So I made an account at Gabi's Dolphin installment, as I also feel the need to be able to chat with other community members and share thoughts in a different way than with the use of this SMF forum.
But I also see that there is an EGC FB page now and there's a newly developed official site in the make with the possibility to integrate a social media part.
As much as I admire community involvement, but I think it's better if this would be structured in a better way.
My idea would be to have one place for all of the activities (like evergreencoin.org) and maybe a Slack group strictly for development purposes.
Just my 2 EGC
Agreed. We have a fb page, an fb group, and now a fb420 page. Grumpytiger made a forum, that unfortunately gets little use. We have a slack, that unfortunately suffered the same stagnation. Our subreddit, likewise has been asleep. We now also have skype groups for promotional efforts. Not to mention this thread and twitter. I kid you not, social media alone could easily be a fulltime job already.
As lead dev, I have to accept at least some of the responsibility for what has become this social disorder. That said, much of this was done without my knowledge, which of course I am fine with but cannot advise against what I don't know is being done. Also, people that once gave me their help on this front seem to have disappeared for whatever reason.
Anyone in the community is welcome to try something new and I will do my best to support those efforts. That said, even with the social presence I do maintain, it is already quite the redundant choir to get important information out.
With the new site under development, which a marketplace has been discussed and may have a social side of its own, yes, I fear we are on social overload. My personal opinion has been that this bct thread is a sufficient medium in the past. But yes, perhaps as our spectum is getting wider, more ordered communication than one thread would be beneficial.
I guess at this time we can just, "see what sticks." Certainly I can redirect forum.evergreencoin.org to whatever serves best or do a install & clone of whichever on evergreencoin.org so no redirection is needed. I eagerly await David's work as I wish to style everything (expoler, faucet, support, and now potentially forum) in a seamless way with a unified and consistent navigation.
I too will make an account on Gabi's forum. Let's see where it goes.
EDIT: I forgot to mention IRC, perhaps others.
the forum was my fault. tried to get it up on my own got it going good then there were parts i was not knowledgeable enough to handle and couldnt find the help to complete it. then i got distracted with all the wallet stuff. then life nipped me in the butt i shall not go into it but its one of the worst obstacles ive faced in life and will probably going through it for a while. being involved in things like this helps me get away and get my mind off things sometimes. if the community thinks this forum will serve well and there are people that can help whip it into shape im down. right now it was only me and join free working on it. i agree there is to many social stuff out maybe some can be combined or the best of certain types be kept. not trying to make excuses i tried and it didnt go ill take the fall for that one. if we need to remove it we will.
