Reply To: Beasts of War – OnTableTop – Phase III: Time for speculations and conspiracies

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My response to the many posts from @warzan

Bringing back boot camps and making them virtual boot camps is a great idea. This is a global community with people all over the world and some of us also are limited in what we can physically do so making travel to Northern Ireland impractical or impossible for some. Virtual bootcamps can bring the community together from all across the globe. I think the Discord can also be a great platform for this.

The Project system as it is is great in terms of features and representation. The only thing really holding it back is the performance. It is often slow to load and uploading stuff to it has to be done in bits. An idea to maybe fix the upload issue is to allow pictures to be posted in our profile and then we can select them to show in our project. This might also be too complex for some people to deal with, but it is just an idea.

The forums for me are fine, I don’t use them a lot but when I do I have no problems with what it can do. I am not that experienced with the use of forums so someone like @sundancer might be more useful in giving tips on how to improve it.

Discord can be a great platform for people to hangout, but the way it is set-up needs to be cleaned up. I think this whole houses thing should go away and for the main chat rooms you’d only really need a couple. For example; General Chat, Hobby Chat, Share Your Work, 3D printing, Tech Chat and Other Hobbies would be more than enough to replace the channels in the categories Chat Rooms and Other Hobbies We Share. I do not know what function the Cult Radio or the Topic Suggestion categories server at this point. And for the Boredom Feeds, a simple hobby related video sharing channel could be useful.

The one thing I will say on content is that I would like to see more variety in the content. I know there is a limit on how much content you guys can make, but finding a better balance with various different bits of content would be an improvement.

Another idea I had on content is maybe allow some content creators to create content for the website as well. This could be a great way to add content and plenty of people in the community could be able if willing to every now and then do a video, write an article. But this would then also have to be regulated in some way and that would also cost manpower. It is just an idea.

And since Lloyd is going to be involved in the coding, I guess he won’t be building Rome any time soon….. 🤔😅