Creating a more standard article like experience
We want your feedback, TL:DR we are going to start building out a better content experience for non-current posters/members.
For threads that have a decent OP or original content that anyone wants to write on any topic there will now be the option for me to turn it into an article from a thread and inherit the comments or you can create an article and it will automatically create a thread in the relevant forum. The comments will be synced between the articles and the threads, not every thread should be an article, but every article will have a thread (which in turn shows in the comments).
This will help with our SEO, but also it sets up the groundwork for some of the content that we will be producing (for free, forever) for the site. It won't be limited to just Football and Recruiting, but we will probably be fairly heavy on that side at first. Yes, this means we are going to have staff writers and possibly a staff photographer in the near future.Â
Eventually we will have the option where default navigation happens to either the forum or the "website", but a lot of search traffic will end up on the "website" section first and the forums after they figure out what is going on here.Â
Here is a sample of some existing threads that I pulled and put into the "Entertainment" page.
We will have these pages to start(linked pages are already live):
Football (all football related content, UT or not)
Texas Recruiting (not specifically football related, but mostly football)
Sports (all the other sports boards and their articles here)
Entertainment (movies, music, hobbies, lulz, food and travel)
News (Daily Texan and 6th Street Journal)
Politics (Cloak Room)
My ask of the community is if you are a Top Contributor (750+ rep full member) or have editor permissions (mostly recruiting) when you create new threads, if you are creating a longer format post that isn't to just kick off a discussion to think about creating an article, it's the same workflow from the top of the screen you will now have the option to create an article: I can clean up and move stuff around behind the scenes, but I can also create articles from threads that you don't follow this workflow through it's just a bit of extra work from an admin perspective.
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I'm open to things like every 100k pageviews your article gets or 1M etc that there is financial incentive involved.
Also open to Post-Game Summaries that are commissioned regardless of pageview amount (25 bucks per or something like that to get started)
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