Looks like 12 months have flown past since the big forum move, so I guess I should make a thread about it. At some point I was planning on some song and dance to mark the occasion, if we got this far, but honestly it just kinda slipped my mind until now.
So uh... Yay! 12 months. I guess it's a good time to ask
'What do you want from us?' again...
Is there anything you particularly
like? How about
dislike? What would you like to see more of? What features would you like to see? Is there something that would totally make you visit more often? Is there something keeping you from visiting more often? Did you know we have a Discord and that it's actually pretty good? Do you want challenges? Video content? Live streaming? Podcasts? Reviews? Tutorials? Articles? More models? More Star Trek? Less Star Trek? Better Star Wars? Should we just move to TikTok?
Basically, once again, let us know how we're doing, and what we should be doing instead.
Or, you know, just post GIFs...
Posts
I always prefer more original Star Trek, but that's me. I have my own site for that. So, again, just keep doing what you're doing!
It could be cool to see some sort of incentive for tutorials or video content from the userbase, though I'm not sure how.
so far so good
Current Projects:
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What's your perspective on how it's going, Guerrilla?
984 (678) users have logged in on the new forums.
306 (157) new users have registered.
However, 103 (46) have turned out to be spammers, and subsequently banned. Spam that has made it to the forums is still in single digits.
335 (219) threads have seen activity since the move.
13 (7) models have been released.
6 month milestones in parenthesis
So, basically things are pretty much moving along on the same trajectory. Member and visitor numbers have nothing on follower numbers even small scale social media outlets, but I'd like to think folks are a little more engaged than idly browsing reposted content, but maybe I'm projecting.
I'd like to see people make more use of the "new" features of the site like Self Promotion and a more sophisticated Releases forum, but I'm guessing in the end we don't have that much to offer to people already doing their thing on social media, and the traditionalists who prefer a forum don't care about streaming their work or doing stuff on Youtube or other socials. I dunno. I should maybe be more active on our channels to see if those will bring people to the site, but it's honestly pretty tedious work.
I would like to see more new stuff. Most of our activity is in the decade spanning project threads, which I love dearly, and were a big reason why I wanted to keep the site going, but it would be neat to see a little broader selection without having to fire up Artstation occasionally. The amount of active threads is actually growing slower than the rest of the site, which tells me that posting is mostly focused in the megathreads and very long term projects*. This is nice because the work is very high quality these days, but it also means that its scope is a little limited. I'm not that interested in the popularity of site. I decided pretty early on that the quality of work and community is more important to me than views, but I guess it would take a certain amount of people to make cool things like challenges a realistic possibility.
I dunno. You tell me. That's why I made the thread
[edit]: *actually, not 100% sure about this one. I'll have to check the database to make sure
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Love the way you managed the changes and the site.
There's a tag for Real World and thread prefixes for 2D, 3D, Practical, Animation and Photography.
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(yet I still didn't win )
I know it's very despiriting to go to the trouble to arrange a competition and no-one takes part.
I suggest you avoid the 'tedious work'. The last thing anyone needs is admins that come to dread the work.
Ok, so out of the 343 active threads since the migration, 269 are new and 74 continued from the old forums, so it's not as significant a chunk as I thought initially.
Oh, but 46 are mine though, and mostly for administration things, so those probably don't count...
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One thing I'd like to see go away is the automatic draft saving. Is it a necessary feature? I don't think so, since there's a big button marked "Save Draft." It's not so annoying most of the time, but I was in a low coverage area a few minutes ago trying to post a reply but I couldn't post for a moment because the forum was saving. (you know you're doing a good job if this is the only thing I can think of to complain about)
Have to go hunt down the line of code. It should work in most clients that have addons that can block scripts. Used it on android and various windows clients.
https://forums.scifi-meshes.com/applications/vanilla/js/autosave.js
[edit]: I suppose a button for clearing all drafts would be pretty useful too...
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I love that last suggestion.
I agree that disabling it for everyone isn't the way to go, as some people may like the feature. Just a way to turn it off on the account level would be cool.
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Rolling eyes is always nice to have.
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Ah, I wasn't sure. When you hit the little emoji thingamajig on the posting box, it doesn't come up.
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So no, you should not run out of attachment space, but would be polite to keep the page loading times (not everyone has great Internet) in mind, if you're sharing something truly massive.
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