What's up?

[Shoeberto]

I like this thread.

I'm mostly keeping very busy with working on my house. In the past month I began re-leveling floors, installed a sump pump, and am working on painting some of the hideous paneling on the walls (which looks much nicer). We have a list of high-impact stuff we want to do before we have people out for my wife's graduation ceremony next month.

Work has been improving for me and my boss is really trying to make sure deadlines that we schedule are reasonable, which is a big improvement. I'm starting to look at whether I could start a side-business as well though that's still in the early stages.

I'm starting to get really happy with the slow momentum build that I'm seeing on Mastodon. The broader network is growing at an enormous pace, but I'm also finding there's a few EoFFers (both on my instance and abroad) that are moving more and more to interacting via the fediverse, which is really cool. It helps that Twitter is a horrible place and Facebook is self-destructing, so I think there's a real desire for genuine interactions on a platform where your personal details aren't being sold to the highest bidder.

[Freya]

Yeah, honestly, we need to just kill the text channels of EoFF Discord. Text channels in Discord are garbage, and it's tbh basically killed what little activity the forum had left.

But they're super active and the voice channels are not? Discord is just a more organized IRC, we didn't kill that off. People just need to post more instead of just lurking here on the forums hehe

[Freya]

Well, that's okay if you personally don't like it. We do have many users who like it and use it regularly. The functionality of Discord is really nice. The way you can access it via browser, computer app, or phone app allows many users to stay connected regardless of where they are.

I just challenged them to get 60 posts this week. They're working on it!

[Fynn]

I mean, just look at me. I’m the number 1 spammer of both and I’m not breaking a sweat.

[Shauna]

I wouldn't say that anyone is using Discord as a replacement for the forum, given most of the active chatters are peeps who idled in IRC over the forum.

People just aren't posting on the forum. Which is not a new problem. We're just forcing our Discord peeps to post on the forum for a totally "worth it" prize.

[WarZidane]

In my case it's more of a "challenge accepted" than "ooh shiny prize"

Anyway yeah, killing the Discord in an attempt to raise forum activity probably wouldn't pan out as great as you'd like.

[Freya]

I have offered a Golden Chocobo Rank and a secret limited time chat room only available to those Golden Chocos that gets purged and reset weekly.

You gotta get to 60 posts to get it. Then you'll hold the title for a full week even if you dip back under 60. When you hit that same day you hit the requirement the next week, if you don't still have 60 posts, you'll have it removed.

[Shauna]

Yeah, so it's a

"""""prize"""""

[Freya]

Yeah, so it's a

"""""prize"""""

I thought about making a physical shirt or something for people too but I dunno, haven't got that far with the idea

[Shauna]

Yeah, we are considering other things, but have so far gotten nowhere. So watch this space.

[WarZidane]

Admirable efforts nonetheless. If you look how many old school forums are still active, you'll find it's not a lot anymore, with the likes of reddit having taken their place.

[WarZidane]

Get to 60 posts and find out! 38 to go, chop chop.

[WarZidane]

That's probably not a great idea, no

do it though, gives me some cover as i get away with increasing my post count after 15 years by 20% in just one week

[escobert]

I'm doing good. Kids, work, the usual stuff.

[Chibi Youkai]

60 posts is a lot, but hey, that's one way to get people talking again. Maybe even enough to get that elsusive rp forum up and running again. Or just wishful thinking?

Not much going on but work and FFXIV. Ever seen a place that gets progressively more foggy as the day goes on? Apparently that's a thing where I currently am. It's like a pea soup out there now, but earlier it was completely clear.