Mosherdrops
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The hot emo/goth/girls forum … traffic should be good.
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Genuinely feels like a different time. Look how we’ve all grown
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there you go..
Look How We’ve All Grown.
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You’d better believe it
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This has been the best logo. Shame it is a bit too DLX but that’s kinda why it is cool.
Not sure what I’d call it if renaming.
Forumwise, it just sort of fizzled out.
I often think about firing up my little vinyl cutter to have a play though - not sure I still have the ‘design’ I put forward now.
Side note - A lot of the old MAS guys will be into their 60’s now! Fen hit 60 earlier this year. Still skates and is ace.
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That’s the thing with this forum, although the majority are regulars I don’t think we attract (m)any new users. You’ll always get the random kook turn up like heelflipfrog or whatever but the humour is quite unique, there are a lot of in jokes going back probably 20 years and who the fuck wants to type out their opinions about trousers when you could be watching a 4 second video on tiktok
In short, this forum will die slowly but I think the kids (eg under 30s) have cooler places to hang out
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I think the fact that we’ve been on Mumsnet and GH in a week is a testament to the SEO value of the UK Skate Forum name. By all means change the logo but I think the name should stay the same
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Yellapages
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Good Housekeeping???
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Nothing’s going to beat this.
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Lol. In related anecdotes - I might have posted this before but whatever, Ofsted complete so here we go…
On the original Sidewalk forum years ago we had a user called grinnersausages (iirc) who was an academic out in the States (a friend of yours @WallyBazoum if I recall). There was some discussion re geopolitics and neocon thinking on the OG forum and said user (grinner…) made a comment about some leading American neocon being a ‘bit of a twat’ or something along those lines. Said slighted American neocon must’ve been Googling himself some time later and found this discussion.
In my position as Sidewalk guy who answers random emails late at night, I opened an email from an .edu email and it was the same guy asking (very politely) moderators to delete the pejorative mention of his name/book as it was the top return when you searched for this guy.
Lolz obviously ensued but I deleted it anyway.
I did have a screen shot of the emails somewhere but they were lost when an old laptop died. This doesn’t really have much to do with the above other than to reiterate how mad it is that a bunch of old men talking about skateboarding (at least tangentially) has the Internet footprint to appear on Mumsnet.
Equally, whatever but still…just wanted to acknowledge the fact that this is living culture and discourse. Away the pub lads.
Big knuckles to Alphanumeric’s blue steel maestro @Mark for everything he does.
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I guess Jason Isaacs will be stoked if he googles himself. Dude has a whole thread!
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Kinda why I (annoyingly to some) bang on about how saying that certain brands are “done” when we as a small island have no idea how brands are doing. What we say on here has impact on people even though we think we’re just talking shit in an echo chamber. kids see it, assume said brand is shit, tells mates, no one supports and so on.
Anyway, lets have more of the funner side of being seen by the wider world.
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Bumsnet?
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You recall correctly, Jim a.k.a Grinnerssausages is a really lovely bloke. Lives in France now, probably calling out Jordan Bardella for being a fils de pute.
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Some brain dumpings…
This forum is a lot of UK (and ex UK) skaters talking about a little bit of skateboarding and then everything else in the world. All the main topics are years deep in conversation…
Feels like in a way, this is some kind of village pub and we’re all the locals with impenetrable accents and tired old stories for days.
We can’t expect the younger folk to want to come and sit, listen and join in with us, when there’s a really accessible band playing next door with other young folk listening to them too. Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? There are probably both sides to that.
One thing I do think is that if you thought about the forum from the perspective of a new user, or someone who has yet to join and is finding it on google for the first time, is defaulting to a list of ongoing discussions the best thing?
Whilst all the old N26 regulars are used to the simple, single forum style, not everyone is. As archaic as Slap and its software is, it’s got a pretty upfront, easy to understand taxonomy of where people can go, what they can look at and where they can join in.
I know you’re resistant to too much categorisation @Mark, but perhaps setting the categories page as the default could be more accessible. Doing that, alongside putting more effort in categorising all topics into a few clear categories could be beneficial to both the regular users and potential new users: Categories - UK Skateboarding Forum
(Regular users could also set it back to latest as the default if they want. Perhaps a case to put some effort in resources on how to use the forum, given how out of favour they are)
Nice idea @nav am giving it a go, front page now looks like this:
Let’s see if the locals kick up (or not)
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