HomeCrowd, the new Fantasy Football Scout comments system, is now live.
This is the culmination of around six months work by Ed, with design input from Will. I’d like to extend a big thanks to both for the time and effort they’ve put in to get HomeCrowd to this point.
We may experience some teething trouble. We may even have to roll back and rethink. We hope not, but we’re now at the point were we get the system out in the wild and see how it settles.
All being well, here’s a brief summary of what HomeCrowd means to the average Fantasy Football Scout visitor…
In terms of what you’ll see and experience, this should hopefully be business as usual with a few more bells and whistles.
You can now vote for comments and this will give a rating boost or penalty to the comment, the weighting of which depends on your reputation which is maintained behind the scenes. You earn reputation by earning votes and generally posting good stuff that gets recognition from the community and us contributors and moderators.
So voting adds rating and you can now sort an entire thread of comments by that rating. This allows you to quickly catch up on the days most valuable, significant, informative or perhaps entertaining discussions.
You can also go straight to the key stuff by viewing Hot Topics. You’ll see a new tab on the recent comments widget – click this and you’ll view the last ten Hot Topics. These are discussions singled out by mods and staff members because we feel there’s value in reading them or perhaps they include information that we want visitors to take in.
You can also view another user’s profile and your own profile by clicking a username or gravatar.
For now, that’s all that you’ll notice that’s different, aside from a few badges and the general design changes.
There are more features planned – this is our code so we can tailor this system to Fantasy Football Scout, act on feedback and work to make this a system that improves the community from this point.
Thank you for your patience and support. We hope you will enjoy using HomeCrowd.
If you want to see more on how HomeCrowd works without getting involved, here’s the preview movie we published earlier. Also, in case you missed Jonty’s article last week, we also published some new community guidelines which you can view right here.
