State of the QBN 2019
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- Nairn0
My literal only suggestion for 'improvement' is a couple more mods - I presume Jaline's totally offline these days, leaving only one, perhaps two as far as I know.
If there's one distinction between QBN of today and NT of yore, it's that there was a stern mod policy which we used to play around.
if we could have two more fairly active mods, perhaps one in a different timezone to the states, then membership could risk being opened up a bit.
Actually my other suggestion would be some none-automatic way for new members to sign up after recommendation by existing users - via email or something. Again, that requires some active moderation, and a hammer if the suggester's abusing shit.
Whatever though.
- btw, not to say 'whoever' is still modding here's not doing a good job - I know I wouldn't have the patience for dealing with the likes of docpoz's shit.Nairn
- Have we agreed to bin off the NSFW and COTD the threads? Keep the NSFW button on the posting bit though. Still relevant for some things obvIanbolton
- Bennn-6
I still think that if QBN is now a closed community, the website should be accessible via a password and be closed to the public.
I dont understand why we should make a show for all those lurkers.
- I like fucking with the curtains openautoflavour
- agree with this, its like a feckin zoo.kingsteven
- Lurkers will all Downvote this for sure lolBennn
- Lurkers can still have qbn memberships but not post, you know. Can't stop someone from logging in and just looking.i_monk
- we surely have a LOT of lurkers without any account who just visit QBN to scroll content.Bennn
- and its impossible to create new accounts, if havent seen the info, i_monkBennn
- autoflavour5
This fucking thread again..
Eye rollHow about we delete everything that doesn’t strictly have to do with Helvetica and be done with it.
- You kind of precipitated it with your post y'day!Nairn
- ^ That's a fair point.Continuity
- I like comic sansBusterBoy
- LOL.. oh shit, didn't even return to that post in the blog.. 92 comments.. FIRE
loopsautoflavour - Out of interest, Auto - do you not use the 'feed' view here? I only discovered it a couple of years back. Game changer.
For the worse... :)Nairn - ( https://www.qbn.com/… )Nairn
- aint no one got time for that.autoflavour
- but yes, do know, but dont useautoflavour
- Ianbolton0
Are we becoming old and boring, feeling a need to make QBN reflect (y)our conservative nature?
- deadsperm-4
- www.qbndied.com ?hans_glib
- Do your thing.
The sky's the limit.deadsperm - www.qbnpro.comrenderedred
- hahaGnash
- hans_glib-3
it's about time qbn allowed embedding of more than just youtube/vimeo (and vimeo took enough lobbying).
i'm sure this is the real reason people leave
- Maaku4
- lolBennn
- "hidden" or "private" threads are a good idea in my viewrenderedred
- We can also just make the NSFW "private", for logged-in users only. It ain't much but it's honest work.Maaku
- much better idea than the delete police :)renderedred
- Well that is just the perfect gifRamanisky2
- Do we have the budget to hire a consultant to tell us what to do?misterhow
- This is Twittercannonball1978
- i_monk-1
If you don't have a problem with the way things are now, then you have no problem with the steady drop in posts and regular users and relevance and the eventual (but sooner than you think) shuttering of the site.
If that's the case maybe your opinion doesn't matter. To anyone. Certainly not qbners worried this'll be gone in a year. You'll still be here, posting on QBN 4.0, or you won't, and that won't matter to you either.
- is anyone listening to what we might have to say about running an internet forum?renderedred
- BonSeff3
I miss the old days when we had fun engaging each other with "type connect" sessions and "print exchange," FMT and what nots.
My take is that those days were rad because we had no myspace, facebook, twitter etc. to bounce around.
I wish the younger generation would think up fun activities like that, but there is just too much out there nowadays to hold interest like we used to do.
- ayport10
I really enjoy QBN. I've considered it a healthy inspirational distraction from work for quite a while. I do enjoy it most when design and coding topics pop up in the list. I think the last time I contributed was 10 years ago. I'm sorry. I would hate to see QBN go, but I would love to have a revival of the overall design conversation. Back then, QBN kept me thinking on a higher level when it came to new ideas with most of the work I did out in the world.
I really do miss the old homepage. It showed the latest and greatest in current thread topics as well as design news.
- MrBixler2
I’m a lurker. I lurk in the hope that Carver or Wendell might show up again.
- a grand aimFax_Benson
- Take out and trap the chief of me!BonSeff
- MrAbominable1
Social Engineering probably isn't the key to greater engagement and wider participation.
- Are you saying that censoring pornography is "social engineering" - it's just as much engineering having it on there too - you're just too washed to knowcanoe
- ^That's a bit anti-woke of you. Enforcing your orthodoxy isn't inclusive. As an adult you have the right to not right-click. Free will. Look it up.MrAbominable
- Beardy0
..i come here for COTD and Trailer OTD. Oh and the useful thread, that's quite useful