Directory Changes

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Directory Changes

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Hey, guys! I know you guys are used to seeing me discuss Events news. Destinie is not currently feeling well, so I'm helping her out by implementing some changes to our shrine submission system. She is still the one to contact if you have issues, and once she feels better, she will jump right back into the directory.

First off, we want to thank everyone for being patient with us with our directory. We know some of you have been waiting to have your sites listed for a while. With the community revamp, we fell behind, but we will have the directory up to date before you guys know it. The good news is we are making the directory a major focus of 2015. To do this, we want to ensure we have a capable and dependable team to keep everything up to date. We are bringing on a new Directory Staffer: Samantha! Samantha is detail-oriented, active, and really friendly. She cares a lot about shrines, and she will be fantastic with working with you guys updating the directory with Destinie and Saya. A random odd fact: Samantha was actually one of Amassment's first ten members, so she has been with us since pretty much the beginning. We hope she continues to be with us for a long time to come.

We hope you guys are enjoying the community revamp! You may have noticed that we have removed nearly all of our forms. The reason for this is that we do 90% of our activity here at the forums, and it just makes sense to streamline everything and make everything available here. This includes shrine submission. Four new topics have been added to the Directory Updates board:

Add a Site
Edit a Site
Remove a Site
Get Listed as a Current Member

These topics may seem self explanatory, but please read them before you submit anything to ease the amount of work on our Directory Staffers and to keep updates coming as quickly as possible.

What's basically going to happen is you guys can submit new shrines, request shrine edits, request to have a site removed, or request to be listed (not to mention edit your member information) in a reply to these posts much like you reply to a post now with Shrine Spotlight nominations. Destinie, Samantha, and Saya will be watching these posts, will execute your requests, and will reply to the posts once your shrines have been added or updated. This will provide a level of interaction between our members and Directory Staffers that we never really had before, to ensure that everything stays up to date, clean, and organized. With these posts, you guys will be able to help us keep the Amassment Directory active and updated.

Updates will no longer be listed in new posts at the Directory Updates board for every site added or edited, since you can see what has been edited in our submission posts. Rather, updates posts will be made when link checks occur, or when our Directory Team adds or edits shrines without being asked.

We think you guys are going to like these changes. We hope you do, anyway. If you have any questions, please reply to this post or contact a Directory Staffer.

While everything gets going, we ask that you be patient with our staffers as they get used to dealing with these posts. We suspect a lot of shrines will be submitted at the beginning, and it may take a bit for them to get every site added. Please contact Destinie only if you feel like your request has been overlooked. If it seems like they're taking a while, more than likely they just haven't gotten down the list to your site yet.

Thanks, guys! And Destinie, feel better!
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Re: Directory Changes

Post by Larissa »

Just wanted to say thanks for all the work you guys put into this! This is a super easy and convenient way to submit and update everything. Thanks :heart:
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Re: Directory Changes

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Thanks so much, Larissa! That's great to hear. That's exactly what we were going for: something as easy as possible for everyone involved. :)
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Re: Directory Changes

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Seconding Larissa! And welcome, Samantha! :)
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