Board Thread:Setting Things Up/@comment-4023106-20130624230635/@comment-4023106-20130730193747

A few things!

So I posted this recently and have meddled with the ficbox according to cqm's tips. I believe I've got everything working, but if you have time, maybe you could take a look over the changes I made to Template:Ficbox and check that I didn't do anything monumentally stupid? :)

I also got serasuna's permission to copy the fanfiction site list linked in the /r/HPfanfiction sidebar, so that's right over at Fanfiction archives, forums, and sites. Still needs work; I plan on going over all of the listed sites and removing any that are really shitty, outdated, dead, etc., and then adding in more sites and resources (such as Bulwersator's excel file of the top FF.net fics, rec lists, stuff like that). I'm still unsure if I like the format I've chosen... sort of TV Tropes-esque. I think it might work if it's just the one page, but it does have the potential to get messy. Any ideas on what a better method might be? And also -- if you've got any comments to add, please do so! It feels weird seeing nothing but my own opinions on the entire page :p

And finally... I don't know, do you think we're almost ready to go public? Or is there more that you want to do before declaring this place open for business?

All I personally hope to do before opening up is to get the archives/sites/links page to a presentable state, make a few of the requested themed lists, and perhaps reach 100 total fics. I think it'd be nice to have at least one fic in as many categories as possible, but without more people I just don't think we can do that. I'll keep working on it, but my tastes are just so restricted that I've got very few recommendations! And I guess there is still the "quality fics" and "featured fics" stuff, but I have zero ideas on how to implement that. I'd be OK with either figuring that out now so it's in place when we make an announcement, or with waiting to see whether people even want those features before trying to come up with something.