hetalia | Discussion: This comm. What do we want from it? What is possible?

Okay, so it's apparent that frequent updates will be a definite problem here (note: This is a neutrally stated observation, not a complaint. I'm totally including my own nonposting lack of activity in this). However, since jammerlea was so kind to made a sticky post with links to the most important sites to check for updates, plus the fact that the activity in recent update threads was mostly low, I'm not sure if the lack of updates posted directly to the comm is still a problem, or not so much.

In addition to this question, because it got me thinking: What exactly do people expect from or desire for this comm? What would be interesting to most of the members or visitors here? Obviously, one thing this comm is very nice for is fan discussions. We could have more of those. Personally, I like them very much, so if anyone has a good theory or topic for a discussion, please never be afraid of posting it. (I'm not a mod, but I think they would be fine with this. If not, please correct me.)

What else would be interesting for the majority of us? Future events? Should the main comm hold event threads again where chitchat between updates is allowed? There were problems with this in the past, but now that fewer people are around, I think the thread pace could be more managable.
Other ideas? What kind of things do you other members think would be nice to have (and good to create some interaction within the threads)? What do you mods think would be possible, or what do you think might look nice on paper, but actually be a rather bad idea?

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Hello! Just adding my 2 cents in.

I was thinking maybe someone or a mod here can ask hetascanlations on tumblr to maybe add a link to a discussion thread here to their chapter scanlation post maybe at the end of it or something. Since majority of the fandom has migrated to tumblr, maybe they just needed a reminder that 'hey! this comm's still alive and kickin!' and adding a link to us here will be more accessible for old fans and new fans too instead of them having to look for us because the scanlations posts on tumblr always circulate nonstop. Even if they don't click it at first, at least they know we are here and sooner or later they'll get curious about what's going on coz I know if there's anything we're all excited about and good at, it's the speculation about this and that, etc.

We just start a discussion thread here and then when the comments reach the limit, we'll just ask hetascanlations to use this new discussion thread link and then put a big notice on the previous one that 'DISCUSSION THREAD CONTINUED HERE!' in big bold red letters, just like how the kink meme works. I think this would work instead of making a discussion thread for each chapter since people are lazy and get tired of keeping track of everything. At least with one big one, there's the constant flow of discussion. As for merging the blog updates and world stars chapter discussions, I'm still not sure about that. It's nice to have everyone in the same room, but then these two are completely different things ya know. aaaaah help you guys decide lol. (hmm but then the old rome emperors i have to admit bore me a little SORRY! so that might cause the thread to go downhill a bit so an advantage to have it all in one is that the blog updates really get everyone hyped so the thread will remain active!)

As for the problem of people not having accounts here, I think LJ has already given us the solution. People can use FB, Twitter, OpenID (which I think will be more preferred), and anon too. I think if we keep the thread alive, they'll eventually make a lj account sooner or later. For the time being, maybe someone can make a tutorial about using the openID thing to join the discussions here. Coz the new generation of hetalia fans probably havent heard of lj, we're like ancient rome lol |||Orz

Also, the key is to spread news! We should ask some popular hetalia blogs to spread the word, (yeah they may not be active here tho) but what counts is that thousands of fans follow them and we get exposure, a couple I can think of is owynsama, alfred-f-jones-world-hero, justa-fangirl, iggycat, mochifever, accioharo, aluox, fiveminutemeal (nox), hetaliaandother,kelbora, mano-manu, qichi, sachie-sama, sadisticbrit, seecarrun, zeplerfer, and lots more, i bet rp blogs will support it too! like ya know all we ask is for them to reblog this announcement post of ours of our new discussion thread and tutorial. they love hetalia so im kinda sure they'll be supportive of our efforts to revive and bring that community back.

And add the current disscusson link on the sticky note you already made with all the links. I know there's also the hetaarchive, etc. the unofficial official hetalia blogs if that makes sense, they can spread the word on tumblr too!. hmmm what did i miss... Of course, we make the discussion threads public too!

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Okay, I know all that I wrote is really really REALLY ambitious and too hopeful but I swear guys if we really pull this off and just don't give up, it'll work. especially now that updates are coming at a steady rate, touch it while it iron is hot? or something

I want our fandom's future thinking to be like, 'hey i just read the new scanlated chapter on tumblr, ooh here's the link to discussion thread, CLICK!, let's see what people are saying and i'll join in too!' VOILA! WE JUST CONNECTED TO WORLDS, THE PAST AND THE PRESENT!

Let me see if I understand: What you say is, we should have an update discussion thread, for all updates, in which we can come just to discuss, while we use other sites (most likely the Hetascanlations blog on tumblr) to actually read the updates?
Is that correct?

If so, I'd be all for it.

Yeah, coz I've had the feeling that fans here kinda feel like tumblr is like a different world/fandom ya know when really we can utilize both. I appreciate the person posting the updates here too coz that takes a lot work and dedication so maybe i just wanna cut them some slack a bit. so all we need is just that link to here that can build a bridge for everyone to come back and forth.

And maybe on the discussion threads here, we can link to the tumblr scanlation post too! so it's like a big terminal yeah that sounds like the perfect analogy,

discussion threads = terminal
scanlation posts = airplanes
links to hetalia comm = runway/ leads to the destination/ back and forth

So wait, I'm still not completely sure which of two options you mean. Do you mean we should have a separate thread for each update, just that instead of posting all the pics in it, it would only contain the links? Or do you mean one general thread for all updates?

I like the idea of having a discussion post here that's linked to from Tumblr, if the people who run the hetalia tumblrs are amenable... like a lot of people I've begun following hetascanlations but Tumblr isn't great for discussion. When I click on the "notes" it's generally just "so and so liked this" and "so and so reblogged this" etc.

I really hope they'll be supportive about it. Someday, I hope that instead of people leaving their comments on the tags on their reblogs, they'll instead come to the discussion thread and express their opinions.

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