WFWF General Discussion 2019

I second everything Deep Figure Value said.  Obviously the new guidebook was my part of phase one.  I think that that the guidebook combined with bad guy™'s recruiting drive and the updated championship history provides a great starting point for all the new members we hope to make a part of the WFWF family.

Back to Basics should be a fun show, with a few twists and turns to set the tone for the WFWF in the months to come.

We're just getting started.  Look for some changes to the Hall of Fame.  It may take a little while but bear with us.

I hope my co-owner/mod is feeling better.  I spent much of last week fighting a cold myself so I feel for ya.

Tax season, yo.

You'd be so surprised to find how little of an impact that has on my job.

I think it would be cool if you guys made a website for WFWF and set it out with a roster page, news page etc. 

That was tried years ago, actually. Old owner we had named Yukio, whatever the other old timers here feel about him aside, had some great advertisement/production ideas. He got a whole free domain set up, had a roster page, had our title history and everything. But as time went on, he got busier IRL and eventually stopped updating it. I think the domain just recently, finally expired.

It's something I'd be interested in doing again. I would do it with the blessings of the owners, because generally speaking I'm a walking WFWF Encyclopedia from 2007-2018 at the very least, and know a nice chunk of the history from 2003-2006 thanks to a couple of guys I talked a lot with when I started here, Yukio included. Problem is, I'm not too good with programming. I don't know much about coding websites. I've learned banners and stuff since I became an admin here, but that's also Proboards coding. To do it at all I would want to do it to perfection and use it as an advertising tool for the efed ranking sites like Knights and stuff, however few are left standing. An increased Twitter presence would be nice too.

I dunno. Problem is, this hobby of ours is very much dying. At its peak, even the smallest of sites didn't need advertisement to get people to join and try it. Hell, people did snail mail in feds before the internet was widely available with the free AOL discs. Now, WFWF is probably the strongest hobby board on WF, thanks in large part to some of our guys refusing to hang up the boots as to not let the board they helped build die. But WF is a site of 11k people, with maybe 2-3k active daily and we have to scratch and claw to get people to take an interest.

Regardless of opinion on them, I (and many others even if they won't admit it) are thankful guys like c-scope and Dr. Mantis Toboggan MD hung around and participated as much as they did and still lurk, and that I found a freaking gem in King Richius my last recruitment drive.

I'm hoping this new breed, y'all new guys, will help keep this place chugging along long into the future, and that they may help bring in a Renaissance of sorts to the board. But times are changing, and it's getting difficult for any long standing efed to keep itself treading above water. Hope we can do more than that here.

Sorry for the long winded response to a "you should make a site" comment, but I feel it's fair to state for the newer guys to see exactly what's up and why this recruiting and rebranding is so necessary.

I have zero interest in anything offsite as related to WFWF, save for those who wanted to get a bit more in depth with that whole Twitter gimmick that was popular here a few years back for like 20 minutes.

Hey, if people wanna do it, more power to 'em. For me, DB kinda exists between these walls, and if there's something I can't convey within those trappings, then to me, that's something to work on, but far be it from me to tell anyone how to go and creatively express themselves.

Wix.com is very easy to use.
It's just drag and drop items, nothing fancy or confusing. 

Yeah I feel ya. I just wanna get some advertising out there. That much, I think everyone can agree on.