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EnumaAvalon
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On May 12 2014 07:31 FiWiFaKi wrote: Also a bit upset they wouldn't even ask the members of the site... Members, the people who make the community possible about what they thought of the change before implementing it. Just not cool Poll: Your support for this change? Strongly Disagree (244) Strongly Agree (53) Disagree (52) Neutral/Don't care (21) Agree (13) 383 total votes Your vote: Your support for this change? (Vote): Strongly Agree Just doing this to the members who have stuck it out for a while when it can be seen from this thread that there are many against it. I want to test it out first. So far I kinda like the layout tho. | ||
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On May 12 2014 07:25 magicmUnky wrote: I think this is a really really bad idea... Every community site I've seen that split has gone straight to shit. For example; in Australia, Nissansilvia.com used to be a huge car community... we got over a thousand cars at our annual cruises (which is huge for a city of 1ish million people) and a good interstate contingent. The site then split into car sub-groups and the result? Turned into a ghost town. People, generally, like cross-exposure of different games... I don't want to go to one site for dota, one site for sc2, one site for whatever; don't mention reddit either it's full of aids. Also in the OP: But how do you measure that? And wouldn't underutilisation of customisation demonstrate that people prefer to see different game news at once? I don't think current internet trends support that at all. If I want information about something (like a game or tv show or whatever) I do not want to have to go to trawling through specialist sites; I go to some kind of aggregator. Teamliquid has been one of the most trusted aggregators for popular competitive games for some time now but there's no way I can be bothered opening MORE tabs just to read tidbits of dota news or look for dota threads. I mean; the dota people miss out on all the other TL stuff and the starcraft fans miss out on all the dota stuff; only the diehard purists win. pretty much this. I thought the idea was cool at first but the more I thought about it, the more I think it's not going to work out. I mostly browsed TL for some SCII, BW, blogs, general and anime discussion thread. Also, recently got more interested in dota2 so I was starting to use it but it feels like its too much un-necessary work to visit both TL and LD now. Is it possible to still have some thread(maybe main articles?) in the dota2 section and everything else on LD? would at least have some of those who are here for starcraft but read some dota2 from time to time(and maybe something similar on LD for starcraft so a subforum for articles by staff). | ||
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EnumaAvalon
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Nice touch. So the TL database actually also has a column for where the thread comment is from? whoa! | ||
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Firebolt145
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On May 12 2014 07:45 EnumaAvalon wrote: Nice touch. So the TL database actually also has a column for where the thread comment is from? whoa! From what I know, separate databases. | ||
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On May 12 2014 07:42 FlyingSteaks wrote: Eh, was this necessary? I liked seeing sc2 and dota in just one place, but I guess not many people did that That and the moderation was the main reason I kept using the site after my SC2 interest waned. | ||
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EnumaAvalon
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The more I know :D Pretty exciting stuff for me. | ||
Hot_Bid
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On May 12 2014 07:20 FiWiFaKi wrote: Was hoping mod/staff would be able to answer.... How successful would you guys rate the splitting of Hearthstone from teamliquid? It was successful. It definitely wouldn't have worked putting it on TL frontpage and having HS, StarCraft, Dota, etc on it. If you were to compare LH to the option of keeping it on TL, it's not really even close in terms of how it can grow. On May 12 2014 07:37 FiWiFaKi wrote: I mean it's hard to say if teamliquid has been making good decisions recently, as their viewership has dropped to around 50% of what it was a year ago (going off of "active", as well as the activity I've been seeing). The real question is whether this will continue that streak or change it. This can be a really big nail in the coffin for teamliquid if it doesn't work out. In terms of traffic, viewership across all StarCraft sites has declined since 2012. I don't think this has much to do with any decisions we're making, it's just a reality in the scene. Dota was not growing on TL (at least not at the rate we consider acceptable) and the reason for this is because our Dota audience is just people that already use TL, not new users. This is because you have a site with a calendar not tailored to the game, with StarCraft icons, etc. It's not a very welcoming place for a Dota fan. This move at minimum will give our Dota staff and community a chance to grow. Status quo simply wasn't cutting it. | ||
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