Thu, July 27th, 2006 | #1 |
We need a gimmick
I'm willing to put all the resources of TovenSolutions to work to get more members. So I'm officially opening this thread for discussion. What piece of technology can I offer or develop that will breath new life into this forum?
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Fri, July 28th, 2006 | #2 |
A cloning machine. Just clone our top posters and the problem is solved.
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Mon, February 5th, 2007 | #3 |
Well I hate to say it but I don't think the front page screams click the forums! Instead it screams close this window. Maybe tcforums.com should link directly to the forums and what's now the front page should be the link.
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Mon, February 5th, 2007 | #4 |
Agreed. Before anything else, we really, really need to do something with the front page -- either getting rid of it or replacing it with something new and easier to update (so we can pretend to be a real site and post news or something)...
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Mon, February 5th, 2007 | #5 |
That's true. If I happened upon that front page I would assume the site hadn't been updated in years and I wouldn't even bother clicking on the forums.
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Mon, February 5th, 2007 | #6 | |
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Yeah, this doesn't exactly scream "bustling community".
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Mon, February 5th, 2007 | #7 |
Definitely not, that's for sure...
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Mon, February 5th, 2007 | #8 |
Well, that was posted twenty-one months in the future. Who knows what will happen between now and then!?
I think we need to find a way to have a forum-integrated front page like we did years ago. It practically updated itself, which if nothing else gives errant passers-by the illusion that people do shop here.
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It didn't really update itself. That was Laser Link and me who added popular topics to the front page. Although I'm sure a little PHP could create something that would be self-updating.
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Tue, February 6th, 2007 | #10 | |
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One or the other of these would be a really good idea.
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Wed, February 7th, 2007 | #12 |
Could we find that or something similar for this forum version? What was it?
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Tue, February 20th, 2007 | #13 |
This place, if possible, seems to be getting worse posts-wise... is there anything we actually can (or want to) do, or should we just give up and say 'ten posts total a day (or whatever) is good enough'?
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Tue, February 20th, 2007 | #14 |
If there's anything we need, it's less forums so that everything is consolidated in as few places as possible.
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Tue, February 20th, 2007 | #15 |
What, then? Tendo and Multiconsole, Ramble and Debate? The current 'Zelda' forum has had many topics and can't just be put into one or the other without manually going through all the posts and separating them. Comics and Reviews need to stay unless we get some new frontpage system we actually use that could replace them (yeah right -- even if we did, like the last one it would be easier to just use the in-forum system...). Forum 5 is admins-only, so needs to stay (this one of course could be folded into Forum 5 or Ramble, depending on which makes more sense.). Really, I don't think that that would make a huge difference...
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Sat, February 24th, 2007 | #16 |
Actually, I'm in favor of culling the forum count myself.
The Zelda forum can be made a subforum of Tendo City, unless it is going to remain as the flavor-of-the-month thing, which it hasn't in forever. Even this "NEED NEW MEMBERS" forum could serve just as much use as a single stickied thread. Honestly, the place is really cluttered these days. Seems like we have more forums than people to post in them. Forum 5 as an admin-only forum is kind of a joke, isn't it? How many non-admins are left now? Plus, it's almost literally been years since it's seen anything close to regular use. The Online Trading forum serves no purpose with so few people.
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Thu, March 8th, 2007 | #17 |
Hi kids, I see TC is rock and rolling into the 2010s - actually, it's more like a geriatric intensive-care patient with pneumonia who's running a marathon and we're all waiting to see if he'll even reach the start line...
I agree the multiple forums are kind of silly, I would vouch for one single forum or two at most (one for video games and one for everything else). I'd be tempted to add that old yarn about needing content, too. Consider it this way: at this point, nobody's "reviving" anything. If you want more people to visit these forums, you need to consider this the starting point, "brainstorming" if you will, for your new space-age website.
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Thu, March 8th, 2007 | #18 |
Merging Tendo and Multiconsole and Ramble and Religion & Philosophy might work, though the "Twilight Princess" forum is half Tendo/Multiconsole content and half Ramble content, so that wouldn't be as easy... we'd need to separate out the gaming threads and the Star Wars/Anime/etc threads, and send each to their appropriate place (perhaps the anime ones to the 'movie reviews' subforum of Ramble and rename it 'movie/television somethingorother'? I do like having places to keep similar threads, like the review forums, which of course would stay as they are.)...
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Thu, March 8th, 2007 | #19 |
Actually, considering how incredibly small we are right now, I'm quite in favor of knocking everything down to three, Tendo, Multiconsole, and Ramble. Maybe make Religion a subforum of Ramble and maybe not. But we definitely do need to downsize a bit, I think. Reviews could sub-Tendo, and Comics could sub-Ramble.
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Thu, March 8th, 2007 | #20 |
I like having them as separate parts though because of how they (Comics and Reviews) aren't just subforums, they're website sections without a website...
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