I should have started this a day or so ago, but here we go…
Seeing a lot of requests for this form or that forum. None of you are being ignored, just trying figure out what we really need.
One thing that seems to be nearly unanimously agreed on is that we wanted less channels than the old PBB. Scrolling was out of control and it made the forum seem less active which is less attractive to new members.
On the other hand groups like Friends of the Rubicon used the Rubicon forum for their trail news and activities. It’s important to me that we accommodate all those groups.
Which brings me to ‘Social Groups’ as VB uses them..
PBB was rocking long before Social Groups were a thing. When they were turned on there, I think we can agree they flopped miserably. Fast forward to today, and I bet there isn’t a FB user here that hasn’t joined some sort of Group/Page on there. If you’re not on FB, trust me they are a F ton of them, and they are handy … like Piratebook for PBB members.
They are the same thing here. With groups, members create and manage their own groups, have subscribers that share ideas, and so forth. They are great for open discussions about a particular subject like cooking, the Rubicon or ‘Soccer Moms for Overlanding’ if that’s your thing.
Being self-managed groups is the key thing here.
Social Groups are just like FB Groups … they’ve just had a bad rap on PBB.
Now .. if we want to stay old skool here we can keep using forums for all these groups, some will just have to share. It would be really nice to not have a homepage that as long as a CVS receipt.
If we start piling on the forums, we’re going to have to break them down the way the Jeep forum is. If you haven’t looked in there check it out, you click ‘Jeep’ and inside there are more available forums on top of a general Jeep forum. The only reason Jeep is that way now is because I was experimenting with that when VS put the nail in PBB so I left it and opened the doors here. You can get a glimpse of subforum activity from the main forum but I hid it in Jeep’s case because the 2 letter model numbers made it look … odd. I’ve enabled them temporarily while we discuss how we want to proceed.
So ….. Thoughts on Groups vs Forums?
Seeing a lot of requests for this form or that forum. None of you are being ignored, just trying figure out what we really need.
One thing that seems to be nearly unanimously agreed on is that we wanted less channels than the old PBB. Scrolling was out of control and it made the forum seem less active which is less attractive to new members.
On the other hand groups like Friends of the Rubicon used the Rubicon forum for their trail news and activities. It’s important to me that we accommodate all those groups.
Which brings me to ‘Social Groups’ as VB uses them..
PBB was rocking long before Social Groups were a thing. When they were turned on there, I think we can agree they flopped miserably. Fast forward to today, and I bet there isn’t a FB user here that hasn’t joined some sort of Group/Page on there. If you’re not on FB, trust me they are a F ton of them, and they are handy … like Piratebook for PBB members.
They are the same thing here. With groups, members create and manage their own groups, have subscribers that share ideas, and so forth. They are great for open discussions about a particular subject like cooking, the Rubicon or ‘Soccer Moms for Overlanding’ if that’s your thing.
Being self-managed groups is the key thing here.
Social Groups are just like FB Groups … they’ve just had a bad rap on PBB.
Now .. if we want to stay old skool here we can keep using forums for all these groups, some will just have to share. It would be really nice to not have a homepage that as long as a CVS receipt.
If we start piling on the forums, we’re going to have to break them down the way the Jeep forum is. If you haven’t looked in there check it out, you click ‘Jeep’ and inside there are more available forums on top of a general Jeep forum. The only reason Jeep is that way now is because I was experimenting with that when VS put the nail in PBB so I left it and opened the doors here. You can get a glimpse of subforum activity from the main forum but I hid it in Jeep’s case because the 2 letter model numbers made it look … odd. I’ve enabled them temporarily while we discuss how we want to proceed.
So ….. Thoughts on Groups vs Forums?
