personally, here is what is killing neverside for me.
1) WORST LAUNCH EVER! - What was suppose to be launched as a supermega forum with cool features etc.. after being months late it was launched 10% complete. Waiting for something is fine, but at least launch with all the features you left off with, and not less (ie, PMs, search, etc...).
2) No strong community members - This community doesn't have any real pros in any given area. Talent is what brings people to a site. If people see an amazing website / design and they relize that person that made it belongs to a forum, they might stop by to ask a few questions in hope of getting better. As of now, I think most people just post in the watercooler forum mostly to chat with previous TF members. Even the neversidian articles don't have that much to pull people here.
3) Slow progress - this doesn't help the site at all either really. I know you said it's getting worked on, but like I said earlier, this forum has less features than any other place, WTF?
4) Not listening to members - This one pissed me off the most. Locke on his high horse would hardly ever listen to members on what they want to see. Font sizes, colors, etc... are still hard to read on this site, and not much has been done to please the members and keep them around. And then someone has the balls to change the forum index to something even harder to read, when no one even complained about it to begin with. Stick with working on complaints and not making new ones.
TF was fine as it was. Even if you wanted to do something different - TF should have been kept up, and neverside should have been a side project and worked on until DONE, and launched only when 100% happy with the outcome.
Just my 2 cents from my experience with TF in the past, and working on other things. And as locke brought up before I DID own tutorialbuddy.com but quickly sold it once it was semi developed
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Last edited by rosem, October 8th, 2005 05:43 PM (Edited 2 times)