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What should we do with questions that want start to finish customization help?
What should we do with questions that are basically giving an example of a website design that they like, and asking how to customize a base SmugMug site into it?
This is an example of one such ...
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Q&A site for simple things
As a SmugMug "newbie", I don't want to ask a lot of extremely basic questions, and I'm sure you dont' want to waste your time answering them.
Where can I find questions and answers for very ...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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Why are customization questions being referred back to Dgrin?
Why are customization questions being referred back to the Digital Grin forum? Seems like if that's done - what's to keep someone on smugmug.se.com vs. just use the Digital Grin forum?
Recent example ...
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Why does this question appear in the unanswered list?
The following question - Camera Awesome seems to overwrite some EXIF data on imported photos does have an answer attributed to it, but it still appears in the "unanswered" question list here. The ...
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Should discussion of methods to work around SmugMug standard usage rules be allowed?
The recent question "Can I hide the SmugMug credit in my footer using javascript?" does seem to be off topic, or at least off spirit of the Stack. The question while applying exclusively to SmugMug is ...
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Are Camera Awesome questions on topic here?
Camera Awesome is a new app currently offered for iOS devices that functions as a camera and post processing tool. It was created by the SmugMug team.
We have had two questions pop up on the main ...
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Moderator Pro-Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Only a couple questions a day - is that a problem?
So, we're only getting a couple questions a day in the Smugmug stack. It's barely even worth monitoring for interesting activity.
Is this normal for a new stack? Or a signal that something needs to ...
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Shall we attempt comunity wiki for this question?
Many other stacks use community wiki for this type of question:
What services are available to hire to customize my smugmug site?
answer format is 1 service per answer, allowing users to comment on ...
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What to do with Self-Promotion and Referral Codes?
I know how self promotion is typically looked down upon at Stack Exchange and usually ends up with either down votes, flags for moderator attention, or edits to remove. Further, users are asked to ...
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What was the criteria for the 'Beta' badge?
So, we're now in the public beta, and I see that the badges for the Private Beta have been awarded: http://smugmug.stackexchange.com/badges/30/beta
What were the criteria to get one of those? I ...
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When is the private beta over? [closed]
With few (if any) real users asking questions that they actually need the answers to participating in the beta and our instructions not to seed any more questions, the stack looks like it's going to ...
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Why was this question closed?
Why in the heck was this question closed: Differences between Smugmug and Zenfolio for power and pro??
The boilerplate response says this:
closed as not constructive by Robert Cartaino♦ 2 hours ...
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Seems like we could use more easy questions in general to get the ball rolling
I'm not explicitly advocating asking questions that you plan on answering (though that seems ok too) but certainly we could use more questions that have answers as part of the beta :) I'd encourage ...
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Why isn't there more site customization questions here?
Seems like smugmug.se.com would be the perfect place for all the site customization questions, 'how do I add spinning 21" rims to my smugmug site?'.
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What is this site best used for?
As a SmugMug user, I have access to all kinds of information, support and otherwise:
http://www.dgrin.com/ (community forum, including but not limited to customization, sharing, and support)
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Is this a complete enough answer?
I'm wondering if this is a complete enough answer: http://smugmug.stackexchange.com/a/190/177? It requires you to read a bunch of other articles to get the actual answer (the content is mostly not in ...
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Why is a “smugmug” tag not allowed?
Shouldn't it be appropriate to tag questions related to the Smugmug service with the "smugmug" tag? I tried to use it on a question and was told that tag was not allowed.
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How to prevent multiple copies of out-of-date customization code on SE?
How do we prevent multiple copies of out-of-date code on SE living on forever?
In this answer, a user posts a copy of javascript code copied from the Smugmug FAQ. On dgrin, we've seen issues when ...
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Is there any way to require a smugmug site link when asking a customization question?
One of the wastes of the volunteer's time on dgrin is people who ask questions, but have no link to their site so we can't see what they're asking about. This happens a lot. On dgrin, all we can ...
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Is smugmug.stackexchange.com supposed to eventually replace dgrin for customizing questions?
First of all, I'd like to know if it is Smugmug's intentions to phase out the dgrin customizing forum and use SE for everything that the dgrin customizing forum is currently being used for.
If so, ...
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Is this community supposed to replace the SmugMug help site?
If questions are already answered in the SmugMug help via http://help.smugmug.com, should this site replicate that, build upon it, refer users directly to it, or otherwise?
Related: Is this community ...
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Is now the right time for a new customizing forum (with major customization changes coming, but not yet released)?
Per the discussion following the Sneak Peak at Smugmug's New Design from 6 months ago, it appears that gallery customizations (and perhaps all customizations) as we know them today are going to change ...
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How should this site be using community wiki?
It has already been brought up to use the community wiki feature of stack exchange as this site is in its early beta state.
The existing example is to convert an answer(you can no longer do this for ...
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Do we support playing StackJeopardy?
(for those not aware of the fine art of StackJeopardy, it is asking a question that you already have a good, detailed answer to ready to post. Usually used as a seeding mechanism early in the site.)
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What do we do with questions that are more photography leaning than Smugmug leaning?
So, there are many questions which could be asked here, which are more of photography leaning questions, design questions, etc. than a Smugmug question. What do we do with these types of questions?
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What should our FAQ contain?
As noted in The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta, we should define what will be in our FAQ.
Please leave responses; others can upvote/downvote and comment as they feel answers do or don't ...
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Should SmugMug employees be allowed to moderate the site?
Certain moderator tools are available to users as they earn reputation, but moderators do get some special abilities even "trusted users" do not receive.
The question, is that on a site like this, do ...
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What should we do with questions that are really feature requests?
If a user is asking for a feature that they know clearly does not exist at this time, what do we want to do with the user? Can we come up with a voted upon response here to direct them to the right ...
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Is this community supposed to replace the Digital Grin Photography Forums?
Previously, the best place to discuss smugmug related issues was at http://www.dgrin.com/. Is this stack exchange site intended for people who would normally have participated in Digital Grin? Are we ...
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Do we want questions that only employees can answer?
Do we want to be asking questions on this site that can only be really answered well by insiders or employees of Smugmug such as:
Is any development going on with respect to non-pro features?
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What's our elevator pitch?
One of the things we need to determine as one of The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta is "What is our elevator pitch?"
How do we summarize this site?
Please provide your suggestions as ...
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Can the FAQ be updated?
I think it is important to have the FAQ current with what we want this site to be. I couldn't find anything in the Area51 that really outlines what to add to the FAQ, and I'm new to Area51. Can we vet ...
