madadric wrote:
Do we still want to be called Kyhm forums? This is an opportunity to develop an identity and a direction. Remaining Kyhm Forums is one of those directions, but there are other possibilities.
I suggest changing the name. The community is more than just its name, it is its members, its injokes (yes, even the stale ones we wish would stop), its history. Plus kyhm wants his name and his domain back. Sure, for a long while I'll still call whatever this place becomes kyhm forums, purely because I've been calling it that for three and a half years now. I don't feel that it would be ignoring our past or even hiding it from future members, but a graduation from being a forum created by a bunch of EN fans who wanted a decent place to hang out but no other real purpose into a truly independent community with its own purpose and reason for existing.
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I, personally, would like to see the forums become a sort of a creative hub, not neccesarily something as serious as the <a href="http://www.conceptart.org/forums/">CA Forums</a> or <a href="http://www.polykarbonbbs.com/"> polykarbon forum</a> but definitely something where people come to participate and have a laugh. Be that centered around a webcomic or webcomics, or something else entirely.
From what I've seen of the community, the thing that most links us together still (other than the community itself) is webcomics. This is why I have been suggesting a general webcomic discussion forum, it would help bring the community closer together and also serve as a place where any webcomic could be discussed.
It may bring in some additional members on it's own, but I see new members being attracted more by the creative energies coming from the forum. Developing the forums as a creative hub would help with bringing in new members who would at least be interested in the same things we draw or write and put on the frontend.