I'm sure we've all heard by now
that Miiverse is getting a major overhaul later this summer. I think we need to consider how this will impact our campaigning there now, rather than later.
The major change that will affect us is the way that games' communities will be divided into three sub-sections, rather than the singular flat listing of all posts that we have now;
1: Play Journal - This is a new feature which replaces the posting of a comment with an attached screenshot in order to comment on the screenshot. This seems to be intended for discussing specifics about where you currently are or what you're currently doing in a game.
2: Drawings - Where all the drawings will now go. It seems that using the drawing feature to simply hand-write a post is being phased out or at least discouraged, since the promotional chatter about this is specifically focussed on art.
3: Discussion - This replaces the current layout of Miiverse communities, and it seems you will have to categorise your posts with tags (I assume these tags are the same ones already present in standard Miiverse communities, though they may well change now that more focus is going to be put on them).
Given that recent changes have been enacted in order to clamp down on unwanted posters clogging things up, I imagine that this will continue with the overhaul. We don't want to end up being accused of spamming or similar by using any of these sections wrongly, especially if the tags system for the Discussion sections is intended to drive text-based postings in the direction of specifically being about a game's extant content, rather than potential DLC.
Accordingly, I think we may be best-served by making good use of the Drawings sections in relevant communities in order to promote voting for Bandana Waddle Dee in the ballot, unless there is a very good reason to do otherwise. I don't believe that the Play Journal sections will be of very much use for this.
Since things are going to change, I also think that we would be best off changing how we do things on Miiverse now, especially since it seems that the existing popularity ratings for drawings will carry over, when they are placed in their own section.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this, and on how we can be more effective on Miiverse once the changes take effect?
He/she called Dee "nonsense" and this thread "niche-filled".
