[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by _Seth

It seems like most people agree there should be a rebrand and a forum index simplification. The subforums galore are just not attractive through the eyes of potential new members.

So I wonder what is gonna happen, because Mark (user #1) hasn't been on since 2018. The forum will either fade out of activity, servers will stop, or it will resurge with a potential return for BB. I think the rebrand and reorganisation would be a great last ditch effort to revitalise instead of seeing TiBB go out with a whimper, and if BB does return it would still be an appropriate place for it's discussion under a "This is Reality" brand.

That sounds the perfect way to go.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by _Seth

It seems like most people agree there should be a rebrand and a forum index simplification. The subforums galore are just not attractive through the eyes of potential new members.

So I wonder what is gonna happen, because Mark (user #1) hasn't been on since 2018. The forum will either fade out of activity, servers will stop, or it will resurge with a potential return for BB. I think the rebrand and reorganisation would be a great last ditch effort to revitalise instead of seeing TiBB go out with a whimper, and if BB does return it would still be an appropriate place for it's discussion under a "This is Reality" brand.

If they ever simply stop paying for servers and let the .com expire I'd snap it up and slap my vB license on it (I still have a rather old vBulletin 4 license from many years ago... TiBB is still running vB3 which is ANCIENT) and it would just be one single forum with zero moderation (other than for legal/liability concerns).

Can you imagine the chaos? I mean it would last all of a few days before descending into a Mad Max style wasteland... but it would be an amazing few days... .

[Crimson Dynamo]

Im working on this re-brand idea

so far this is where I am


Thisisweatherandfootball.com

LT's Weather Center
LT's Youtube Rabbit Hole
Serious debates and News
Current weather conditions
SNow Patches update
Hurricane and Tornado watch
Synoptic Discussion & Analysis
Model chat

Chat

Scottish Football Hub
Premier League
FPL
Other football
Other sport

Technology
Astronomy



I think you will agree this is looking pretty good?

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Im working on this re-brand idea

so far this is where I am


Thisisweatherandfootball.com

LT's Weather Center
LT's Youtube Rabbit Hole
Serious debates and News
Current weather conditions
SNow Patches update
Hurricane and Tornado watch
Synoptic Discussion & Analysis
Model chat

Chat

Scottish Football Hub
Premier League
FPL
Other football
Other sport

Technology
Astronomy



I think you will agree this is looking pretty good?

[Calderyon]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Im working on this re-brand idea

so far this is where I am


Thisisweatherandfootball.com

LT's Weather Center
LT's Youtube Rabbit Hole
Serious debates and News
Current weather conditions
SNow Patches update
Hurricane and Tornado watch
Synoptic Discussion & Analysis
Model chat

Chat

Scottish Football Hub
Premier League
FPL
Other football
Other sport

Technology
Astronomy



I think you will agree this is looking pretty good?

I like FPL and Premier League as their own sections.

[Vanessa]

I think of everyone in here as family.
This place keeps me going in my darkest times and I love it so much.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I think of everyone in here as family.
This place keeps me going in my darkest times and I love it so much.

Vanessa is the soul of TiBB

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I think of everyone in here as family.
This place keeps me going in my darkest times and I love it so much.

aww

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I think of everyone in here as family.
This place keeps me going in my darkest times and I love it so much.

I’m sending you a virtual hug and a bum squeeze as an added extra

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

I’m sending you a virtual hug and a bum squeeze as an added extra

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Never easy to score against an Italian

[jet]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I think of everyone in here as family.
This place keeps me going in my darkest times and I love it so much.

You have a beautiful heart and TIBB would be a sadder place without you.

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by jet

You have a beautiful heart and TIBB would be a sadder place without you.

Aw thank you

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

I think of everyone in here as family.
This place keeps me going in my darkest times and I love it so much.

.....

[michael21]

A renamed seems to be a good idea posted by multiple members

Here my pick for the new name

Spoiler:

Michael21 forum

[Vanessa]

There's plenty of reality TV to discuss these days.
Of course, I'm always hoping Big Brother could come back.
But if not, we have a lot to watch.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The Addams Family?

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The Addams Family?

My favourite family

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The Addams Family?

Which one are you?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

Which one are you?

[Parmy]

We need a date night every friday.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by parmnion

We need a date night every friday.

Be careful of them stones in the middle of them.

[Josy]

Sadly it seems to be much quieter on forums all over the Internet as a whole it's not something exclusive to TiBB imo.

People seem to prefer social media platforms these days than discussion forums similar to people preferring Instagram stories now rather than read blogs etc although if BB was still around we would obviously still have busier seasons rather than a constant off season, I'm not sure if a domain name change from ThisIsBigBrother is something that would help bring in new members if I'm honest.

There's also this (silly if you ask me) trend online nowadays that if someone disagrees with an opinion, has quite strong opinions or just goes against the grain in general they are automatically accused of being insulting and they are labelled with childish names, which just kills any discussion straight out, that sort of thing has affected a lot of discussion forums too I think, there is never going to be a time when everyone agrees on everything, discussion forums wouldn't be a thing if they did.

[michael21]

Originally Posted by Josy

Sadly it seems to be much quieter on forums all over the Internet as a whole it's not something exclusive to TiBB imo.

People seem to prefer social media platforms these days than discussion forums similar to people preferring Instagram stories now rather than read blogs etc although if BB was still around we would obviously still have busier seasons rather than a constant off season, I'm not sure if a domain name change from ThisIsBigBrother is something that would help bring in new members if I'm honest.

There's also this (silly if you ask me) trend online nowadays that if someone disagrees with an opinion, has quite strong opinions or just goes against the grain in general they are automatically accused of being insulting and they are labelled with childish names, which just kills any discussion straight out, that sort of thing has affected a lot of discussion forums too I think, there is never going to be a time when everyone agrees on everything, discussion forums wouldn't be a thing if they did.

Your right time have chages people move with the time o still think this forum will be here on 10 years time

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Josy

Sadly it seems to be much quieter on forums all over the Internet as a whole it's not something exclusive to TiBB imo.

People seem to prefer social media platforms these days than discussion forums similar to people preferring Instagram stories now rather than read blogs etc although if BB was still around we would obviously still have busier seasons rather than a constant off season, I'm not sure if a domain name change from ThisIsBigBrother is something that would help bring in new members if I'm honest.

There's also this (silly if you ask me) trend online nowadays that if someone disagrees with an opinion, has quite strong opinions or just goes against the grain in general they are automatically accused of being insulting and they are labelled with childish names, which just kills any discussion straight out, that sort of thing has affected a lot of discussion forums too I think, there is never going to be a time when everyone agrees on everything, discussion forums wouldn't be a thing if they did.

Personally the bottom paragraph of your post is the reason why I prefer Forums to Social Media platforms in general (although I do like YouTube if that counts) because I find that on Social Media you can just hide in little groups that end up becoming echo chambers. Where as on Forums you can definitely read different opinions to my own which I find fascinating personally (apart from the Rashford bashing for helping feed kids) because obviously a natural Human response would be to commend Rashford rather than condemn him for it.

But personally I appreciate members like LT & Alf on the Forum because I don't agree with them on a lot of things politically, but I appreciate hearing a different perspective to my own.

Also I really appreciated the debate about The Cookout from BBUSA that me and Ashley had recently, because again you can't really get that level of discussion going on Social Media imo because most people like to hide in their own Political groups where everyone agrees with their mindset, which yes it's nice to have people agree with you, but it'd be a boring Internet if everyone agrees with you.

Apologies for the wild tangent.