THIA: Forum only?

[News Bot]

Only on a content level of course.. The communities are different, and I've never even been to Biohaze. And besides if we were forced to use that Drupal forum module PU has everyone would go nuts (don't get me wrong, I love Drupal just not its forums).

Of course. The communities are already far too separate.

[Scream]

Of course. The communities are already far too separate.

I guess to be specific - PU team are more archival and THIA more creative. As for me, I would rather not archive what some Japanese guys thought up in a room somewhere, but that is a matter of opinion/choice.. I've thought along those same lines and discovered its not what I want to do..

I think the best thing this community has produced is this: http://www.the-horror.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7963 - very sad right, but imagine everyone doing this, all the great games we would be playing now - rather than talking about what Mikami said to whoever about RE 1.5, a game never released.. something not even the Japanese themselves talk about..

I would take creative projects over content replicated from one form to another any time... so yes the two communities are separate, but both necessary..

[News Bot]

I guess to be specific - PU team are more archival and THIA more creative. As for me, I would rather not archive what some Japanese guys thought up in a room somewhere, but that is a matter of opinion/choice.. I've thought along those same lines and discovered its not what I want to do..

I think the best thing this community has produced is this: http://www.the-horror.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7963 - very sad right, but imagine everyone doing this, all the great games we would be playing now - rather than talking about what Mikami said to whoever about RE 1.5, a game never released.. something not even the Japanese themselves talk about..

I would take creative projects over content replicated from one form to another any time... so yes the two communities are separate, but both necessary..

Yes I've generally found THIA to be more of a creative, practical approach to elements of the series, more involved with modding and betas than the actual series itself apart from the occasional discussion.

[Mr. Spencer]

I've always been a proponent of greater interaction between the sites, there's already a strong relationship between PU, THIA and Biohaze at this point and I think it would be prudent to capitalise on that. THIA has always been community-centric, the forums are where the content is and the discussions that take place in them. In fact, THIA probably has the largest userbase at present.

On the other side of the coin, PU doesn't have a very active forum community but has a much larger selection of content. Some kind of merger that goes beyond affiliating would be my option. Pretty much all of the staff from all three sites have cooperated with each other in the past and there's no bad blood between us, so why not go further?

Like Paul said, THIA has a noble amassment of modders and beta testers. Always worthwhile to explore that avenue since PU lacks anything in regards to that. Everyone can benefit. It'll also prevent the community from fragmenting since we'll all be speaking with each other, pooling our resources towards a common goal - a shared appreciation (of varying degrees, mind you) of a series we enjoy.

Also, Emma raises a good point. The forums over at PU are very different in tone to those of Biohaze or THIA, so merging them would be a bad idea. However, we should simply merge both Biohaze and THIA, while leaving PU to have its own seperate forum or perhaps even a "specialist" area for those among us who want to go into all the serious plot analysis. To be honest I'm spinning plates here.

Content-wise, that's something we can definitely merge. Imagine that though, a conglomerate of all three sites working together towards the same objective. In short, a merger would be ideal as long as PU's forums are kept seperate or like I said, given their own area.

[Alexia_Ashford]

They are very different communities. Biohaze and THIA are different but at least points of comparison and probably could be merged. PU is very specialist and the people on there seem to like their little tight-knit community and extremely in-depth discussions and I'm sure some on here would enjoy that, but not all, and I'm sure it would greatly annoy the PU community if it merged and they tried to get their in-depth discussions but got "lol" in response.

[Mr. Spencer]

It's not that, the problem we have is that we seem to attract pubescent girls who love Wesker and raise inane questions like whether or not Sherry will be in RE6.

[PracticalAl]

It's not that, the problem we have is that we seem to attract pubescent girls who love Wesker and raise inane questions like whether or not Sherry will be in RE6.

I take offense to that good sir! I love both Wesker and Alfred. ..
(And of course Sherry will be in RE6! As well as Steve, Billy and Carlos.)

[News Bot]

They are very different communities. Biohaze and THIA are different but at least points of comparison and probably could be merged. PU is very specialist and the people on there seem to like their little tight-knit community and extremely in-depth discussions and I'm sure some on here would enjoy that, but not all, and I'm sure it would greatly annoy the PU community if it merged and they tried to get their in-depth discussions but got "lol" in response.

You over-state how different they are. Discussions can get in-depth here as well, sometimes even more-so. PU is not specialist nor is it extremely in depth in general, we just tend to get higher quality topics and lack most of THIA's more "casual" userbase. PU is not one specialist board either, only one of our boards is actually focused on the series plot, the rest are casual.

[REmaster]

I'd support you being a newsposter. You've been here a while now and have always seemed nice.

I also prefer content to a website. I don't think we should remove any content, just make it clear there won't be any more.

AL's cool

I personally don't care for the extra content, but I agree that we should keep what we got. As long as there's the forum and a news section I'm more than content.

[CrimsonOutlaw]

Honestly, I come here for the news updates.
I almost never post, and spend my time either checking the news section or reading "discussions" between the other members. I don't know that I would stick around too long if this became just another forum.

Not...that I make up a large portion of the community. I just feel a little like the traffic to THiA may die down, and the forums might even stagnate. It is a slim possibility, as I've seen it happen on other sites I used to frequent the became "forum only".
Although, I do feel this place was always a little forum centric. Hope for the extra content was never entirely my concern, even though it was certainly present.

What I'm trying to say is I guess keep the news going, at the very minimum? And I can dig that, at least.

[Alexia_Ashford]

I'm sure the news will always keep going, I think we're just discussing removing the site with content as there won't be any in the future, though I don't see a point. Might as well just make an announcement saying there won't be any more content.

[Ghostface]

From what I read of this thread, it seems the people who run the show are slowly starting to throw in the towel so to speak. If you can't keep up with things and whatnot simply don't try them in the first place. Its a lot better than letting people down. Honestly I think we need new management.

[Ghostface]

Screw what I SAID! I HAS AN IDEA!

[Beanovsky Durst]

I don't know... I guess it's nice to have a frontpage and hoping for some features. If I can help in any way, I'll gladly do it. Hopefully all the features you guys worked on & are stored in a dark basement can come to light in some form.

[Pikminister]

Honestly, I come here for the news updates.
I almost never post, and spend my time either checking the news section or reading "discussions" between the other members. I don't know that I would stick around too long if this became just another forum.

Not...that I make up a large portion of the community. I just feel a little like the traffic to THiA may die down, and the forums might even stagnate. It is a slim possibility, as I've seen it happen on other sites I used to frequent the became "forum only".
Although, I do feel this place was always a little forum centric. Hope for the extra content was never entirely my concern, even though it was certainly present.

What I'm trying to say is I guess keep the news going, at the very minimum? And I can dig that, at least.

See this is what I'm driving at.

Everyone else who is a member is giving their view as someone that knows how things work here. They barely consider the idea that not everyone wants to be a member and that they come here for news and possibly some perspective from the users or whatever. You got all kinds of ppl coming here.

The thing is, when a site doesn't update their main page for weeks and looks DEAD, it usually drives people away. Regardless of how active the forums are.

Now, I know that they will keep the news section going here... but at what capacity? They sure take their sweet time to update it.

So you get the impression that they aren't that interested in it. Nor in feeding the forums with fresh bait to get ppl biting and swimming and making bubbles that pop and make users react and... All this talk about making changes is FISHY!