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super_etecoon on 03 September 2025
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Ryuu96 said:
super_etecoon said:

Something I’ve been wondering about is the “official” threads. The official Zelda, Nintendo, XBox, etc. these threads are long running threads and I’m sure they have a community, but when Zelda news drops it’s weird to not see it and then you realize it’s buried in an official page. It isolates the Zelda community from the main page. It may make everything cleaner, but that may be at the expense of things looking lively around here.

Shutting down those threads won't guarantee that threads will suddenly be made but it will upset people who like and use them threads, the Xbox OT was the only reason I joined this website to begin with, it shutting down would have been a reason I would have left the site, until the Russia-Ukraine thread. These threads have always provided a lot of engagement to VGChartz but lately even these threads have significantly declined in activity but it's arguable that Xbox OT's recent decline is largely due to Microsoft's fucking shit behaviour lately, thus shutting down the OT is even less likely to cause people to start making Xbox related threads.

The last time Mods interfered with the Xbox OT it resulted in an exodus of Xbox users, and an attempt to create a rival site which ultimately failed but still hugely hurt Xbox fans activity on VGChartz as a whole. The last time the Mods interfered with the PS OT it resulted in an exodus of users to a rival site which was successfully made. Both interferences caused a notable decline in activity for both fanbases across the whole of VGChartz. I don't think we should start our solutions by ripping away things that members of the community like.

There was a time where these OTs were wildly active, 100s of comments a day, and VGChartz as a whole was very active, despite how much activity these OTs had, everywhere was active. It's what we should aim for again, OTs exist on every forum and serve a valuable purpose in nurturing communities and a nice space for people to relax in, also not all news posted in these OTs deserves a thread, it'd be an extremely risky move to remove them, Imo, and I'm personally completely against the idea.

But there could be more of an effort made for news which is posted in these threads to also have threads made of said news.

The last line is more of what I was thinking, not their removal. It’s just sad when big news happens and you don’t see a thread for it on the main page. It adds to the feeling that the site is a ghost town. I think there’s always room for short-lived discussions on breaking news and info, even if that info is already being discussed in the official threads.