Hello everyone!
I would like to give a short update on what I am presently working on. Some of you may have noticed that my activity lately in the community and on our Twitter account has been limited. The reason for this is honestly that my work on the next version of Parf Edhellen is still ongoing. It turned out to be way more work than I had initially anticipated, mostly because I keep figuring out "great" new features as I go along.
The latest of these features is what I call (internally) for discussion groups. These groups are essentially categorizations of related discussions to help you more easily find content that interest you. These groups are presently configured by an administrator, and I have decided to go with the following at launch:
- Profiles: Discussions and comments on peoples' profiles.
- Contributions: Feedback on approved, rejected and pending contributions.
- Glossary: Discussions about glosses in the dictionary, including approved contributions to the glossary.
- Phrases: Discussions about phrases composed by Tolkien and the community.
- Miscellaneous & more: Discussions about everything else, with no clear association to a specific part of the dictionary.
Some of these groups will be entity locked, meaning that if you comment on, for an example, a gloss, your comment will create a discussion thread (or contribute to existing discussion thread) within the Glossary discussion group. This will hopefully make the discuss section, which I think is a very important part of our community, easier to navigate.
Let me know if there is a group you would like me to add (or remove for that matter - let's debate!)
So where am I at currently? Well, with the workload growing exponentially (almost, anyway...) I am still working on discuss. The following parts remain:
- create /edit / delete posts
- finalize styling of the timeline on peoples' profiles
- adjust API and system event handlers to respect discussion groups
I expect all of these things will probably be done within the next two weeks.
Concurrently, I have discovered that the contribution functions does not work very well. They will be up next, probably first glosses and thereafter phrases.
Finally, I just want to let you know that I am always looking for github.com contributors. Even something so small as a single React component would be immensely useful, so do not hesitate to reach out if you think you can assist.
With that, I thank you as always for visiting and contributing to Parf Edhellen whether it be with discussions, inquiries, or simply browsing the dictionary and phrases.
Thank you,
Aldaleon