Here I am, on a very chilly 9 degrees Celsius night pondering what to do with myself on a night off from work. It's cold, quiet and not much else to do, most of my friends are working or cannot be stuffed organising anything on a night like tonight.
I jump onto BF2s to have a lurk like I do often, when it seems fairly quiet, i decide to have a gander at some old threads, specifically on Trackr. It was quite amusing to read how Trackr was going to be the next big thing, the progression from BF2s to a more open, general topical gaming website that targets a larger audience.
Yet, here we all sit, over 1 year since trackr's more public inception, BF2s still thriving on it's most hardcore members and Trackr merely a ghost town of an idea that simply dissolved into nothing. Why? Was it the fact Chuy never went ahead with the idea of forcing BF2s to a close and remaining as an archive and forcing members to post at Trackr? Was it the lack of PR? The lack of leadership? The website itself?
I had a read over The Open Trackr? Thread over at Trackr to see the thoughts on what was going on when it was posted.. 38 weeks 3 days ago. People agreed it was time to open, but not before a little 'spring cleaning' to spruce up some parts of the site and get it ready for some kind of official opening. But then, nothing. Nada. The site supposedly went 'live' and pretty much went downhill.
So, I want to give it a shot. I want to help bring the community alive, I don't like seeing a website that Chuy, the Mod team and associates worked so hard on just sitting there gathering dust.
Lets take a look back at the project and it's accomplishing goal to see what was supposed to happen and work from there:
Goal: To eventually archive BF2s and move on to Trackr in a fluent and rewarding manner with as little misery as possible. ?
So we set a goal, then we look at the current situation, why is trackr not successful, what can we do to help trackr, what is wrong with the website (if anything?) and where can we go from here. Brainstorming, we need to find out what's wrong, what needs improving, what people want, what people don't want then process these ideas into a plan and prioritize & implement.
However, all of this can't happen without the assistance of the Moderators and the Admin Team (I'm looking at you Chuy/OH). This isn't an overnight process and I'm not suggesting we close BF2s anytime soon, but maybe start with feedback and work on from there, I mean, if this fails, which I hope for the sake of Trackr it doesn't, then we haven't lost anything and go back to square one. Lets give it a shot yeah?
“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”
I posted this in EE hoping to get the most traffic, move if necessary. I did have a search and most of the threads were about "trackr is dead lolz"...
I jump onto BF2s to have a lurk like I do often, when it seems fairly quiet, i decide to have a gander at some old threads, specifically on Trackr. It was quite amusing to read how Trackr was going to be the next big thing, the progression from BF2s to a more open, general topical gaming website that targets a larger audience.
Yet, here we all sit, over 1 year since trackr's more public inception, BF2s still thriving on it's most hardcore members and Trackr merely a ghost town of an idea that simply dissolved into nothing. Why? Was it the fact Chuy never went ahead with the idea of forcing BF2s to a close and remaining as an archive and forcing members to post at Trackr? Was it the lack of PR? The lack of leadership? The website itself?
I had a read over The Open Trackr? Thread over at Trackr to see the thoughts on what was going on when it was posted.. 38 weeks 3 days ago. People agreed it was time to open, but not before a little 'spring cleaning' to spruce up some parts of the site and get it ready for some kind of official opening. But then, nothing. Nada. The site supposedly went 'live' and pretty much went downhill.
So, I want to give it a shot. I want to help bring the community alive, I don't like seeing a website that Chuy, the Mod team and associates worked so hard on just sitting there gathering dust.
Lets take a look back at the project and it's accomplishing goal to see what was supposed to happen and work from there:
I believe these are the sections to start from. So we can build a plan from this:Chuyskywalker wrote:
Why is this happening?
[BF2s] community tags in TF2, CSS and COD4 don't make sense. With community servers to be run in these games, we need a unified tag/name to operate under. By switching from a moniker tied to BF2 we can coherently expand the community without the name lockin.
What will happen to the BF2s forums?
They will remain in place, but will be closed to both posts and new registrations. You will still be able to login so that you may "edit" posts to grab the old source text.
Will trackr grow and provide forums for the latest games?
Yes. Obviously not every game that is released otherwise we would have thousands of sections.
Goal: To eventually archive BF2s and move on to Trackr in a fluent and rewarding manner with as little misery as possible. ?
So we set a goal, then we look at the current situation, why is trackr not successful, what can we do to help trackr, what is wrong with the website (if anything?) and where can we go from here. Brainstorming, we need to find out what's wrong, what needs improving, what people want, what people don't want then process these ideas into a plan and prioritize & implement.
However, all of this can't happen without the assistance of the Moderators and the Admin Team (I'm looking at you Chuy/OH). This isn't an overnight process and I'm not suggesting we close BF2s anytime soon, but maybe start with feedback and work on from there, I mean, if this fails, which I hope for the sake of Trackr it doesn't, then we haven't lost anything and go back to square one. Lets give it a shot yeah?
“We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.”
I posted this in EE hoping to get the most traffic, move if necessary. I did have a search and most of the threads were about "trackr is dead lolz"...
