9rules is back, having just been redesigned and reorganised massively. Much more emphasis is now placed on members content, as opposed to notes, and I have to say it’s very well polished.
A couple of years ago, 9rules introduced notes which allowed non-members to contribute to communities (eg Web). This, obviously, reduced the focus on members content and filled 9rules with far too much content leading to information overload.
Thankfully, 9rules seems to be back on the right track. 9rules itself now has very little on besides member content which is categorised into communities (which have been re-organised so they describe their member blogs more accurately). Users can select favourite communities and blogs so new content from those will be displayed when they visit the 9rules homepage. You can also subscribe to community specific RSS feeds.
9rules still wish to involve non-members so notes and the like now exist on the external Chawlk site. This is done so users are not overloaded with a mishmash of links, posts and notes! It’s also done so members do not confuse membership of 9rules with membership of (what was) 9rules’ notes.
The design is very, very clean on both Chawlk and 9rules.
Keep your eyes open for a 9rules submission round!
With the new 9rules, everyone wins: members get more exposure, non-members can still contribute to Chawlk and members get a new online den to hang out in!
I couldn’t agree more. Go 9rules!
Cheers,
Aidan