Tonight We Blog in Hell!
The Funboard AKA FB passed the 300 user mark yesterday.
I’ve been so busy, I nearly didn’t notice.
Quite frankly, FB has been a total surprise. Despite not having an army of people to pimp it (thanks to Bitzie for a non-snide mention, tho), nor the full-on force of a vanity multimedia press, the Funboard has grown at an astonishing rate.
What still takes time, however, is conversation.
Like it or not, most of Web 2.0 does not foment conversation.
Blogs? They are the ultimate soliloquy. Which is totally OK. Sometimes having that single voice is the best thing.
But sometimes, it isn’t. Hence…FB.
From the outset, FB has been a closed community, requiring a login for any access whatsoever. There were numerous reasons for that, not the least of which was my wanting to see how the board itself responded to traffic, etc.
I specifically avoided a couple of things when starting FB. Mainly, I did zero organized “recruiting” for FB membership anywhere outside the Funcave itself. Despite a strange amount of static regarding “motives,” I’d announced the fact that the Funlab walk-throughs and more detailed info were moving months earlier. Obviously tho, people still took it as though I was adulterating their oatmeal.
The long and the short of it is…
I had set a silent goal of 300 registrations as the point at which the Funboard would go public, so to speak.
So today is the day the Funboard flips to a semi-open forum.
By semi-open, I mean that there will still be specific topics which will remain gated, and will require a sign-in to access, including:
- The Funlabs
- AlabamaSMB (open only to AlabamaSMB members)
- An as-yet-unnamed group to appear later
And of course, the ability to post a comment requires a sign-in. That will never change.
So if you’ve somehow been offended that the Funboard was closed…
Now you can be a little less offended, if you wish.
|| posted by chris under community, funboard, funlab || || ||
