We are moving forward with the planning of Hypography 2.0 and I can promise exciting new features. All the input so far has been great.
We can't do *everything* at once, and at first we are going to focus on
1) a complete overhaul of the site at
Hypography: Science for everyone which will include developing it into a social network-type site, but focused on what Hypography is today (with a more expanded topic range, but still related to science, technology and some "other stuff"
).
2) more ways for people to interact with Hypography outside of the forums. Social bookmarks is just one aspect, the ability to post articles and blog about science or educational topics is another.
3) A rehauled search engine, with both tag-based search and a complete, topic-based search is in the works (I can't promise this for the first version, but we will look very thoroughly at transitional concepts). One major issue we're facing is the sheer amount of data (150,000 posts, thousands of articles, thousands of links - and the new system is set to increase this quite fast).
4) Tutorials and guides - and we need YOU to help us write them. Please get in touch with ideas.
5) Quizzes. We will pick up the activity we had a few years back and start regular quizzes again. Again we will need YOUR help.
6) Advanced boomarking features. Build lists of bookmarks (to external sites) and share, get bookmarks from others and organize them by topic. This will be an excellent research tool. A system to check for dead links will be implemented.
7) A new and unique front page with customizable modules, where you can choose to monitor the stuff you want. It might be the only start page you will ever need.
And...throw us some more bones and we will chew on them.
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