We’re at the end of the first theme week here, and I’d like to get a sense of what you thought of it. What did you like, what would you change? What you like to see in the future?
I thought the “So what is…” posts you made were really great resources – it’d be great if you had a separate links page that collected them for easy access when they get pushed down by other posts. Something I’d definitely like to see is a clear tagging system, because right now there’s not a lot organizing the blog’s content. “Personal stories” (although I’m sure there’s a better way to name that tag), “resources” or “guides”, and “blog meta” might be good ones to start with?
Yeah, I was thinking about the kind of structure that should be here. The “So… What is _____, Anyway” posts seem like they could turn into an ace-friendly sex ed library if there’s enough of them on enough topics. I might even haul them over to Asexuality Archive at some point. I’m not sure yet. It doesn’t feel like they belong there, though.
Tagging is also definitely useful, although Tumblr doesn’t make that easy. (You have to post an ask, then you can tag it. You can’t tag it before you post it.)
@biggestdisappointmentinwarfare said: I could do with a summary post after a theme week. Or a master post of resources on the topic (where to find guides, toys, information). I like reading all the different experiences and learning that there are others with exactly the same problems, but yet are somehow different. Or solved differently.
Do you mean something like a weekly table of contents? Would better tagging help here?
@brin-bellway said: I really liked the informative posts, but it was also nice to see people connecting and sharing their experiences. I didn’t really participate myself, partly because of finals and illness (luckily in that order) and partly because I don’t do vanilla masturbation, and talking about solo kink before a kink overview seemed like putting the cart before the horse.
Yeah, that’s a problem with a topic that has many interconnections like this. I can imagine someone this week thinking the opposite, where they don’t want to talk about kink, because to them, it’s more masturbation than kink. How can I better encourage people to bring something up that might be relevant, even if a different theme might fit it more closely?
@brin-bellway said: Also, given that this posted at 3:40 AM Eastern, I suspect your queue is still having timezone issues.
Nah, that was just me posting after midnight.
“How can I better encourage people to bring something up that might be
relevant, even if a different theme might fit it more closely?”
Well, the problem wasn’t so much about it better fitting a different week as it was about better fitting a later week, or rather, the post would rely on a broader context that didn’t yet exist (at least not on asexualactivities). If something ends up working better for an earlier week, I might be able to use “last time on” links to post(s) from that week to give some context.
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Another thing: I know I was a voice in favour of Disqus, but now that I’ve considered actually leaving a comment, I find myself worried that nobody will see it. The number of Disqus comments on a post can’t be seen from the dash, or even the front page. It’s not like a Blogspot or a WordPress, where anyone reading the post is going to automatically see whether there are comments on it. As far as I can tell, it looks like you can’t get a side-wide comment subscription for sites you don’t moderate, which means that even if you use comment subscriptions, you have to manually check every post at least once (to subscribe to it) on the off chance somebody might comment there.
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