NO BS!! And the more discussion on the subject the better!ObJuan13 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:07 pm Let’s cut the bullshit… the site is dying. I love this place but post rarely because it could literally take hours to get a response to even a topical of the moment post…
Astor, if it’s money for an upgrade to bring this place up to date and make it something like the robust version of the old ESPN boxing board then lay the numbers out there publicly and I’d be willing to put some money up so long as it’s realistic
Or is it just that boxing is in a bad place and people care less? Is there anything we can do to bring this place back to life?
I agree I don't think just regular convo is possible right now because there aren't a lot participating in OT discussions... Boxing discussions are getting rarer... although with some weeks, we have more traffic than others... depends on who is fighting.
Upgrade what though? Upgrade the look to make it look like robust espn? IMO you can already do that by going in your board profile and changing the appearance of the board. One of the style is VERY similar to what ESPN had.
IMO we have two things here that on the long run affect PARTICIPATING members (number of regs)...
•First it's a private board so you need to recruit... We aren'T a network on tv or a company that sells services... We offer boxing information... old school and actuality... That we do pretty well and have an average of 50 users browsing the forum at all times... How do we get these persons to post and join the convo??? This is the tricky part... it's a blend of a nice environment that triggers people to want to chime in/ a nice board that looks modern.... But we'Re fighting against boxingscene who is a multi million dollars company and social medias which are billionaires...
•Second we are now fighting with social medias... most will now get their day to day convo blend with informations and laughs on social medias... the diversity and traffic is second to none... plenty of people disagreeing and hating people for unrelated subjects... fuel for days and days of lost time.
IMO the main goal and challenge is to get the millions of views monthly to produce posts from time to time... for that you need to either alllow users not logged in to post but you will get all kind of crap and pollution. IMO maybe the solution would be to allow some social media logins... like someone could log and post on the ofrum with his FB or TWITTER login... lots of websites use that option...
I will post some more about this when I get more time!