[SR$2k Dev Thread] I'll set up an SRK successor board if you guys need one

Tom Cannon put up a poll on Twitter today asking if people serious about keeping the forums around would be willing to give to a Patreon or something of the like.

As of right now with nearly 1000 votes, the results are 73% no, 27% yes.

Bad sign for anybody still holding out hope for SRK living past the end of the month.

Hey people who don’t use SRK, you want us to keep the forums open?

Its a dumb shit move.

I wonder how many of those cocksuckers voting “no” are actually posters on here.

I wonder how many of those votes are from EventScrubs regulars

looks good bchan009-senpai but don’t burn yourself out too early, we need you!

@bchan009 God’s work my friend

Not very smart of him to post that someplace where ANYONE can vote.
You got about as many loud-ass mofos practically *cheering * for what’s happening.

Indeed. So many competing sites would KILL to have an amazing community like ours, and that’s exactly what they are doing by voting on this poll. Killing SRK.

So stupid to poll twitter. #JustBeyondMe

I also threw my hat in the ring to step up to set up a successor board. I have already talked with one of the developers of phpBB that would help with the migration due to the size of the board. I also took the liberty of registering srkforums.com

We should talk sometime. I’ve used SMF, but as you’ve stated, it’s dated. The development of the software has stalled as 2.1 has been “in development” for over 3 years (and it’s not like it’s a total rewrite either).

phpBB has served me very well, and I think that it’s the best out of the free board software. Very stable codebase, and is updated 2-3x per year. Given its huge popularity, finding extensions and mods for the most asked-for features shouldn’t be difficult at all.

However, before we even get to that point, I think it might be best to go with a dedicated server option (virtual or physical) for the board. The resources that the board would require is simply too heavy for just a regular shared hosting account, wouldn’t you agree?

LMAO, so he asks about the fate of SRK on a diferent platform to people who don’t use SRK?
BRILLIANT!!!

You can bet your ass that most of them are people who left at some point because they were too soft to handle SRK
I have already seen some of those type celebrating that srk will be gone because they are still butthurt.

Glad to see we have a new member on the SRK revival force! Once we know how migration efforts are going, we can coordinate our efforts!

I’m on shared hosting now but I’m willing to upgrade my plan depending on the needs of the forum. What would really be useful is information on how many people are using the boards these days. SRK has had many many members over the years, but frequent logins and actual posts have dropped. I imagine a small, dedicated forum with the OGs/people who still use this forum regularly is pretty easy to manage. I might not be able to support moving the massive amount of old content over, but if we are forced to have a fresh start I’m pretty sure it’s perfectly manageable with what I’ve got.

For reference, I own srk2.com. Forum is already running there but please do not sign up or anything because I’m breaking things on the regular. =)

Anyway, here’s my current status report:

• Animated avatars: done
• Forum theme: done in the next day or so
• Rep system/upvoting: not sure because most of the options seem janky right now. A lot of the rep systems seem like shaky bolted-on stuff. More testing required.
• User-selectable themes/colors: planned. Pretty sure I know how to do it. Will try soon.

Things I’m just thinking about for now:

• Image uploading is currently enabled but I might turn it off due to resource drain. I don’t know what I’ll do if the site goes down due to the sheer number of booty pics
• Special ranks/privileges for SRK refugees
• SRK wiki is dead and unused. Maybe a knowledge base forum where relevant content from other dead places can be stored.
• Polls are currently not enabled. Do people even use those? Not sure.

The thing is nobody liked this vanilla shit to begin with, with it’s high cost,no animated avs.

A patreon at this stage is too little too late we better of going to a whole new website

It’s obvious now they never give a shit about the forums or any of us, we’re hurt.

@bchan009, you may notice I only joined 10 months ago but have about 1500 posts. I am here everyday.

If you go back and look at the SFV Lounge in the SFV forum, you’ll see that it’s really active (though it has died down since the news broke out as a lot of the members have ran to Discord so no one gets lost, but they complain about it and will go to any forum once there’s stability).

After quick calculations, that thread averages roughly 350 posts a day since I joined (you may only see 90 or so pages, but a new thread is created every 500 pages, with 40 posts per page).

Good to know. A lot of the game forums are pretty dead though. Usually only one or two super active threads per section.

Yes, you are right, and I would guess that SFV gets the most traffic.

I find it mind boggling that the cannons will talk to people on Twitter, Reddit and IRC but not the site they created.

Just a piece of legal advice here: Ditch that logo asap, unless they gave you permission to use it.

And then people wonder why SRK is declining.