Making the Neurodiversity hub more tangible
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:55 pm
I picked up some ideas from my brainstorming thread, extended them further and applied them to the Neurodiverstiy hub. Other ideas were dropped for the time being like the renaming of the neurodiversity hub or the "removal" of the specific neurodivergent sections (the initial plan was merging them with the general neurodivergent discussion and using tags for differentiation).
What did change? Mental Health got its own section (it was a subforum of general neurodivergent discussion before) at the bottom of the hub and its forum description has a link to the glossary. At the the top, you can find a link to a guide with more detailed information about the purpose of each section of the hub and an advice regarding sensible topics. I also updated every forum description so you can get a better gist of each section.
I removed the posting restrictions from the Specific Neurodivergent Sections. Initially, they were implemented to gave members another layer of safety but just like the (discarded) Newly Registered Users group (its purpose was protection against spam) they might keep a majority of the people back from engaging in the first place.
What comes next? Little by little, I fill the Mental Health section with more self-help resources. The first ones were the self-love poem (to remind the people of their own worth) and the list with activities to improve your mood.
What did change? Mental Health got its own section (it was a subforum of general neurodivergent discussion before) at the bottom of the hub and its forum description has a link to the glossary. At the the top, you can find a link to a guide with more detailed information about the purpose of each section of the hub and an advice regarding sensible topics. I also updated every forum description so you can get a better gist of each section.
I removed the posting restrictions from the Specific Neurodivergent Sections. Initially, they were implemented to gave members another layer of safety but just like the (discarded) Newly Registered Users group (its purpose was protection against spam) they might keep a majority of the people back from engaging in the first place.
What comes next? Little by little, I fill the Mental Health section with more self-help resources. The first ones were the self-love poem (to remind the people of their own worth) and the list with activities to improve your mood.