there are some good reasons for a forum.
For example, if i'm looking for good counters for alric. i'm pretty lost at the moment. i would search for alric in a forum, then i would see all the topics and could read about it directly.
sometimes really good calculations etc are shown here. if you weren't there when it was written, you'll probably never see it.
which could be quite intriguing especially now with land.
we have pretty smart arranged people in the community who will make very good calculations and guides.
but probably hardly anyone will see them. because either you have to be in the right discord channel at the time it is written or you have to follow the right person on peakd who will share it and then you have to save it.
Sometimes I see really good posts on Discord or Peakd and people who don't follow the person don't see that post and it just disappears from the scene and a forum would be a good archive. I think it's a shame that a lot of good posts aren't seen by anyone because the people who write them don't have followers and none of the popular people share the post.
which in my opinion also leads to quite a problem for a decentralized system. we have a handful of people who have a significant reach. things that are not shared by them will probably never be seen by most people. this creates the problem that these people have the power to determine what opinion is spread and what is not!
e.g. there was once @rosiew . they had made really good town hall summarys. in every respect better than those shared by splinterlands and above all much faster. those were mostly published directly after the town hall and with those shared by splinterlands you can sometimes wait 3 days and then important details are missing. nevertheless they didn't share those of rosiew. which clearly shows that there are already quite monopoly positions here. and it's not really about quality here...
here is an example https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@rosiew/splinterlands-town-hall-september-26-2022
and thank you for the work @oaaguy 😘
Hey, about @rosiew , I recall her, and I think it's good example of how we can often lose very valuable people just because they don't feel needed/appreciated/etc (I might be wrong in her case)
I remember those summaries! They were great!
Come back @rosiew - Splinterlanders need you!!
I agree, I like the idea of better organization and communication, and I've struggled to find information like that sometimes too. I also like efficiency of writing things once instead of having a bunch of different places to look. That's why I think a better interface on top of Hive would be pretty amazing.
Like, what if there was a page like splintertalk, but instead of being just top ranked bloggers doing "Share your Battle" and Giveaway posts, it was more like a forum setup. For example, if it had a pinned list of high quality, heavily curated topics on the side for the important announcements, dao stuff, quality curated articles with analysis, and then categories for “giveaway”, “art” and “amazing battle” and so people can find them if they want those things. Probably natively managed with Tags. It could still work on Hive and probably even still earn Hive rewards for authors, but you'd need a curation function to get into the top curated topics lists.
Call it "The Splinterlands Buzz" (C 2023) 😆