I've been working on a redesign of the website in my free time. Here it is: https://nixnull.github.io/agoranomic.github.io/index.html
The motivation for this came from a few places. For one, the website has fallen a bit out of date anyway. For two, our current page doesn't do much for engagement. The route from interested to player is a bit opaque, especially as play-by-mail gets increasingly rare. At the same time tho, we have excellent community channels on the IRC and Discord (and I recently added a connected Matrix one) that people could and should easily jump into. I wanted to emphasize those more. Another issue I noticed is with maintaining our web resources. When we did the redesign in 2020, we pushed for github pages for all/most reports that all shared a submodule to theme them and add the same navbar. In my opinion, this was a failure for a few reasons: * Frankly not every report needs to be online, many are not interesting to nonplayers, and easier to access through the mail. It's also an extra burden on officers, many of which have little experience with git. * Some of our offices that benefit best never made the switch, because the officers running them had their own (better) solutions. * A submodule for the navbar means someone needs to update every repository when the navbar is updated. It's tedious, annoying, and potentially error-prone. This set up switches away from all that. It expands the website repository to cover all of the pages, embedding officer content in iframes or just linking to it. Now officers can focus on their work, while the website is maintained separately. Additionally, it adds a join page that is (hopefully) much more instructive than previous iterations, and visible links to our chat channels to encourage curious people to jump in and check things out. It's a WIP, and I'd be very happy to get feedback. -- nix Herald, Collector
