[Ninjadmin]

ok, we are dwindling to fuck at the moment

my computer being broken has really kicked us in the nuts again, but that isn't the main reason

the real problem is that the old school people lost interest, my view is that basically its been a downward spiral since last august when we moved onto firkys vbulletin site, losing krzzle and then the board crashing and us eventually having to move back here lost everyone else

so what i want to do is get rid of the name thecoolestthingever and relaunch the board as a purely creativity based thing

i mean, all the day to day stuff is good, but we don't even have enough people to do that at the moment, so i think we should relaunch the site with a new name, and focus purely on the blog and the forum. the blog shold be for radio shows and other randomness as it was, i wish people used it and looked at it more

the forum shold only be about 5 forums

chat
radio
writing
art
webstuff

basically i don't want this place to die, but i need your help to make it not die. so pitch in your ideas, and say what you can do. the more you put in, the more you get out

[tangerinebreem]

Don't seperate writing and art - it's all creativity. Apart from that I agree.

I don't want to get political wid a small p, but I think it's got more to do with the vbullitin working/not working thing than moving to the site. We miss J as well, he was one of the most important posters and he's just stopped cos his life has changed - he doesn't live in the middle of a field on his own anymore and his laptop never works... - yeah we miss Bristle to fuck but he was going to pack it in anyway sooner or later surely if you think about it.

Doesn't matter why really does it anyway, the question is - what to do.

We should still get vbulletin working if we can, the ability to upload stuff, better search, better look no shitty, shitty adverts. The stuff that firky did like the automatic posting off podcasts was awesome...

actually, I've just won an audi a3 apparantly....

[tangerinebreem]

I agree on the name too.

[Ninjadmin]

hiccup became tech geek number1 after firky dumped us

i have the vbulletin program on my computer, and i know it isn't difficult, but i can't do it, basically cos i'm a complete retard in that sense, dunno why, it just never gets done. i think i found my niche being the leader of a cabal with no leader

basically to have that posh site we used to have is not that difficult, and we've paid for it anyway, but i am never ever going to be able to do it, not a lack of skills, just ykna.....i'm a drunk

firky will never have any part in designing this site since he destroyed it. like he gave up on tcte since it crashed, even though it was totally on him switching to vbulletin. but now he can't be arsed with it cos it's fucked (it wasnt fucked till he took over......)

and i don't expect bristle or j to ever be as into it as they were, but it is still a bit of a gutter that they don't even bother saying hello

same with strung out

i really really don't want this site to dies, not after putting 3 years into it, specially having a good group of people and unfulflled potential

for example, i think urban reached it's potential a few years ago now, but this one never did

maybe i'll post sober on monday

[DrCarnage]

Good idea to condense the forums down to around 5 or so. atm it's too cluttered and general, people visiting (if people do visit that is, i don't know the forum stats) don't know what the forum is about. Maybe a lot of stuff could go into a 'misclanious' forum so we could discuss hard-pressing things like sporks and robots.

Unlike other forums it's too hard to stumble across this place, you have to realise that it exists first and no one spams urban anymore to recruit new members.

The ads HAVE to go.

[Ninjadmin]

we aren't spamming cos we don't have much to spam

iunderstand a lot of it is down to my computer breaking as well. i can't be arsed to update the blog or anything like that simply cos i've been using library computers and i have an hour to check email and say hello to people......

[tangerinebreem]

[Ninjadmin]

word

we definetely need to define ourselves outside of that web of hippies,i've had enough of hippies myself, i want more

ill not start on firky (krs told me at the time that letting firky run the vbulletin would end up in him deserting us and he was right)

i cant type anymore, im drunk














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[hiccup]

[hiccup]

Oh yeah, *Awesome Project!

Me and my Mum's boyfriend are turning the shed in my garden into a slightly more permanent, insulated structure. Then I'm gonna put my decks in there and have a little studio set up. It' gonna be so awesome

I'm gonna get the internet out there too. I think I might just live in the shed.

[tangerinebreem]

awesome project, awesome posts.

[hiccup]

Awesome shed.

[forgot me password]

[jambooboo]

I like the name. And the place - it's much more relaxed and jokey than say Urban - probably got more in common with Turbo Island than MATB or Urban. I kinda like a forum where grown men/women can talk random nonsense, be self-depreciative, be a little mischievous.

I don't think a forum needs to have say the hundreds of regular contributors that I imagine Urban has (I know there are thousands and thousands of members on Urban but only a very small percentage of those regularly post from what I can see). But it obviously needs more than the handful that currently post now - some days not even Bob has posted!

IMO both a small tight knit community and a large sprawling one have their pros and cons.

I dunno what to suggest, especially being a late comer. I'd read TCTE for a few years before signing up though so I think I've got a general gist of what it is about.

[bbob]

well it's my fault clearly. afaict j strung out etc. leaving had nothing to do with me, maybe they don't return because a new poster's contributions hurt their eyes, i don't know.

my advice fwiw, is have only a few forums but keep a feedback/philosophy/politics forum as reasonably prominent but separate bit. if arguments piss you off, i can't see what else people argue about - other than the internet being shit, politics, and the meaning of life or sexism. it could be strongly moderated. keep the radio forum top of the screen if you have the bottle, followed by chat about your day or whatever. what's most obvious is you have to navigate away from talking about your day to listen to the radio, dunno if that could be changed. oh and flash games are pretty good.

it is a forum tho, and the layout's not going to attract new users when you only have 5 posters.

wrt physically removing me or making old users post more, i'm not sure, you always hurt the ones that love you most

[bbob]

more poetic board descriptions [we are an army of dreamers, etc.]

[tangerinebreem]

It's not that the layout will attract more users, it's that the current one makes it highly unlikey that any new users will bother to see any of the interesting stuff and just give up after 2 minutes.

[bbob]

yeah. i guess i jut don't know what's interesting lol.

[bbob]

i found this kinda interesting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PqjMSNfkU

[DrCarnage]

[Ninjadmin]

more later lol

[tangerinebreem]

---> hello everyone

[Ninjadmin]

[forgot me password]

nay worries, email me the stuff you need and stop bubbling

i just got out of hospital this morning

[hiccup]

[forgot me password]

nah I had gallstones

[hiccup]

A likely story

[tangerinebreem]

Glad yr not dead etc.  

[carmella chihuahua]

It was actually all my fault. i went down into the kitchen to get a cream cracker and a piece of cheese at about three in the morning but didn't turn the light  on and so I stood on it. I tried wiping it, blowing on it, turning it on off and then on again then put it back and hoped no-one would notice and continued eating my nocturnal cracker alone in the dark.

[tangerinebreem]

You're dumped

[hiccup]

Oh carmella What have you done?

[flick]

dont change the name!  i like it plus i like the initials.  but i agree that its all a bit sprawled out and could do with a tidy.  dont delete anything though!  just move it all to less forums..  

also can we not have the girls forum unless its actually for girls to talk about girl stuff like menstrual cramps and why lesbianism rocks?  it was funny for a bit but its got old.

ps i like this place lots just been doing other stuff, and im glad forgotmepassword is out of hospital and hope youre feeling better, and ninjaman for goodness sakes give up the booze, its a waste of you.

[flick]

also i kind of miss derian and button and refused and wish they'd post here instead of libcom.

edit - well derian and button are here i see in other threads now, so i take that back, i dont miss them at all  

[Ninjadmin]

the girls forum is for girls, just that there aren't any girls on here

[tangerinebreem]

[hiccup]

Um, I didn't have timne to do the vbulletin thing. Sorry. Was too busy with insulation and plasterboard. Think I may have scratched my eyeball with some fibregladsss...fibres. Hmmm.

[bbob]

my plan is that everyone stops posting here but me. then i'll finally be free

[Ninjadmin]

[hiccup]

My eye seems to be better now

[DrCarnage]

[bbob]

oh eye that's the plan.

[bbob]

i feel like i've absorbed and neutered all of the boards interesting points by now. all that's left is to kill you all and have sex with your skin.

[hiccup]

...and film it and put it on youtube.

[flick]

oh yeh and can i just say how much i appreciate tangerinedreams posts here

[flick]

oops did i get his name wrong?


bad bad me



im off to exeter to see a psychotherapist.  fun fun fun!

[Ninjadmin]

that'll teach you to get breems name wrong

[flick]

i did it on purpose though!  

it went ok btw.  as good as youd expect.  we got posters (enchanted and dr who) and two rc mariokart toys for the kids.  theyve already partly broken one!

[Ninjadmin]

your kids are gonna be well cool

[bbob]

i didn't expect there would be posters

[bbob]

the last time i went to a psychologist they basically just told me to fuck off we've had enough of you. i guess i'm not ill anymore. i agree i'm not mad but i do do some funny things - i stayed up all last night imaging talking about all this crap to people in my class. if i was ill the difference is subtle. it might just be that it doesn't distress me that i'm always on this other plane, but tbh that could have been because of events/psychiatry distressing me. nah it's probably that i've learnt how to talk about it.

[bbob]

of course this "other plane" just consists of imagining people telling me to fuck off. Trippy, not.

[Ninjadmin]

errr

future of the board?

[bbob]

sorry, someone else started it.

i think the board needs more posters.

[DrCarnage]

well, there's a bunch of us online but no one is posting

[bbob]

meanwhileatthebar had the exact same problem a while ago. look at it now all new fangled!

[DrCarnage]

we need smexyd00d

[Ninjadmin]

more radioshows and photos and music and stories and stuff likethat

i haven't done any for ages either, that was why i set it up

[forgot me password]

more mad shit like the stuff you find on englishrussia

[forgot me password]

shit like that

[Ninjadmin]

how are we gonna do that?

[forgot me password]

i hadnt thought of that hehe

[flick]

i will make something this weekend, promise.  even if its just photos.  i will have an adventure and send the pictures.  or ill make a cardboard box robot.  or cupcakes.  or something.

[Ninjadmin]

 

[Ninjadmin]

i do think this board that we are using  sucks to be honest

fucking adverts and fucking shitty interface

[carmella chihuahua]

I've done some blogging today... http://coolestradio.com/wordpess/

I agree w/ ninj that it's underused. Is their somekind of widget so we can set up so we can one click post pics and stuff to the blog? I've been using stumbleupon today to find randomness and it's well cool that look can just add any thing you want to your own little blog automatically. I'm sure there must be a wordpress version that allows you to make really quick posts for pics and links and that..

I have done 2 minutes of the voices thing w/ 4 of us all mixed up and intertwined. I'll mebbes finish that tonight.

Also need to post up the last two density of sounds on the blog.

Forward russia etc.

[carmella chihuahua]

Fucking hell. I am breem not carmella - I wish she wouldn't leave herself logged in ' shakey fist'

[hiccup]

Carmella...? Or...an imposter?

[hiccup]

I knew it!

A fish in chihuahua's clothing

[Ninjadmin]

you can just copy your posts and then change the links into wordpress format

i must put my hands up, cos i've had my computer back for about 2 weeks and i've done fuck all for this website

i still managed to crash it by listening to the libertines on youtube :?

[jambooboo]

I don't think people generally post on anything but the "What you upto threads" anymore.

I've no ideas about what could be done to increase traffic - what has changed since the days when there was more traffic to how it is now?

[bbob]

gypsies
farmers
deodorant

[bbob]

that was too cryptic.

way back then everyone just made long lists of stuff that was cool. that's what i remember from back then.

[bbob]

pacman is so shit

[bbob]

one way to increase traffic: set fire to pacman. or better yet, set fire to the inventor of pacman so he can't invent another.

[bbob]

[Ninjadmin]

the before time

the reason this board is cool is cos noone ever fights or is rude to each other

when people fight it's shit

[DrCarnage]

[Ninjadmin]

that's true, when this place was busier we ended up having stupid fights

if we started the music and stuff up again it wouldn't matter if there were only a couple of people

[DrCarnage]

How many other people view this place anyway?

[Ninjadmin]

i think a few of the people who used to post probably have a look and think 'ah well...'

[DrCarnage]

I see guests from time to time, but they must be too scared to post

[bbob]

[hiccup]

I thinkk the guests are often search engine bot things.

I also think a monthly newsletter, as has been suggested before, would be a good idea. Assuming people had done stuff worth writing about.

[flick]

im off to totnes and buckfastleigh this weekend to take a trip on thomas the tank engine (and friends) for my lads birthday treat - will put up pics of that, im well looking forward to it.

[renegadedog]

I'm quite into writing.  Don't really want to post extracts on a public board.  A private folder where we could put each other's writing up and give feedback might be good.

[Ninjadmin]

can do that if you want, i'd prefer it to be public, but a private forum is super easy to do

[hiccup]

I'll try and have a bash at vbulletin on bank holiday Monday. All busy n shit before then.

[renegadedog]

Dunno.  Just don't really want to put my writing on a publically viewable folder - people can nick it, and also apparently publishers aren't interested in stuff which has already been 'published' online.

[hiccup]

Post stuff here, but only after you've run them through the snoop dogg translator thingy:

http://www.writtenhumor.com/snooptranslator.html

Bizzle and fizzle mizzle arizzle too pizzle and could prizzle a rizzle from thizzle crizzle crizzle thizzle Bizzle of Englizzle sizzle Thizzle Bizzle sizzle thizzle thizzle scizzle of lossizzle from thizzle crizzle mizzle bizzle ovizzle But it wizzle in its Fizzle Stizzle Rizzle thizzle fizzle of fizzle mizzle mizzle stizzle bizzle a sizzle prophizzle Bizzle prizzle ovizzle to lizzle arizzle now too cizzle evizzle wizzle crizzle borrowizzle it suggizzle Thizzle incrizzle fizzle of rizzle hizzle itsizzle undizzle confizzle in fizzle instizzle and mizzle thizzle rizzle to lizzle to eizzle othizzle and consumizzle thizzle Bizzle addizzle

[Ninjadmin]

[renegadedog]

True true.  Maybe I'll start by posting one of my short stories that I've never even thought of trying to get published...

[bbob]

if they're good i might steal them myself. always wanted to be a writer

secret forum ftw!

[bbob]

it needs more posters.

[Ninjadmin]

ok, i have a free day today, and a bag of weed

after i get my brekky and put my washing on i'll have a bash at vbulletin

[renegadedog]

A free day and a bag of weed?  Jammy bastard...

[Ninjadmin]

that's every saturday for me

usually i just drink it all away tho

being single does have advantages

[renegadedog]

Agreed.  The ideal thing really is to be single and have a really fit fuck buddy, I guess.

(he says, making sure Mrs RD isn't reading over his shoulder )

[tangerinebreem]

What if there were robots like on bladerunner that were fit? Would you have one?

[DrCarnage]

[Ninjadmin]

i'd have the owl