Timeline for What should be next for community events?
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| Oct 1, 2023 at 7:34 | comment | added | iBug says Reinstate Monica | Another point of that story is, maybe we don't need to limit that to userscripts, but we can include userstyles as well. Besides, a number of these websites offers a setting "custom CSS", where the website stores and delivers it for you, so that everyone can have their own taste without much hassle (Tampermonkey or Userstyle). | |
| Oct 1, 2023 at 7:32 | comment | added | iBug says Reinstate Monica | In another website community where I participate, someone designed a new set of CSS that completely overhauled the site's theme and posted it on the site's forum. Surprisingly enough, in two days it gets admitted as an official theme integrated into the website itself. Surely SE can achieve something similar or even superior. | |
| Sep 29, 2023 at 3:34 | comment | added | Robotnik | +1, I came here to write a very similar answer with regards to opening up community submissions for site theming - especially for "Honda" and "Yugo" sites. Something like this could be incorporated pretty well in a "hackathon"-style community event. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 19:22 | comment | added | SpencerG StaffMod | I also think there could be pathways to run that include multiple groups in the community besides SO. It can be tricky, but I have run hackathons where teams comprised devs, PMs, sales, marketing, etc. So I think there could be ways to incorporate everyone and the diverse skill sets the community as a whole has. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 19:21 | comment | added | SpencerG StaffMod | Hackathons can be so much fun; I have run over a handful for an old job. I would love to find a way to bring them to the whole community. I think that might be a tall ask for the immediate future, but I am interested in pursuing it for the long haul. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 14:02 | comment | added | M-- | @AlexanderGruber It is fun. We'll get a website that is more functional. Disclosure: Although I wrote a userscript or two, very very rudimentary ones, I cannot claim I kinda sorta write userscripts. I mean, I cannot write more than a couple of lines of js even if my life depended on it :) | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 9:26 | comment | added | Tinkeringbell Mod | I can see it including non-programming communities in a way, if the userscripts made from this address needs that aren't specific to programming sites, or perhaps even unique to non-programming sites. There can be 'stakeholders' from non-programming sites and perhaps also rewards for 'best feature requests' from those stakeholders... But I doubt such userscripts for a limited set (perhaps even n=1) of communities would be easily integrated into the site/worth integrating/building. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 9:16 | comment | added | Lundin | It's not really something involving the non-programming communities, even if they may benefit from the work. Sounds like an event for SO specifically. | |
| Sep 28, 2023 at 6:32 | comment | added | Alexander Gruber | One thing I will point out is that it's not much fun for people who don't script. It's a great idea and we should do it, but maybe not as a successor to winter bash. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 21:13 | comment | added | Chindraba | @KevinB I'd hope that the winning, and even some non-winning honorable mentions, would be tweaked and integrated into the official version of the sites, and become part of the maintenance done by the developers. The users just do the hard work, making a fully-functional script rather than merely a feature request on meta. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 19:34 | comment | added | Kevin B | Who will maintain this user submitted code? Hopefully it'd not just sit dormant for a year... like some recent additions/revamps. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 18:23 | comment | added | TylerH | Came here to write a version of this answer. Open up the network for challenges for users to write code that gets peer-reviewed/-voted and then the top 1 to 3 get integrated into the site. After a few years the site will be extremely more functional that before, with only minimal dev hours to integrate the code. Users can have a monetary prize or, better yet, a badge stating they contributed to the site code itself. Obviously this is largely SO-specific, but SO is also the wonder child of the company. This is something that should be pursued regardless of this winterbash-replacement effort. | |
| Sep 27, 2023 at 17:46 | history | answered | Machavity | CC BY-SA 4.0 |