There's really very, very little cost in setting up a Drupal site. So I don't see why you can't experiment with it. I think the resistance you are seeing on this forum is based mostly on fear. You are asking us if we would like to eat a tangerine, when all we've ever eaten are apples. You can tell us, "It's like an apple, only orange in color, and it's got lots of cool flavor and all these other benefits," but to most of us it seems like you are saying, "It's not an apple. It's therefore scary." Give us a tangerine (a Drupal-based Blazers or NBA site), and we can better tell you if we like it. You've got nothing to lose but time. And if you are like me, you probably see Drupal as a cool new trick that'll be fun to figure out rather than a drudgery. So the time issue is probably irrelevant.
Add what you want to add, as long as the thread style is the same. How about a "Road Trippin' with Big John" video to watch my show. Let's do it!
And with the lockout here, there's an abundance of time on our hands. I'd play in an experimental Drupal site if you set it up, Denny. Why not, right?
Im not into the "busyness" of drupal. Way to much ish on the screen just to read discussions about basketball. This format is pretty nice and easy to use and gets you to the info you want, easy. Im in favor of staying vb
The problem is, none of the newer formats are remotely useful for carrying on a discussion. I've yet to see a viable replacement for forums. CMS/forum solutions appear to be little different than blog comments. Lots of people post to them, but very few people read what others have posted. It's a stream of thoughts, not a conversation.
Looks pretty intriguing. Can you post a link? It'd be fun to play with it while you continue developing it.
Personally, I'm really only looking for a good conversation format with nice presentation...not a total content management service. I don't particularly believe in "one stop shops" on the Internet, I'm happy to go to one specialized site after another (one purely meant for discussion forums, one that's a blog, one that presents all the latest news, etc). Sites that purport to do everything tend to do everything poorly. In my experience, anyway. If the site switches over to Drupal, I'll try it out and re-evaluate if I enjoy the site.
I am doing research on how forums can adapt or even compete with social media sites. One reason why Drupal was brought up is, it comes with programs/software that will do just that. However, in theory we should be able to get these programs individually. And another reason it was brought is because the guy switched to it, even though he knew vBulletin was a much better forum. I am following one admins crusade on the internet about some things he is doing to compete against Facebook, twitter, etc: He just started doing what he is doing. I want to see the results first. As for drawing people here, it takes promotion. I plan on starting today, long term. I have been and will continue to try and get in new staff. The best way to do that, is from established posters, but many of our forums are too weak to do that.
Not tired of vB, but they did lose some talented people when they started Xenforo. In my case its not the board. It's what we can add to it, to make it grow.
So, do you want us to go spam other sites? It might give us something fun to do during the lockout. We could have a competition: sites spammed; number of site bannings; things like that.
