7th day
This is my last bootstrapping report. Now that it’s published, we start the beta phase. The focus will be on polishing details based on feedback. The (7) days of enabling features and making big changes without prior discussion are gone (there is one exception – see below).
- Yesterday I forgot to mention that we have the experimental Shared Edits enabled, and available for real-time collaborative writing.
- I have restricted the creation of new topics under Members to Members aka Trust Level 2 users. Huh, I hear you say? See Understanding Discourse Trust Levels. The idea is to encourage a place for self-promotion and loose community groups (i.e. guitar players), but only those who have been around for a while can start them. This reduces the risk of opportunistic people who come, post their stuff and leave not to be seen… until their new song or something. Let’s see how the idea plays out.
- @prinlu and @Mel brought the We need a logo brainstorming to an amazing conclusion. Thank you so much!
- If there is appetite, now we can start discussing Colors and themes.
- We also completed a first version of our statement, driven by @prinlu’s vision and a focus ultimately on the artists’ right to be fairly compensated for their work in order to live a decent life.
- I am half way writing What we offer. The part about individuals is ready for review, and the part about projects will come soon.
Ok, so what is the exception I was talking about above?
I haven’t got time to create custom badges during this week of bootstrapping, and there is one I wanted to create today, but it’s past 1am and I need my brain fresh for this. It’s a badge of gratefulness to those who have signed up (hence believed and supported) during this first week of life of this project, when it wasn’t even a beta. Without you, I wouldn’t have got the motivation and the guidance to get where we are now. And I’m so thankful for all of you being here already. Digital badges are cheap and silly, but I believe you will cherish this one. 
For the record, the last member that will get this Bootstrapper badge will be @conniptions, who signed up 12 minutes ago. If you arrived later, no worries, you still can get the also upcoming Betatester badge. 