I started this as an edit but decided to make an autistic formal response
A potential loss of users due to the nature of the transition was anticipated during the planning stage and deemed acceptable in order to accomplish the goals that staff laid out. Two weeks is in no way a sufficient amount of time to judge the results of this transition.
This is the new status quo. It will not be reverting. You are welcome to suggest alternatives and expansions of the existing topic range, or extra add-ons that will make the new site experience easier to navigate and pleasant to use, but that is it.
I think thats a fair assesment on the fact that its an early change, but i have no idea if the bleed of users in an already niche forum is sustainable. Although its nice to see that you forever will keep the smuggery
I am enjoying the new atmosphere in the new threads. I see people positively discussing things that would previously have gotten multiple sarcastic 'LITERALLY WHO?' or similar derogatory comments in the general thread. The majority of complaints are people talking about having to do 5% more work than before to find content they want. I do not consider these to be substantive criticisms.
This is where i dont get why, i think the threads are pretty nice enough because they're just people continuing on with what they did in the main thread, people posting clips and random discussion, but to me
its still the same as the main thread. i geniuenly want to know if you honestly think some minority going "LITERALLY WHO" whenever a retard shilled his preferred 1-view is indicative of the entire main thread being autistic or combatative towards people doing so. I dont think i ever thought that was the case as a regular user from day one and even the KF thread
In regards to the accusations of the new threads being hugboxes as worthy of consideration, I have a different interpretation. Members have become very used to having control over one general thread. Within the single-thread structure, just a few people can easily suppress any viewpoints they disagree with and push any conversations they don't want to partake in out of consideration. Over time, this has created a very insular view of differing opinions, and an internal culture that is designed to be impenetrable to most of them.
As a result, the same talking points are repeated and reinforced, and challenging them becomes progressively harder. The illusion of openness is maintained because established users with good track records of not rocking the boat are able to sometimes suggest new ideas or avenues of discussion that don't threaten the overall culture that has developed, but radical new ideas are rejected and considered dangerous.
This is where you sound really strange and out of touch, how is individual, insular threads which are only going to be posted in by people with a bias for the thread topic by design (either a positive or a negative bias) better for avoiding hugboxes or making dissent to bitch people out of regular thread posting? Maybe people were going antsy or menhera about companies having bad strings of happenings (chief example here is Hololive), but how is the solution even more isolation into dedicated stomping grounds? wouldnt that caused wierd retarded circlejerks instead? instead of two or three users calling a dissident post retarded and maybe one or two agreeing with it, now it would just get dogpiled by an entire thread or have to be snidely posted in others to avoid said retarded dogpile.
I do not view this as healthy, and I take the negative reactions towards the new threads and the arguments that took place during their initial creation as justification for their implementation, rather than a reason to rescind their existence. A community that cannot endure the sight of other people posting about things they personally disagree with, in their own spaces, which they must voluntarily expose themselves to in order to even be aware of, is not a healthy community. I consider disrupting this status quo to be worth a short-term fall in user activity, and I hope that others will come to agree with that assessment as time passes.
Again, why did you develop the idea that people are much more aggressive in the main thread and that somehow separating people into little threads is a decent choice? good info is still be upvoted, even people who dislike vtubers for xyz reasons respect the passions people had from them for the most part. Hell, check your reactions to your Lennox/Silvy feature. You have that understandable bias like many do about creators and you effortposted to showcase someone fucking with her
and many agreed how fucked up it was, it was entirely something that you have a bias towards,people discussed it and agreed with you because of how its presented and documented. It was entirely in the main thread and it was discussed for its time, it was threadmarked so people can see it when summarizing the pages and come back if they wish. Id honestly even go as far as to call it a very good quality of yours, under all the discord faggotry, you're pretty quick to call out fuckery like this. And your previous writeups on Tora Karu were also pretty good. Same with your little spiel about how /vt/ is a shithole of crab bucketry and gay ops.
I would like to pick at your brain and see what originated that degenerated view of the forum as mass assholes who want to keep the little guy down for having different opinions, the lack of transparency in your reasoning why and how (i.e people dming you out of fear or whatever) makes it hard for people to consider even doing so, i understand the secrecy but also, is there any reason to trust someone saying that?
Overall this just feels very smug and out of touch. Why do you consider the forum to be so wild, rowdy and uncontrollable that you feel so dismissive of feedback and user concerns about your choices? As people have pointed out, people's feedback lead to liveposting threads and those are pretty good (even the pippa one, apparently). People's feedback lead to the bant thread that people use to shoot the shit. Im probably missing out on many more because i have to type this autistic manifesto in between e-mail monkeying, but, this is just such a wierd thing to post. It sounds more personal than any concerns about the overall community, since your examples are just too vauge and unsourceable even.