Lol
Yeah, 10 years exp here haha.
I'll just start with what I don't like; the software lol. Burning Boards is a piece of ****, and the current layout is horrendous. Sure, it has some nifty features, but all in all it's not user-friendly, bloated and the implementation was horrid. To be fair, there wasn't a lot of time to prep for it because vb just up and died suddenly?? But uh yeah, it's been a year since then so excuses are like nope at this point. Also, this isn't so much a reflection of the community as much as it is a reflection of some decisions by management lol, which is really where most of my >_> lies.
Further, going on the above point, activity has dropped a fair bit because of not-user-friendly software, and horrendous amounts of downtime, like really now, I feel like we spent more than half of last year waiting for the site just to return to its normal state lmao. Again, though, I recognise this isn't so much a community issue, though it certainly is a community complaint that's cried through the halls on a regular basis lol.
What I do like includes a lot of the community activities, like the Mafia community there is solid as hell, wonderfully creative and super-enthusiastic, and I adore them to bits. Further, I participate in a D&D campaign run by a really talented ZUer. There's also a Karaoke Thread that's stupid amounts of fun lol. I'm part of the Farore clan, and they're a crazy group of sons of *****es that I love. There's also a tag thread I enjoy (ie you answer a random question in a video, and then tag someone else with a question, and the cycle continues). I have an artsy thread there too that I update with comics and random sketches. Oh, and I take part in 2 or 3 RPs. So on the activity side of things, I'm fairly active.
Also, I've been to several meet-ups which include in Australia, Canada and the US, so some friends I've made there have absolutely been worth traveling to. I was in NY last year where I met up with some ZUers, and I'm actually due to go to Canada come May to attend some anime expo with some ZUers!
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, though; there are certainly members who dislike me haha in that I've had people make alt accounts so that they could post racist comments about me, and I've been shown logs of people ****-talking who otherwise act really nice to my face. But like, I don't think any of this is exclusive to ZU or whatever; I think that's just people being people, like put a group of human beings in a room and **** like this is bound to happen. So sure, there are some nasty members, right up there with the ones I'm 100% loyal to.
On the staff side of things, I was the Fun Police for 4 - 5 years (which is actually why I signed up to ZD; I wanted to be part of a Zelda community where I didn't have to enforce rules lol). I retired from Head Admin like... 2 months ago? And now I focus entirely on community activity since that's pretty much where my heart lies. I like people, and I like thinking up creative ways for people to have fun, pretty much!
All in all, if I said anything less than "I like it there a lot" having been there for 10 years, then I'd be a goddamn moron LOL. But I do like it there a lot. It's fun. Management is what gets me the most, but lol whatcha gonna do
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