Silmarillion Writers' Guild Site Use Survey

[dawn_felagund]

The SWG moderation team has been discussing improvements for our site and our group that we hope to undertake in the months to come. In keeping with our mission, we want to direct our efforts in the way that best benefits the Tolkien fan fiction community of which we are part. We have put together a survey to get a sense of how best to meet that goal.

We appreciate the input of anyone interested in Tolkien fan fiction and references/resources related to the legendarium. You do not need to be a member or user of the SWG or a writer of Silmfic to participate.

The survey takes between 5 and 15 minutes depending on the level of detail of your responses. We’ll leave the survey open for about a month and will collect responses during the first week of August.

Please feel free to signal boost this on other groups where this is acceptable. Thank you in advance to all who share their opinions and ideas with us.

Silmarillion Writers' Guild Site Use Survey

Comments

[scarlet1061.livejournal.com]

Just filled the survey.
Thank you for taking it, and for the SWG site, again.

[dawn_felagund]

Thanks for filling it out! We mod-people have a million and one ideas always, so it will hopefully ensure that what we decide to actually work on will be something that others will want to use. :)

[hhimring]

I just uploaded something to the Archive and remembered something that I think I probably forgot to mention when filling out the survey, although it's very minor: if it's not much trouble, it would be useful to have "Browse" as an option in the menu at the top of the various pages, as well as on the Home Page.

Thank you for putting so much thought into all this!

I'm mulling over the current challenge, although I haven't posted a request or started a fill yet.

[dawn_felagund]

Adding Browse is super easy! (In fact, I suspect it was there by default and I took it away because I didn't think the wording made clear how it differed from Search. ._. But I can add it back!)

The survey was very much collaborative among the mods, and if you know us well, you can see our little pet interests surfacing. Russa with the tech stuff. Rhapsody with challenges. Me with the newsletter and References. I feel like you only get to impose on your members like this every now and then, so we made it count.

Right now, I'm thankful for being super busy with the New York Tolkien Conference because knowing that data is being collected always makes me feel like a kid on Christmas Eve, with all the gifts piled under the tree, wanting to rip them open and know what's inside, but knowing I should wait! :) I know the results will be useful in making sure we keep the group headed in the right direction.

[hhimring]

Just to say, I think I asked for easier access to the bios--and then discovered (re-discovered?) the link to the whole bio page in that box listing the newest bios on the front page. So I'm rather embarrassed about that.

[dawn_felagund]

Aww, no worries! We're also going to restructure the Reference section--largely based on feedback from this survey--so the bios should be easier to find via References as well. (Oshun and I have been locking horns on this for years, and if she reads this, I'm willing to admit that she was right! :D)