I am curious about the nature of the new website. It seems to be
developing very . . casually. People are using "I" and "figured" for
posting in their blogs. Which is fine, but — blogs are the main
content of the site. And while it is beneficial to know the time
posted, knowing who posted it exposes the informality of the website.
I think that this is almost the community website people have been
trying to avoid. There is no language or appearance the targets
strictly end users. Nothing that says "this website is published by
the official Haiku (nonprofit) company". I think we should try to
eliminate traces of informality by writing or editing content using
formal diction. No more jokes in status updates. No off-topic
information in official newsletters or content. And no showing of any
user names (unless perhaps the user name is their full, capitalized,
unabbreviated name . . and even still, it is less professional). Is
this website going to be a mozilla.com or a spreadfirefox.com. We
probably need both — but they need to have some separation. Either by
section on a site or by a sub-domain. Maybe its just me, maybe I
visualize a corporate identity for Haiku that no one else wants. But,
thats my 2 cents.
- Austin
