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What happened here?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 3:10 am
by bwood42
I used to read this forum quite avidly. Real life caught up and I was away a while, but now I'm back into a BBowl league and came here to see what was up... and it's a ghost town! What happened to this place? Where has everyone gone?
Icepelt Hammerblow was my friend! I miss him!
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 6:40 am
by lunchmoney
A lot of people went to chaos (discord) and hatebook, I guess.
It didn't help that the site went down for a few days (a couple of years back now) and everyone just stopped bothering to check.
Plus the software is woefully out of date and only the owner, Doubleskulls, can do anything about that -I've tried contacting him in an effort to letting me update things but I've never had a reply
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 6:47 am
by Waldorf28
It's a resource for tournament listings. It does that job very well. That's about it
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:03 pm
by bwood42
What's the discord site?
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:37 pm
by lunchmoney
https://discord.com/
Create a server, invite people to join, chat.
I find it absolutely mental way to promote a tourney, which some do, as any particular message gets lost in the noise quickly. But lots of people like it.
At least it doesn't require a real name, or any pertinent information that can be used to ID a person (something I have issues with fb about).
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2023 5:42 pm
by bwood42
lunchmoney wrote: ↑Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:37 pm
https://discord.com/
Create a server, invite people to join, chat.
I find it absolutely mental way to promote a tourney, which some do, as any particular message gets lost in the noise quickly. But lots of people like it.
At least it doesn't require a real name, or any pertinent information that can be used to ID a person (something I have issues with fb about).
I use discord! We have one for our local league and I'm in the NAF one. I was wondering if there was a specific one most folks from here went to?
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2023 6:29 am
by lunchmoney
If there is I don't know about it.
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:46 pm
by Mystic Force
Forums are by far my preferred method of conversing about a subject, but they seemed to have just fallen out of popularity in general. Redit Bloodbowl is probably the closest to the experience of a forum of the major platforms. In many ways the problem is that the community has splintered in to separate areas like Facebook, discord, or the comments sections of YouTube.
Facebook discussions are bad because they branch and are bad at archiving discussion plus we all have "real names" there so that detaches us from our online and NAF identifiers, plus it's split over several groups for different aspects.
Discord is better, but communities are separated over individual leagues, tournaments, interests area, podcasts and unless you find an invite from somewhere else you are unlikely to find a server. Plus all the notifications can get annoying so you turn them off and then miss important stuff.
This place just got quieter and quieter in a feedback loop, with less to see there was less reason to visit and now even important things in BB don't get a mention. This used to be my go to for news now there is no point.
This is sad because I think forums with their structured discussion layout and their archiving is simply better than the alternatives, but without the traffic have become insignificant.
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2023 10:51 pm
by Aliboon
Mystic Force - I agree, with forums you can search things and follow the thread of what's happening, not with Facebook. I said something similar a couple of years ago and was told that I'm in the minority, that is undoubtedly increasingly so, but it doesn't mean I'm wrong!
It's a shame, but these things need a critical mass and we've fallen below that unfortunately. The FUMBBL still look quite active.
Re: What happened here?
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:39 pm
by Axtklinge
Mystic Force wrote: ↑Thu Jun 15, 2023 3:46 pm
Forums are by far my preferred method of conversing about a subject, but they seemed to have just fallen out of popularity in general. Redit Bloodbowl is probably the closest to the experience of a forum of the major platforms. In many ways the problem is that the community has splintered in to separate areas like Facebook, discord, or the comments sections of YouTube.
Facebook discussions are bad because they branch and are bad at archiving discussion plus we all have "real names" there so that detaches us from our online and NAF identifiers, plus it's split over several groups for different aspects.
Discord is better, but communities are separated over individual leagues, tournaments, interests area, podcasts and unless you find an invite from somewhere else you are unlikely to find a server. Plus all the notifications can get annoying so you turn them off and then miss important stuff.
This place just got quieter and quieter in a feedback loop, with less to see there was less reason to visit and now even important things in BB don't get a mention. This used to be my go to for news now there is no point.
This is sad because I think forums with their structured discussion layout and their archiving is simply better than the alternatives, but without the traffic have become insignificant.
+1 on this!
Everything seems to be so much scattered nowadays. Unfortunatly.
