I'd be interested to know why people who actually make stuff leave.I've seen Sheep express that he can't post stuff with the restrictive gif size limit, for example. That could easily be changed.
Ultimately, I'd say /board needs to focus on people who make pictures, not lurkers. Photoshopping jokes isn't a fashionable hobby nowadays (the kids make videos), and it is good to have a place where people who share your hobby hang out.
If you focus on lurkers, then you start adding things like down vote buttons, and that takes away the encouraging environment which is what made this site stand out - people don't want to be told their work is shit, offensive or they are a spamcunt, they want to play and find out what works.
Focussing on getting lurkers subscribing to the Twitter feed seems sensible - presumably that is where most of them have gone already - and the more users on that, the more an fp is 'worth' (though I'd quite like it to post higher voted popular posts, too).
(Ultimately, I'd say /board needs to focus on people who make pictures, not lurkers. Photoshopping jokes isn't a fashionable hobby nowadays (the kids make videos), and it is good to have a place where people who share your hobby hang out.
If you focus on lurkers, then you start adding things like down vote buttons, and that takes away the encouraging environment which is what made this site stand out - people don't want to be told their work is shit, offensive or they are a spamcunt, they want to play and find out what works.
Focussing on getting lurkers subscribing to the Twitter feed seems sensible - presumably that is where most of them have gone already - and the more users on that, the more an fp is 'worth' (though I'd quite like it to post higher voted popular posts, too).
monkeon schmonkeon,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 12:19,
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the ones I've kept in touch with changed job and/or had a family that made being online so much awkwardI agree the gif limit is restrictive and feels old (especially if we want to be in any way a cutting edge comedy site!), but I've never understood why not just post a thumbnail and link to Youtube?
the main problem with saying 2mb gifs are ok is when that is applied to every throwaway reply gif or a dance party happens with 100 replies.
(the main problem with saying 2mb gifs are ok is when that is applied to every throwaway reply gif or a dance party happens with 100 replies.
HappyToast Groat froth,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 12:41,
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Moving the "I made this" videosfrom /links to /board would perhaps be a solution. I like the idea of an all-encompassing "I made this" board, anyway.
( monkeon schmonkeon,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 13:02,
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CDC thread 3 trillion MB! I would bloody love a 2mb gif rule. But as a thread starter. But as you said I could do one and link it.
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Frogbeat,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 13:31,
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I can't imagine why people who make stuff leaveThere's no-where else I could post my crap - nor get the inspiration/image challenges to make it.
( ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 12:42,
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and they make you feel so welcome!
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ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 13:17,
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I find the size limits difficultsometimes, and losing B3tards was a blow. I know it is my fault, but I lost a lot of work there; I changed computer a few times and lost the origionals, but could always link to them on B3tards. Now they are gone forever. Not the biggest tragedy the world will ever see, but mattered to me because I don't post anywhere else but here.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 13:21,
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Oh, thanks for thatalthough some of the links ask me for money, which I do not have.
( TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 13:50,
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Click the link and then click the blue circle around a date.The money thing is just fundraising and not part of that site's content - you shouldn't have to pay to see anything.
( monkeon schmonkeon,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 14:00,
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Clevah!Ta muchly. Got a few back.
( TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 14:34,
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Good postMy tupenny's worth, as a previous frequentish and criminally underrated poster who now almost never posts anything, is very much as HappyToast said - I've changed job and I've got damn all time free at the minute at all, which is exacerbated by working in an open-plan office where photoshopping (well, gimping) things wouldn't go down at all well even if I can't do anything while compiling anyway. Back in the past I was in an office shared with one or two people, a wall to my back, and no-one who'd care checking what I was doing while things were compiling or running.
I totally agree I wouldn't spend time trying to appeal to the lurkers. Those like me are lurkers for a reason - grown too fat, too old and too tired - and that's unlikely to change; and others are unlikely to swap from lurking regardless. Any that do, I'd suggest would have been likely to at some point anyway.
We could do with changing the colour scheme, having a board that's more searchable (search is a perennial issue on B3ta), having a board of variable length that we can set ourselves, and having collapsible threads. Since no-one seems to be maintaining the codebase though, that's unlikely to happen. (If the keys could be opened, I'm sure some on here are good enough at whatever the hell the backend is written in - PHP would be my guess - that they could get something better hacked together. But the keys won't be opened not least because, for whatever reason, Rob doesn't give a flying fuck about B3ta anymore and robtoo hasn't been spotted in a long while too. I've no idea if anyone else would ever have had access.)
(I totally agree I wouldn't spend time trying to appeal to the lurkers. Those like me are lurkers for a reason - grown too fat, too old and too tired - and that's unlikely to change; and others are unlikely to swap from lurking regardless. Any that do, I'd suggest would have been likely to at some point anyway.
We could do with changing the colour scheme, having a board that's more searchable (search is a perennial issue on B3ta), having a board of variable length that we can set ourselves, and having collapsible threads. Since no-one seems to be maintaining the codebase though, that's unlikely to happen. (If the keys could be opened, I'm sure some on here are good enough at whatever the hell the backend is written in - PHP would be my guess - that they could get something better hacked together. But the keys won't be opened not least because, for whatever reason, Rob doesn't give a flying fuck about B3ta anymore and robtoo hasn't been spotted in a long while too. I've no idea if anyone else would ever have had access.)
boris the spider,
Sun 7 Dec 2014, 13:32,
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