Published on 12, July, 2020
Hi neurokin!
Thanks so much for our discussion earlier about creating another online autistic community which is entirely autistic led! I have started to create an initial forum using Proboards (which was kindly suggested to me) with different topics.
Here is the link if you are interested:
https://autopia.freeforums.net/board/1/general-discussion
Any feedback?
What do you think about the topics I have created?
Thank you!
Obviously I will continue to develop and work on it but I am just looking for initial thoughts.
HMO said: You might want to bring the boards that are under 'General Discussion' to the main page (so they're under 'General') but otherwise things look a bit better.
Thank you! I have since updated the forum, but how do you do this?
Ausomely Autistic said:What do you think about the topics I have created
I think that friendships, relationships (including family) + sex should/could be included.
These 3 subjects are discussed time and again here and are major areas of struggle for us.
Thanks for all your efforts.
Thanks for clarifying, of course I will ask the authors before reposting any content.
I have since updated the forum with boards:
What do you think?
I have now updated with separate boards. What do you think?
Thanks for your help!
I've just had a look. You might want to bring the boards that are under 'General Discussion' to the main page (so they're under 'General') but otherwise things look a bit better.
Q1 I was starting to go down that route, then realised how poor mannered that would be.
Q2 So I thought it would be better if you at least asked the Authors...
I'm also minded that this place is alledgedly due to change platorm and has issue a three year IIRC cut off point, so people might LIKE some of the old stuff to be preserved.
Thanks for your feedback, I would be very grateful for some feedback or advice from you!
I Sperg said:they could be places where people who have a bit of a clue can put down some useful guidleines and advice that will STAY ACCESIBLE.
What do you mean by this? I have interpreted this to mean that maybe it would be a good idea to save some informative posts from this site to make them accessible to everyone. Am I right?
I Sperg said:MAYBE, you could trawl though this site and personally select posters who might want their helpful words kept more accesiblly? I know I would (if I had the discrimination and stamina to sift through my stuff and sort the wheat from the chaff).
Can you clarify this suggestion as well please?
About your forum...
I have "walked the walk" of Autism (largely un-diagnosed, admitttedly) and arrived a a point that seems to be reasonably happy and well-adjusted compared to many, after a long period of trial and error investigating.
I looked at some of your headings and felt, "I could enter useful input there" but I am keenly aware that my particular experience based perspective does not sit well at all with some of the more naive and vocal minds, and I genuinely don't know whether I'd enhance or spoil the place, but those categories are awful tempting, and some look like they could be places where people who have a bit of a clue can put down some useful guidleines and advice that will STAY ACCESIBLE.
MAYBE, you could trawl though this site and personally select posters who might want their helpful words kept more accesiblly? I know I would (if I had the discrimination and stamina to sift through my stuff and sort the wheat from the chaff).
Thanks for the feedback JT and the suggestions!
JT said:some more sophisticated UI/UX and overall functional design would definitely help here.
What do you mean by this?
Definitely! So funny!
That is SUCH an Autistic reply, I feel....
Thanks for this advice!
Great project and hats off for putting in the work, however, given the Level of web development today, some more sophisticated UI/UX and overall functional design would definitely help here.
I know it's a lot to facilitate, but teaming up with a designer would be a good idea Afraid I don't have enough time ATM otherwise I would
Thanks for feedback, glad you like the name! I am planning to reorganise the content into categories so hopefully it won’t be overwhelming and it will be easier to use.
Thanks for this feedback, I understand how its current format might be confusing which is why I will separate the topics into categories.
The terminology is quite confusing. I think what you might be intending is to create separate boards for each topic of discussion. Currently you have just the one board called 'general discussion'.
https://www.proboards.com/admin-guide/boards-threads/categories-boards
I like the name Autopia!
The way it looks overwhelms me a bit but I think I would just need to get used to it. I bookmarked it though
If you go into your admin panel there should be a section for categories. Just have a play around.
Hi.
Thanks for your feedback! Hopefully as I work on it will be easier for future members to use.
HMO said:What I think you were intending to do though was create separate sub forums/categories and you've instead created separate threads?
Thanks for letting me know! Do you know how I create separate categories instead?