Have you guys noticed that of all of NSider's estranged and orphaned children, Boyah of all places remains one of the longest-running, most resilient, well-maintained (hard to believe, i know), and most active today? befuddlement
i hope you'll agree with me that we should be doing what we can to keep it that way
the last thing i'd want is for us to suffer the same fate as nameless nsider spinoff ghost forum no. 42, and in the past (most recently as just a few months ago akudood;) we've come dangerously close to having that happen
this place has been around for over 11 years and has more than 1000 users and 1.5 million posts, and truthfully that's quite an achievement for such a small community
places like nsider 2, nsfcd, ninfora, outsid to a lesser extent, and probably countless others are all but dead and have nothing but a few stragglers left
the few remaining users on those sites are not only some of the most closely bonded to the concept of pre-tw@ter web-1.0 forums, but they also share a common heritage with us as former nsiders/nintendo fanboys and internet/anime/gamer freak millennial degenerates
they would make ideal boyagers
Should we be making some sort of concerted effort to welcome these refugees into our community before they disappear entirely? befuddlement
discuss
i personally think we should, but we should also try to make boyah 2.0 a little more presentable and less glitchy first, if not just for us then for these extended family members we haven't seen in years or even met at all
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 05, 2018, 07:51:59 PMi personally think we should, but we should also try to make boyah 2.0 a little more presentable and less glitchy first, if not just for us then for these extended family members we haven't seen in years or even met at all
i agree. We are still in beta altough it's much more useable than before
Most of you changed your usernames since Nsider and I've been here so sporadically that I honestly have little clue who y'all are.
1. Add our original names to the side bar
2. Add sign limit
I'm xfollowthereaperx
Quote from: SloppyJimbo on August 06, 2018, 12:17:04 AMMost of you changed your usernames since Nsider and I've been here so sporadically that I honestly have little clue who y'all are.
And that's okay. 5thgrade;
you don't necessarily have to know who any of us are just as long as you feel welcome enough to participate lol
i don't think the two of us know each other personally at all aside from the occasional brief interaction on boyah itself, but it's virtually guaranteed that you know at least a few of the users here considering our shared ancestry (nsider/outsid/etc.)
at the very least, you certainly aren't the only active outsid refugee lol
Man of Popsicle is here along with several Outsider's.
I made my account here about 10 years ago but never felt like I truly fit in here.
I feel like the "cliques" here made it hard to mesh well, if that makes any sense.
tbf boyah cliques died a while ago IMO, even cmongler belongs now thats how far this place has fallen!!
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 06, 2018, 01:00:47 AMQuote from: SloppyJimbo on August 06, 2018, 12:17:04 AMMost of you changed your usernames since Nsider and I've been here so sporadically that I honestly have little clue who y'all are.
And that's okay. 5thgrade;
Yeah true
Quote from: Super on August 06, 2018, 04:34:05 AMI made my account here about 10 years ago but never felt like I truly fit in here.
I feel like the "cliques" here made it hard to mesh well, if that makes any sense.
Do you feel as if we've gotten any better about that today? befuddlement
i myself remember withdrawing from outsider early on because i similarly felt it was too cliqueish, i generally wouldn't want anyone to feel that way on boyah
Quote from: C.Mongler on August 06, 2018, 05:17:28 AMtbf boyah cliques died a while ago
it's like we're not in high school any more yay!
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 06, 2018, 10:40:49 AMQuote from: Super on August 06, 2018, 04:34:05 AMI made my account here about 10 years ago but never felt like I truly fit in here.
I feel like the "cliques" here made it hard to mesh well, if that makes any sense.
Do you feel as if we've gotten any better about that today? befuddlement
i myself remember withdrawing from outsider early on because i similarly felt it was too cliqueish, i generally wouldn't want anyone to feel that way on boyah
It seems to be better in general.
Quote from: Magyarorszag on August 06, 2018, 10:40:49 AMQuote from: Super on August 06, 2018, 04:34:05 AMI made my account here about 10 years ago but never felt like I truly fit in here.
I feel like the "cliques" here made it hard to mesh well, if that makes any sense.
Do you feel as if we've gotten any better about that today? befuddlement
i myself remember withdrawing from outsider early on because i similarly felt it was too cliqueish, i generally wouldn't want anyone to feel that way on boyah
Too late for that.
Quote from: C.Mongler on August 06, 2018, 05:17:28 AMeven cmongler belongs now thats how far this place has fallen!!
cmongler; predates even doodthing, you've basically always belonged except when you opted to be distant :|
Quote from: C.Mongler on August 06, 2018, 05:17:28 AMtbf boyah cliques died a while ago IMO
i agree with this, but on the other hand, sometimes it can be hard to tell when/whether one is even in a clique from the inside
Quote from: Super on August 06, 2018, 04:04:43 PMIt seems to be better in general.
But this is a positive sign. I do hope it means you'll be sticking around in the long-term. goodjob;
bump 5thgrade;
I don't know if NSFCD would necessarily merge, but most of the members also have an account here. I know it's not very active, but I've been running it for 11 years and I'd hate to see it go anywhere.
Would be a good way to unify us NSiders.
No neee to formally merging per sey, just invite the members you’d like to see here. If you’d like you could point towards Boyah too but that’s up to you.
ootsid will never die, i'm too stupid to stop paying the bills.
crazy idea if we all could agree to it, because i do kinda agree that mergers are not likely going to happen, our corners have a lot of crossover but are nonetheless unique communities. but we could have sort of a mutual exchange system, perhaps on the main page of each of our forums we could have some sort of "nsider refugee community" section or something with just links to each other's forums. Should help mutually drive activity among all of us, and be good for search engines as well if someone tries to look one of us up because they remembered "that site they went to years ago."
(Directed at Silverhawk and Boyah in particular, dunno who else could be pulled in to agree to this)
lets each choose an ambassador to rub dicks with
grivitation is the answer to all problems
"exchange" is basically the wrong word for it. but we all have a common origin, and we have a lot of membership overlap. just some way to facilitate that crossover to a greater extent. my thoughts boiled down to adding a set of "boards" on the main page that are just external URLs to each other. would facilitate people moving around more, would help search engines find our forums and potentially drive activity and growth among all of us, it seems to make sense to me. It's networking on a more official capacity, instead of people just bringing up our similarities here and there and occasionally dropping a link. Mutual benefit, mutual growth, I think. If we want that. Idunno.
Quote from: C.Mongler on October 05, 2018, 05:29:35 AMlets each choose an ambassador to rub dicks with
are you the dick ambassador