01-06-2020, 05:05 PM
[align=center][div style="background=transparent; borderwidth=0px; bordercolor=; width: 500px; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 125%; text-align: justify; font-family: arial; color: black"]okay really this is just going to be a. casual discussion. i love discussion and seeing both sides of the story. i love more than anything open discussions and providing a safe space for people to bring up their ideas. if you oppose the topic, you can freely say so without expecting any hateful/mean comments. all i want is to bring up a topic i have been wondering for a long time. my goal for 2020 is to bring myself to stop complaining about things, and see if instead of complaining i can try and bring about change.
it's been weighing on my chest for a while, and rather than settling with the same answer i've heard time and time again, i want to bring a discussion up about the backboards.
the backboards have been fairly active recently. bp and nd are just as active as bl, and both are more active than fl. i feel like that should mean something in terms of giving the backboards a little more recognition. or at least a spot where they aren't the sub-board of a sub-board anymore.
i've heard on discord a lot that it's because of "activity" on bb in general. however, i personally don't think that's a fair reason for why they're way in the back. it makes it even harder to bring activity to the sweet backboard groups, mostly because they don't get a chance to be seen as easily as bl or fl. in the "most recent posts" they don't even show up unless you click to view the most recent topics, which makes it that much harder to grab a newcomer's attention to the boards. idk. personally, i feel like bb isn't going to get more active, so at least making the people on here happier would be a good place to start.
i'm not even asking for the active backboard groups to get moved onto the frontboard, maybe someday i will, but who knows. i'm simply wondering if we can open a discussion, perhaps find a way so that the backboards are more visible, rather than having to go to the loner lands, then to the unofficial groups, then to a group to discover them.
i mean even moving the active boards onto the front page of the loner lands, taking "ooc discussions" and "group guide" boards' place. both of those boards' oldest threads on the front page are more than a year old, one of them even almost two-three years old. idk i'm just trying to think of a way to make people happier in the bb community. the loner lands itself is a very inactive subboard until you click around to the backboards... maybe there's something we could do, there??
these are all just my own thoughts, i'm not really an expert on creating a website. but i feel like there's potential here.
i'm not here to attack bb, it just seems like this has been a topic that's been waiting to be brought up. i typed more than i thought i would, but i think it would be a good place to start a discussion or for others to bring up their ideas. again, this is a safe space where people should freely be able to express their thoughts and opinions. i want everyone to come out of this discussion feeling at least slightly happier than before about the topic. hopefully that can be achieved, idk.
so tell me your thoughts?? opinions?? your own ideas?
i'd be glad to hear them!!
i love you all sm <3
sorry that this is all just a big old rambly mess. i tried to clean it up a little.
it's been weighing on my chest for a while, and rather than settling with the same answer i've heard time and time again, i want to bring a discussion up about the backboards.
the backboards have been fairly active recently. bp and nd are just as active as bl, and both are more active than fl. i feel like that should mean something in terms of giving the backboards a little more recognition. or at least a spot where they aren't the sub-board of a sub-board anymore.
i've heard on discord a lot that it's because of "activity" on bb in general. however, i personally don't think that's a fair reason for why they're way in the back. it makes it even harder to bring activity to the sweet backboard groups, mostly because they don't get a chance to be seen as easily as bl or fl. in the "most recent posts" they don't even show up unless you click to view the most recent topics, which makes it that much harder to grab a newcomer's attention to the boards. idk. personally, i feel like bb isn't going to get more active, so at least making the people on here happier would be a good place to start.
i'm not even asking for the active backboard groups to get moved onto the frontboard, maybe someday i will, but who knows. i'm simply wondering if we can open a discussion, perhaps find a way so that the backboards are more visible, rather than having to go to the loner lands, then to the unofficial groups, then to a group to discover them.
i mean even moving the active boards onto the front page of the loner lands, taking "ooc discussions" and "group guide" boards' place. both of those boards' oldest threads on the front page are more than a year old, one of them even almost two-three years old. idk i'm just trying to think of a way to make people happier in the bb community. the loner lands itself is a very inactive subboard until you click around to the backboards... maybe there's something we could do, there??
these are all just my own thoughts, i'm not really an expert on creating a website. but i feel like there's potential here.
i'm not here to attack bb, it just seems like this has been a topic that's been waiting to be brought up. i typed more than i thought i would, but i think it would be a good place to start a discussion or for others to bring up their ideas. again, this is a safe space where people should freely be able to express their thoughts and opinions. i want everyone to come out of this discussion feeling at least slightly happier than before about the topic. hopefully that can be achieved, idk.
so tell me your thoughts?? opinions?? your own ideas?
i'd be glad to hear them!!
i love you all sm <3
sorry that this is all just a big old rambly mess. i tried to clean it up a little.