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A couple of ideas:
1. Classic-castle and FBTB both prominently feature admin-generated
announcements on the front pages that are updated every day or so--new set
announcments, contests, fests, etc (presumably other sites, too, these are just
the ones I read). These are the reason that I go to the front page of each of
those sites first rather than jumping straight to the message boards. The one
problem with this is that it is fairly admin-intensive. To have new content
every day someone (or a committee of someones) has to generate something new
every day.
2. Pics of MOCs. Some of the newsgroups (.space, .castle, .trains (though not
updated as often)) post pics of cool MOCs in that theme in their sidebars.
Perhaps something like this - cool MOC of the day or week - would generate a
flow of new eye-candy on the front page. Of course, this again requires someone
to choose and post the new pics regularly--perhaps the curators of the various
sidebars could have a rotating schedule where they post a pic from their theme
and then a few days later the next theme is up. Or could there be a way to
automate this, like 1000steine.de, MOCpages, and the “recent” page on
Brickshelf? Perhaps drawing on Brickshelf and take the image with the most
views in the past 24 hours (I’m not sure if there is an easy way to program
this, maybe Kevin would have ideas?). Or more easily I suppose you could just
have the most recent Brickshelf image (like 1000steine.de and MOCpages have a
running update of the most recent MOCs), updated every 2 hours automatically, or
a completely randomized image from Brickshelf. Of course, this could often be
something of much less interest, which I why I was wondering if there was a way
of automating using the page views counter on Brickshelf--presumably the coolest
MOCs would get viewed more often as visitors to Brickshelf clicked on them.
3. Similar to #2, but pics from “events”, such as Brickfests, LUG or LTC
outings, etc. Again, the downfall is that this is admin-intensive in selecting
and posting images regularly. Perhaps, as with the above suggestion about
sidebar curators rotating, volunteer reps from each LUG and LTC, and also
different coordinators from fests, could select 1 to 4 images from their most
recent event and have some schedule. Looking under .org and .trains.org I count
54 LUGs and LTCs, plus we could add another 10 or so if we throw in groups like
ILTCO, Scibrick, festival coordinators, etc. A schedule could assign someone
new to post every three days and each group would only be responsible for
posting twice a year, and there would still be quite a bit of turnaround of new
images. This would require a coordinator whose job it would be to keep the
schedule and send e-mails regularly reminding the various LUG and LTC reps who
are scheduled to post. One advantage of this (I’m warming up to this version) is
that it would generate a constant rotation of front page eye-candy, and it would
give different groups a chance to advertise themselves to the wider community.
E.g. they could include links to their .org groups or LUG websites and
announcements of upcoming public events. Many groups already regularly post
pics of meetings or public shows in their .org sidebars, so picking a few images
for the Lugnet front page would not be a significant amount of extra work.
4. Bring back CLSotW. I know there has been low voter participation in the
recent run, but I still think it’s very cool to highlight great work on a
regular basis. There are many very cool sites that have gone up since CLSotW
died most recently--classic-castle, ITLCO, and Scibrick just to name three
“community” sites that would be obvious nominees (to me, at least), not to
mention many great individual efforts (like my personal favorite, Mike Crowley’s
great Miniland-scale Star Wars creations).
Bruce
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