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Old 2014.04.23, 10:28 PM   #3
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Different kinds of site maintenance, ranked by urgency:
1.) Dealing with the webhosting company in whatever manner is necessary to keep the site online (most commonly involves paying them, but occasionally requires opening up a support ticket).
2.) Keeping the site devoid of spam.
3.) Editing/Removing the posts or users which are a hazard to this site in other ways (this is lower-urgency than spam because it does more harm and less good to be hasty with this kind of decision)
4.) Keeping the sub-forums (such as News or Products) 'current'.
5.) Converting the image links people post, into Attachments, before the source expires somehow.

When staff are short on time, the lower-ranking maintenance activities are what gets neglected. frecklegirl and I are each coincidentally in transitional periods within our own lives, and she was the one handling pretty much all of #4. I do most of the #5 (even while #4 is neglected - I can sorta just auto-pilot my way through #5), but I've barely been doing it recently.

I haven't been unaware of the scale of the neglect, and it's not going to stay that big throughout the life of the site, nor is the site disappearing anytime soon. Can't give you a realistic ETA because there's an even bigger backlog of unresolved issues in my offline life right now, and I think we should lay off of frecklegirl regarding the site's backlog, because she's already done so much before it got this bad. The Product board was my idea before there was ever any plan to launch EMF, an idea which was rejected by the previous administration, so it should ultimately be my responsibility, and we shouldn't be taking frecklegirl for granted at all.

I don't mind if NIMH Rat wants to step up in his own way. The most important thing is to have the threads, to have them indexed, and to move the news replies which really would've been in those product threads if the appropriate product thread had already existed at the time. The 'formatting' can be fixed later.
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