SSN 680 Plan of the Day
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The Crew Gallery has been added to the Photo menu. This section is for all of you to upload whatever photos you'd like to share, within reason. Keep it reasonably clean, give us your best scans, crop your images to improve them artistically, but post away.
A tutorial on posting will follow in a day or two, if I can finish it up. Just know that My Control Panel, is where you upload images using the New Image button, five at a time, maximum of one hundred per user. But before you upload, create a category for them to go in, if one doesn't already exist using the Categories button. Categories should typically include location and date, i.e. Sasebo, Japan, 1982. Make sure you select the appropriate main Category for your images. Multiple uploads are fine. If you run into the 100 image per user barrier, let me know.
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Just some quick updates for turnover:
- Test of the crew image gallery section continues - everything is looking good - a few tweaks on the appearance and we should go public today or tomorrow. You'll be able to upload and post your own photos, see everyone elses, rank and comment on photos, as well as include links to full size images in your Scuttlebutt forum posts.
- The 1MC is meant for real time comms between shipmates currently logged in - though it gets archived, only the last 30 messages are displayed, so like the real 1MC, your message is gone once it's over. For more permanent postings, and to allow others to comment on your memories/stories/observations post under the appropriate category in the Scuttlebutt forum.
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Hard to believe, but the number of registered users just went over 100 today! Nicely done, and keep working to get the word out. We only have about 900 more shipmates to get hooked up here before the end of the year, so get hot!
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You may have noticed - if not, this will explain your confusion, that things are being rearranged on the site. Menus are changing, items in development may or may not be hidden, and new items are appearing on the menu. This is part of the dynamic growth of the website, and it reflects comments and feedback from all of you.
New items to note: the Scuttlebutt forum has been moved to the top level menu to make it easier to get to, since that is a common destination for many of you. New sort orders for the sailing list are evolving so you can look for everyone, just former crew members, 'riders' only, etc. Menus for cruise books and other things under development have been removed to free up space. We'll see where it goes from here.
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So it's 2009. Although this is the first entry of the new year, I'm not going to write it in verse, mostly because I'm not stuck at my desk for 6 hours on the midwatch, so I actually have something else to do. Imagine that!
So what does the year look like? For us here at ssn-680.org, it looks like continued growth. I'm still pretty impressed with going from a handful of original registered users, to 73 as of this morning. Now I'm easily impressed, I'll admit, but that is a pretty big deal. When you think about a ship with a thirty year life, and with the potential of a full crew turnover as often as every three years, maybe we are only looking at 1300 or 1400 sailors who actually served on board the Bates. And over 5% of those are already registered on this site, less than two weeks after going 'public'.
