I hope that was the last addition for now. TeamLiquid was always a team I respected for making careful decisions and only adding players / squads that they were 100% behind. Careful and meticulous rather than fast growth.
Right now it feels like a very quick expansion, although I am sure there was a lot of detailed planning going on for months in the background. I wish each player and squad the best and hope that TL will display a level of team stability and integrity that is a rare sight on eSports usually.
On January 14 2015 08:03 disciple wrote: I don't like how we segmented our community in different sites and would love for everything to come back together under one roof. But we will have to redesign the site completely...
Well, you guys should outsource some of your webdesign. Now you have 4 or 5 sites, all similar but yet different, with overlapping purposes, and you have to login again for every new site... From a usability perspective, it's a complete mess.
It's unclear WHERE to discuss certain topics. Suppose I want to talk about which games TL could branch into... where do I bring this up? General forum? TL pro? One of the sub-sites? It's completely unclear. And so on.
On January 14 2015 06:06 Scorch wrote: Frankly, I don't like Teamliquid's rapid expansion. For eons, it was known as the most elite Starcraft site in the net, the site where the pros hung out, feared by some for its fierce moderation. The release of SC2 changed little about that. There were also subforums for a select few other games, sure why not. It was still the same community, where everyone had once joined for Starcraft. Then Dota2 got its own separate sister site, then Hearthstone, Smash, and now LoL and CS:GO. With the fragmentation, it feels like Teamliquid lost its soul. What was once a tightly knit community with great love for Starcraft is now a multigaming team like many others, a mere site network with shared general forums. At least that's my subjective feeling.
Even if I wasn't here in the pre-SC2 era I couldn't agree more.
Hey, look over there <<<<<, this is still an sc2 site and team liquid still has a bunch of great sc2 players. I think your real beef should be with the game itself and its shrinking viewership/player/fanbase.
Oh there is no beef and I'm not salty, I just feel that TL has lost what made it unique.