A case for … removal of the forums?
Yes, that’s right, I’m arguing that we don’t need forums anymore and can simply reside solely based on discord. Here are the facts: the gross majority of the ISFL community is on discord, Discord presence is the number one engagement for many members, forums are largely unwieldable mammoths to try and find something in, all information in the forum could be better located elsewhere, and finally, it is not 1999.
Most components of the ISFL held on the forum have gradually drifted away to user created applications – from banking bots to media alerts, from Dotts playing cards to fantasy football. It is a nature progression of innovation and ease of use. The inevitability of the demise of the forum is clear, it’s only a matter of time and perseverance by the creators and innovators of the ISFL.
So, what is holding us back? Two main features, one of which would be a substantially larger undertaking. That is user updates and media pieces. Graphics could easily find a discord home, while the other functions mostly do already. And media has a fix – outsourcing to a more 2020 medium such as the subreddit. But user updates would require a significant application, most likely custom created, with necessary discord integrations for maximum ease of use. That is the mountain to climb for modernizing the league.
Yes, that’s right, I’m arguing that we don’t need forums anymore and can simply reside solely based on discord. Here are the facts: the gross majority of the ISFL community is on discord, Discord presence is the number one engagement for many members, forums are largely unwieldable mammoths to try and find something in, all information in the forum could be better located elsewhere, and finally, it is not 1999.
Most components of the ISFL held on the forum have gradually drifted away to user created applications – from banking bots to media alerts, from Dotts playing cards to fantasy football. It is a nature progression of innovation and ease of use. The inevitability of the demise of the forum is clear, it’s only a matter of time and perseverance by the creators and innovators of the ISFL.
So, what is holding us back? Two main features, one of which would be a substantially larger undertaking. That is user updates and media pieces. Graphics could easily find a discord home, while the other functions mostly do already. And media has a fix – outsourcing to a more 2020 medium such as the subreddit. But user updates would require a significant application, most likely custom created, with necessary discord integrations for maximum ease of use. That is the mountain to climb for modernizing the league.
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