Experiment with dev blog

[Simbax]

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» Simbax:
I'm wondering... I have a question for all of you (not TT members), if there would be a development blog, what would you like to read there except of announcements of new releases? What would you find interesting and making the dev blog worth following?
04 Mar 09:58
» True Destroyer:
information on current tasks like each month, future update plans, if there's nothing to post a brief description of ideas and encountered problems witha screen or two. Also I didn't notice the facebook profile as I was sure it was not for the refreshed Gold Edition (by just looking at the miniature). Also it doesnt show up as suggestion when searched on fb for me, which is weird i guess?
04 Mar 10:07
» True Destroyer:
nvm it shows just below 3 other random "colobot" fan pages
04 Mar 10:08
» tomaszkax86:
A dev blog would be a cool idea, you could put there what you implemented and how.
04 Mar 13:36
» tomaszkax86:
There's a development blog for Dwarf Fortress, people can follow features implemented and changed so far, but also problems the developer came across.
04 Mar 13:37
» Simbax:
Yeah, many things we tried to do were supposed to be cool... I would like to see a dev blog for Colobot too, however I'm afraid it might be dead before it even begins.
04 Mar 14:08
» Simbax:
I have an idea. Give every TerranovaTeam member a permission to add blog posts on the main page (if someone doesn't have them already) and let's just let the developers write anything they want once in a while. This way we won't have to create a new website just for a blog and also we will see if the idea would take off.
04 Mar 14:13
» Simbax:
And I still can't stand that there is no comment section under news! Am I seriously the only one who hates that?
04 Mar 14:16
» tomaszkax86:
If you give me permission to add blog posts, I can write about what I'm doing and what needs to be done. Just... not right now cause I'm somewhat busy.
04 Mar 14:19
» tomaszkax86:
Next week I should have enough free time to work on graphics
04 Mar 14:19
» Simbax:
Oh, and to encourage more people to this initiative -- I think it's ok to not care about the chosen language in this kind of posts, so feel free to write in Polish if you want and don't worry about translations.
04 Mar 14:19
» tomaszkax86:
I'm fine with English
04 Mar 14:20
» Simbax:
@tomaszkax86 I'm fine too, but I'm pretty sure that some of us would be more comfortable if they could write in Polish. If they don't feel like they want to expose their "bad English" on the main page, then why not let them just write in Polish. These posts will be a little personal any way, everyone has got his own writing style.
04 Mar 14:23
» Simbax:
We'll surely need to add an information about who posted each post and add some tags for that, to distinguish between developer's posts and official announcements.
04 Mar 14:24

To summarise:

• Development blog seems to be something that some people would like to see (I encourage to state your own opinion here).
  
• We should test if this idea would work. I propose using our main page. Give every member of TerranovaTeam the permission to post and then we (TT) shall write whatever, however, whenever we want (of course connected with the Colobot franchise). Good idea or not?
  
• The dev blog would be in real many dev blogs connected by one project. No redaction, no translations (unless someone wants to), no force, no cohesion. If developer wants to write about something, he just writes it and publish it. It doesn't have to be in English.
  
• There should be a separate tags/categories for official news and blog posts and the author's name should be listed below the post's content along with the date of publication and so on.
  

Note from me: who wants feedback from people? Everyone wants feedback from people! Give a life to our empty and dead main page by adding the comment section! Please, say that I'm not the only one who wants that :/