Evening,
I’ve been here less than a week and I’ve not posted a great deal yet, however I thought i’d give a noobs eye view on the community. Doesn't justify it's own thread so hope it's ok to stick it here!
I’ve been out of the game entirely for a couple of seasons and away from any online coaster communities for even longer (long story.) About 6 months ago I started to visit some forums again for the Smilier updates, and last month I decided that I wanted to take it a step further and get active again. So, off I went to explore the interweb to see how things had changed... some forums had survived, some had died, and the majority that were active looked overwhelmingly crap (some things never change.)
I’d just about given up hope when I stumbled onto TS. No forum is perfect, but overall this one is pretty damn close.
- The level of activity is perfect. It’s worth reading the forum daily but if I take a few days off it’s not hard to get back into a thread.
- Very relaxed posting rules (hurrah for boobs and swearing.)
- Post quality is good. Given the last point I have no frakking idea how. Yes you always have the odd pointless post / thread, but overall the quality is the best of any coaster forum I’ve looked at.
- Friendly. I’ve posted 18 times and I haven’t made an enemy yet. This point actually disturbs me somewhat.
- Meets look genuinely intriguing. If I’m still here I’ll be giving one of them a shot later in the season.
- Layout / graphics are ace and very easy to navigate. I’ve played with most features and not a bug or dead link in sight.
So yea, in short, congratulations guys. Exceeded my expectations by some way.