Originally Posted by
Toobs
yall can sit here and argue over this and that, over skins, over whos responsibility is what, etc...
the only thing that would give RB and even slight chance of becoming more than just a memory you can log onto(which lets be for real thats about all it is now), is to ditch VBulletin, the entire oldschool forum format in general...
and someone code an entirely new way of doing this...one that integrates all popular social media into it...and which the mechanics you operate in order to post are entirely different...
something more like a social media network..
on-site audio/graphical/text piece hosting that is self-advertised at random throughout the site, while simultaneously pushing them through the popular social media outlets...
going to take an active, dedicated hip hop news team to keep interesting articles flowing through here linked to social media with titles that make people want to click, that bring them back here...
live, on the spot video/audio batrtling that people can start up without making plans and signing up and having to upload to 3rd party places to post...
theres a lot more i could say here...but it's not worth going into full detail, because nobody here has the technical expertise necessary... a bunch of us put together could have that expertise, but workng together to create a better site is something that people have been trying to do for years and it just doesn't work...
main obstacle is Strobe... he doesn't want to sell the place, and apparently refuses to communicate with anyone who wants to run it...
so what you have here is an archive of how things useds to be, that you can still use and participate in...