I think the Steemit forum experiment failed and killed most of our forum activity. It is harder to discuss an idea or project in a Reddit forum style. Reddit and Steemit are for announcements and short lifetime content. Not for developing complex new features, ideas, and projects.Indeed, plus the 30day thread lock feature kills discussions after a while.
I think the Steemit forum experiment failed and killed most of our forum activity. It is harder to discuss an idea or project in a Reddit forum style. Reddit and Steemit are for announcements and short lifetime content. Not for developing complex new features, ideas, and projects.
It is great to see the forum activity coming back now.
I think the Steemit forum experiment failed and killed most of our forum activity. It is harder to discuss an idea or project in a Reddit forum style. Reddit and Steemit are for announcements and short lifetime content. Not for developing complex new features, ideas, and projects.Indeed, plus the 30day thread lock feature kills discussions after a while.
I like how the forum has been cleaned up (lots of old subforums have been moved/hidden), focusing attention on a few important subforums.
I'll try and be more active on bitsharestalk from now on.
I think the Steemit forum experiment failed and killed most of our forum activity. It is harder to discuss an idea or project in a Reddit forum style. Reddit and Steemit are for announcements and short lifetime content. Not for developing complex new features, ideas, and projects.Indeed, plus the 30day thread lock feature kills discussions after a while.
I like how the forum has been cleaned up (lots of old subforums have been moved/hidden), focusing attention on a few important subforums.
I'll try and be more active on bitsharestalk from now on.
Another potential issue is the BitShares Telegram (and maybe Slack/Skype too if it's still active?). I haven't used it so I may be off-base here but it seems plausible to me that it is also sucking activity out of BitSharesTalk.
I can definitely see the benefit for instant, ephemeral communication when doing direct collaboration on something specific, or closed groups like witnesses/committee members. For most discussion however I like the forum since it is asynchronous, open to all for reading without registration, and discussion is categorized into persistent and unique threads. For more private communication I like email for the same reasons (minus the registration part).
Personally I got interested in BitShares by lurking on this forum and reading the interesting discussions that were happening. It seems unfortunate to me if some of that discussion gets locked up in Telegram or other services when it needn't be.
Hello, I've been surfing this site for a few days now... I'm a filmmaker & content creator from steemit. MrWang[/member]]https://steemit.com/@MrWang (https://steemit.com/[member=43281)
I'm also quite new to this bitshares community as I'm looking to raise the value of my content creations. I've been trying to find somewhere to introduce myself but am unable to find the best place to do just that. I'm responding to this thread because I feel like I might be coming into the forum at the perfect time, if there is a rise in acitivity as you mentioned.
I'm learning bit by bit and soaking up the information so I can eventually chime in on discussions. This bitshares community and the idea behind it, is pretty awesome.
Anyways.. I look forward to talking with you guys in the near future and I hope it was ok to use this particular post to "kinda" introduce myself.
-MrWang
Hello, I've been surfing this site for a few days now... I'm a filmmaker & content creator from steemit. MrWang[/member]]https://steemit.com/@MrWang (https://steemit.com/[member=43281)
I'm also quite new to this bitshares community as I'm looking to raise the value of my content creations. I've been trying to find somewhere to introduce myself but am unable to find the best place to do just that. I'm responding to this thread because I feel like I might be coming into the forum at the perfect time, if there is a rise in acitivity as you mentioned.
I'm learning bit by bit and soaking up the information so I can eventually chime in on discussions. This bitshares community and the idea behind it, is pretty awesome.
Anyways.. I look forward to talking with you guys in the near future and I hope it was ok to use this particular post to "kinda" introduce myself.
-MrWang
Welcome, glad to see you here!
This forum is very old and IMO pretty disorganized and difficult to find information on. Chris4210 and several others are looking into migration to more modern software. Discourse seems to be the front runner so far from what I've seen. There's a thread where this is being discussed here under General Discussions.
As for BitShares in general you can get familiar with history from @Stan's posts and mine (user full-steem-ahead) on Steemit. Stan also has an in depth historical thread here too.
You may find many of the discussions here to be more technical than you are interested in, but much of the recent discussions involve marketing, how to "fix" the adoption problem as well as re-invigorating development and code maintenance for problems and bugs that have long since been identified but not fixed due to the lack of resources and unwillingness on the part of voters to pay for that work.
Would be great if there was a means of displaying the telegram chatter in the forum; maybe like a chat box or display panel or something similar, not official threads or posts but a way to display the activity on other channels for people who land on the forum