Clickbait is dead. Site will die.

Clickbait wrote

yea, i basically don't want it to die off but also think just forums themselves are dead.

i think also building it as something i want to use will help me with motivation too, cuz it won't b like just developing to make people that already don't like me happy. like i just read lucian's profile and saw the dig at me - and u would think i killed their family or something when they've never talked to me personally.

i wanna move to a modern frontend written in svelte. for the backend i've been toying with wordpress. i've worked with it for over 6 years and am good at working with it.

Lucian has a... unique way with words. I wouldn't take it too personally ^_^'

Hey you are back! And someone said necromancing a old thread was bad lel. Welcome back~

attract new ppl, i found out this site exists on uboachan

Clickbait wrote

i have ideas. whether they will happen or not is unknown.

i have had no motivation to work on this site at all really. in its early years it used to be a place i could just hang out and shitpost with/make friends. i had no problem developing for it then - because it felt like i was making new things for my friends, but then the site started to feel more like i was just a staff member, with no real connections with anyone anymore. i think i still occasionally talk to like 3 people i met through here and none of them even really used the forum.

idk what happened really, i feel like it may have been how i immaturely handled when a handful of people were constantly making thinly veiled bait posts/making fun of me in a seperate discord. but it's whatever, i can't really fix that now.

ik a couple of people have tried to reach out to me on discord to talk and i appreciate it but when it happens my brain just wants to avoid anything to do with this place and i end up forgetting to reply.

i'm gonna try to login daily to discuss what it is that i'm considering doing with the community and whether anyone would like it. ik a lot of people don't want change, but i think going forward the best thing to do would be to make it more than just a forum. i think building utilities into the site that people could put to use would be beneficial. for example i was linked to f-list and was like "fuck this site is awful, it'd be nice if there was a modern alternative that looked good". 

1 other thing that keeps me demotivated to work on the site is how fucking awful the codebase is to work on/how much it sucks for other people to work on. i've been working on something in private that could potentially be its replacement with a bit more time.

idk if you're talking about me, maybe i had some bait posts but i wasn't making fun of you in a separate discord, just making that clear.

We both could have been more mature

i did try and reach out to you but nothing really came from it
ill be down if you have something better for the forum and new people showed up
xd

Neelon wrote

Yeah, gave up myself because I doubt most of the old people even wanted me there

dw i still remember you : )

I believe it is most important as the owner of a forum to develop a forum that you invision, and not just to satisfy everyone else. In my experience running the few communities I have, I've learned it's no fun if you yourself don't enjoy using the site. 

The base concept of forums is dying, if you want to keep it going and bring in more new users nowadays its a good idea to consider social medializing your forum to make it more enticing to use (what ever that may mean to you when you read it.).

I myself don't really use forums as much anymore outside of the fun of them, but I do definitely keep Lewd in my rotation of URL's I type in to see if there's anything new going on. Hope to see more, best of luck with continuing this.

Clickbait wrote

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i have had no motivation to work on this site at all really. in its early years it used to be a place i could just hang out and shitpost with/make friends. i had no problem developing for it then - because it felt like i was making new things for my friends, but then the site started to feel more like i was just a staff member, with no real connections with anyone anymore. i think i still occasionally talk to like 3 people i met through here and none of them even really used the forum.

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Hey, this whole post is a pretty sad read. If you're still around, chill, you created a nice forum and I enjoy the atmosphere here! Thanks.

Clickbait is dead. Site will die.

Not if I have a say in it. You're welcome for the one year gravedigging posts btw