it.

3. Convert the remaining groups to pages. This will be done on my end.


If you have a group, and you do not want it converted to a page, please let me know asap via private message (not through my wall, not through this thread, but through private message). If your group is very active, we may work something else out.

Also, many groups already have pages. If you know this is the case then please let me know through this thread. It'll make the conversion process different, although all discussions will be kept.

Additionally, if you can think of any changes to the pages system to make all this easier, it'd be appreciated. Some slated updates are to include the ability to have multiple admins, enable replying to page announcements through your feed, and to tie in page discussions into the 'View new posts' search.

This is awesome! Thanks Nate.

Woot!
Blinking Cursor has both a group and a YWS page.

Also, now that I think of it, The Completely Evil Plan has a page -- Spun Yarn.

I like this plan. The redundancy of both pages and groups had already struck me and I like the page format much more.

I just have a suggestion for The Double Trouble Writing Huddle group. What if it was turned into a Sub Forum in Storybooks?

Awesome! This would have worked well for a few groups that I've been a part of.

Bolt wrote:I just have a suggestion for The Double Trouble Writing Huddle group. What if it was turned into a Sub Forum in Storybooks?

I like this idea. The group can be a bit stale, and the way it's set up there shouldn't be any stories being crashed by people wanting to be in an already full story. It's basically a version of the storybook forum anyway.

Wow, Bolt can actually be useful at times.

Bolt wrote:I just have a suggestion for The Double Trouble Writing Huddle group. What if it was turned into a Sub Forum in Storybooks?

I agree that this could work really well.

Hogwarts/Harry Potter has a group and a page.

Ranger's Apprentice fans has a group (made by me) and a page (made by IsebellaLynnette). Hope that doesn't complicate things, and I'm totally fine with Isebella being the admin of the page.

Suggestion 1: The ability to link to Discussion Board topics individually. The nice thing about the Groups was that each thread could be separately linked, but it doesn't seem to be the case for Pages.

Suggestion 2: In conjunction with S1, make the Info page the default tab for Pages. That way, important information (like the Page rules) would be the first thing that anyone sees upon visiting the Page.

Great idea! =D Flyleaf Fans has a page as well.