State of the site: July doesn't exist edition

Maybe I'm not understanding the whole vision, but the part about linking guides sounds ominous.

Remember when Allen or Dev would do site updates and just say "we've added a new feature that does thing, it's in your settings" and their posts weren't full of soulless, corporate buzzwords?

I've read that post twice and still barely know what it's saying. It reads like an AI-generated LinkedIn post.

There's never been a July, July is a myth!

I feel like DToast is struggling to think of anything to tell us about, because nothing is really happening that is of interest/benefit to GameFAQs. Admittedly the return of Review of the Month and FAQ of the Month with prizes seems like a positive.

Is "Fandom Media" what GameFAQs and the former RedVentures/CBSi/CNET sites are classified as?

" Well be publishing two quarterly blogs on the Community Wiki Hub to showcase great community work from across Fandom Media sites. Expect highlights like UGC from GameFAQs "
What does "two quarterly" mean? Every 1.5 months?(/6 weeks)

" Cross-Linking Guides "
" Im finalizing the data, stakeholders, and cadence for promotion to feature bounties directly on relevant wiki game pages. "
Cross-linking was done in 2024 I thought? This sounds different. It sounds like advertising the availability of bounties on wikis, so that users on those wikis come to GameFAQs to apply to be granted the bounty.

"The Document"
It sounds like a document to try explain why Fandom higher-ups should bother approving development/investment in GameFAQs? How many months and essays does it take to convince higher-ups that it's worth assigning someone for 2 minutes to remove the dead Facebook and Twitter links in the footer or point them to somewhere else? Or to spend 30 minutes on adding Bluesky embeds? Surely the bosses don't need deep research to convince them that adding DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY-MM-DD date formatting is beneficial to users and would improve the site's accessibility and inclusivity for users in the 200 countries that don't use the site's current format?

1. Yes, my bad if that wasn't obvious. They were called News & Ratings, which I know I mentioned before, but they're now called Fandom Media.
2. Quarterly, as in 1 every quarter, so we'd have 2 for the rest of the year.
3. It was/is done. This is more about trying to scale out the initiative in different ways now since we have the opportunity.
4. Not going to be able to "answer" fully to satisfy the question. But yes, corporations are big slow-moving things with a lot of pieces and limited resources. Depending on the subject, initiative, feature, etc, etc, etc. It could take 30 minutes or 30 hours. Community Management(at least of my variety) requires a lot of internal work more than anything, hence why some people like to think nothing is getting done, while a lot is. So this is me just being transparent.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/b/bed20ce4.jpg

Totally random question, but does Karma have a purpose anymore?

There's never been a July, July is a myth!