There are lots of diverse opinions here, but you are not going to get anywhere just by talking. I recommend you do the following:
Get together a small “LW 2.0” committee that has the authority to make serious changes
Have committee members debate possible changes and hash out a plan. General community members should have a place to voice their feedback, but shouldn’t get a vote per se.
Once the plan is decided, implement it. Then reconvene the committee every 3 or 6 months to review the status and make incremental fixes.
To say it in a different way: success or failure depends much more on building and empowering a small group of dedicated individuals, than on getting buy-in from a large diffuse group of participants.
This is how most companies work: there are employees of the company working full-time on making users as happy as possible. (In this case, I’d guess the users to focus on are users who have a history of making valuable contributions.)
There are lots of diverse opinions here, but you are not going to get anywhere just by talking. I recommend you do the following:
Get together a small “LW 2.0” committee that has the authority to make serious changes
Have committee members debate possible changes and hash out a plan. General community members should have a place to voice their feedback, but shouldn’t get a vote per se.
Once the plan is decided, implement it. Then reconvene the committee every 3 or 6 months to review the status and make incremental fixes.
To say it in a different way: success or failure depends much more on building and empowering a small group of dedicated individuals, than on getting buy-in from a large diffuse group of participants.
This is being done.
Can you tell us who the committee members are?
This is how most companies work: there are employees of the company working full-time on making users as happy as possible. (In this case, I’d guess the users to focus on are users who have a history of making valuable contributions.)