In case you're wondering what the fuck is going on with facepunch (recap thread)
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Glad you posted this before reading about essentially the entire community being completely shocked that this is even a possible outcome. There's so many things wrong with the current situation that it's hard to even know where to start.
Garry feels like everything he does to the forums is received with hatred, while also boasting about how he never visits and doesn't ever do anything on the forums. Those two are in direct active conflict. You can't randomly make changes to a community the size of FP without asking the actual users who DO visit and who DO do stuff on the forums. It's like the classic situation of a manager just being completely detached from the product they are providing, but ramped up to 11.
Facepunch is home to many people, and it's the literal biggest place for GMod modding and development. If he doesn't want to continue developing it, then he can delegate it to you, or even delegate it to the actual community.
I for one would be happy to help pay for server costs.
The fact that he says reddit is a substitute for long form discussion and that discord is one for real time discussion while Facepunch isn't relevant shows that he legitimately is missing the point of how Facepunch is structured and at how communities in general form.
We've been over this, the taxes involved make it likely not worth it
Honestly it just sounds like an excuse. If they really were such an issue it could easily have been handled with a dozen different systems to gain some cash years and years ago, especially when the forum was more active. While I deeply respect and appreciate not having ads and all kinds of donor features and bonuses, if it was a necessity then it should have been done long ago.
joey's a far left guild socialist tho!
"anyone of significance must grow comfortable being hated and mocked"
Remember when Robin Williams, Tom Hanks, and Mr Rogers were all hated and mocked. Me neither.
It's not a finance thing, I posted a fair bit in the Q&A thread (reading 21 pages) and I'll read this one tomorrow and address any concerns. I did a 10 hour shift in my other job and I've spent about 5 or 6 hours typing shit on FP and Discord since I got home
Fair enough, the other points still stand. Get a good night's rest.
The idea was more about if the forums were handed over to the community, I would be happy to help pay for it if he turned the tap off, so to speak. Since it's increasingly obvious that he at least doesn't seem interested in what the community thinks.
If he wasn't interested, he would've just done it instead of starting the discussion
hi hezzy
yeah look facepunch forms a kinda niche that i cant really get anywhere else, i used to shitpost on skulltag forums, zdoom forums, a bunch of other forums before they all went kill to reddit or just dissipated because of some dumbass reason
that kinda feeling of community is still going strong here even though i just lurk or shitpost most of the time, i dont want to see that go
This is really like a goofy fucking movie or anime. All the old heroes coming back together for one last hurrah.
while that makes sense, I guess I want to hear more of him in this discussion? Honestly this doesn't feel like a discussion, more like a unified uproar against a seemingly unchangeable event. It feels pointless. There's barely another side to the argument. It's frustrating
I wish garry would engage here. This is the one time where it feels absolutely necessary
Prolly cause the statement was made by someone whom doesn't read any of them except twitter.
I hope the forum survives. I'm basing my post around the OP's images so sorry if there were any updates. Reddit and Discord aren't really ideal replacement for me. Reddit is very overcrowded and extremely karma-based. Memes, jokes and zingers are often top posts instead of normal discussion. Also the thread format is a bit tough to follow.
Discord at least for me is for gaming sessions. I use it very rarely to find some strangers, otherwise I use TeamSpeak.
FP still offers that classic forum discussion format.
guys I've got a problem with GMod
Edit:
is this not a good time?
/s
what
good luck
@dav0r we used to play minecraft together and i still have you on facebook :q:
i'm drunk. message me
I'd gladly pay a monthly fee if it meant having this forum. I love this place and I don't wanna see it die.
Are we back??
BACK from fucking discord.
Never again please
WE BACK BOYS
Wait, what happened to Fast Threads? and Schindler's Fist :V
murdered, by the brutes
I have a bad feeling the forums are dead because of what happened... I hope I'm wrong
The Prophets were fools to trust them!
My last thread is just gone...
"concern over saddening posts & a quick story."
I hope some people got something of worth from it while it was up.
Is fast threads archived somewhere or is it just axed?
tbh i've seen other forums be in the situation fp is in right now and usually it doesn't recover, it clings and people try to keep it alive but they all die out. I think forums are just finished sadly.
going to miss it tho even tho i barely come here anymore, started browsing in 2004 or 5 when I was 8 or 9 and now i'm 22, jeez.
We ought to be kinder to them Rust folks, new blood and all.
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