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Originally Posted by Shikari

I was thinking about a whole new Stepmania community, like ODI is/was back in the days. I know we have both KBO and FFR, but a full community, centered only on Stepmania, from playing to stepping, would be cool to gather new and old people. A place where we could discuss everything about this game we play, and come up with "solutions" to keep Stepmania alive and make it more popular, bringing even more people. I don't care if we are going to have pad files, keyboard files, anime files, just a place for Stepmania, with subforums for each file "category".

This would be really cool. I'm certain that the biggest reason FFR is so big and active is the centralized community. Stepmania could really use a huge forum community (and I don't mean Stepmania.com) which isn't poisoned by a bunch of aging retired players with disdain for everyone who still finds fun in a music game.

I had a good idea about creating this forum. Rather than starting with it blank, we could copy over a bunch of big, popular threads. The SM Scores thread, some of the more important pack threads from OD/ODI/SM/KBO/FFR/GS, some individual scores threads, and so on. This would be great for searching for stuff, but it would also give the community a kickstart. The usernames would have to be changed (so for instance a post by leonid becomes a post by _leonid) but we'd let someone "claim" their old posts if they create an account with the same name (although ideally the mods would check these to make sure you don't get some ass signing up as every famous player ever). So that way veteran SM-community members have a small incentive to join: coming in as your old username gives you a whole bunch of free posts.


PS: I've never really been in a huge SM community. I was part of the FFR community for most of the time since I started playing, and there was always an SM component to it, but I guess I only got the feeling of how big SM was from all the youtube videos and amazing scores out there. I'd definitely appreciate a place to talk about the game and share files and the scores that might not be even close to world-class.