I agree with Pix and pretty much everyone else, it seems.
In other news: Delurking thread?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
Stompy Emerita: ita, DXMachina
I agree with Pix and pretty much everyone else, it seems.
In other news: Delurking thread?
Looks like Delurking is actually still open from last year.
Oh, right, October! Hooray delurking!
I'm very much in favor of keeping the FB group auxiliary and "secret", so far as I understand FB's use of secret/open/closed. I'm also in favor of fixing the registration, or finding a workaround to allow for new registrations in some manner. I have no idea how to do that, of course, but if it's something that could be managed manually as a stopgap I wouldn't mind doing something to help with that.
What amych said.
Sorry about new user registration being broken. Once the new board is up, that will be fixed. Unfortunately, I'm working nearly solo on a critical project at work that's taking up the time I need to be spending on my other critical project at work.
It is has broken for a very long time, don't feel any pressure here. We really appreciate your help, Gud.
Don't mean to put pressure on you, Gud! It's not really your responsibility, and I appreciate you putting in so much effort. I really just wanted to put forth the idea that if there is a workaround that requires some sort of low tech work, I'd be happy to help.
Secret FB group - yes. It's an extension of the board and should be invite-only.
I agree with what seems to be the general consensus. FB group should be Secret and continue to be used as an annex to the main Board. I'm not comfortable with our FB group being visible to all of FB, nor with taking in new members randomly through FB.
I don't want to miss out on cool new people, either, though, so as long as our New Users function is borked, I'd support a brief questionnaire or some other screening tool for potential new members through FB, if that's what others want also.
With it marked Secret no one will see it unless one of us invites them in. It won't be a suggested group for people anymore.