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

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It’s great to hear that the team and community (or at least those of us talking about it) have a lot of similar ideas.

My only real complaint about the forum features as they are now is having to uncheck the ‘notify by email’ check button when posting.
Everything else is doing what it needs to do. I suspect a lot is to be gained by performance improvements, which may simply mean using dedicated servers with dedicated forum software instead of the plugin.

Having comments on news articles link to a dedicated forum topic instead of being separate from the forum is the only real ‘must have’ feature.

I think there could be a better link between both forums and discord.
Other servers tend to have a read-only channel were news gets posted, which then links to their own website.
I think such a feature could help drive traffic to the website, provided it can handle the extra load …

An off-topic channel for talking about stuff that is not related to the hobby can be useful to redirect a lot of non-gaming related topics away from the main channels. We’re humans and when big/unexpected/bad things happen there’s a need to get it off your chest (sp?) instead of bottling it up as that’s going to cause bigger issues when things do explode out. Of course there’s the problem that such things tend to create a negative feedback loop.

The weekly ‘unofficial weekender’ has been the best thing ever in the forum, because it helps contain the off-topic ramblings while constantly getting us back into the hobby. Maybe find a way to make this a bit more consistent ? otoh … the fact that it’s just a community member that starts it (usually @sundancer, but the poor guy needs a rest too :D) gives it a different feel than anything more ‘official’.

Anyways … I’m confident the team has a roadmap that will get us to world domination within the next decade.  All signs point to things that will benefit the website and community even if they don’t match perfectly with our hopes and dreams.

The challenge is finding a way to grow a community that is dedicated to things that are almost exclusively off-line.
If it was easy then someone would have done so already.

We will get there … stay positive & frosty.