Time does fly, doesn't it...
TLDR: Anyway, it's been
three years since the big move. Please let us how we're doing.
Since we pulled the switch on February 13 2019:
- 1827 members have logged in. (2021: 1472, 2020: 984)
- 845 new members have signed up. (2021: 589, 2020: 306)
- 170 spammers have been banned. (2021: 138, 2020: 103)
- 840 threads have seen activity. (2021:609 , 2020: 335)
- 694 new threads have been started. (2021: 499, 2020: 269)
- 27 models have been released. (2021: 23, 2020: 13)
Anyway, how do you think we've been doing?
Is there anything you particularly
like or
dislike about the site?
Are there some
new features you would like to see here? Are we missing something really essential?
Is the site
easy and fun to use?
Is there some
content you would like to see from us (you know, official Scifi-Meshes stuff)? Or are you just here to look at other members' work?
Are you streaming your work, selling models or taking commissions? Is there something we can do to help you
promote those things?
Are you actually interested in people streaming their work or taking commissions, or just here for the forums?
Any interest in
challenges? If yes, big ones with prizes or small quick and fun stuff like weekly or monthly challenges? If not, why is that?
Have you checked out our
Discord?
We kind of shuttered our Instagram, and didn't use our Facebook and Twitter at all last year. Did anyone notice?
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I'm interested in challenges. At least some of them smaller, so those of us with limited abilities can participate. It would be nice to see the some of the heavy-weight artists do toe-to-toe competitions too.
I noticed the lack of Facebook participation, but from what I've been hearing, Facebook is becoming an enclave for old people, like me.
The one thing I dislike about the site is that I have to refresh to see any new content, but I assume that's just how it is.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRhLEHgwgTKxsalM5YznYQ
Formerly furswift
I do have one suggestion. Necro-posts. I had commented on a post, not realizing it was years old. My bad. However, I had one of the more active members here jump down my throat about it publicly. I understand an old post like that is almost irrelevant, but I didn't appreciate being treated like an idiot.
I think to elevate the problem, it should be considered to disable comments on posts that are years old or even delete them. If it is such a huge deal to 'necro-post' then why still have the ability to do it. Especially if it is not done on purpose. A ten year old post should be eliminated anyway. What is the point of having it be there to create a problem?
Thanks for all of the hard work that is put into this website to make it a great place. Respectfully submitted,
Scott
Here are the things we do to address it:
I'm sorry someone got shitty with you for a simple mistake. That's actually just as against the rules here as necroposting. (See Don't be an asshole and
We are, however, the SFM police..).
On one hand a necropost here and there isn't a big deal. It'll get tagged, the forum index will sort itself out in a week or so. Sometimes it's good to remind people, possibly publicly, so others can learn too, but there's never a reason to be shitty about it.
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I have never seen the warning and I probably missed the skulls.
Well, folks, here's to plenty more! Cheers y'all!
I think at some time in the past there was a header on the homepage that highlighted interesting and outstanding projects. It was taken down after a while, probably for good reason, but I liked that feature too. Would be nice to have it back, if it is in any way possible.
I think that may just be your browser. At least I don't think I added one... but thanks anyway.
The reason we don't have it anymore is that it was custom made for a very specific version of vbulletin we were using at the time and it simply didn't work with anything else. It got broken in a forum update, and we've changed software since, and the old server is gone anyway, so not going to be using that one again.
I am working on a similar feature, but I've only been messing with some prototypes so far. I did just finish the first version of our Discord bot, so maybe I'll look at featured posts next.
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