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I've been away from the forums for quite a long time but never forgot spending way too much of my teen years here. . . has there been any kind of vision or communication from the new site owners? Any plans to breathe new life into the site? There are still active threads from years ago...hell there is a thread in ask/tell with over 30000 replies. How is anyone supposed to catch up and be a part of the conversation in something like that? It seems like nothing has really changed since lowtax sold the site. What gives? Or am I just out of touch and missing everything?
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Part of that is nothing really needs to change. New features show up and all that, but if you are suggesting that there should be a push attract a new audience, I think that would not end well. For better or worse, the community of SA is kinda what it is and I'm unconvinced that the majority of folks here would not want to see that compromised. I'd put my money on SA being 'fine' and 'treading water' for awhile yet. It's a pretty unique spot on the Internet and it seems people trickle in and out relatively slowly on both ends.
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Yeah, it's pretty refreshing that nothing is significantly changing just for the sake of change. If the forums pursued Reddit style revamps where individual posts can be upvoted and every loving reply gets indented, it would pretty much kill my interest in reading.
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Apr 27, 2023 03:30
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I hope things remain more or less the same. SA is unique in not changing that much and that's part of it's charm. As for a 3000 page thread. Just post. Still better than whatever facebook does.
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Apr 27, 2023 12:45
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Insanitylad posted:I've been away from the forums for quite a long time but never forgot spending way too much of my teen years here. . . has there been any kind of vision or communication from the new site owners? Any plans to breathe new life into the site? There are still active threads from years ago...hell there is a thread in ask/tell with over 30000 replies. How is anyone supposed to catch up and be a part of the conversation in something like that?
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Apr 30, 2023 01:53
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I vote we delete all threads over 5 pages long, to allow the op the opportunity to catch up
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Insanitylad posted:There are still active threads from years ago...hell there is a thread in ask/tell with over 30000 replies. How is anyone supposed to catch up and be a part of the conversation in something like that? with most of those threads you only need to read the last couple pages to be "caught up" enough to join the conversation. there are also several shorter threads you could join.
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The SA forums went through several iterations but stopped evolving at some point, and I think now the general vibe is that to keep it like a historic community while the userbase slowly declines. A lot of the activity has been subsumed by megathread with their own in-group, culture and rules that more or less function as a whatsapp convo, and due to various fortunate or unfortunate happenings over time a lot of activity migrated to discord channels. Its not a bad end for SA considering how many other community sites on the internet ended up disintegrating completely.
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Apr 30, 2023 17:18
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Now you use SA basically just access your bookmarked threads, and use them kind of like giant chat threads. As far as why I come back to SA after using other forums for many years, or why don't I use reddit more, because on specific threads the quality to noice level is waaayy better than any sub you can find on reddit.
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qsvui posted:Yeah, it's pretty refreshing that nothing is significantly changing just for the sake of change. If the forums pursued Reddit style revamps where individual posts can be upvoted and every loving reply gets indented, it would pretty much kill my interest in reading. Multithreaded convos are the #1 reason why I don't gently caress with Reddit. Irredeemable poo poo tier format. Updoots are technically worse but the indented reply thing really gets under my skin.
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May 23, 2023 06:02
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its very much a personal preference, and like 15 years ago there were several major web forum platforms that simply allowed the user to choose between threaded vs chain view, which makes a lot more sense than what either sa or reddit do, but its kind of an archaic format either way
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May 23, 2023 21:20
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Big titties
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And on the pedestal these words appear: 30 Days for being Bum the Sad
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kinda wish they would just turn the front page into a sparse landing page for the forums or something, but i accept that it's never ever going to happen
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Insanitylad posted:I've been away from the forums for quite a long time but never forgot spending way too much of my teen years here. . . has there been any kind of vision or communication from the new site owners? Any plans to breathe new life into the site? There are still active threads from years ago...hell there is a thread in ask/tell with over 30000 replies. How is anyone supposed to catch up and be a part of the conversation in something like that? it slowly dies no one is willing to pay $10 entry fee for an internet forum in 2023 when there's so many free online communities available everywhere
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May 30, 2023 23:42
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Typo posted:it slowly dies that's been the case for 25 years. it's always been the unique community and frankly, the $10 making it prohibitive for people to create accounts that will just get banned, leading to growth and popularity of SA. its population decline right now is pretty tightly correlated to "how would folks come here". SA doesn't have cultural influence it gained in the mid-2000s anymore but it also lacks any content generation that LED to folks joining in the mid-early-2000s, as well as the early 2010s when the curated and moderated LP's were popping off. i dont really see that reversing anymore though the new leadership made it feel like it could for a bit, fwiw
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if we want the forums to become popular again we should get back into the piracy business. all the big streaming companies are disappearing their shows and movies as part of some tax scam its important archival work to keep art alive
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Lady Radia posted:its population decline right now is pretty tightly correlated to "how would folks come here". SA doesn't have cultural influence it gained in the mid-2000s anymore but it also lacks any content generation that LED to folks joining in the mid-early-2000s, as well as the early 2010s when the curated and moderated LP's were popping off. the issue is that nowadays the way people access content is largely through video format rather than text which is what SA had being about. Text-based LPs have long being subhumed by twitch for instance. Maybe it's just me: but I notice that there's a tendency nowadays for newer online communities to coalise around YT personalities. [quote] Lady Radia posted:that's been the case for 25 years. it's always been the unique community SA is mostly unique as kind of a repo of mid-2000s internet culture frozen in stasis. Other than that it's just a chatgroup for people in their late 30s/early 40s at this point. Uniqueness isn't nessessarily a selling point by itself Typo fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 31, 2023 |
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Earwicker posted:if we want the forums to become popular again we should get back into the piracy business. all the big streaming companies are disappearing their shows and movies as part of some tax scam its important archival work to keep art alive In addition to the :files: we also had the porn scholar forums where they could find any video from one half remembered still you saw in 1996
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May 31, 2023 02:16
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Torrents and porn are always safe bets
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olives black posted:Multithreaded convos are the #1 reason why I don't gently caress with Reddit. Irredeemable poo poo tier format. Updoots are technically worse but the indented reply thing really gets under my skin. It’s completely useless for discussion as the voting system rewards a pithy one liner more than a salient point because 99% of humanity are idiots. Small curated subreddits can be all right but most of them are like reading the dialogue in a marvel movie.
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Rhymenoserous posted:It’s completely useless for discussion as the voting system rewards a pithy one liner more than a salient point because 99% of humanity are idiots. Small curated subreddits can be all right but most of them are like reading the dialogue in a marvel movie. It also rewards things that sound true or things the community believes over reality. Every subreddit ends up as its own little echo chamber where the same ideas are cargo culted day in and day out and people are routinely removed for pointing this out.
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:It also rewards things that sound true or things the community believes over reality. Every subreddit ends up as its own little echo chamber where the same ideas are cargo culted day in and day out and people are routinely removed for pointing this out. there are some subreddits where everyone just shitposts and that seems to reduce the echo chamber tendency.
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Dec 12, 2023 20:43
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The forums have only a sliver of the activity of compared to what they had before, but I guess some people aren't happy until its all consolidated down to 10 mega-threads with the same 40 people posting for that special community feel.
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I took a hiatus around the time LowTax smacked his 3rd wife/girlfriend around. I left because I felt like the community is becoming too closed off, this place need fresh blood to survive. I came back because Reddit and Facebook both suck balls and Twitter is dead. I thought Jeff bought the forums to try to make things better, not more of the same.
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The whole lack of new people is concerning. No one wants an influx of a million users, we want to know that at the minimum there’s going to be some new people joining for some reason. Right now there’s no reason
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Reasons to join -Shitposting -No good alternatives
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I actually saw someone with a September 2023 reg date the other day Weird as hell to think that I've been here half my life
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when i see a 2023 reg date i tend to just assume that an old goon made a new account for some reason. its hard to imagine why anyone new would pay $10 to join a web forum
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You guys treat somethingawful like that weird underground society in A Boy and His Dog
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I think the cost to join is a feature. It helps drive away bots and other scammy accounts that plague so much of the internet. Even if it cost just 1$ it would serve the purpose of filtering out a lot of undesirables. What else do people even use? Obviously there's reddit and social media. I think a lot of people are getting burnt out on those. There's discord of course. Are there any other big BBcode forums still around? Or other alternatives?
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The front page hasn't been updated in 3+ years. That was a major way new people found the forums. I found SA from Photoshop Fridays being linked on the video game blog I used to read.
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Hotel Kpro posted:The whole lack of new people is concerning. No one wants an influx of a million users, we want to know that at the minimum there’s going to be some new people joining for some reason. Right now there’s no reason I would appreciate some new users joining each year and seeing the frequency of content go back up. I got burnt out on other social medium platforms. Reddit/TikTok/Instagram are addictive and made me feel like I was rotting my brain away, so I've stepped away. I don't think I'm the only one who feels that way, but I'm not sure those under the age of 25 remember a time without video-style social media - I think it's worth spreading the word around.
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credburn posted:You guys treat somethingawful like that weird underground society in A Boy and His Dog The Dog: "Hey, pal! Put down that brick!"
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Gas thread, ban OP. Feeling more at home now OP?
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I think as someone who is the rare new user I'd like to comment that I think the value of these forums is that it does feel like a small community of people who can slow down and have more of a conversation. I got unhappy with new social media cause it felt like my brain was rotting and people would constantly just parrot the same received wisdom at each other. I don't know that a ton of new people would maintain that vibe but I feel like if others end up in the same situation as me there may be something of a newbie boom not enough to stop the decline just slow it for a bit the Internet tends to be unpredictable. Sorry for the long post.
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retnuha posted:I think as someone who is the rare new user I'd like to comment that I think the value of these forums is that it does feel like a small community of people who can slow down and have more of a conversation. How did you come across SA at all?
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Count Roland posted:How did you come across SA at all? I wonder this as well. Anyone who isn't a re-reg that has legit signed up for the first time in the past several years seems to have some variant of "I knew about this place for many years because of X (fill in the blank here, could be a friend, photoshop, let's play, whatever) and just finally decided to sign up for Y (fill in the blank reason here). I can't remember anyone saying they signed up recently because they just stumbled upon the site all on their own lately, I'm not sure how you would even do that anymore. Is the "join for game" still a thing sometimes?
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I think I found it when I was a teenager in the 2010's and trying to find LP's of the old DOS hidden agenda game I think I might have found some here or on the Bay12Game forums after that I would usually lurk in the LP threads that were available to the public. I recently rediscovered the site cause of the aforementioned social media starting to feel like doing the daily Walmart chant. I've been lurking a bit since then but recently bought an account as a Christmas present to myself.
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Do we have any current content? I feel like the only thing we offer is forums with a paywall. Hard to grab new people that way. Also welcome to the forums! We hope you post and/or shitpost to your heart’s content
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