[Dev] Website Maintenance / Design / GitHub

wrapper

@Cookieboy Thanks for that very interesting and forward looking idea, to make the web site open source.

I need to look into more but : first thought.

We need to “self host”, to ensure (a minimum level) security, because of minimizing potential responsibility issues (like with software build security policy).

FTC Web site Admin overview currently
Hardware - Self host - Admin / Member
Server Operating System - Admin Member
Forum Admin - Forum Members
Forum Moderators / Contributers / Forum Members

We could have both, for the time being and I would certainly propose that as a mirror / backup solution to ensure 99.99% availability of web site?

I think the web services API, ABE, stats etc are the more interesting things to expand and wouldn’t be available.

Wellenreiter

@Cookieboy said in [Dev] Website Maintenance / Design / GitHub:

But, by moving it to pages.github.com, we negate the need for server hosting, as well as managing one more server (which I suspect @Wellenreiter is running)

The servers are leased by Uncle_muddy and operated by muddy, MrWrym, Wrapper myself and some others.

We use the server for several other tasks, so moving the web site to pages.github.com would not change the number of servers we need to operate.

Nevertheless I’m open to anything, but can’t really drive that move due to other tasks.

The website is lacking continuous maintenance and if you find 7 pages only, the site is not really intuitive, as we have at least 20 older newsletters stored and available there.

My fear is, that even if we move the site, we will face the maintenance/content update problem again and end up in a similar situation again.

RIPPEDDRAGON

@Wellenreiter I know I would contribute if it was easier for me to access. Would probably depend on how rotten my brain feels after working all day for a startup’s website.

hal

@Wellenreiter said in [Dev] Website Maintenance / Design / GitHub:

@Cookieboy said in [Dev] Website Maintenance / Design / GitHub:

But, by moving it to pages.github.com, we negate the need for server hosting, as well as managing one more server (which I suspect @Wellenreiter is running)

The servers are leased by Uncle_muddy and operated by muddy, MrWrym, Wrapper myself and some others.

We use the server for several other tasks, so moving the web site to pages.github.com would not change the number of servers we need to operate.

Nevertheless I’m open to anything, but can’t really drive that move due to other tasks.

The website is lacking continuous maintenance and if you find 7 pages only, the site is not really intuitive, as we have at least 20 older newsletters stored and available there.

My fear is, that even if we move the site, we will face the maintenance/content update problem again and end up in a similar situation again.

FTC has a newsletter? Where can i sign up?

Wellenreiter

It had.
Unfortunately the guy maintaining it left the community and we don’t have it anymore. When I mentioned the newsletters, I was referring to the archived ones only.

hal

Is the “infrastructure” so to speak still in place? For someone to pick up from where the guy left off?

Wellenreiter

@hal
Well, the infrastructure is just the website and the templates for the newsletter, so If someone would pick up the newsletter creation, we just need to grant write access to the site.

hal

So the newsletter is created through the website and not through someother 3rd party service like mailchimp? I think it be a good idea to send out a newsletter sometime soon to drum up a bit of interest of people who are on the list but havent posted in a while especially since we are approaching halving etc. In a week when im back off hols I can help get one out, however would need the help of someone to write it to make sure everything is covered etc and spelt correctly.

Cheers.

Wellenreiter

The newsletter actually was not sent out as email, as we didn’t want to spam peoples inboxes.
Instead, we placed the newsletters on the website and posted the link on twitter and facebook

hal

I understand about not wanting to spam people however if we were to use double opt in and send out a mail once every two weeks / month I dont think that would be considered spamming. There would always be the option to unsubscribe easily too. I bet there are a number of users who are intrested in FTC but life just gets in the way etc. A friendly reminder that it still exists and upcoming exciting things might help drive more people to the site and get people wanting to contribute or even start convos with friends etc just in the way that social media do too. Just a thought though. Either way I recon we need to put out a news letter (via email or just on the website) about halving! :D

wrapper

We’re reviewing the links on the FTC graphics page.
https://www.feathercoin.com/feathercoin-graphic-resources/

I note @iawgoM was maintaining the old site, we need to update that link,
I’m suggesting to @AmDD temporarily as he’s doing some maintenance currently and can change it later …

We’ve been discussing ways forward on possibly auto directing such to a support ticket.
Then work towards - Support address to “FTC Web Site template” Github site issues page? On FTC official github site?

wrapper

There is a newbie question about alternative languages on the web site. What is the website programmed in and does it it have a standard way of doing alternate language text?

Cookieboy

@wrapper Yes, we are exploring re-writing the site using a markdown editor called Jekyll, and if we use it, then multiple languages is a complete possibility. Members of the community can translate the markdown pages and we can have various languages as needed.

wrapper

Web site issues:

Can’t find a link to merchant tools (with the FTC icons), should it be in web site drop down

Any other pages not linked?

https://www.feathercoin.com/feathercoin-graphic-resources/

The Feathercoin Logo has also been updated to FTC colours in Feathercoin 0.9.6 could be added to resources? needs review:

https://github.com/FeatherCoin/Feathercoin/blob/0.9.6/src/qt/res/icons/bitcoin.png

Danlau

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this however I just wanted to make you aware that the FaceBook link on the home page takes you to a non existent page.

wrapper

Cheers, it might be @chekaz handling FaceBook. I think @AmDD is dealing with minor forum mods at the moment, I think he’s around to have a look at it.

AmDD

@wrapper said in [Dev] Website Maintenance / Design / GitHub:

Cheers, it might be @chekaz handling FaceBook. I think @AmDD is dealing with minor forum mods at the moment, I think he’s around to have a look at it.

Some parts of the website I do not have access to. I cant change the facebook link, @ChekaZ will have to make that edit.

wrapper

It might be worth running mattermost, for task based discussions or projects. That gets over the problems of slack, not being self hosted or open source.

https://about.mattermost.com/

joshvdavis

Hey everyone, I’ve been meaning to post here for a while. I’ve been working with @Cookieboy on getting it up and running but had some family matters that needed to be attended to, I’m hopeful to have the architecture and design finished up before the end of the month. As all of you probably know, we’re building it on GitHub so once it’s up we will have the community hop in and hello is fine time the content.

joshvdavis

@joshvdavis I mean, help us fine tune the content, #autocorrect