08-27-2024, 07:10 AM
Most of the current community activity is on Discord, and we do respond questions asked there fairly quickly. If anyone has any questions about really anything MFGG related feel free to just ping me there and I will answer as soon as I can.
The sad reality is that in the modern age, forums are a bit of a dying medium. Like, MFGG's userbase has always been on the younger end, and the younger generation these days just prefers to use Discord, so that's where our focus is. It's just way more convenient, everyone has a discord account, and joining a server takes no effort, as opposed to making a whole forum account which is a bit of a commitment for most people!
I think there really is a discussion to be had on this though. Like, should we reconsider our approach? Is it worth revitalizing the forums with more focus, or would it be a better idea consider phasing it all out? You know, as opposed to just abandoning it to be lurked by a few oldheads and no one else, with little staff involvement outside of banning the bots...
About the queue, we are also a bit understaffed at the moment, and really a lot of our QC members we have aren't properly equipped to deal with the hacks section. Looking at the hacks queue, it seems to REALLY have piled up, and I'm right in the middle of a crunch period for a commercial game myself so I don't have the time to help with it too. In hindsight it wasn't exactly the best idea to branch out to ROM hacks when the QC already had so much to deal with, but what's done has been done and I don't fault the past MFGG staff for wanting to branch out, I was on board with it too.
The sad reality is that in the modern age, forums are a bit of a dying medium. Like, MFGG's userbase has always been on the younger end, and the younger generation these days just prefers to use Discord, so that's where our focus is. It's just way more convenient, everyone has a discord account, and joining a server takes no effort, as opposed to making a whole forum account which is a bit of a commitment for most people!
I think there really is a discussion to be had on this though. Like, should we reconsider our approach? Is it worth revitalizing the forums with more focus, or would it be a better idea consider phasing it all out? You know, as opposed to just abandoning it to be lurked by a few oldheads and no one else, with little staff involvement outside of banning the bots...
About the queue, we are also a bit understaffed at the moment, and really a lot of our QC members we have aren't properly equipped to deal with the hacks section. Looking at the hacks queue, it seems to REALLY have piled up, and I'm right in the middle of a crunch period for a commercial game myself so I don't have the time to help with it too. In hindsight it wasn't exactly the best idea to branch out to ROM hacks when the QC already had so much to deal with, but what's done has been done and I don't fault the past MFGG staff for wanting to branch out, I was on board with it too.