Years ago, the Arsenal board was easily one of the most active on here. Loads of regulars, loads of discussion, a LOT of arguing, but also lots of fun. I've got no solid data to back it up, but I also used to get the impression it was one of the younger boards in terms of the age of its members. Then slowly it began to die down, I'm not sure whether that was due to people growing out of the site, moving to other platforms, maybe the Wenger Wars, probably a combination of factors...
The odd thing is that I was just checking back through your most recent articles, and there does still seem to be a decent amount of articles from a decent variety of posters, but there doesn't really appear to be that much enjoyment or even actual conversation or interaction between users. MAybe you just all hate each other?
Anyhow, as an old timer I find that kind of sad. Of course you'll all be over the moon if and when you do go on to win this most unexpected (at the start of the season) of league titles, but how many will come on here to celebrate? Wouldn't you like this place to come alive, see a lot of 'old faces' coming together again? I do know I'd like to see the place busting with joyful Gooners celebrating the title. And I'm not even an Arsenal fan!
So what to do? Well, I don't know, but I thought that if some of you who are still posting were up for it and want to offer up some names, I'd put up an honour roll of current and former Gooner ja606ers, then maybe some of you could circulate it in other online circles to see if there's at least a turnout for the big day, if it arrives.
Or maybe not, if you can't be Arsenaled.
I'll add them as we go along. Over to you if you'd like to add to the list.
renoog
maxenal (Beeb 606 blast from the past)
Dr Feelgood
wumpy
Pinky
Verminator
Hello my name is vermaelen
Koscielny patented proof readers
Kamran
Dubbed
John1
RGK
Dot
Fubo
What happened to you all?
posted on 7/4/23
Thanks, PP
1man, yeah I know what you mean. They did try with twitter and some other initiatives early on, but then it all kind of stood still. I can sympathise though, as I've got zero marketing drive myself and I wouldn't have had the slightest clue of how to grow this thing.
posted on 8/4/23
I have been here for years, done the odd article, but there's rarely much response. A lot of the regulars here seem more obsessed with each other than Arsenal. All that blocking each other or whatever it is! Then there's idiots like ciniwolf who rant on like 5 year olds, it gets boring real fast! Good banter,however harsh is great though, but children swapping insults is boring as.I work late so I'm often the last to respond to anything, maybe that's why I get little response, maybe I'm just a twatt who rants a bit at 4am?
posted on 8/4/23
Yeah, it's hard enough to get a discussion going at the best of times, nigh on impossible if you can only post in the small hours.
posted on 8/4/23
As said, the Arsenal Thread took the bulk of the conversation away. Think the Celtic battles and the Liverpool battles either drove loads away or saw people banned.
A lot of those who post articles don't actually contribute to the thread, which kills the conversation as well.
I think a fair few of "Arsenal" posters are WUMs tbh.
posted on 8/4/23
Yeah, forgetting about an article after you've written it doesn't really help.
posted on 8/4/23
comment by it'sonlyagame (U6426)
posted 17 hours, 19 minutes ago
Thanks, PP
1man, yeah I know what you mean. They did try with twitter and some other initiatives early on, but then it all kind of stood still. I can sympathise though, as I've got zero marketing drive myself and I wouldn't have had the slightest clue of how to grow this thing.
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I felt that the site had massive potential, but it me be r quite reached it.
Yes it’s a success, but I always felt it could’ve been more.
posted on 8/4/23
The splintering of the old Beeb site didn't help, but even if this one had had four or five times the users to begin with, I think it would still have gone down the same path without something being done to attract new members.
From a broader perspective, I don't know to what extent younger internet users are interested or attracted by this kind of format.
posted on 8/4/23
Not sure what features a football forum needs, tbh. Geo Check-in was pointless. The ratings system is crap. "Live" commentary feature I don't think saw the light of day. JALOB lived up to its name.
The BBC version was always to attract, as it was linked to their site and it is the BBC. Not sure how much visibility a site like this can get.
posted on 8/4/23
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
Not sure what features a football forum needs, tbh. Geo Check-in was pointless. The ratings system is crap. "Live" commentary feature I don't think saw the light of day. JALOB lived up to its name.
The BBC version was always to attract, as it was linked to their site and it is the BBC. Not sure how much visibility a site like this can get.
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There could be podcasts, commentary, days out, competitions, social media, you could update a hell of a lot imo and you would get new members, but at the same time not pyss off the oldies.
posted on 10/4/23
What happened to 8bit? I liked him, he was always so nice