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We've acquired a couple of domains relevant to IU that may be useful and was wondering whether people thought making IU more independent from Mandalorian (although it is pretty independent as it is) would be worthwhile.
Three questions to the IU community:
1) Do you think switching to a non-mandalorian.com domain encourage people to interact more with the community?
2) Do you think moving from slinkset to something else (such as the reddit codebase) would make things better/worse/easier?
The reason for question 2 is more about control over spam than anything else, although moving to another codebase would probably mean people would have to re-register accounts.
3) Are there any killer features you think IU needs, or are things good enough as they are?
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my tuppence worth....
1) Domain name doesn't really make any difference to me, but something related to the topic might improve the chance of catching passing traffic.
2) Can you get any easier than this?
3) I can't think of any additional features, it does what it says on the tin, what more do you need?
1) The Mandalorian subdomain doesn't put me off and as far as I'm aware there have been no posts deleted due to being hosted by a competitor. (Unless they're blatantly peddling their wares I guess). A "securitynews.com" type domain could increase traffic on the other hand..
2) Autospam killing would be good for the admins, doesn't really bother me though as I don't have to go through deleting things ;o) Getting users to re-register may require another burst of advertising/hassling people to do so which may drop numbers.
3) Personally I think the site works quite well.. a few thumbnails of "top" stories could be useful to grab attention but then again would probably slow the site down.. hmm. On the whole the site is laid out well and easy to post to, can't go wrong with that.
1) I'll stay out of this discussion, thanks - don't want to influence it unfairly. I will say that IU's always been a Mandalorian project that's generally independent, and I've always encouraged competitors et al to post links to their own stuff. We have heaps of links to portcullis, corsaire et al and I think that's a good thing (tm).
2) Auto-spam kill would be good. Subreddits and tagging would also be good
3) More users posting :) The above is nice to have but not essential IMHO.