Moving the board poll

[Raven X Army]

I'm sick of all the fucking ad banners. I'd host this as I have unlimited space/bandwidth.
Let me know if it's worth it.
I want to give Geoff a reason to post all of his pictures again.

[Raven X Army]

Also I want to make dedicated editable pages for who has it releases. There's one here for gb 102, chain crew, also want to carry over the floorpunch gold from vinyl noize

[xreganx]

I say move, too many dead pics which pretty much ruined most threads and all the pressing info pages.

[Raven X Army]

I'll keep this poll up for a couple of weeks and see what you lot want.

[nico]

I would even chip in.

[paolo]

I'm fine with everything, as long as this board lives... still a cool place where all the top collectors hang out

[deluxxx777]

I love this board, we must go on!

[citizenxzine]

all in for more pictures

[chungking48]

So it seems I'm the only person (so far) not in favour of moving. The ads have never really caused me any issues, but my vote is more about the board history. I think it would be sad to lose the history on this board. I totally understand that people want more pictures, but surely that can be done on here without having to lose all the old content? There are some great older threads on this board, and sometimes its fun to look back and read old threads from a few years ago, even if the pictures are missing for most.

Also, just a thought, but maybe part of the lack of pictures lately is that everything been posted before? A lot of the collectors on here aren't adding much to their collections these days as most are searching for the same big hitters that don't become available too often. And far fewer people are interested in big chunks of the back catalog (esp. late 90s stuff). So as much as it would be good to be able to post more pictures, I don't think the board will go back to being like it was a few years ago with pictures and new threads being posted every day. It's pretty much all been seen and said before.

That said, however, if a new board is a good enough reason for geoff to post up pics of some of his variants again, I'm all in favour.

[Raven X Army]

Some good points.
This board won't get deleted so anyone can always come back and check. What annoys me the most here is lack of control and lack of features. I'd like to make separate pressing info pages for each realease with comments/discussion below. I can do it here but I still need to link the images from my hosted account which is double work. I'd like to put it on an independent server without being dependent / limited by the rules of proboards.

Also I'd like to make a ton of people on here mods, whoever is willing, can commit time. I've been scanning relentlessly recods,front, back, inserts, everything. Full on hi res scans. It would be a shame to dump a hight quality content on a shitty platform.

Nov 16, 2017 12:33:47 GMT chungking48 said:

So it seems I'm the only person (so far) not in favour of moving. The ads have never really caused me any issues, but my vote is more about the board history. I think it would be sad to lose the history on this board. I totally understand that people want more pictures, but surely that can be done on here without having to lose all the old content? There are some great older threads on this board, and sometimes its fun to look back and read old threads from a few years ago, even if the pictures are missing for most.

Also, just a thought, but maybe part of the lack of pictures lately is that everything been posted before? A lot of the collectors on here aren't adding much to their collections these days as most are searching for the same big hitters that don't become available too often. And far fewer people are interested in big chunks of the back catalog (esp. late 90s stuff). So as much as it would be good to be able to post more pictures, I don't think the board will go back to being like it was a few years ago with pictures and new threads being posted every day. It's pretty much all been seen and said before.

That said, however, if a new board is a good enough reason for geoff to post up pics of some of his variants again, I'm all in favour.

[Raven X Army]

It seems (so far) that the new board will be happening. If any of you lot would be willing to help create the content / moderate the new platform please sign your name below. I'll give you a back stage pass on the new platform. An all areas ticket if you will.
I'll need people who could help sort out pressing info pages, who has it pages etc.

It would be nice to see some regulars to volunteer, whoever has time. The more of you the better. I'll be giving out admin accounts to whoever asks. No background checks.

[reasontorevelate]

Haven't voted yet...

I figured MOVING the board would be a good idea, but as I understand it now...it will be a complete new board with zero content, posts, or threads? Starting off from scratch (again)?
Yes, the current board would be accesible, but I don't think folks are going to repost all of the 650 threads on the new one.

Like chungking48 says: a lot has already been said.

Is there any way of "transplanting" say 25-50% of the old threads to a new board? There's 658 threads now, but probably plenty which aren't that great, some doubles, 1-post threads etc.




If you ask me, I don't think we've explored the possibilities of posting pics on here well enough.
I hardly see banners or ads, so that doesn't bother me.

Also, if you will be hosting the new board, what happens when you...
- get sick of HC/Punk?
- get 3 more kids and have no time
- realize riding a bike and taking pics of nude ladies is more fun.
- don't have unlimited space/bandwidth anymore?

- etc.

Seriously would be a bummer to lose another board like what happened to the Livewire Message Board.

I still have no idea why that was pulled and stayed that way.



Personally, I think too many moderators will not work well. It makes most sense to start with "the regulars".

[geoff]

first off, thanks for the love on the photos. i appreciate it.

either way, i will lurk the board all the time and give info when ever possible. be it here, or some other url, i will be reading it at every waking moment (slight exaggeration). that said, this board has insanely cool info deep in the archives. i would hate to see it pushed aside and forgotten. some of the old polls are very entertaining. quality stuff.

[deluxxx777]

Yeah, this board and the old threads are something like a bible to me. From a couple of weeks I've started an IG account, but in fact I follow 90% people from this board, and in my opinion it's a cold place. Pictures are cold without discussions...but threads are cold without
Pictures.
About the pressing info here, there's a lot of work to do. Would like to see the COMPLETE pressing info, any record, cd, cassette, poster, stickers etc...we have just rev 1-23 !?
Again, hard to do without pictures.
In the end, we could start over and do it better or resolve the picture issue here.
We have the same passion. flame still burns....

[Raven X Army]

I researched proboards and they do not provide the option of migrating, back up etc.
Out of those 600+ threads maybe 50-100 have some worth moving content. If there are enough admins and we coordinate it would be a sisyphean task but not impossible. I'd especially like to collect ALL of the little bits of pressing info which are sprinkled all over this board and have it all in one place for easy access

[wscottyg]

I visit this site every day. It's great! I've learned a lot from everyone. I always found it difficult to post photos. I'll welcome a new home. I love looking at everyone's record photos and collections.

[Clichejon]

If you need me give anyone else admin powers let me know, but I think you have full access anyway.

[chris2far]

dont move it, just leave it here!
it wont be the same anymore! i suggest that we all start tagging pictures on instagram with revproboard or something so we can make shure to get the pictures available 😁