Welcome to UrbanMSP!
Posted: June 4th, 2012, 11:45 am
Hey gang,
So I think things are pretty much up and running the way we want them to be now. From what I can tell, quoting, editing, and all the other stuff is worked out. You can either upload attachments or link to photos on your own hosting programs. I also set up a rank thing by post count, if you want a specific thing under your username, PM me and I can change it manually. It starts out with Block E and Metrodome, etc, and works up to some of our nicer buildings and landmarks .
If you have any technical issues, please submit them to us in the Administration Forum. If you have any logo ideas, post them here for everyone to take a look at. I'd advise probably a blue and white color scheme of some kind to go with the rest of the site, but I'm pretty crappy at design so I'll leave it up to everyone else .
If you want, introduce yourself here in this thread. Not mandatory at all, but I know some folks like to do that.
On a personal note, I think that 95 percent of us would enjoy it if we kept the banter on here a step above the StarTribune comment section and some of the sketchier personal attacks that happened on the old site, particularly in the Vikings stadium thread. Make whatever point you want, it's America, but don't throw in personal insults just for the fun of it--especially because most of us have never actually met each other. And as I've said a bunch of times, I work for the man now and so while the site is registered in my name, try to resist bringing City Council members' physical appearances into a discussion about Conditional Use Permits. Not necessary. I think there's a certain quality this site has when we're all civil. No one from Ryan or Opus is going to wander in here and get interested in the conversation after reading page after page of circular arguments about fascism on a development website.
That said, I'm really excited that we have this going again! It's great to have a group of like-minded people keeping track of everything that's going on in our awesome metro area.
Thanks,
Nick
So I think things are pretty much up and running the way we want them to be now. From what I can tell, quoting, editing, and all the other stuff is worked out. You can either upload attachments or link to photos on your own hosting programs. I also set up a rank thing by post count, if you want a specific thing under your username, PM me and I can change it manually. It starts out with Block E and Metrodome, etc, and works up to some of our nicer buildings and landmarks .
If you have any technical issues, please submit them to us in the Administration Forum. If you have any logo ideas, post them here for everyone to take a look at. I'd advise probably a blue and white color scheme of some kind to go with the rest of the site, but I'm pretty crappy at design so I'll leave it up to everyone else .
If you want, introduce yourself here in this thread. Not mandatory at all, but I know some folks like to do that.
On a personal note, I think that 95 percent of us would enjoy it if we kept the banter on here a step above the StarTribune comment section and some of the sketchier personal attacks that happened on the old site, particularly in the Vikings stadium thread. Make whatever point you want, it's America, but don't throw in personal insults just for the fun of it--especially because most of us have never actually met each other. And as I've said a bunch of times, I work for the man now and so while the site is registered in my name, try to resist bringing City Council members' physical appearances into a discussion about Conditional Use Permits. Not necessary. I think there's a certain quality this site has when we're all civil. No one from Ryan or Opus is going to wander in here and get interested in the conversation after reading page after page of circular arguments about fascism on a development website.
That said, I'm really excited that we have this going again! It's great to have a group of like-minded people keeping track of everything that's going on in our awesome metro area.
Thanks,
Nick