Beyond Football - Freestyle Football Forum
Freestyle Soccer Forum => Freestyle Chat => Topic started by: Adi on Apr 06, 2012, 03:56: AM
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It's official. :rolleyes:
Just out of curiousity, what forum have all of you moved to? Macca's?
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A combination of facebook taking over + maccas forum. there are a lot of fs groups on facebook where people post videos etc. Sad sad sad, bf will always be a big part of fs history
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I regulary visit bf. It became like a habit for me.
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A combination of facebook taking over + maccas forum. there are a lot of fs groups on facebook where people post videos etc. Sad sad sad, bf will always be a big part of fs history
What groups? can you link me please?
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I might re-brand this entire forum.
Not sure what but maybe footy or something else. No point in having it if no freestylers are using it.
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i see it as healthy competition between 2 forums. One is winning and the other is uummm, not.
Maybe it is because most people rather support Macca than Adi.
Facebook is very different to any forum. The only two decent pages that i know are 'I am a football freestyler' and 'Proud to be a freestyler'. But those pages have far less activity than BF, even on BF's most boring days.
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Maybe it is because most people rather support Macca than Adi.
That's quite sad if that's the case...
Who gives a rat's ass whose forum this is. The forum was never about me... it's a platform for freestylers. I helped build the platform and that's it.
It didn't matter that I was behind BF a few years ago when things were good, but now that things are slow it's a thing of Adi vs Macca.
Piss off with that rubbish... :rolleyes:
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By the way, I respect Macca and wish him the best of luck.
I really hope his site becomes huge. It's a great website and he's doing the right things.
I was never about making money from Beyond Football so I'm not all about competing to be #1.
I think Macca could use Beyond Football's name and reputation with search engines. We are still ranked very high and maybe he could make use of that. Ultimately, BF should be like his site. I think the combo of our Google presence and his site/content would be great.
Macca - if you ever want to use the BF name and replace our homepage with yours, just let me know. I don't think you'll want to but if you want to run the future BF just let me know.
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Maybe it is because most people rather support Macca than Adi.
That's quite sad if that's the case...
Who gives a rat's ass whose forum this is. The forum was never about me... it's a platform for freestylers. I helped build the platform and that's it.
It didn't matter that I was behind BF a few years ago when things were good, but now that things are slow it's a thing of Adi vs Macca.
Piss off with that rubbish... :rolleyes:
No, most people do not have anything personal against you Adi. It is simply that they may prefer to support L2F and do not have the time support both L2F and BF.
There is no Adi vs Macca.
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......I see some people posting on both forums. But most people just post on one. And most people have chosen L2F and could not be bothered to post the same thing twice on L2F and BF.
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I can't pull up the L2F forum... what link are you using?
There really is no point in having two forums. All it does is split the people. It's not like either forum offers anything that different from the other.
It's best to merge the two but that probably won't happen.
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i'm not using l2f forum, and i visit this forum a lot to watch new vids, but i almost don't leave comments anymore. for me, the level of videos is so high i cannot leave comments worthful for the video. Maybe comments like "wow thats awesome" may motivate, but barely anyone knows me so it's not that supportive than getting the same comment from someone with a high level of freestyle.
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i'm not using l2f forum, and i visit this forum a lot to watch new vids, but i almost don't leave comments anymore. for me, the level of videos is so high i cannot leave comments worthful for the video. Maybe comments like "wow thats awesome" may motivate, but barely anyone knows me so it's not that supportive than getting the same comment from someone with a high level of freestyle.
I think you make a good point. I think a lot of people don't feel like posting on video topics... it's gets a bit repetative when you say "that's awesome" on every other video.
We might need to create a new "like" system which shows off the average rating... 98% liked or something like that.
The problem comes from the lack of good topics that create conversations. Videos are hard to post a lot about... we need real topics that create a good conversation.
Freestyle is a bit tough when it comes to this since so much of it is personal preferance. With major sports, it's easy to talk about tactics teams, players, upcoming games, transfers, etc. but it 's difficult with freestyle.
Either that, or we're just lacking the button-pushers who confront everyone...
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I can't pull up the L2F forum... what link are you using?
There really is no point in having two forums. All it does is split the people. It's not like either forum offers anything that different from the other.
It's best to merge the two but that probably won't happen.
On Learn2freestyle website I click the button at the top that says 'click to view the forum'
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Adi, I still love you.
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Well I am do feel a bit guilty here, thanks for the nice words Adi.
First of all I loved BF, look I have thousands of posts here but I just thought that this forum didn't do enough to keep people posting here instead of other places like Facebook. There was a number of things that I felt this forum was lacking and one thing was competition. So I thought why not make my own forum? I have a successful youtube and facebook page and could get a few members instantly and get the ball rolling.
The whole point was to give this place friendly competition and hopefully you would up your game and we would have two thriving forums so I wasn't expecting this topic at all. A few years ago BF was top of the pile when there was many other places to visit like NAS, FDU, SSD etc and I was trying to bring back a choice to freestylers (not a definitive choice just options) and further awareness of freestyle on the web away from facebook and youtube.
So as you can you see the point of my forum wasn't to run this place into the ground and steal your members, infact half of the members on the l2f forum rarely posted here.
So yeah I just thought I would come and say that, I am genuinely shocked that you are thinking about letting me have control of this site. If you want you can message me on facebook and maybe we can set up a deal.
Cheers guys hope there is no ill feelings towards me and ofcourse you're all welcome to come and have a look at my forum aswell :)
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I think that one of the reasons is that BF was down few times, the posts from January were deleted.
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i'm not using l2f forum, and i visit this forum a lot to watch new vids, but i almost don't leave comments anymore. for me, the level of videos is so high i cannot leave comments worthful for the video. Maybe comments like "wow thats awesome" may motivate, but barely anyone knows me so it's not that supportive than getting the same comment from someone with a high level of freestyle.
I'd rather get a comment from you than from FX to be honest.
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i'm not using l2f forum, and i visit this forum a lot to watch new vids, but i almost don't leave comments anymore. for me, the level of videos is so high i cannot leave comments worthful for the video. Maybe comments like "wow thats awesome" may motivate, but barely anyone knows me so it's not that supportive than getting the same comment from someone with a high level of freestyle.
I'd rather get a comment from you than from FX to be honest.
really? that's nice to hear, can you explain me what makes you say that?
And out of curiousity, can you remember a video from me freestyling?
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Try making people log in to view the forum AND.. take down the Christmas stuff! :sign0065:
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i'm not using l2f forum, and i visit this forum a lot to watch new vids, but i almost don't leave comments anymore. for me, the level of videos is so high i cannot leave comments worthful for the video. Maybe comments like "wow thats awesome" may motivate, but barely anyone knows me so it's not that supportive than getting the same comment from someone with a high level of freestyle.
I'd rather get a comment from you than from FX to be honest.
really? that's nice to hear, can you explain me what makes you say that?
And out of curiousity, can you remember a video from me freestyling?
He's referring to FX's comment on TF and Ethans' video
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I thought freestyle was dead for a while! Thank god its not. Never eard of this other forum but a bit sad beyond football is dead I always thought it was a great site.
Thanks for all the hard work you put in Adi.
Regular viewer seldom poster ( sorry)
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Joined BF almost 2 years ago and it's helped me so much with freestyle! Can never forget those days :bf: :bawling:
Although I had joined kinda late, when I joined it was by far the best forum. Tons of freestylers posting on each video and you could expect new posts every hour! Guess it just kept going downhill since then, especially with the frequent breakdowns
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1) The forum is now restricted to members only... guests can view the boards and topic titles, but when they click on a topic title, it will ask them to login before being allowed to read/reply.
2) Thanks for posting Macca. I'll be in touch. I want BF to continue being successful so I'll do whatever I can to assist. Ultimately, freestyle needs it's on Facebook and I hope BF can become that. It's going to require some good ideas, a website redesign on the homepage, and everyone returning. I think we can do it but we need to get me, you, and Benbow on the same page.
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By the way, the top banner has been updated. :grin:
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Adi, I still love you.
I know I can always count on the one and only, Borg. :celebrate:
How's everything man?
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Not too bad buddy! Been studying Business Management @ Ryerson U so it's a good experience so far.
How's the engaged life?
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I studied the same... not a bad degree to go for if you want a nice balance of school and partying. :grin:
Engaged life is good... just dropped off the deposit for the wedding venue. I had no idea weddings were this expensive. I'm fucked for a while with all the expenses lol.
You should post around a little when you have the time. Nice to see you again man...
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Good stuff Adi, don't give up on it! :sign0098:
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Also, start making interviews again. Let's say 10 questions to some known freestylers or guys who have done something extraordinary. IMO it will make this site more attractive and it won't take much of your time!!!
pallur
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I studied the same... not a bad degree to go for if you want a nice balance of school and partying. :grin:
Engaged life is good... just dropped off the deposit for the wedding venue. I had no idea weddings were this expensive. I'm fucked for a while with all the expenses lol.
You should post around a little when you have the time. Nice to see you again man...
Yeah they definitely are expensive aha! You got your Masters in Business as well?
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Yes sir, MBA. It hasn't done much for me yet. Not as much of an advantage as I had hope it would be. Probably due to the bad market.
Guys, I'll try to be involved as I can but I really need everyone to start creatin new threads. That's what gets things going.
Also, I'm thinking of a new contest for most posts or something.
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i fucking miss BF so much... i wish it could be just like it was back in 2008/09....
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i fucking miss BF so much... i wish it could be just like it was back in 2008/09....
I thought you would be the new oLi... a better oLi that is. You got the knowledge, respect, and crazyness to yourself to make BF a nice place again. You can see how much activity you get on your Facebook posts.
I think it'd be great it you really wanted to help get the community back on its feet. I'm willing to give you whatever you need to make it happen.
I think you could do a great job with the homepage as well. I'm willing to redesign it but I need someone like you or Tom to help run it and provide regular new content. Let me know if you are interested or simply want to be as active as possible to help us return to the old ways. I think a flood of good new topics would take us a long way.
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i fucking miss BF so much... i wish it could be just like it was back in 2008/09....
so do i ...
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Funny thing is people in 2008/09 used to say, "I wish it was like 2005/06 when Soccer Grip was around." :grin:
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I think the main reason why people left this forum and joined L2F was because half the time this forum is down, and there are always rude comments and fighting, no advice, just pure sarcasm which isn't good.
With L2F there are training logs, battles that don't fail , etc.. NO sarcasm, lots of help and advice, that's why it's winning.
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We're back and running for good... hope people come back.
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People will come back with time if quality threads with lots of discussion and argumentative debate come too.
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People will come back with time if quality threads with lots of discussion and argumentative debate come too.
Yup, we just gotta keep posting. As a said, a team of 10 active posters will bring this place back.