Major Upgrade Planned for Hip Forums!

Just wondering what features might be disappearing when the change is made

 

I reeeeeally wouldn't want my fb family/friends to know about hf. This is my little secret corner of the internet. Most of them have never heard of hf, and I'd like to keep it that way.

 

Not looking forward to this site connecting with facebook in ANY way.

 

But then there would be no way for the NSA to spy on you...

 

I'm not american so that's not as big of a concern for me (I think!)

 

Facebook link aside, I think an upgrade will be awesome. I like new, shiny things.

 

those little F's and T's are all over the place on other sites, meaningless unless you click on them..

 

You think?

 

Yeah, as an european I am not that busy with your country's NSA.

I don't get why that pic is in that post but I like it anyway :2thumbsup:

 

But they are busy being interested in you... oliceman:

 

I doubt it.

 

I'm blisfully unaware of that :sunny: They can't get to me through facebook though, unless it gets connected in some ways to this site perhaps.

 

Exactly !

 

Apparently hf already has a fb fan page.

https://m.************/profile.php?id=195356787174462

 

i just hope the site stays purple.

i'll probably stop coming here if it's not

 

RA, you cantankerous old fuck. As per usual, you seize upon a word or phrase in someone's post, and then make the most negative assumption.

Saying that site content and moderation policy are more relevant to site traffic than tech issues is not a complaint. It's a statement of fact.

So generally speaking, for any forum, site traffic is going to be governed primarily by 3 things

1. User awareness of a site
2. User interest in site content
3. Accessibility of content to a user

The tech upgrades may help with site accessibility, but not so much with interest and awareness.

As far as moderation policy goes, it may be worthwhile to reconsider policy on trolling. Some troll threads are just annoying, but often troll threads, while obviously fake, also raise interesting issues.

Not banning benign trolls and not locking/deleting benign troll threads might help boost the post count, and keeping the post count high creates a positive feedback loop.

It's also noteworthy that HF has 272,737 members to date. Even if we assume that half of those members are spammers, trolls, or LEO's, that's still leaves only about .01% of people who join this site that post on a regular basis. Figuring out why so many people who join don't stay has a lot more to do with site traffic and the survival of HF than tech issues.

 

probably have changeable skins, to make it any color you like..

 

Hey so where do i apply to become a mod for the new upgraded site??

 

Good idea.
But not for me, I'd be a tyrant.