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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 16 2011, 03:11 AM (530 Views) | |
| Roxas | Mar 16 2011, 03:11 AM Post #1 |
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Are you happy having a semi-private forum to roleplay on, or would you like to get this site back up and running? |
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| Reaver | Mar 16 2011, 03:25 AM Post #2 |
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Up and running please.. |
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One side of my eyes see tomorrow, And the other one see yesterday I hope I could sleep in the cradle of your love, again Cry for me, somebody, with dry eyes I Reavey, am completely owned by Raiiny. And will no longer be critical of spelling errors. I will also loose at any placed bets. | |
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| Roxas | Mar 16 2011, 03:40 AM Post #3 |
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has got the edge.
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Remember to vote, too :) If you guys are serious about wanting TUL back, I'll be serious too <3 |
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| Anomailia | Mar 16 2011, 06:17 PM Post #4 |
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I like this place. 67% of my on the internet is spent on here. ^_^ |
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| Walking Softly | Mar 16 2011, 08:50 PM Post #5 |
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Stealth Leo
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I'd like to get it revived. See my other posting about this, Roxas. <3 |
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| Froen | Mar 22 2011, 02:38 PM Post #6 |
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Public Relations
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tl;dr version: sooo lyk idk wut to pick. how do i shot web? Also I'm extremely leery of these community discussions because I'm not sure anyone reads posts after they've cast their vote and made their token post. Prove my paranoid self wrong please. If only I had a dollar for every neurosis I have, right? I'd totally count it before bed, then count it again, then sleep for like fifteen minutes or half an hour or so then count it again. Then smile and sleep. And totally buy my own personal plane complete with pilot and all. On one hand I'm of the opinion that this is a forum and, in being so, public in nature. It doesn't really register with me that one should hope for privacy as an option, especially considering that e-mail is superior in performing that function. I do understand that we wouldn't know each other to e-mail in the first place if it wasn't for TUL, but that's the rub isn't it? If it wasn't for the public nature of the forum, we wouldn't know each other at all, now would we? The whole quasi-private thing isn't really in line with the spirit of having this URL, it seems to me. But -and this is a big but, allow me to reiterate. But To drop the other shoe, I don't know what your respective schedules are like. Really I'd like to think they're better than mine, but I find usually that when you bring these things up, everyone's is worse. I really don't want to get out the good old ruler and compare the size of our problems and spend the next few posts one-upping each other about how much our lives suck or whatever, that doesn't help anything. However, I don't know if I can be serious. I have college. I have excessively shitty internet and only somewhat regular access. I have work to do. I have scraping by on very limited funds to do. I have more basic concerns, and you very well may too. We are all older now. It comes with the territory, or so I hear. I don't know that I could be serious. I'm afraid to support getting TUL back out there if I'm expected to be serious about it, and it turns out I really can't be. Also, even though I don't agree with it on principle, I don't want to change things for the people who don't want them to be changed. Maybe we could take a third option. Preserve what we have here, and then hop sites as it suits us. I don't want to mess up what someone else feels they have when I could take an approach that doesn't require me to. Suffice it to say I'm not at all sure which option on the poll to pick. edit:Just to push my pick a third option thingy, Xigbar linked this (click me!) in the cbox a while ago. It certainly looks pretty, but I haven't poked around it much. I trust her judgment though, sooooo~ /end edit Edited by Froen, Mar 23 2011, 07:40 PM.
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| Walking Softly | Mar 24 2011, 12:39 AM Post #7 |
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Locke has been working for months and months on making a new forum for TUL. It's not a 'new site'. Neither he nor I could see many major structural changes that would improve what we already have here. Ideally, everyone still interested in TUL would switch over, making a token re-application; all active, and perhaps all archived, roleplays would be shifted over as well, so that there's as little interruption to the function of the site as possible. We've worked out a few improvements. Nothing huge, just things like ways to make new posts more visible; stuff like that. We'd start over fresh. People's favourite games could be remade - games posts will count towards your total again. One problem we have right now, with TUL sitting here as it is, is the member count. There's no method that Locke or I know of to make it reflect our true population - which is, rather than over 5000, closer to 200. I feel that the stated hugeness and age of the site may be scaring away new members; I've watched dozens of people sign up and then never get anywhere. No one responds to any posts they do make. We used to welcome new people; I haven't seen much of that in the last year. (It doesn't help that the most engaging set of people who joined in the last twelve months or so turned out to be one person playing two accounts.) I wonder whether, rather than some kind of scary big effort, we could better use a stronger sense of communication and community - with each other (existing members) and with new members. The truth is, I know I personally don't feel like I know very many of you well any more, and I suspect that's widespread across the site. We've found other communication methods for talking to the people we met way back when, and don't use the site any more; and now we're not open to new people, either. A while back, we tried a sort of apprenticeship program for new members, but it didn't seem to work too well. In a sense, I fully agree with Froen's third option: keep this site open and available for as long as necessary (it costs us nothing, after all), and hop sites (and by hop, I mean switch to the new one Locke's made and just hasn't quite opened yet) whenever comfortable. Right now, my schedule is pretty open - but in the next while, I will be getting busier. I probably won't be able to sit online for hours at a time; but I will, absolutely, be around to answer questions, review applications, and roleplay. I am /not/ the kind of person who makes new content: I /cannot/ implement new stuff. I'm terrible at it. What I can do is maintain a system already created. If someone else will set up that system, I'll keep it running. And: I believe we NEED new members, and we NEED more old members to return. Letting the site continue to coast as it is, is sentencing it to a slow death. I feel like all of that was a garbled mess, so let me try picking out the main points. 1. There is a currently closed, almost-complete new host site for TUL. Locke has been making it. 1.a. There are some improvements in it on this current forum, but all the good, all the major, points will be just the same. 2. Switching to it would be easy for you, the site member, and would solve the member count problem. 3. There is a member count problem. We have less than a tenth of the reported accounts, let alone active accounts. 4. I believe that the community aspect of TUL that really made it worth being a member of has faded. I also believe that we can get it back: by exerting ourselves to use the OoC forums, and by actively welcoming new members. I further believe that switching to the new site would make this activity easier; fewer ghosts of old posts looming over our shoulders. 5. I do not believe that we absolutely must launch a gigantic advertising campaign of any description, or otherwise exhaust ourselves, in order to serve TUL's revision. Admittedly, such efforts would be totally bonus. 6. I am capable of running maintenance, as a sub-admin kind of person, but I will never be able to invent my own ideas or solutions. It's not what I do. Someone else will need to be active and coming up with this stuff, whether that's Locke, Roxas, or someone else. 7. I repeat that we may has well have shut the door in the face of all new members recently, by not actively responding to their existence. The C-Box is not the only, or even the appropriate, place to greet them. There's an OoC board for that - specifically marked as such for the newcomers. They don't know that the C-Box is pretty much the only way we let each other know we're alive these days. We have to start using the boards for what they are. This is a forum, not a public IM. 8. I don't want to close the old site - this site. I want it to stay open - just not accepting new members. I don't want people to have to change, if change will drive them away. However, lack of change is driving other people away, so I want to be able to help both sides. There. Try that. |
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| Reaver | Mar 24 2011, 01:05 AM Post #8 |
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Sorry I need to review what Froen and Tris posted cause they are epic and quite heavy material , can't read it at work... But yes revival would be good but I saw mention of Locke's site which I had inkling about when he brought it up a while ago so thought some integration would be good. |
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One side of my eyes see tomorrow, And the other one see yesterday I hope I could sleep in the cradle of your love, again Cry for me, somebody, with dry eyes I Reavey, am completely owned by Raiiny. And will no longer be critical of spelling errors. I will also loose at any placed bets. | |
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