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Maiku_Ando said:
If you send me your fb name/link via pm on here and send a pm to the fb page I can add you.

Please check with labk1ta before doing things tho, all items need to be approved first.
no problem, actually i'm ok with Labki·chan running FB but I'll wait to help her if these forums get less active next year... at this pace, i guess other MATV/FTV members prefer replying there? Its social network is used more after all :blink:
 
Ryu said:
You need to have editor permissions in FB, only labk1ta has it at present, I have to becareful who I add, you know, so it dosn't become a loli or tohou page :unsure: :p
*looks around* i get it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Fair enough, just wanted both old pics there updated with the ones above anyway... btw welcome back, i thought fb revival was to promote this site but more users are replying there than here :unsure:
I know, right? We have to think of something to entice them to check FTV site.
 
I can't remember when this site was created (I think 2004 not sure) but I joined the fray back in 2006 by pure chance. I started watching "other" animes besides the typical ones you get introduced to even though Eva was my first one, I started wanting to know what others thought about it and came across FTV.

The site in my opinion started to die back in 2008 (yup a decade ago), there was a multitude of reasons for this such as the quality of anime we were getting after such a great year of it in 2006 and 2007, it went down because of the moeblob crap. Another thing was the FTV Staff Members were kinda strict or just difficult people, which rubbed people the wrong way and people left because of that. However, the biggest reason is social media, you can find recommendations for anime as well as get intrigued by a random post on twitter, insta, reddit, etc which makes the site hard to be relevant to casual anime watchers.

A through and through anime website that does well to stay relevant is MAL I think because it has a core in the sense it shows your stats as an anime watcher.

I have an idea but it is a bit silly and not too sure if it will work but perhaps using an incentive to get people to use FTV to watch anime, by downloading and streaming on the site (not sure if FTV still does that or not), the incentive I'm talking about is an "anime-score" like gamerscore for Xbox. Putting a value on an anime, so watching an anime that is rarely watched gives you more points per episode you watch on FTV.

I use a site called trueachievements and I'm completely hooked on it because of how the site is built on solutions as well as giving you a "Grade/Point Score" somewhat to show that you are neither a noob or a gamer that goes for achievements.

P.S. Didn't know that my status had changed to Retired lol....I mean it is true though.
 
labk1ta said:
Lol Ryusan. I rarely use FB. But if its going to help boost more traffic, thatll be nice. Maybe some of our older members who use FB on regular basis will see that we are still active.
Since we have twitter, maybe someone can give us an access to it as well. What about Instagram?
This. ^

10 years ago I would have never used social media over a good old forum, and taken that stance to my grave. However in the past 3/4 years or so, I find myself discussing my interests on FB groups all the time, simply because of the convenience.

Today is my first visit here in a few years. And while I would love to post regularly again, I don't watch much anime anymore - still doing manga though -.

Yet even though I'm not into social media that much, I'll still browse FB for news, discussions and all that stuff. Problem with a FB page is its hard to get people to discuss whatever away from Facebook. Since if the FTV did become more popular and active it would probably result in people replying to the page posts instead of coming here. That said it wouldn't hurt to have an active twitter/FB etc in today's world.

JCDRANZER said:
P.S. Didn't know that my status had changed to Retired lol....I mean it is true though.
Yep noticed the same for me, wow I feel old.
 
JCDRANZER said:
I can't remember when this site was created (I think 2004 not sure) but I joined the fray back in 2006 by pure chance. I started watching "other" animes besides the typical ones you get introduced to even though Eva was my first one, I started wanting to know what others thought about it and came across FTV.
I think this is the core to all of it really, this is what FTV is, and what its true purpose is - Helping people find good animes - be it new or old.
I remember embarking on a crazy idea - I went to the old A-Z listing, and I went through the list from the top, looking at each in turn to see if i wanted to try it or not, I'd do this maybe once a year, and for everything that looked interesting i'd download the first 5 episodes.
That kept me busy for a year or so until I'd do it again next year lol.

JCDRANZER said:
The site in my opinion started to die back in 2008 (yup a decade ago), there was a multitude of reasons for this such as the quality of anime we were getting after such a great year of it in 2006 and 2007, it went down because of the moeblob crap. Another thing was the FTV Staff Members were kinda strict or just difficult people, which rubbed people the wrong way and people left because of that. However, the biggest reason is social media, you can find recommendations for anime as well as get intrigued by a random post on twitter, insta, reddit, etc which makes the site hard to be relevant to casual anime watchers.

A through and through anime website that does well to stay relevant is MAL I think because it has a core in the sense it shows your stats as an anime watcher.
I agree with all of that, I actually found many of the FTV Staff to be quite difficult and I didn't agree with some of the moderating. It is difficult however, I can't get it right either.
The status is a problem too, some people seem to immediately turn on someone once they get a title with power - happened to me, was amazed how many people suddenly hated on me when I became a leader, people who were a friend the day before suddenly accuse you of things and start spewing hate - before I'd even moderated a single post. Now I know why Daft had a secret identity on here to be a 'normal' person.
Anyone notice how 90% of the 'old' FTV mods left the site over night when I took over? There wasn't some fancy argument or anything, they just all silently left without a single word.
Funny, they had no idea I'd actually been running the site for months before it was announced and they were fine then.
I actually have a rather radical idea for the site, which would either transform it or kill it totally, I'm just not sure if I should do it or not - its kinda getting to the point where FTV is so dead, it can't make it any worse.
I never really warmed to MAL, it was fine as a stat / record, but I never got too into it, I'm not even sure why, maybe just because I found here first.

JCDRANZER said:
I have an idea but it is a bit silly and not too sure if it will work but perhaps using an incentive to get people to use FTV to watch anime, by downloading and streaming on the site (not sure if FTV still does that or not), the incentive I'm talking about is an "anime-score" like gamerscore for Xbox. Putting a value on an anime, so watching an anime that is rarely watched gives you more points per episode you watch on FTV.

I use a site called trueachievements and I'm completely hooked on it because of how the site is built on solutions as well as giving you a "Grade/Point Score" somewhat to show that you are neither a noob or a gamer that goes for achievements.
I'd really like to implement your idea, it would need some code work to do, but it could probably be made from the existing 'watch list' FTV has. We'd need some sort of rating system for animes, where the members rate each based on various criteria, and that can be used to make a score for watching it.
Maybe we could even get it to make some sort of title award each year, like 'Person who watched most obscure Anime' and even some funny ones like 'Member who watches the worst anime' or 'most ecchi' etc.
This rating system could be used to help show animes on the front page, like an auto recommendation or something.
We could even go further and add a 'quiz' at the end of the series, sort of a test to see if they really watched it or not for extra points or a different title or something.

JCDRANZER said:
P.S. Didn't know that my status had changed to Retired lol....I mean it is true though.
If you become active again we can set that back to your old status. The 'retired' status is actually more to do with security, it limits ability in case the account gets compromised, and in theory makes people take note if a 'retired' person becomes active again to check its them and not spam.
 
As there has not been much activity on this thread for a while, I wanted to at least share some screenshots.

Here are some screenshots of 2 of the potential forum software candidates...

First up - Xenforo 2 Forum software...
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These screenshots taken from a time limited on-line demo, it lasts for 3 days then gets cleared.
This requires purchase of a new license somewhere in the region of $225 - $290 initially, then $70 - $85 per year. Note these prices are excluding tax of 20%.
In addition, I do not how difficult it would be to code the streaming or custom site items onto it, so we'd be running just what you see there for awhile.

Second - Invision Power Version 4...
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These screenshots are from the FTV/MATV Dev server, it is running version 4 but its not the latest one, maybe about a year out of date or so.
We can switch to this version for Free because it was obtained on our existing license. It would cost $60 - $70 per 6 months to renew, therefore $120 - $140 per year. (no idea on Tax or not).

I have made a new section in the gallery for the project, more screenshots will be added later if needed or if we try other software.
 
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