No more hoops and football free boards???

BenSherman

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They weren't being used. It was almost entirely IC's staff posting article links.
 

Truthseaker1

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They weren't being used. It was almost entirely IC's staff posting article links.
There are about 2 threads a day on the rest of the free boards. So it would reason that the rest of them will be shut down as well, right?

making game threads open to all could have brought all the traffic back.

why no heads up or input from those that used it over the years?
 

premn

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Can we do at least one combined freeboard like some other sites do? I go in and out of premium membership depending on how much time I have in my life for reading and posting and when in the yearly cycle we are, but I appreciate the game threads and other convos on the free boards. I think with the move here a lot of people got the initial cheap membership trial and nobody moved over from the free board. But I think it’s a mistake to NOT have free boards here—or to give up on them so quickly—you’re going to lose on an initial point of contact with people who might end up subscribing later once they get used to reading and posting here.
 

BenSherman

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Can we do at least one combined freeboard like some other sites do? I go in and out of premium membership depending on how much time I have in my life for reading and posting and when in the yearly cycle we are, but I appreciate the game threads and other convos on the free boards. I think with the move here a lot of people got the initial cheap membership trial and nobody moved over from the free board. But I think it’s a mistake to NOT have free boards here—or to give up on them so quickly—you’re going to lose on an initial point of contact with people who might end up subscribing later once they get used to reading and posting here.
Not opposed to that idea. Thank you for the feedback. Something we should consider moving forward. Just has to be enough interest/participation for it not to be just IC staff links and vacant game threads.

The feedback we were getting was actually the opposite in the initial months from what you're saying - that the complete lack of activity was misleading compared to the depth of info and conversation on the subscriber forums, as opposed to a good entry point.
 
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premn

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I definitely understand that. I figured the free boards would repopulate slowly once the trial period ended, but I was surprised it was as dead as it was.
I do still think a single free basketball/football board would fix some of the emptiness problems. If it’s a slow part of the year in one sport there would still be activity from the other. I wanted to also say I appreciate the preservation of the free baseball and WBB boards. Again, I subscribe on and off so it’s nice to be able to have access most of the sites functionalities throughout the year.
 

YesHeIs

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Lots of IC fumbles of late. Non-premium, you are making us look bad, but you can still drive revenue for us by watching our videos, listening to pods, etc

High on the hog
 

Terrytechrep

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Not opposed to that idea. Thank you for the feedback. Something we should consider moving forward. Just has to be enough interest/participation for it not to be just IC staff links and vacant game threads.

The feedback we were getting was actually the opposite in the initial months from what you're saying - that the complete lack of activity was misleading compared to the depth of info and conversation on the

subscriber forums, as opposed to a good entry point.
Alot of people are looking at free board to decide which site to buy. So far I've noticed on3 is more Basketball and old site is more football. So im torn between the two with free streaming pulling me
 

WWJD

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I just found this site after asking Copilot for help. I usually use Firefox and was clicking on my old On3 links with no results (error messages or partial pages with only header and footer info). I got here after changing to Edge and logging in, only to find that the free basketball board isn't even listed any more.

Does it cost money to leave the board up and running but with no staff input? If not, why not leave it there and see what happens?

I like the structure of these forums better than the Scout/247 board that most former Rivals posters seem to have fallen back on. I now post there because that's what's available but would like to have this basketball site back.

So, anyway, please bring back the free basketball forum. And even if you don't do that, you definitely need to make all the On3 content work on Firefox.
 

WWJD

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I realize that the free basketball forum was pretty dead, but you pulled the plug before we had games to talk about. Now there are actual games to discuss. Now is the time to bring it back.