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Glitchfeed Is Live. Let’s Mess With the Signal. We’ve launched Glitchfeed - your new home for gaming, culture, tech, and digital mischief. It’s a community built for the people who’ve had enough of algorithm-choked timelines and content designed to keep you scrolling instead of thinking. No more doom-scrolling, let's waste time properly. This isn't a Discord where content gets buried after twenty minutes, or a subreddit where you’re punished for thinking differently and downvoted for breathing wrong. Glitchfeed is structured, focused, and ready to grow into something that lasts: Like forums used to be, before everything got swallowed by feeds, followers, and short attention spans. No infinite scroll. No chasing upvotes or karma farming. Just random threads, actual conversations, and a community that doesn’t feel like it’s performing for an audience. What you’ll find: Gaming: talk about what you’re playing without it disappearing in twenty minutes. Culture: share the stuff you actually care about, not what’s trending. Tech: argue about the future like it’s still worth building. Community: post, reply, hang out. No metrics, no pressure, no pretending. Social media is a mess. Everything’s disposable, performative, and run by systems that don’t care what you actually say, just how often you say it. Glitchfeed isn’t built like that. It’s a forum. Threads, replies, conversations that don’t vanish. Gaming, tech, culture, the overlaps. A place to post something real without chasing engagement or being at the mercy of the algorithm. Join in. Start a discussion. Say something that lasts longer than a feed refresh. This is Glitchfeed.

Me too.

That's okay mate. There's no rush on this one. Take your time.

Hello sweethearts... You may have seen that there is a new forum in development. We are actively seeking focused, motivated individuals to hope on board for the ride. Right now there are opportunities for section moderators, one for gaming, one for culture (think fandoms, movies, TV, music) [filled] and one for tech. Additionally, a single supermod to oversee the entire boards. If you're interested in any of these and feel you could add value to a brand new community, please do message me so we can arrange a chat and I can give you more details of what's involved. As of now, this is a strictly volunteer position, but as we grow - I can't promise cold hard cash - but I can promise perks. What those perks are, remains to be seen. This is a great opportunity to jump into a new community project right from the start and influence its direction and vibe.

Slowly but surely getting there. Looking at opening the doors next week. Let's brainstorm! What should I do for the first week to encourage growth? One idea I had was to offer premium membership for free for life for the first X number of members. As I said above, trying to do this with "no money(?), nothing in the advertising budget" so handing out cold hard cash to encourage sign ups is off the cards. Also planning on doing this without paid posters. Post exchanges are okay, but I'm not going to pay for posts. Let's stay real.

[HEADING=1] Is it possible to launch a new forum in 2025 and for it to be successful? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzD-MdEGYJw [/HEADING] I'm no stranger to forums. I've been involved in creating, managing, and contributing to them for something like twenty-two years. Twenty-two long, hard, years. I've seen forums when they were the place to be - pre-social media - and I've seen forums post-Reddit and post-Discord where their influence has waned considerably. Social media has a lot to answer for, right? We're all mainly here because we have a forum, right? Some fresh, some established. Each in a fight for survival against the behemoths of Reddit/Discord/Facebook/X and others. It's hard enough if you have an established community or vast sums of money to throw at paid posting. But is it possible to launch a forum now and make it a successful one? No community, no audience, no money(?), nothing in the advertising budget. Just a dream, hard work, and a little bit of creativity. Well, let's see. I thought it might be good to track the development of this project somewhere, and Administrata seemed like the perfect place to do it. I'll keep this thread updated on how we're doing, what we're doing, the successes and the failures. So let's start with what we have so far: https://glitchfeed.net - Gaming • Culture • Tech I wanted something which captured the things that I am interested in without just being a game forum or just being a general forum. I thought that focusing on three distinct sections would work out well. Three is always a good number (two is never enough and four is too many!). We have a gaming section (obvious), a culture section (think fandoms but also media, music etc.) and a tech section (technology news, the future, gadgets and hardware). Generic enough to give everyone something to talk about, but not too generic - if you know what I mean. I've always thought that general discussion forums are the easiest ones to get off the ground as pretty much anything goes. I wanted to channel that ease of posting but at the same time give the appearance of being niche. So far there is only me and I'm doing my best to make the forum look nice. Visually appealing websites keep people on them long enough to get a flavour for what's going on. I'm also starting to put some seed content down. We have sixteen main sections ignoring off-topic and official sections. I want to have at least five posts in each section - so I'm working towards 80 posts pre-launch. Let me get your feedback on the concept. And let me know if you have any questions or if you think this is a good idea or not (forum and the case study). I'll be back in a bit. [ATTACH type=full" width="703px]1543[/ATTACH]

There’s no way you’re 32. 42?

And in case it requires clarity. When I say “we” I mean the developers.

2021 was deliberate. We should have been prepared for this many years ago rather than playing catch up.

(so ignore it at your peril) The default xenForo offering for mobile leaves a lot to be desired. Since more and more people are browsing the web - and therefore your site - via their mobile devices, what brilliant hints and tips do you have to make the experience more pleasant? Because many of us are old(er) I think we have this idea that people are looking at our communities on desktop, because that's often how we view them. But many people don't even have a PC anymore and mobile is the way they access content. Let's put our heads together and get our communities ready for 2021.

Yea I have and never had a problem. People say that they’re key stealers and resellers but I’ve never had anything bounce back.

Or look elsewhere? I know people are cautious about CDKeys, but this looks okay.

Yes, so look at the closing date for the sale and run your contest until the day before it closes. That gives you time to organise once the contest finishes and before the sale ends.

This sounds like a perfect opportunity for a giveaway to get people to join. Make it a contest.

Over on that other forum I think I'm considered a bit of a troll. Especially from one admin who shall not be named. I went through a bit of a fun phase of posting like Putin's Tangerine Fleshlight and most people got a real laugh out of it. But there's always one boring asshat who won't allow anyone to have any fun. MUST BE ALL SERIOUSNESS ALL THE TIME. Which is a shame, because if the community is getting some entertainment out of the troll, don't come along with your big admin stick and take that fun away. When you do that, you look like the problem, not the troll.