Your Thoughts on What’s Next?

Oops, I missed a day of the DDT. I’m sure that really stifled the massive community here lol. My apologies.

Looks like r/SSBM is back up. I have mixed feelings. Melee does need a “home-base”, and a forum-like platform makes the most sense. First we had Smashboards, then Reddit. Twitter and Discord exist, but they serve very different purposes to the open community discussion and content aggregation that a forum system provides.

I made this community mainly as a temporary solution to the blackouts (however long they may last) in case anyone migrated here. I still like Smashboards, but I’m a bit older and am more used to old-school forums. I recognize people are more comfortable with the Reddit tiered thread style of comments.

So what do you think? Should r/SSBM stay open? Should we migrate somewhere else? Smashboards? Here? Somewhere completely different?

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lasagnacrab, 11 months ago

I come from older style forums and boards as well. Mostly linux/tech related stuff when it's not melee we're talking about. And its been a long time since I've used reddit outside of the few niche multis I created for my hobbies. So, that being said, ActivityPub and kbin are interesting to me, and if a large enough portion of the communities for my specific interests migrate here/lemmy, I'll be happy to stay around.

I'd welcome moving to a more sustainable platform, but I don't see r/ssbm migrating anywhere with meaningful numbers without a concerted effort by the mods to push the users somewhere else specific. No 3rd party apps will force me to just browse on desktop, and if we don't migrate anywhere r/ssbm will still be the best place to keep up to date on community happenings as Twitter/Discord are poor at doing so in my opinion. I don't use Twitter/Discord, watch streams, and almost never catch tournaments live, so that's the value of a melee online community for me.

I foresee another burst of activity when the API changes actually go into effect, hopefully kbin is federated and ready to go by then. We'll see what happens.

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