Originally Posted by
FlashD
I'm not sure what you expect from us, Yoko. I have fixed an 11y old issue with descriptions, since it seems that it bothers you so much. Before last month, nobody has ever brought it up, not even we knew about it. Also, you are now mod of the general anime section. You've said that you want to fix it, so I want to see what you are going to do. Usually, I want to know what your plans are and then discuss it with Ace, but this time I'll simply go on and skip both steps. You seem to be very upset over something and I will try to help you as much as I can.
Regarding timetables, I can't really give you much. We are mostly done with the chat and can now relax a bit and look at our top priority lists. My list says that I have to build a new profile page, for the user base, and 5 other websites from scratch with a modern look, that give us enough power to manage easily and efficiently. This is something I have been working on for about 2 years now, and I will probably work on for several more months (I will deliver it when it's ready and not a second sooner). It's an extensive project that requires a lot of coding, testing and benchmarking, and I don't want to risk the server to not be able to handle it.
As for everything else, it's pretty much as the other members with some mod experiences have said. New gimmicks will not bring people to post new content, we are addressing issues that are far more important than a silly broken description nobody has noticed in 11 years, and what is probably the most relevant bit, this is not Facebook. Forums are dying and people are getting lazy. If you want a large community, people need to post, people need to discuss and people need to love what they do. You have noticed yourself in your very own example, that your 6 threads were way too much for them to handle, but you still insist that new stuff will bring new people.
You are also accusing us to not care for the forum anymore. If that was the case, today you'd be writing reviews on MAL and not here whining over small things that matter very little to a community. The main forum's feature is the ability to post, not the blog, the arcade or whatever gimmick you want to add. The power of a community lies within the community itself, not the tools they have available. Everything else, is only an extra.
And to conclude, I'd like to thank DeathBlade for his tremendous work. I really appreciate it. Thank you very much.
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