I know AWOL loves NC and all but...

[Dominate]

Originally Posted by symetrik

more questions? more answers.

How will you attract a sufficient number of writers? In particular, new writers? This whole site is only propped up by a sense of nostalgia.

Mags/something equivalent?

Ability to search old battles/verses/a particular writer’s body of work?

[House of Leaves]

Thank you very much trolling audio-type battlers, for your enthusiasm for the culture.

[symetrik]

Originally Posted by Dominate

How will you attract a sufficient number of writers? In particular, new writers? This whole site is only propped up by a sense of nostalgia.

Mags/something equivalent?

Ability to search old battles/verses/a particular writer’s body of work?

atm I don't have solutions to attracting new writers (other than the quality of the site making it easy to word-of-mouth it to people active users know in the scene).

"archive" isn't really something I care about as a primary purpose, but I could implement something for individual users to establish their own archive, after MVP.

highly creative "mags" would still depend on admins, but I can identify some of it being automated relatively easily if users are active. also not MVP, though.

[Objective]

Originally Posted by symetrik

atm I don't have solutions to attracting new writers

This one isn't too hard. Need social media accounts tho, post screens of good writtens and battles on Instagram with some tags and people will come along slowly but steadily. Video mags on YouTube, post it up on channels for hiphop and wherever people are freestyling in voice channels.

The difficulty for the future will be keeping them, shit needs a different morality or code in your vision, and what's ok/what isn't unless you want another NCs with the same 10-15 heads arguing and fucking with RIP-threads. You'll make some OGs hate you by doing so but the site will be healthy and a place for the next gen of text to grow.

Another issue to overcome is the usage of AI and how to combat that. The days of pure concepts and ideas from people minds is diminishing little by little, so I'd also look into AI tools to recognize the usage of them unless you'll allow that going forward.