Legacy: Publishing news on the site - instead of the forum

[GreekIdiot]

Hey everyone,

As part of the development of the Legacy Edition, i'm opening this up here instead of an announcement, just in case anyone has any feedback whatsoever on a concept I've been thinking as I'm tackling some upgrade problems with the API.

Concept:

1. Right now news are aggregated on the Terran Times at https://prtcy.com/news/ - this will remain
   
2. You will click a button and go to prtcy.com/news/create/ to write newspaper/media style public posts, not the forum
   there will be a clean editor with options like setting the publisher, backdating, categories and a nifty AI summary to confirm mentions, keywords and other things
   
3. Players will read articles on prtcy.com/news/item/{id}/ (i.e. 3759) instead of the forums - in a beautiful newspaper layout
   
4. Feeds will be available on prtcy.com/news/feed/ with filters (i.e. feed?nation=8 for amudim or feed?category=9 for culture)
   
5. A simple API will be available for players wishing to scrape/store/save articles on their own i.e. prtcy.com/news/api/{id}/
   

Also keep in mind that the more prtcy.com matures, the less information will be sent to Discord (i.e. instead of individual posts popping up on the #newsfeed, there will be a digest of a new "edition" of the Terran Times and a link to view on prtcy.com/news/digest/).

Same goes for things like docket notifications for mods (that's already happened somewhat).

[Zanz]

I hope we can really discuss why this is necessary, and if it's a good use of your time and efforts.

What's wrong with the forum?

[GreekIdiot]

I hope we can really discuss why this is necessary, and if it's a good use of your time and efforts.

What's wrong with the forum?

IMO absolutely nothing - I've been intending to do this for a while now as part of the game package itself, regardless of what recently happened. Not going to work on it now either. Thought I'd simply mention it since debate fired up recently.

[Zanz]

I am opposed to leaving the forum behind.

It allows searching. It allows easy copy paste and then editing of previous posts so I don't need to save off templates anywhere else. It already does all the things I want it to do, why should we ask you to reinvent a working wheel? There's nothing wrong with the forum. I'm fine with the rest of what you suggest here (a new edition rather than individual posts on discord), but I really think the forum should be the actual location that the underlying content is created and lives long term.

[GreekIdiot]

Appreciate the feedback.

Yeah think the distinction is quite clear: worldbuild on the site (library, requests, flags for nations, yada yada), roleplay on the forum. I'm more so repeating it for my sake as i'm currently trying to sync the API with the new stuff from the site and it's been a bit of a pain.

Edit: so the API needs parsing based on the forum - we keep the existing mechanisms - and needs storing based on the site (the schema).

[GreekIdiot]

(thinking more out loud here for my sake again sorry)

API doesn't work now. "settings" stuff moved from forum to site, new schema.

problem is forum has different schema.

so the question was which schema should the API follow. 

the answer is simple (now after our discussion) since roleplay is on forum, and worldbuilding is on the site, the schema should follow the latter because the context is from the site, and the content is from the forum. content* sits on top of context.

context = site, ergo the connecting schema should be site-based, as the API is a content (forum) gatherer for the site (context)

[Doc]

I am opposed to leaving the forum behind.

It allows searching. It allows easy copy paste and then editing of previous posts so I don't need to save off templates anywhere else. It already does all the things I want it to do, why should we ask you to reinvent a working wheel? There's nothing wrong with the forum. I'm fine with the rest of what you suggest here (a new edition rather than individual posts on discord), but I really think the forum should be the actual location that the underlying content is created and lives long term.

I agree with this.

The forum is easy to use, it took a ton of time to set up, and it allows searching for those who care about understanding past RP.

I'd be opposed to writing news articles on the site:  That would make it functionally the same as the Nations' page in Classic, which I never used for RP.

[GreekIdiot]

Well received. I'll focus on enhancing the existing methods of gameplay and we can circle back on anything in the future.

Syncing up the API might need some downtime, but we should be good.