Is it possible?

[cabalism13]

 

I was visiting some boards around, and make into a conclusion that some board might be dissolve one day and replaced with a new board.

Pointing at some Local Board which isn't that active compared to those who doesn't have any. Is this possible? or even on the Epochtalk someday? Or its not, even though it can be considered as Ghost Boards.

[TheBeardedBaby]

If there is a content that can be useful for someone in those old/inactive boards, I think we have to let them be. Some local boards seems a little abandoned but hey, then the bull-run comes again they will come back to life, as usual.

[mk4]

Some local boards seems a little abandoned but hey, then the bull-run comes again they will come back to life, as usual.

Yep. We are simply just at the lower side of bitcoin's price. Bitcointalk's traffic itself has dropped due to the bear market, not only specific local subforums.

Is it possible for certain sobforums to be removed due to inactivity? Likely not, but possible. But worst case scenario is that people on your local boards will be needing to post on the Other languages/locations[1] subforum instead. It's not like you wouldn't have a place to converse with your local language.

[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=11.0

[The Cryptovator]

I don't think its necessary to rename or replace board especially for local language. Because may be there are some useful topic made on past and it would helpful for newcomers. Perhaps you might suggest for new boards if need any. Local board is important to spread bitcoin locally, never mind if they are inactive. Who know when they will active. If replaced then you might see more post on meta about local boards. We should encourage people's on local borad to spread the word about bitcoin.

[DdmrDdmr]

If anything, local boards should be boosted, although that is down to multiple factors (sem/seo, market, country legislation, crypto awareness, current local competing crypto forums, the forum features itself, etc.).

They should play an important stake in the forum’s overall organic growth, and even though the core action takes place here in English, we should try to contribute to local boards in order to create some content that incentivises others to read through them and participate.

The weakest local boards (in terms of number of posts) are currently Hebrew (between 3 and 25 net posts created per month during 2019) and Skandinavisk (between 21 and 51 net posts created per month during 2019). Really poor numbers, and perhaps some local forum member can provide some insights as to why that happens there (I believe @Iasenko could on the Skandinavisk front).

The Spanish board has somewhere between 800 and 1600 per month, although if we subtract the Altcoin childboard we’re on the 400 to 500 post per month range during 2019. That is still peanuts in comparison to the language potential worldwide, and I really do hope to see it pick up pace (and content) somewhere down the road.

[TheBeardedBaby]

For the Scandinavian board, there are many active members like JanEmil fo example, but they prefer to post in English instead.
The same situation is in our local Bulgarian thread.

[hacker1001101001]

They are not just boards but represent some countries and languages on this forum. There is no chances of local boards getting demonished even if they are inactive. It's better to create new local boards as much as possible to enlighten users speaking different languages.

Bitcoin and most cryptos have motives to spread itself and its use in all parts of the world. It's most important in countries which have an unstable financial situations and can solve much of the fiat generated problems there. People from such countries do not seem to be active on the forum, but it would surely be popular in the coming years due to the ever increasing crypto trends.

I don't think any of those would be deleted from Epochtalk too and would remain the same or chances are more boards could be added.

[Welsh]

I doubt preexisting local sections will be removed from the forum, because they were created for a reason. Demand. If there was once a demand its very likely that there will always be demand. Especially, considering when Bitcoin is adopted in local cultures more, and hits the big numbers again. I think theymos is aware that these local sections have their own little sub communities within the forum now, and taking them away doesn't have any benefits to the forum, and would only negatively affect those that participate in said local sections.

I'm not sure if anyone has tried this, but campaigning in your local area to get Bitcoin users to communicate via these local sections could be a good idea. There are several meetups near me, and its surprising that many of them don't participate or even heard of the forum.

[jackg]

I doubt preexisting local sections will be removed from the forum, because they were created for a reason. Demand. If there was once a demand its very likely that there will always be demand. Especially, considering when Bitcoin is adopted in local cultures more, and hits the big numbers again. I think theymos is aware that these local sections have their own little sub communities within the forum now, and taking them away doesn't have any benefits to the forum, and would only negatively affect those that participate in said local sections.

This is true, unless a country just ceases to exist then there's no reason to get rid of the board.
Isn't the Chinese board in archival though?
I think the local boards are likely to have one added to replace what was taken but they'd just have to move the board to archival so there's not really much point in getting rid of it.

I'm not sure if anyone has tried this, but campaigning in your local area to get Bitcoin users to communicate via these local sections could be a good idea. There are several meetups near me, and its surprising that many of them don't participate or even heard of the forum.

I think this is the communities fault in some way. A lot of people don't use this forum because they were scammed in 2014/2014 from a get rich quick scheme/ponzi. I think there's still quite a few scammers, spammers and trolls that we need to get rid of before people will take this site seriously.

[Kavelj22]

Perhaps you might suggest for new boards if need any.

The problem here is: when to suggest for a new board or a child board? and for whom to suggest?
We have been discussing this in my local board (arabic) without any result. The only two clear conclusions we got are that local moderator seems not to be interested as he doesn't even participate in local discussions about our board improvement and that adding child-boards is not a priority for the administration. I would like to hear more ideas about this, if any.

[jackg]

Perhaps you might suggest for new boards if need any.

The problem here is: when to suggest for a new board or a child board? and for whom to suggest?
We have been discussing this in my local board (arabic) without any result. The only two clear conclusions we got are that local moderator seems not to be interested as he doesn't even participate in local discussions about our board improvement and that adding child-boards is not a priority for the administration. I would like to hear more ideas about this, if any.

Your board mod is an administrator so they will be able to add boards afaik. Make a thread here or send a pm to Theymos to discuss making new boards if thst is deemed necessary and you can't fit stuff elsewhere.

Most local boards have a main misc section anyway afaik so you can always post stuff there until there is a more appropriate board. Potentially 2000 threads that don't have a board will get someone's attention.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I was visiting some boards around, and make into a conclusion that some board might be dissolve one day and replaced with a new board.

Instead of this (dissolving) happening, I think all local board plus additional ones can coexist on the forum. Don't forget we have other boards that aren't that active yet they haven't been dissolve. Most time, when a particular board isn't active just means it's not getting spam like others. When the need for those board arises, they'll be used.

Also maybe we Africans should be considered when the next decision for more local board arises.

[LoyceV]

The weakest local boards (in terms of number of posts) are currently Hebrew (between 3 and 25 net posts created per month during 2019) and Skandinavisk (between 21 and 51 net posts created per month during 2019). Really poor numbers, and perhaps some local forum member can provide some insights as to why that happens there (I believe @Iasenko could on the Skandinavisk front).

Scandinavians in general have no problem communicating in English, and I can imagine the same for Hebrew speaking forum members. According to Google, 5 million people speak Hebrew. It's just a small number on a global forum.

[asche]

For the Scandinavian board, there are many active members like JanEmil fo example, but they prefer to post in English instead.
The same situation is in our local Bulgarian thread.

It is always possible to revive a local board.

The french board has had it's high and lows as well.

A lot of former active members came back recently because new users were flowing in and some interesting discussions were started.

Sometimes just a little effort can make a great difference. Nobody should give up on a unused board. If it had a use once, chances are it will be useful again.

[TheBeardedBaby]

For the Scandinavian board, there are many active members like JanEmil fo example, but they prefer to post in English instead.
The same situation is in our local Bulgarian thread.

It is always possible to revive a local board.

The french board has had it's high and lows as well.

A lot of former active members came back recently because new users were flowing in and some interesting discussions were started.

Sometimes just a little effort can make a great difference. Nobody should give up on a unused board. If it had a use once, chances are it will be useful again.

It really depends, our Bulgarian community have two, three crypto forums which are quite popular,the main part are interested in mining BTC and alts. Most of the people are not interested in signature campaigns nor bounties, they come here only to sell/buy hardware. Maybe there are some more active in the Collectables section but I'm not aware of.

[darklus123]

As far as I am concerned. As long as there are staffs regulating that certain boards even tho those were not that active.

That can still drive some traffics especially if there are really good discussions before. I don't actually think theymos will likely going to remove it

[samcrypto]

Boosting the local board can be done only if anyone wants to help their people about cryptocurrency. Those inactive board will not be dissolved because they are created for some reason and there are still members who are making a big impact on that local board. Maybe not much users from the inactive board are posting, but I think in time it will be more active. I remember before where you will be tagged if you are not good in English, so i think some users are still afraid to post on their local board for this reason.

[jademaxsuy]

Of course because other users are focus on the general sections where English is the language. As we all know that English language is an international language and being taught in other country as a a formal lessons in primary and secondary education.

Thus, boards as other users stated that might be useful when necessity arises. Discussions might be brought to local boards especially if it concerns for their country.