Just gathering opinions for a change that may or may not end up happening down the line. What would everyone think if Lewd became more of a social network? Like, keeping the forums, but branching off into more features commonly seen on social networks; eg. A status feed, and Followers/Following. If this were to happen, it would happen a long time from now; but would be possible when 2lewd is finished (we're making some progress, check it out in the #changelog channel of the discord). But yeah, there's no promise that this would actually happen, I'm just thinking ahead for how we can continue to make the community better.

no zuckerberg, lewdbook just wont be a thing

I think a different kind of forum like that would be a nice idea 🙂 But make it seamless, intregrate both the social media aspects and forum aspects seamlessly, same theme and everything so there isn't a separation between the two!

SkullCandyy wrote: I think a different kind of forum like that would be a nice idea 🙂 But make it seamless, intregrate both the social media aspects and forum aspects seamlessly, same theme and everything so there isn't a separation between the two! ya, it'd still be the same site, but just with more features.

I'm happy with how it is right now between the forums and the Discord. I kind of feel like Discord is our social network, in a way.

I don't personally think that is a good idea, but don't let that stop you.

Camo Yoshi wrote: I'm happy with how it is right now between the forums and the Discord. I kind of feel like Discord is our social network, in a way. discord is an activity leech :feelsbadman:

The concept of a message board is something that's getting less and less popular. While some provide pretty awesome environments, most just do not. They're not necessarily bad. They just don't have anything to offer. For instance, why would I post around here rather than just speak in the Discord? It has everything the site has, except people receive notifications and I'm more likely to get a response. A fast one, too. Best of luck. Take the risk.

Modal wrote: The concept of a message board is something that's getting less and less popular. While some provide pretty awesome environments, most just do not. They're not necessarily bad. They just don't have anything to offer. For instance, why would I post around here rather than just speak in the Discord? It has everything the site has, except people receive notifications and I'm more likely to get a response. A fast one, too. Best of luck. Take the risk. Yeah, it's for that reason that I want to look for ways to make Lewd more interesting for everyone; while Lewd is pretty amazing as is, I'd love to make it a platform that more people can enjoy.

please don't make this another thebot.net, imo the forum does need some improvements, but not that kind of improvements

Melancholy wrote: Modal wrote: The concept of a message board is something that's getting less and less popular. While some provide pretty awesome environments, most just do not. They're not necessarily bad. They just don't have anything to offer. For instance, why would I post around here rather than just speak in the Discord? It has everything the site has, except people receive notifications and I'm more likely to get a response. A fast one, too. Best of luck. Take the risk. Yeah, it's for that reason that I want to look for ways to make Lewd more interesting for everyone; while Lewd is pretty amazing as is, I'd love to make it a platform that more people can enjoy. You know what must be done. Cut it before it does more damage. Remove it from the community. It is nothing but detrimental. [spoiler] Don't listen to me [/spoiler]

Gathering Opinions

Tenshi

No LewdBook please, we already have enough social media crap.

7th

hmmm, if you do it similar to how invision power poards do it, then probably people here would be fine with the idea. a general user feed on a user profile but not really so much of a requirement to do.

Kimizuki

Melancholy wrote:

I don't think I've explained my idea very well.

I definitely don't want to provide a way for people to appear more popular than other users; the idea of adding followers was simply so that if we did have a status feed, there'd be a way to show only posts made by people that you want to see. If we did have a following feature, I think it should be a hidden metric; as in, nobody can see who is following who.

Facebook's structure of status updates and newsfeeds have created an environment of superficial interaction
I'm not basing my ideas of of how Facebook is structured. In my opinion Facebook isn't a good social network, a social network isn't very social if you're not interacting with anyone but people you already know.

I do have a fairly nice idea of how a status feed could work, while keeping true to the forum's atmosphere.

It's not really a forum anymore then, is it?
The forum aspect of it would remain untouched; it'd simply have an extra feature added to the site. Sure, people could start calling the site a social network, or even as I call it, a community; but I don't see how what the site is, changes the community in the slightest.

[2:15 PM] Melancholy: hm, people seem to be against the idea of adding a feed and followers
[2:17 PM] Melancholy: maybe i should describe what my vision of a feed would entail
[2:17 PM] Melancholy: and i sort of agree about the followers thing
[2:18 PM] Melancholy: i basically wanted them as a way that people can customise which items they see in their feed
[2:18 PM] Melancholy: but i could do that with the friends system anyway
[2:23 PM] zey: read the posts

it's tough. it's hard to get a good balance. and maybe for Lewd the balance has been reached
[2:29 PM] Melancholy: idk, i just think lewd could be so much more
[2:31 PM] zey: the problem is while some of them are okay with changes like that I imagine, most are there for what Lewd is now. so you have to determine a middle ground that will appease the current users and also attract new users

I don't really know your userbase well enough, or at all, to help determine what that middle ground is =/
[2:32 PM] Melancholy: i mean, it wouldn't even be taking anything away
[2:32 PM] Melancholy: lewd would be the same, it'd just have more features, and i'd be able to market it as a social network for weebs
[2:38 PM] zey: some like the feeling of being able to know who most if not all of the community are. and I guess those are the people that like smaller communities. personally, I'm kind of one of them; I don't like larger communities as much, it's overwhelming for me. but, a social network for weebs would definitely be a larger community if done right

you need to really determine what features you want to bring in that would allow for that to be viewed in a good manner for those that like smaller communities, because the post you made doesn't go very in-depth. as a whole, those features seem fine (to me). but it depends what your goals further than that are, if any

but maybe you don't need to keep the users that like smaller communities, because that might not be your target audience

idk. just offering a bit of a view from both sides i guess
[2:38 PM] Melancholy: even in large communities, small communities can form
[2:39 PM] Melancholy: when you have things available like personal groups, it's easy to make a small community within a large one.(edited)
[2:39 PM] zey: well, again, it's very possible if you do it right. I think facebook did it wrong. discord is a kind of social network, and I think it did it right
[2:39 PM] Melancholy: the thing that facebook did wrong is they made it closed
[2:40 PM] Melancholy: a social network isn't very social if you're not interacting with anyone but people you already know.
[2:41 PM] zey: yeah. UX matters a lot here too. maybe it has changed in the few years since I used facebook, but I always found switching between groups annoying, and knowing what notifications I had for which. on discord, it's very easy
[2:42 PM] zey: idk if groups like that were part of your plan, but stuff like that would be important to do right. that's basically all i was saying, in a very very roundabout way
[2:47 PM] Melancholy: groups would work exactly the same way they do on lewd now
[2:50 PM] zey: I don't know how they work =/
[2:51 PM] Melancholy: anyone can make one, and when they do, they get their own private subforum and a different coloured name
[2:52 PM] zey: ah. I don't really see why it wouldn't work, then. just clarify what they're asking about and see what you get back from them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[2:52 PM] Melancholy: they just don't like change : 3

i wish i could be bothered to read this

clicky

i'll explain further later today; the idea stems from a possible aquisition i might make some time in the near future; any feed feature would be specifically designed to not get in the way of the current atmosphere of the forum and would merely be in place to provide an option for those that aren't used to forums to interact with those that do use the forums.

Kimizuki wrote:
i wish i could be bothered to read this

i wish you couldn't be bothered to post useless replies

seel

Melancholy wrote:
i'll explain further later today; the idea stems from a possible aquisition i might make some time in the near future; any feed feature would be specifically designed to not get in the way of the current atmosphere of the forum and would merely be in place to provide an option for those that aren't used to forums to interact with those that do use the forums.

Kimizuki wrote:
i wish i could be bothered to read this

i wish you couldn't be bothered to post useless replies

So basically they'd see https://lewd.sx/search.php?action=getdaily and be able to hop in and participate in discussions on the fly or something to that effect?

Bitch-chan

I'd like to see @Melancholy vision in action for at least a few weeks to see if it's something that we really like. The downside is all of the time implementing it only for it to be shunned away if people dislike it.

A trial run of this wouldn't hurt.

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