Posting my Feedback...what Support Forums needs ASAP.

[Peter L]

Okay, let's get this straight. I love Support Forums. No questions to it, there are so many good things to it and I've met some incredibly intelligent members on here. But like I said here we need something to push SF forward. We are coasting right now, and are running out of momentum. I understand Omniscient is incredibly busy especially with the recent downtime of HackForums (which coincidentally makes it harder to want to be here) but he took on a responsibility opening up SF, and gained a lot of member's trust and respect and can't leave us like this! I'm not blaming him, no not at all but I'm just trying to get prepared for the reasons others may have to go against this or because people feel the need to defend Omni.

Something really needs to be done. There is no new features, no new groups, no news (good) posts or discussions, and now their is just out of control gravedigging going on and it is making it hard to find the new HQ posts. I know "I am not forced to be here and can leave if I want to," but I don't want to. If I wanted to I wouldn't be writing this, I want to see some changes. SF is just going downhill and will die within the year if it keeps up. Dead as in..just not what it can be.

What do I suggest? Everyone needs to get involved! Here are some ideas:

• Contests (best youtube video?)
  
• Legitimate referral contest?
  
• Handing out new awards
  
• Approving more groups and giving them their own section
  
• Promotions?
  
• More advertising...but not from HF
  
• Make a SET and STRICT rule to stop HF discussions
  
• Video Tutorials?
  
• Support Plugin?
  

These are just some ideas, and sorry for sounding rude or a jerk but I really love to call SF a second home where I can go for high quality discussions that actually get me thinking, for support, and to help others. It's an all in one package and I'm sure I'll never find another forum like this...and don't want to see it go downhill so quickly.

Thoughts?