User blog comment:StevDev/Vision for 2020, planned design changes/@comment-4074533-20200101232343

STEVE!!! It is so awesome to see you still contribute here after all of these years!!! Congratulations on becoming an administrator!

I hope I am not too late to voice my opinions regarding your vision for this wiki. However, please be aware that this is my first time on Hurricanes Wiki since summer 2017!

1. I am sorry to hear that Hurricanes Wikia activity has been declining over the past several years. Perhaps this may be because all of the editors from our era (myself included) are becoming very busy with other responsibilities. 2. I agree with you that we need more contributors that are interested in basins besides the Atlantic and EPAC. If you would like, I can start posting in the forums as often as I can again this year and share my expertise. However, please know that I am extremely busy with life and will be unable to contribute to this Wikia on a daily basis. 3. Is Discord like the chat that was on Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki from our days making hyperactive seasons? I never knew how either ILC or Discord functioned. 4. Can only administrators edit the Main Page on this Wiki? I have tried multiple times over the years to update the storm names. However, I believe I did not have the "privilege" to do so. 5. I am not sure how realistic of a goal it will be to create our own hurricane-related articles. Even from when article-making was more common back when I started here in 2011, most content was simply copied from Wikipedia. 4. Regarding the new logo, I like the new font and would support that change. However, I prefer that you keep the hurricane image as is. I feel the red cyclone image is too simplistic and does not capture the fury of a real hurricane. 5. For the Wiki background image idea, if implemented, how will you be determining which storms are "notable"? Will this translate to a collage of the top five to ten strongest storms of each year (e.g. Dorian, Hagibis, and Halong)? Or will notability be determined based on impact (i.e. a collage of Idai, Imelda, Lekima, etc.)? 6. I have no objections to the general concept of your Active storms template re-design. However, I am concerned all this detail will take a lot of space in the template and be too distracting for readers. Although I agree that the template is vague as is when distinguishing between basins, its raison d'être is to convey all the storms that are presently active in a straightforward manner. 7. Unless an invest/tropical disturbance is classified as a potential tropical cyclone, I would not place it in the Active storms template. Ryan and I had a similar conversation about this several years ago. We agreed to not place invests in the template because it could get visually overwhelming (especially in months where basins are at peak activity and we can have up to five areas of interest in one region alone). 8. Although the JMA does subdivide typhoons based on windspeeds, this is for domestic (i.e. within Japan) purposes. Moreover, they label all typhoons as "TY YYXX" in forecast maps regardless of intensity. Perhaps it would be better to specify this information with windspeeds and pressure information in the template? 9. I believe your AOI color scheme proposal is too heavily biased in favor of the JTWC for the Southern Hemisphere. Because that agency is not the official RSMC for any basin south of the Equator, we should instead be using the probability schemes that RSMC La Reunion, BoM, and RSMC Nadi utilize for the appropriate basin. Here are the links to their outlooks: http://www.bom.gov.au/wa/forecasts/nwcyclone.shtml 10. I support your comments regarding the NHC AOI's 48-hour outlook. However, what happens if the probability of development in 48 hours is significantly different than that in five days (e.g. near 0% vs. 80%)?
 * Moreover, when will you change the new collages each year? I feel that in January, a devastating/strong storm that occurs in December (e.g. Haiyan, Nock-ten) will still be fresh in readers' minds.
 * RSMC La Reunion: http://www.meteo.fr/temps/domtom/La_Reunion/webcmrs9.0/anglais/index.html
 * Australian Bureau of Meteorology:
 * RSMC Nadi: I have seen them use very low, low, moderate, and high. Unfortunately, I could not find a reference for specific percentages.

Please let me know if you need any additional ideas. Happy New Year!