A couple of notes on Rafters
- Thread starter MattJones
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Our subreddit is shamefully inactive compared to so many other SEC schools. The Tennessee one has over 3 times r/wildcats. I highly encourage everyone to try it.
It cost on3 pennies to keep two boards.. It's just a few lines of code... Two boards has no more traffic than a giant one. This is just part of a plan to slowly move to all paid site. If they can have one free board, you can have 2. And if you want to use the moderator excuse, again. It's the same... If traffic stays same, then you have the same amount of Post to look through. It's just in one folder now instead of two... There is zero way to look at this other than pushing for all paid content.
Wait… you mean there’s no political thread on a sports message board? That’s asinine! Rabble rabble rabble rabble
If I get a reddit account, I will be corrupted forever. That place is a quagmire... Somehow in both a good and a bad way.
Well, if they think I’m gonna pay for their bs rumors, they are mistaken.
Except the Clemson, Iowa, Iowa State, Kansas, Marshall, Miami, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Texas AM, Texas, Tulsa, UCF, or West Virginia boards.
Except those boards, on3 doesn't allow politics.
60% of the time it works every time.
Who would have thought u of l keeps their football board longer than UK?
Does anyone have a link to the Wildcat nation site that some are moving to?
Just like there is none on a sports radio show.
You know where to go my guy.... and that aint it.
I’m not leaving this place at all. I love RR. I was just trying to find where folks are going so I can also post some there.
I agree with you. I don’t go to either of those places for politics. And if you combine politics + anonymity it just becomes a toxic cesspool
On3 is JMI to free Kentucky football message boards! Matt Jones is Mitch in the same regard.
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I agree that it sucks. But as someone who operated a free site, kept it free and had to make payroll and pay for costs, if the economics were then what they are now for advertising rates, it would have been hard to justify doing it
so while I enjoyed that era, I also understand why it doesn’t make economic sense now
I saw one the other day but didn't look into it, that's a shame. Discord might be it. The Trilly discord is pretty good as well, although that is a paid one.
All of those boards are finishing contracts that when they end, will almost certainly see those boards go away. The Cats Illustrated one just ended earlier
Did you click through every other school’s board to see who does and who doesn’t have a political thread lmao
This feels like my first day of middle school where I could still occasionally pick out some of my grade school friends around the school but there was all these other snot nosed kids I’ve never seen before. Weird!
Is wildcat
That way they can still claim that they provided a free option …while actually scheming to drive people away from it.
This. I think they’re basically trying to sabotage this board. Combine everything and make it such a miserably chaotic disorganized mess that we’ll feel like we have no choice but to switch to their pay boards.
That way they can still claim that they provided a free option …while actually scheming to drive people away from it.
They have a strict policy of no general discussion boards. On the board that had a general discussion board for its entire time on the On3 network.
The cult doesn’t even ask questions on obvious lies, just blindly accept it as fact… every single time. Again, critical thinking is dead.
The cult doesn’t even ask questions on obvious lies, just blindly accept it as fact… every single time. Again, critical thinking is dead.
It is really sad I'm on quite a few message boards - HOB, RR, The Bengals Board, The Old Red Guard among some others.
Rupp Rafters was the most active by far. One of the last gut punches it feels like from the old internet going away.
Rupp Rafters was the most active by far. One of the last gut punches it feels like from the old internet going away.
I’ve been here over twenty years and as long as it’s free, I’ll stay. If and when it goes to a pay site, that will be it for me anyway. I’m getting too old to care, I’ll always be a fan and have enjoyed reading and hearing other posters takes on topics and going back and forth with other members in a constructive way. In the meantime Go Big Blue!
And their plan will fail miserably. The best UK sports forum on the web has been destroyed by greedy people trying to make a buck off your fandom.
My username has been through like 2 acquisitions now and neither has enabled the simple option of editing a username
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Can we change the name to accommodate both boards, maybe Rupps Lair with a pic of Adolph holding a football?
That’s where I am now and have been since the first switch back in the summer. This I think is my last day over here. Hope everyone joins us over there.
He said it was against policy. It's right there in the drop-down menu.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Dang, wasn’t enough to kill the board once. They had to take its corpse, reanimate it, and kill it again.
I've used various formats for online discussions. Reddit, discord and others. In my opinion, these old school message boards are still BY FAR the best for meaningful discussion. It's honestly not even close. Not sure why they have been dying in the last 10 years. I guess people just use social media so much, they just automatically assume the popular apps are the best.
I'd wager that most people on this board use a laptop or desk computer to post. All the kids use their phones and forums have always been clunky on that device.
Forums are also considered too slow and there are much faster chat avenues like discord and reddit
That sounds a lot like our basketball season.
I used Discord a lot several years ago. It wasn't bad, but it just felt like if you looked away for 5 minutes then you were lost in the conversations. Maybe the format is different now.. I should probably check it out again.
Just think forums allow for more in depth discussion. Maybe I'm just old school in this regard.
It’s a pity that something that was run for free for two decades, and clearly not at a loss, is being destroyed because something that could exist and run itself for years without any net loss simply cannot exist because it won’t provide enough profit.
Then just let it the **** go. Seriously. Let it go. Give it away. Allow someone else to not profit enough from it. It’s gross. Better to give it away than kill it.
Yeah, I posted there for a while, then I spent some time on a national board (still do), but this place gets the most action. Always something… .interesting going on here.
We do have a forum setup on the discord that allows more in depth conversations.. but the chat is definitely the most used.
Join up and check it out. We've had 40 members join in the last couple hours.
On3 is the absolute worst. Basically every major site that has moved to On3 has suffered from it. They are constantly running deals on subscriptions because they are desperate for subscribers. The fact their top basketball insiders are Jamie Shaw (who struggled running a South Carolina board) and Joe Tipton (a guy with no basketball knowledge who just made recruiting edits) is just sad. Remember when we had experts like Dave Telep or Evan Daniels covering national recruiting? Somehow I don't see the San Antonio Spurs hiring any of the On3 guys like they did with Telep.