State of the QBN 2019
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- Salarrue-3
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https://i.guim.co.uk…Salarrue - they started using a signature to battle cross-linking.renderedred
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- ayport10
I really enjoy QBN. I've considered it a healthy inspirational distraction from work for quite a while. I do enjoy it most when design and coding topics pop up in the list. I think the last time I contributed was 10 years ago. I'm sorry. I would hate to see QBN go, but I would love to have a revival of the overall design conversation. Back then, QBN kept me thinking on a higher level when it came to new ideas with most of the work I did out in the world.
I really do miss the old homepage. It showed the latest and greatest in current thread topics as well as design news.
- Bennn-2
I think QBN needs some renovations, who's the owners? Do they have any plans for the future of QBN?
I think QBN would need :
- An updated websites with more features (see Dischord forum for example of modern forums functions)
- Opening the doors to new members ASAP
- More moderators
- Label system to clearly mark sensitive content and have the option to turn off sensitive content in our profile optionsI dont know, but I think we should do something or this community will slowly vanish in the next 5 to 10 years, I'm sure.
- I think the trolling and the sensitive content are the two principal reason of why people are quitting QBNBennn
- The side-notes is one of the best feature of this website, we should keep it at all cost.Bennn
- Surely deathboy agrees.ben_
- The ability to edit and delete our own posts would be a good move tooBennn
- Not it would not.monospaced
- penisNanocephalic
- Maaku4
A couple of suggestions and everyone goes berserk
Bennn top-left corner:
Keep all them threads, just hide the non-design related ones under another "sub-menu".
- lolBennn
- "hidden" or "private" threads are a good idea in my viewrenderedred
- We can also just make the NSFW "private", for logged-in users only. It ain't much but it's honest work.Maaku
- much better idea than the delete police :)renderedred
- Well that is just the perfect gifRamanisky2
- Do we have the budget to hire a consultant to tell us what to do?misterhow
- This is Twittercannonball1978
- MrAbominable1
Social Engineering probably isn't the key to greater engagement and wider participation.
- Are you saying that censoring pornography is "social engineering" - it's just as much engineering having it on there too - you're just too washed to knowcanoe
- ^That's a bit anti-woke of you. Enforcing your orthodoxy isn't inclusive. As an adult you have the right to not right-click. Free will. Look it up.MrAbominable
- autoflavour5
This fucking thread again..
Eye rollHow about we delete everything that doesn’t strictly have to do with Helvetica and be done with it.
- You kind of precipitated it with your post y'day!Nairn
- ^ That's a fair point.Continuity
- I like comic sansBusterBoy
- LOL.. oh shit, didn't even return to that post in the blog.. 92 comments.. FIRE
loopsautoflavour - Out of interest, Auto - do you not use the 'feed' view here? I only discovered it a couple of years back. Game changer.
For the worse... :)Nairn - ( https://www.qbn.com/… )Nairn
- aint no one got time for that.autoflavour
- but yes, do know, but dont useautoflavour
- mg3314
I love you Benn, but you seem to have a more-than-mild obsession with seeing QBN as more than most of us do, which is a virtual clubhouse of acquaintances with digital friendships going on 15+ years, no more / no less. So many online communities have withered as people have created Facebook groups to cover a myriad of topics and purposes.
The site won't and isn't going away; you don't have to worry about that at all. It's sort of a microcosm of society these days comprised of a majority of us who have been here for quite a long time. We closed membership because certain adults couldn't be trusted to be mature and responsible and not act like complete lunatics, which sucks because we were occasionally attracting new members.
Yes, it would be nice for QBN to grow. Yes it would be nice to have a greater focus on design topics. Yes, it would behoove us to get rid of NSFW content, COTD, etc. to help make the place a bit more presentable to new members, especially women, who these days probably don't feel very welcome to a site with the NSFW content here. Truth be told, we don't need that stuff here at all. People can make a sub-Reddit instantly to post NSFW content to their heart's content.
You said it yourself, Benn:
"QBN isnt a design forum since many years now. Its a place to have fun and communicate with people."That was my point up above. Long ago NT/QBN was some kind of epicenter of discussion / sharing / bragging / complimenting, etc. and it was great at the time. Things change. People grow up, get more serious in careers and lives and families and other responsibilities. If you can just view this place (for the time being) as a group of people who have all known each other and developed varying levels of digital friendships, then it's a good place. You just need to be content with that. :)
- I would back getting rid of cotd, and nsfw thread
*runs and hides*Gnash - Fact is, for this site to grow, and for some of us in this industry to want to promote the site, NSFW content MUST go. It shouldn't even be a debate.mg33
- ^ 100%Gnash
- (Except for Simon’s links - which is a members work )Gnash
- Agreed. Can the grot.Fax_Benson
- Snuff the chuff.Fax_Benson
- agreedmonospaced
- NSFW
https://i.imgur.com/…utopian - the NSFW is the thread that shows up in Google search when you search QBNcanoe
- There are 20 titles on the left at once. COTD, NSFW, BOTD occupying already limited space there.Beeswax
- ya i'm all for rid of cotd. a lot of posts there just straight up creepy. & NSFW thread... who actually like watching that kind of stuffs other than shock valuepango
- its the internet guys. there are porn sites for that!pango
- All for scrapping cotd, etc. With all due respect to Simon who is a respectful dude through and through.ben_
- good point mg33, see the post i just posted in this threadBennn
- Keep COTD it has artistic merit I think. NSFW must go. I'm an ass man and love BOTD but willing to let it go for the greater good! lol_niko
- The QBNr's love beating off to the "Chick of the day thread" lots of hot gash and slots to fill there. It Stays!utopian
- amen._me_
- even though I post in the cheeky threads sometimes and I still agree they should goGardener
- I am not so much for the NSFW stuff either. But then let me post in the photography thread. Happy with this. Please no censorship on QBN. It's everywhere else!SimonFFM
- ya im for simon's in photography thread. separate his work from the rest of the cotd... :/pango
- Get rid of COTD, et al, or is there a way to mark them noindex/nofollow to hide from the Goog and also remove them from nav, unless a user checks off "Show NSFelahon
- W Content" in their user settings? Or just flat-out remove it, IDGAF, I'm for that 100%.elahon
- "Oh, new Butt of the day post!" as I click that. hahaelahon
- COTD etc. are ridiculous, 2019 and folks sharing nudes on a d̶e̶s̶i̶g̶n̶ general interest forum. Big contributor to the current state of things...kingsteven
- +1 KingStevenNairn
- Whack the crack
Loobs the boobs
Pass on't'ass
Clean the bean
Deet the feetNairn - + 1 everyone abovedee-dubs
- expunge the clungeFax_Benson
- Ooh, bravo, fax - Bravo!Nairn
- :)Fax_Benson
- This idea there was more of a design focus in the past is a myth. I remember more _Randomize Me than design topics.CyBrainX
- i'm against any kind of censorship. this was never a design only forum. shenanigans existed from the get go and it evolved to where we are today. shame on you!renderedred
- and let us assume "we" start voting on threads to delete? where does it stop exactly? is hate kanye thread ok? how "clean" do you want this place?renderedred
- do we keep the politics and religion threads? i vote no on this. it stays, all of it.renderedred
- i think QBN is great how it is! take care, cause when this goes on, QBN could get a one out of many boring design forums. the mix of topics is so special here.api
- what's wrong about some not safe for work topics? i really enjoy things that are not only work or design related to see here.api
- exactly @api i always came here for the varietyrenderedred
- the variety of tits? Why do you have to have multiple threads full of middle aged men rating the genitals of 19 year old girls?Fax_Benson
- i personally don't but i don't mind a well shaped nicely photographed boob here and there...renderedred
- or: https://www.qbn.com/… ;) why not?renderedred
- i get it @fax you are against these things, but where does it stop, to reiterate my questinerenderedred
- it would stop at the butt / tits threads, as suggested. I agree they put a limit on what's possible with this place. They don't add anythingFax_Benson
- you can't seen a million other places. Whereas the people they potentially put off could / would add somethingFax_Benson
- sorry for being a cynical old cunt :) but i see no line of people waiting to join this particular forum. i only see people leaving drama :) and lurkers...renderedred
- i bet if a few lurkers got "busy" we could see something. let's try that first?renderedred
- every community needs "lurkers"! without readers there is no content. it's like wikipedia, only a view post things, when the time is right.api
- i think if anyone wants to have new members, we could invite them on other platforms. did you try that? & tell them we also have great nsfw content. har!api
- I'm against any kind of censorship. QBN is a place for so much more than just design topics and that's what makes it special.riskunlogic
- meh, 'censorship' is a bit of a pointlessly- strong card to try and pull in this context. it's male-centric porn posted somewhere where lots don't want it.Nairn
- I would back getting rid of cotd, and nsfw thread
- MrBixler2
I’m a lurker. I lurk in the hope that Carver or Wendell might show up again.
- a grand aimFax_Benson
- Take out and trap the chief of me!BonSeff
- Beardy0
..i come here for COTD and Trailer OTD. Oh and the useful thread, that's quite useful
- BonSeff3
I miss the old days when we had fun engaging each other with "type connect" sessions and "print exchange," FMT and what nots.
My take is that those days were rad because we had no myspace, facebook, twitter etc. to bounce around.
I wish the younger generation would think up fun activities like that, but there is just too much out there nowadays to hold interest like we used to do.
- Krassy5
Question for those of you who only lurk: why aren't you contributing?
- Yeah its really weird. Why?Bennn
- "hey lurkers, why you lurk?" lurkers: "..."renderedred
- maybe they are too busy eating the popcorn.BabySnakes
- Shyness, maybe. Was the reason I lurked for long time.Fax_Benson
- Why bothernb
- Never ends well, when I get involved.Khurram
- Little time due to work, difficult to follow inside jokes, threaded notes not great UI. Plus social anxiety and knowing how much of a cunt drunk online me is.5timuli
- Most of the times I start to type, but end up deleting everything...dmay
- Usually just help identifying fonts and some HTML / CSS problems.dmay
- the 'group think' thing tends to keep me quiet. Like how anything 'unilateral' has to happen because of isolated interest.MrAbominable
- TBH I find a lot of the jokes and memes posted on here a little boring. It's the same stuff you'd see on Reddit or another site like that.yuekit
- impostor syndrome?ArchitectofFate
- it's not really a community any more, set getting hounded out was the end of that illusion for me. its just another anon meme page.kingsteven
- Its like a business meeting for me. Sometimes its best to stfu and listen. I hate when everyone in a meeting feels the need to say "something".MHDC
- MHDC going on and on again....Fax_Benson
- I used to try & contribute, but I was always behind & shared shit that was already posted. Timeline. I liked the previous homepage. it kept me current.ayport
- Tbh I love graphic design, architecture etc... I’ve continue to work in a completely different field but have always appreciated the talent of so manyStatic_Line
- I don't get it. where are all the memes and bad jokes you guys are complaining about? are we on the same site?inteliboy
- Bennn-6
I still think that if QBN is now a closed community, the website should be accessible via a password and be closed to the public.
I dont understand why we should make a show for all those lurkers.
- I like fucking with the curtains openautoflavour
- agree with this, its like a feckin zoo.kingsteven
- Lurkers will all Downvote this for sure lolBennn
- Lurkers can still have qbn memberships but not post, you know. Can't stop someone from logging in and just looking.i_monk
- we surely have a LOT of lurkers without any account who just visit QBN to scroll content.Bennn
- and its impossible to create new accounts, if havent seen the info, i_monkBennn
- Bennn-1
@mg33
I hear you, you got good points. If this is clear for everyone, that QBN is now a closed community of old members, i'm ok with this, I will stop thinking of the end of QBN. It's now clear.But you have to admit that QBN is slowly but surely vanishing, we're losing members every years. If that the destiny of the QBN, so be it. I will follow the QBN to its death :)
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One thing tho, if QBN is now a closed community of old members, I REALLY think that this website should be CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC and accessible with a password only.For real, whats the point of having QBN public if no one can join in?
I really feel like we're a bunch of friends in a house and there's many people outside watching us thru the window, its very creepy and weird. We have no idea of how many lurkers are around here.
We're a closed community, well let's be closed for real, ask the owners to close QBN to the public. It will change nothing to our experience on this forum.
