Hey guys. There's been a buttload of activity on HLP the last couple of weeks, which has been great. Part of that activity is the HLP 2.0 content submission system. From the stuff that's been submitted over the past few days, I'd like to give you guys some comments on how to use it better.
- If you want to just post news on the front page, scroll down to the bottom of the front page and find "submit content". Hit that, and when you're asked for the category, put it under Home - News. Anywhere else, it'll end up buried somewhere in the site.
- Choose appropriate projects to post your news under. If you can't think of which one to put it under, just leave it as-is, and it will post with the HLP logo.
- Provide links. Lots. Please.
- Make your news posts brief. The front page is only meant to provide summaries of the real news, and to point to its source. Anything underneath about 150 words should be fine.
- If you don't know how to use HTML to make links and such, either learn HTML or PM an admin (like me) and ask them to post the news for you.
- If you are having problems logging in, but still want to submit something, provide some way in the submission for us to identify you. Your name, your email, anything. When we receive complaints about login problems that have no names attached to them, we can't do anything about them because we don't know who's posting. Please identify yourself.
- Rate stuff. The rating system only works if people use it.
- Use it lots. :D
That's pretty much all I can think of. Those points needed to be addressed, especially the one about identifying yourself in complaints. If anyone has anymore questions, ask here. :nod:
