Hypothetical forum reorganization: what does it look like?

[marurun]

How about new branding? Name change to “Whatever Retro”?

[stickem]

How about new branding? Name change to “Whatever Retro”?

I mean the name doesn't help with anybody doing a google search. retroboy sounds good lol, j/k

[marurun]

Sorry, that should have been in blue text. Also, Retro Boy sounds like a cheap emulation handheld.

[stickem]

yes it does, forgot the blue text as well

[Jagosaurus]

Didn’t AtariAge get sold to that company that has the skeevy grading/auction scam?

Nah. That was Nintendo Age. They bought it & shut it down (possibly due to it having sketchy evidence on it). Al still runs AA.

@stickem, I agree it's got a lot of great Atari content. Their other retro areas (Nintendo, Sega, etc) get a ton of traffic & their modern sub forums are active.

Just strange to see the AA thriving & RB be roughly the same 15 to 20 posters.

I was just thinking about the RB podcast days. We had other avenues driving traffic.

[marurun]

I think that external content is a lot of it. This isn’t Nick’s only gig, and it definitely doesn’t get the bulk of his time. I doubt this place even really pays for itself compared to the other stuff he does.

[o.pwuaioc]

AtariAge has regulars going back over 20 years. At the end of the day, RB should have focused on its core community. It's not worthwhile, I think, to try and get it to what it used to be, but rather to deal with what it is now.

Also, AA's forums weren't always so numerous. Forums come into being based on demand, and often are organic. The NES and SNES forums were just made this year in response to the lack of Nintendo forums online (after the fiasco with NA).

[alienjesus]

I think a forum restructure does sound a good idea, but I wouldn't want to lose anything from the past. Maybe we could move them into an archive section or something?

With some of the more obscure questions I've googled over the years, the answer has ended up being in a racketboy post from 2009 or something. It'd be a shame if those resources vanished.

[o.pwuaioc]

I think a forum restructure does sound a good idea, but I wouldn't want to lose anything from the past. Maybe we could move them into an archive section or something?

With some of the more obscure questions I've googled over the years, the answer has ended up being in a racketboy post from 2009 or something. It'd be a shame if those resources vanished.

Oh, yeah, definitely not recommending removing any content!

[marurun]

Honestly, those topics could simply be moved into the larger, broader categories. I don’t think having fewer sub-forums would mean removing old threads.