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Post by GF14 on Jan 3, 2015 22:58:49 GMT -8
This has taken off a little more than I would have thought, but I'm not really sure where to go from here. Do we keep it as the last stand of the old crumbling cafe or try to rebuild it into its former glory? Anybody have any ideas? How do we get more visibility to the older users who havent made it over and potential new users? What about a new name?
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Post by wrveres on Jan 4, 2015 7:55:16 GMT -8
why do anything with it?
id just leave it as is. its not costing anything and as we get closer to the season, id expect traffic to pickup as word gets around.
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Post by wrveres on Jan 4, 2015 7:57:06 GMT -8
just went and checked. its got 70 members during a quiet off-season (except for friar fans) and its all just word of mouth ..
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Post by goldtop on Jan 4, 2015 21:51:37 GMT -8
I would PM all the previous Cafeholics participants (Masters, Pondscum and NOOBS) get them over here! Speaking of, is that tradition continuing?
I hope to see a 2015 CLOSERS THREAD and, if it's not too much work, the Cafe Consensus Rankings threads.
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Post by kab21 on Jan 5, 2015 9:20:12 GMT -8
I'm of the opinion that the new cafe is finished and the rebooted cafe is the place now. I have given the new owner the benefit of the doubt but it's been more than a year with no baseball forum action (and rare contact). In addition to that the eventual update (football side) is atrocious. Perhaps the biggest downfall is that he didn't put together a core team of guys to run the cafe for him. We have some very talented people that have some serious skills and some great ideas.
I don't think the rebooted cafe can continue as this barebones setup. It's functional for now though. We need blogs, rankings, advice columns, polls, and all of the stuff that made the cafe great in its heyday (which I caught the tail end of joining 2008ish). The 30 teams in 30 days writeups were sweet.
Sadly I think I am out of the cafeholics challenge since I'm traveling for two weeks in February (Borneo) and possibly another week in March (Philippines). I'm not even sure if I will add a second league this year other than my 24 tm dynasty (7th season). I'm crazy busy with work, travel and life.
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Post by GF14 on Jan 5, 2015 12:06:23 GMT -8
I don't think the rebooted cafe can continue as this barebones setup. It's functional for now though. We need blogs, rankings, advice columns, polls, and all of the stuff that made the cafe great in its heyday (which I caught the tail end of joining 2008ish). The 30 teams in 30 days writeups were sweet. This is what I was wondering. For now, I think this is fine, but I want to make sure we don't go the way of the old cafe and if we have no way to attract new users, eventually this will die too. I don't mind putting some time and possibly a little money into it (when school is out over summer I'll have a ton of time), but I don't really have any experience doing anything like this and will likely need some help setting it all up. |
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Post by lastings on Jan 5, 2015 16:00:48 GMT -8
Have you considered actually adding said Blackjack and Hookers to the site?
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Post by kab21 on Jan 5, 2015 17:15:50 GMT -8
I would be interested in hearing any opinions on forum/blog integration options. I blog a lot personally on wordpress (free for a basic setup) but it doesn't integrate well (or at all) with a forum AFAIK. It's possible that you could work around this by crosslinking the hell out of articles, rankings, polls and the main forum but it's really a backwards setup. The old cafe sucked at this also. Wordpress is a pretty powerful promotional tool if used correctly. The ideal solution is copying the forum that I have mentioned previously. These guys have a slick setup with a forum/blog. One downside is that articles still need to be linked in the forum and article/forum comments still occur in separate discussions like the old cafe. The problem is that new users might find the article and participate in the inactive discussion (article comments) since the main discussion will be on the forum. the downside is that it looks like it costs $20-30/mo and it gets more expensive if we get more usage. An example of the forum and blog with separate discussions. This is actually a pretty cool article written by a career MiLB'er that blogs there occasionally and has played with several of the Twins top prospects. The forum discussion with the linked article - twinsdaily.com/topic/16200-article-why-i-am-excited-to-see-miguel-sano-as-a-twin-and-why-you-should-be-too/The originally blogged article - twinsdaily.com/blog/450/entry-6262-why-i-am-excited-to-see-miguel-sano-as-a-twinand-why-you-should-be-too/Are there any sites that fully integrate a forum and blog better? Perhaps the wordpress option isn't so bad. Use it for publishing articles on a nice site and link the articles to the forum. |
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