sinking ship - Page 2

**Dudebro** · 03-30-2016, 12:38 PM

My wife had that too and it wasn't a fun experience before or after the fact. Take it easy, like really take it easy and don't push yourself.

**Kong** · 04-03-2016, 11:33 PM

That was horrible. On the mend now.

Without modern medicine, this would have been the week I died.

I've never had insurance before. Never needed it. On a whim I filled out a form a couple months ago that gave me insurance for ER only. Got that just in time.

Odd to think though without it I would have had to made the choice of going into debt to find out if I had horrible gas or was about to die. Even with the insurance I was still... ehh maybe it's nothing.. and waited too long before getting it checked out.

**elrod21** · 04-04-2016, 12:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Kong

That was horrible. On the mend now.

Without modern medicine, this would have been the week I died.

I've never had insurance before. Never needed it. On a whim I filled out a form a couple months ago that gave me insurance for ER only. Got that just in time.

Odd to think though without it I would have had to made the choice of going into debt to find out if I had horrible gas or was about to die. Even with the insurance I was still... ehh maybe it's nothing.. and waited too long before getting it checked out.

Well I for one am glad you continue to be among the living and you made the choice to get insurance so you aren't bankrupt after coming through it.

Just take it easy until you are 100%.

**Slime Slayer** · 04-04-2016, 02:23 AM

Crazy, to be honest I was starting to think the worst, you had posted that last comment and then nothing. Good to hear you are alive.

**QAOP Spaceman** · 04-04-2016, 03:46 AM

I can't help thinking that if this happened in any other developed country - in Europe, Japan, Australia, NZ, Canada, you wouldn't have to make a choice between bankrupcy and death. That is completely unacceptable. FFS America. You should be ashamed.

Good to hear you're on the mend, Kong. Take her nice and easy.

**Dudebro** · 08-01-2016, 08:08 PM

Not sure where to post this but I figured I'd let you know that the RU facebook page gets random likes from time to time despite having no new posts. I posted today to let people know we aren't dead though.

**Tails** · 06-11-2017, 12:39 PM

I can definitely see this is a sinking ship. For myself I agree mobile is taking over and being on a phone is so much easier than being on a computer. Im more than willing to help bring this site back up but im not aure what i can do mobile only.

**Tails** · 06-22-2017, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Dudebro

A few years ago most active forum members submitted scores and played games regularly, myself included. The problem is people get bored of it and move on after a year or two. Also I think RU started to put more emphasis on competitiveness and that drove some people away. That being said it also brought in less casual people who put up awesome scores and gave RU some much needed credibility. I think we dropped the ball on finding a balance with casual and hardcore retro gamers. We need to make things fun again.

I was rereading this thread and it made me remember why I quit trying around here. Be it losing a score to an intentional farmer farming up the timer or everything going to world records or even contests that didn't finish is what killed my joy for ru. I also... Well become a complete asshole when in a contest.

Retro uprising I remember when I loved this place was when we had game of the week, tenser doing amazing contests, kong original donkey Kong avatar and Chris Mr sparkle avatar. It wasn't hard core it was very casual and had great people who were modest as heck (bagal) yet they were gods of gaming. I miss that.

**krehztim** · 06-24-2017, 01:57 PM

Despite the fact that RU isn't what it used to be, it's still my favorite, and I'm loyal to the end. It does make me very sad to see how it used to be, but technology and the way we connect has moved so far forward in the 10 or so years RU has been around. Everyone's got a console or PC, they're doing Steam, XBL, Discord, Twitch. As long as we can raise enough $$ to keep hosting, I hope RU stays around. In my experience, it's unique in the gaming community. TG is a bunch of whining, hyper-critical asshats, CAG needs no comment, DKF is nice, but it's not really a community per se, just the shoutbox. I never got to experience RU in its heyday, but I'm happy to do whatever would help move RU along.

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Originally Posted by Tails

I was rereading this thread and it made me remember why I quit trying around here. Be it losing a score to an intentional farmer farming up the timer or everything going to world records or even contests that didn't finish is what killed my joy for ru. I also... Well become a complete asshole when in a contest.

Retro uprising I remember when I loved this place was when we had game of the week, tenser doing amazing contests, kong original donkey Kong avatar and Chris Mr sparkle avatar. It wasn't hard core it was very casual and had great people who were modest as heck (bagal) yet they were gods of gaming. I miss that.

**ZedIsDead** · 06-25-2017, 04:34 PM

Hmph, we may have to go back to having Robot automatically posting articles.

**Tails** · 06-25-2017, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ZedIsDead

Hmph, we may have to go back to having Robot automatically posting articles.

50% of them were weird

**Slime Slayer** · 06-26-2017, 07:50 PM

Well our user base is probably around that number too.

**Tails** · 06-26-2017, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by stevencassidy13

Well our user base is probably around that number too.

It's fun being weird, it's fun being weird, ita fun being weird you should try it sometime.

**david man45** · 07-18-2017, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Kong

Should we continue to have a forum at all?
Maybe we should start a reddit or twitch or steam or facebook or other group? Maybe we should do like YouTube and have comments on each game but not a forum, or in addition to forum. Brainstorm, get creative. What are the alternatives? What is working elsewhere? What do you want?

All of what you said and throw a trollbox somewhere, or make it a pop up chat box. Just whatever is a better live chat system than what is already in place. I don't think it has to be anything special, but I think it would and hold a lot players here giving a stronger sense of community.
Its a common theme amongst places I've been that seem to have steady traffic. Get out onto other social media to advertise and improve on the sense of community with better live chat and the comments on specific games is a good idea too.

**krehztim** · 07-19-2017, 07:12 PM

Easy and available Live Chat might help. It's the sole reason a few people go to donkeykongforum, the live shoutbox. Might help, might not.

**david man45** · 07-19-2017, 07:14 PM

I see plenty of places (that should probably have little to no traffic) who have dozens of people staying around soley for trollboxes, its definitely a key factor here

I think making some sort of sign up tournament system where anyone and their grandma can set up their own contest registration etc would be really useful too, considering it incentivizes competition without having to tackle some of the crazy difficult high scores. im not sure exactly how it'd be implemented, but its an idea. Maybe I want to set up a day long contest for [fill in the blank game] and have a separate automated-type of forum section where I can initiate it, the spots fill, and bam the contest is made. Now throw in user sponsored prizes or prize pools and you have yourself an entirely new dimension of the site that I think would give people a reason. maybe it wouldn't be so simple but its an idea

**Tails** · 07-20-2017, 06:32 PM

Just integrate Discord.