It's not like many people were actually interested in adding to the old version of the page other than me - setting aside newbies who didn't read the rules, I think the only people who added to it recently were Harry Blank, Ralliston, and Cremo, although that's mostly because the page had a 3 author author requirement and so not much was allowed to be added.

I would hope that the form serves the function - e.g. the addition of a map and the new layout should make it easier to find the site you're looking for. I suppose we could just list Sites like the MTF and GOI page instead of putting everything in collapsibles, but I personally find the old layout really hard to navigate because there's just so many of them now. This specific aspect of the format is something I'm undecided on though, but if the MTF page can have art I don't see why the Sites page can't.

Not going to lie: if people did decide that we should keep the old page as the "Official" one, I would definitely post the map anyway as an art page and ask if it could be included on the official page - the CSS is a little complicated and setting icon position takes some trial and error, but unlike a static image that means it can actually be added to without having to reupload an image file.

I am not actually that worried about the character limit since I doubt that we'll be doubling the number of sites any time soon, although I have noticed that when you have a very long page there can be lag while editing - it doesn't seem to cause problems while viewing the page though.

I did have concerns before the posting of this rewrite proposal, I mentioned the complicated nature of adding new sites to the page and the possibility of this deterring non css inclined members from adding to the page. Jerden in turn added the ability to comment in the associated forum for the page with the relative site info so staff can add the new site for them, which does sooth my concern in this regard, but as Edna pointed out this may become a large workload for those on the Collab Log Pruning MAST sub-team. While that may be a concern to some, I do believe this is additive enough to the site for the added staff work to be worth it. The easy option is not always the best option, and I would rather have something make users happy and take some work, then have it be boring and easy to update. I also assume this workload will more likely then not fall on Jerden since they are a consistent Collab Pruner and one of the people working on this page. I trust their ability to maintain this page consistently so my concerns of adding more workload to MAST are not really there.

With all that being said, I do support this rewrite. I will however recommend extending this discussion until after the holidays because I think a lot of staff are busy and may not be able to chime in on this topic until the new year. This is a big rewrite, and getting as many eyes as possible on this will aid it greatly.

No objections other than the above. I’ve been following along with development of this and it looks absolutely phenomenal. Great job!

I have checked and this version should work fine with a screen reader, although it may not be as accessible as the old version of the page.

(I've removed the timer, I only put it up because I thought it was required but I don't want anyone to feel they have to comment before the ticking clock runs out - enjoy Christmas ect.

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