Support for non-jam projects under development

[dollarone]

This is not a bug/issue per se, but I had a think about what we can do to make Alakajam more of a community/increase the audience.

I think during actual Alakajam and Kajams we're good. But what about all the time in between? Well, we're all game devs and a lot of us have other jams and longer projects cooking in the background. What if the "default state" was more of a "Show us what you're working" on type website, where people can keep devlogs and updates on their projects. Perhaps we could create the ability to tag your posts with arbitrary tags so you can easily find all posts relating to one project?

I'm not sure how the design of this would look, and even if we need any changes - maybe it's just a static banner encouraging people to share their projects? Or maybe a new look with "featured project" and a list of projects currently under development?

Thoughts?

[mkalam-alami]

I like the ideas, and agree with that aim to turn AKJ into a "Show us what you're working site" in between events. The main issue we have is that outside of jams, users don't really think of going to Alakajam to check for any interesting posts from the community.

Some ideas to help with that:

• Make the jumbo banner thinner in-between events (like we did during the CCJ), so posts are featured without scrolling
• Have a bot cross-post all blogs on Discord, maybe a specific Twitter account** too? Maybe the main account could even share great posts, but in the long term it could be tricky as we'd need to cut the line somewhere to decide what is featured and what is not.
• There has been that idea of having a 2nd column near posts, maybe it could feature the latest comments (among other things) to put forward any current discussion.
• Get a trend started, by actually writing technical and/or in-depth progress posts ourselves (this is something I've been considering for a while but I still have to take the leap. even technical posts about the website development itself could be interesting)
• Long term: That overarching push to help long-term projects with features and events should help make people think of Alakajam as a way to share their progress

[mkalam-alami]

• [ ] Support creating a project. A project is an entry with a special flag, not attached to an event, with a special presentation that looks more like a storefront page (itch/gog).
• [ ] Have a special dashboard page to list own projects
• [ ] List projects on the user profiles
• [ ] Project page (view): remove comments(??) and high scores(??), feature posts more prominently.
• [ ] Project page (edit): remove External event name, Entry publication date, Division (Team can always be set), High scores(??), Anonymous comments toggle
• [ ] Project page: support setting a full width banner at the top
• [ ] Support linking any event entry to a project, display entries on the project page sidebar
• [ ] Support creating a project from an existing entry. This just duplicates some information to the project and links the project with the entry.
• [ ] Have a "the next event starts in a long time" state where the event banner gets very small on the front page (thin banner or just a block) and we instead have a list featuring active projects from the community. A featureable project is an entry: 1. marked as a project 2. made by a user who joined at least one Alakajam event. The active projects to be featured first as simply the ones with recent blog posts about them.
• [ ] Support linking a blog post to any entry instead of just the event

Bonus

• [ ] Have the Jamician bot cross-post all blogs on Discord (on #promote-your-stuff ?)
• [ ] Project page: support setting a release date (can be either a date or a string)
• [ ] Eat our own dog food: Alakajam is a project