Following on from last year's interruptions and unplanned break 

( ref.: [29 Mar - 03 Oct 2021] - Website:  Progress Journal (Updates 2-8) )

Current update's headings, about website stuff :

→ On the programming side of things (Resuming the code cleanup phase, then concluding the poll)

→ On an administrative side of things (A small change about Editors' Choice on the home page)

→ On the "more recent" side of things for the home page also (Need your help for the home page)

14 Feb 2022 

Hi everyone,

Glad to say our circumstances have improved and we can return from the unplanned break we had to take for most of last year!  Finally!  We have some available time again (Sats-Mons, more soon), and yesterday we were able to resume where we left off.

On the programming side of things:

So, back to it, the immediate plan for the coming months is the following:

   →  Conclude the cleanup of our code and the conversions of our files to the

         new structure we created (details in journal update #2 above and News page);

   →  Conclude the July Poll(!) and put in place the solutions.

The first job takes a lot of time as it involves hundreds of files to modify (we're halfway through this part).  The second is dependent on the first being completed which is why it's been lingering all this time. 

A few things got unusually disorganized as a consequence of our personal troubles last year, and we're deeply sorry for that happening.  We're back now and we'll see this very essential part to the end. 

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Doing this will make it possible for us to move on to the more interesting part:  improving / freshening the site and creating new features (options) for you.  Then, move on to the last phase:  site promotion.

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Thank you all for your understanding patience!  All of it is a long process, but you can count on that we'll get through each of these important steps.  They will ensure we can move PoetBay on and that is our ultimate goal.  

On an administrative side of things:

The Editors' Choice on the home page are now updated every 2 weeks instead of 4 weeks.  This is to help make the activity presented there appear less stalled and more recent date-wise to keep things more interesting for current members and visitors. 

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Also, about the Editors' Choice selections:  All members are at all times welcome to send us a message to nominate a member's poem they feel should be featured on the home page.  

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On the "more recent" side of things for the home page also...

We're in need of new member Books and Exhibitions, 'cause most of the ones we have to select are majoritarily from members of many years ago who are no longer active on the site.  It'd be very nice to feature more recent and active members' works again.  

Books and Exhibitions are a more visual way of featuring authors' works with the images they choose for them.  I think it makes our community space on the home page presentation visually prettier and more inviting for everyone, too.  

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The advantages of your poetry Books and photos from your Exhibitions (photography or art) being featured on the home page are you'd get longer general public exposure of your works and possibly more visits to your page.  At the same time, you'd be helping us showcase our community and your talents to visitors & prospective members!  PoetBay is you!

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If you need any help to create a Book or an Exhibition in your account, please contact us, and we'll gladly assist.

As always, any and all thoughts are most welcome.  Hope you're all doing well and we wish you a very good new year!  We're immensely happy to be back! 

Isabelle

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Returning back to the usual, next website updates will be posted on the News page (to avoid non-poetry taking too much space in your poetry space) -- unless there's a big change affecting you, then it'll be posted here on the main list to inform you more directly.  Many thanks again!