I submit for your consideration, some upcoming changes (mostly minor):
- Pages renamed to Clubs. This is more in line with what people are creating them for, and Clubs sounds better.
- Groups will be removed. This is happening in the next week. Active groups will be turned into Clubs.
- Remove the News section. Unfortunately, it's not working out. Twas a good experiment though.
- Read / Write renamed to just Read
- Submit link added to header
- About moved to footer
- Chat Wall removed
- Writing Gooder removed/replaced with offical YWS blog.
- Resources link removed, 101 Tips for Writers moved to under the YWS button. This means both the poetry and short story databases would be cut.
- Remove Interactive Stories. Another good experiment, but one that's not working out.
- Remove Sudoku.
- Add storybooks link to header
All of these are fairly minor changes, and most have already been announced. But collectively, they're somewhat major. The purpose is to first make YWS easier to navigate; that's why the Submit and Storybook links are being moved from a sub-menu to the main menu. The second purpose is to shed off redundancies; that's why Groups are being replaced by Pages/Clubs. The third purpose is to cull the stuff that doesn't attract much interest, such as the 'Fun' section and the News section.
The goal here is to make YWS simpler and more accessible. Additionally, the changes above should strengthen the writing side of YWS. After all is said and done, four links in the header will be about writing (Blogs, Read, Storybooks, Submit). The remaining three links would be Clubs, Community, and My YWS.
There are more changes I'm planning, but most of it is fairly far off. The above I plan on doing over the next few weeks.
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