General Board: Where are we all at?.

throw something up, ya'll know I always enter.

If it helps I can hit him up on Facebook

Crimson Juice wrote: Cuba, Law, Stal, could someone please help Titu out of his signing in predicament, he's having to use a new account atm...peace

I changed his password sent him the new password in a pm to the new account he is using now. If he did not receive it, he might not be able to get pm's yet. I can send to an email or whatever is easier for him.

Cuba, Law, Stal, could someone please help Titu out of his signing in predicament,
he's having to use a new account atm...peace

I agree with the above in regards to people these days just seeking instant gratification. In this day and age the virtual world is just as fast-paced as the real world, meaning an old-fashioned forum like this one (and many others for that matter) are pretty much doomed, and are just not going to attract new members without having anything more to offer than just solid masses of text. I don't speak for all of them of course, but the majority of the younger generation are addicted to real-time social media and are all about that instant like or retweet, and probably do not see the appeal of investing time into something like learning how to rap battle, writing verses regularly or immersing themselves into an online hip-hop community. Forums only seem to do well if they have a sizeable and active community who engage about current affairs (think thestudentroom, for example).

I may be wrong, but I also think the lack of engagement is due to people accessing the internet mainly from their phones and tablets, which are a lot less forum-friendly than a browser on a computer or laptop. It's easy just to scroll through things on your phone without feeling the need to make any sort of contribution that requires more effort than something like dropping a comment on a photo. Think back to when sites like this where at their peak circa mid 00's - we'd all be on computers or laptops truly investing time into writing and interacting with eachother without the distraction of notifications from a multitude of different apps updating us with real-time shit. Plus we'd make time for eachother on MSN messenger which helped encourage engagement with the forum. Unless there is a major paradigm shift that changes the way that we attract new members and keep the current ones interested, then this site will continue to be stuck in a rut.

Stalin wrote: AntiAll wrote: This is Titu. Can't get back to my account. Maybe Somebody can help me recover it?   Pm sent

AntiAll wrote: This is Titu. Can't get back to my account. Maybe Somebody can help me recover it?

Pm sent

Point taken. Let me rephrase it.
What I meant was, text alone can not survive. And since the site looks old, it adds to the fact that people get bored quick. Facebook and other social media platforms can not be compared with forums because they are interactive sites which has a lot going on. Do you think Facebook would be Facebook if it had only text? I beleive being less interactive had a lot of contribution in demise of orkut.
We can agree or disagree on many things but one thing I think everyone agrees on is the way LA looks. Making it more interactive won't hurt anyone. Let's do that and see where it goes?

ps... and what and who would help...peace.

Disagree that "text is dead" - how many people still post & engage on Facebook in the written format? That's what that whole platform is built on - even when people post in video format, the comments are in written format. Many, many posts on Instagram are a photo with a long form written comment.