by Cyberstrike » Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:06 am
- Motto: "I don't lose, I CONQUER!"
- Weapon: Electro-Sword
To be perfectly honest forum/message boards are becoming less and less popular everyday it seems to me for a variety reasons.
1) Competition from social media sites from the usual suspects that allow for a "faster way to build a community."
2) Gatekeeping this is very true in long running fandoms like Transformers, Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr. Who, and so on. We're close to the 20th anniversary of Transformers: Armada love it, hate it, or indifferent to it was the first TF toy line/series/comic book for a generation of fans and for many of them they would see this as a site of old farts who hate any TF series that isn't G1 so they will go to sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Discord, YouTube and try to create their online communities. Now I know some people here will think: "good we don't need any fans for Armada here." Guess what genius? WE NEED THEM TO KEEP THIS PLACE GOING! This site and especially this forum needs some young new blood fans who want to express their love The Unicron Trilogy or the LAM, Animated, Prime, and so on who don't want to talk about G1 and Beast Wars all the damn time a place where they can be accepted without being ran off because they aren't true TF fans because they don't care about G1. Also certain posters here need to leave for a while and come back in a year or two. Familiarity breeds competent and one poster who's been here so long I have nothing but competent for and that is why I spend my time as far from here as I can because sooner or later we clash and that won't end well.
3) Lack of mods and admins for the forum. Simply put the GD forum here as been under moderated for a long time and it needs more than Ryan (aka Seibertron) to run this whole forum and maybe it's time for new people to take the helm other than the ones who cycle around every couple of years.
