Forum    Search    FAQ

Board index » Chat Forums » Suggestions and Comments




Post new topic  Reply to topic  [ 5 posts ] 
 
Author Message
 Post subject: I Suggest We Lock WGARS
 Post Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2018 8:45 am 
Member of the Fraternal Order of the Emergency Pants
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Wed Feb 26, 2003 12:00 am
Posts: 3411
AOL: Dodger724
Location: Relative Obscurity
Look, off topic chat (GC,POOP,WGARS) is on life support. I think we need a shock to the system. Lock WGARS, but keep it visible. Silly Threads just go to GC.

While we're at it, we could merge S&C with Important Threads, the consolidated forum being Important Threads. I'm not as sold on this idea as the WGARS one though. WGARS is dead. There's no use in denying it.

edit: Sorry, I used old terms. By off topic, I meant Chat forums. The Sluggy Related forums are fine.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2018 3:38 pm 
Moderator of DOOM!
Moderator of DOOM!
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Fri May 23, 2003 12:00 am
Posts: 6794
AOL: gregnier
Location: Do not taunt Happy Fun Mod.
Twitter: BaronJayne
Hey Dodger. There's been a project to condense the boards into more broadly held topics for a few years. In fact i just checked and the Mods were discussing this way back in May of 2015. The proposal was to collapse GC, S&C, and WGARS into one thread, leaving POOP and intros as is, while also merging GRPG and FRPG.

Then Sluggy 20+ happened. The boards have had a resurgence, but only in On Topic because PLOT is happening.

There's been discussion to move to a Slack or Discord style board which is more Mobile friendly but that's totally out of the Board Staff's hands and firmly in Pete's.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 5:05 am 
Member of the Fraternal Order of the Emergency Pants
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Wed Feb 26, 2003 12:00 am
Posts: 3411
AOL: Dodger724
Location: Relative Obscurity
Interesting! One of the things that makes this slow period so frustrating is how much traffic the Sluggy related stuff is getting with virtually no overflow into the chat forums whatsoever.

Back in the old days, when the Comic really got going, the extra traffic from SRC and Reactions almost always translated into more traffic for GC, POOP and WGARS.

*sigh*

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 1:18 pm 
Moderator of DOOM!
Moderator of DOOM!
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Fri May 23, 2003 12:00 am
Posts: 6794
AOL: gregnier
Location: Do not taunt Happy Fun Mod.
Twitter: BaronJayne
This is me the Board member talking, not me the Mod talking, but IMHO i would have liked to see the boards as a whole migrate to a Slack or Discord format. Either is so much more mobile friendly. PHPBB was created in a world before we had the internet in our pockets and is just not worth the work to type and read on a pocket-sized screen.

Even the Sluggy group on Facebook doesn't get a lot of traction because FB's algorithms don't push it as much since it's a small group. An update missed here, an update missed there, and it's just unfollowed.

Top 
   
 Post Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2019 9:31 pm 
User avatar
Offline
Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2005 9:44 pm
Posts: 43
Website: http://kahzmick.com
Location: Look to Your Left
Dodger77 wrote:
Look, off topic chat (GC,POOP,WGARS) is on life support. I think we need a shock to the system. Lock WGARS, but keep it visible. Silly Threads just go to GC.

While we're at it, we could merge S&C with Important Threads, the consolidated forum being Important Threads. I'm not as sold on this idea as the WGARS one though. WGARS is dead. There's no use in denying it.

edit: Sorry, I used old terms. By off topic, I meant Chat forums. The Sluggy Related forums are fine.


Nooooooooooo!

Top 
   
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
 
Post new topic  Reply to topic  [ 5 posts ] 

Board index » Chat Forums » Suggestions and Comments


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

 
 

 
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to: