Hi guys, I haven’t really looked at the numbers, so pardon me if there are any errors, but I feel like there are less updates now compared to before the forum came out. Maybe an explanation for this is that there doesn’t need to be as many changes now compared to when Privacy Guides first came out.
At the same time, I feel that the community is more focused on critiquing the website and proposing changes, rather than actually working on implementing those changes. There’s a lot of suggestions, which there always was, but it just feels like people are waiting for the team to write up these changes, rather than help do the work themselves.
What do you guys think? For example: Do you think that the website needs more updates, but the forum prevents it somehow? If so, do you agree with the reasons I laid out? Do you think that the website’s update process is just fine? Do you think there needs to be a mission refocus, emphasizing communal help? Do you think the forum is the cause of the issue, but that the solution is to hire employees rather than looking at the community for help? Do you think the forum changed the process of maintaining the website negatively? Positively? Are the forum community issues and the website maintenance issues actually just correlational and not necessarily causal? etc.
I can’t say I have noticed the “website maintenance issues” you are bringing up, and I personally feel that there are more updates being done to the website compared to before the forum came out.
I also think that the quality of contributions to the main website has increased significantly, now that we have a central place to have discussions about the content beforehand.
Something I will say is that Privacy Guides will not be hiring employees to work on the website, and the employees we do have will be specifically instructed to not spend more than 10% of their work hours contributing to the main website, if they choose to contribute at all.
The people we are hiring will be working on supplemental content like videos, timely articles, social media outreach, extra courses/lessons, community management, etc.
Core content (i.e. the main website) will always be community and volunteer-driven first and foremost.
I agree. From what I’ve seen, although again highly subjective, I often see people proposing changes more than working on them compared to a few years ago. Although, I will clarify that proposing changes are appreciated as well. I don’t wanna discount them entirely, as that is pretty much the backbone to the website’s knowledge management and a prerequisite to writing out changes.
But again, I don’t have the numbers on that so I’m not asserting anything, just wondering how others see this situation. I am hoping I am incorrect!
I think it may just be the case that proposals are more visible now. And it is also very intentional that many proposals never make it on to the website in the first place
No point writing a PR that won’t be accepted. Its better to discuss and get approval here, so that’s why you see so many proposals. Additionally, frequency of change is not a measure of quality.
