Reply To: Now that you're all here reading the forums again…..

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The thing is did the lack of interest/responses to forum posts start BEFORE the introduction of Discord to BoW or after?

Historical threads on the site have always struggled (as the majority of visitors are more into Sci-Fi/Fantasy), I also wonder if most of the “grognards” (and historical gamers) are CoGs and that section of the community went over to Discord when it was first introduced (hence the Historical posts currently getting more responses on Discord than here on the Forums).

Prior to Discord (and I’m using my flaky memory here) I don’t remember historical posts getting ignored. Less responses perhaps, yes (although that’s the nature of the site). I just wonder with Discord, Projects, and the forums that over the years it’s fragmented the channels of communication?

As an Historical (mainly) gamer I’ve always taken the interest in Historical threads (less so with current age/modern topics as that’s not my thing, and Historicals is a broad church). When Discord appeared I’d say you would see perhaps one historical thread per week, in fact the majority of Forum threads or either “News” (new minis and Kickstarters being released), or off topic/general posts. Where all the more hobby related threads went to I’m not sure (is it Projects, or Discord?).

I can navigate Projects fine (due to the banner), but I’d say rather than having an auto-generated Forum post in it’s own sub forum perhaps simply displaying the comments below the project post (rather than having them hidden behind a button) in the project page might be the way to go?