As the year winds down, Skullheart gears up for a bit of retooling!
Following feedback from dedicated forum-goers, members of the Skullgirls community, and Skullheart's moderation staff, the official Skullgirls forums will soon be overhauled to be leaner, more compact, and more focused on Skullgirls. In the following week, Skullheart users should expect several subforums and threads to be merged, redone, removed, and/or replaced where necessary. Additionally, the forum rules will be reworked to accommodate and explain the ins-and-outs of Skullheart's new layout.
The major changes that are planned are as follows:
- Removal of the General SG Discussion subforum; this subforum has been almost entirely made obsolete by the Gameplay/Lore/Art/News subforums. Some of the threads that once existed in this subforum have been moved to other locations.
- Removal of the Cosplay and Sound/Music subforums; neither subforum garnered enough activity to support their continued existence. They've now been merged into a larger Art and Other Media subforum that will cover all creative endeavors related to Skullgirls.
- Removal of the Unreleased Future Characters subforum; discussion of unreleased future characters will now take place in the Non-Gameplay Character Discussion subforum.
- Removal of Off-Topic. In Off-Topic's place will be a Other Fighting Games subforum, where other competitive fighters can be discussed. Major fundamental issues with Off-Topic enabled users to freely create unpersecutable borderline-spam threads, and typical discussion was almost always low-quality (forum games being the majority). This discussion often dominated the Recent Posts and What's new? tabs, ensuring that they could retain momentum by being the first things that visitors to Skullheart see; this came at the expense of less exposure for topics related to Skullgirls.
- Rule revision for all subforums; you'll want to check each individual subforum to see the specifics for this.
To all SH users that feel they are negatively affected by these changes, please understand that they were not carried out in malice, nor were they a knee-jerk reaction. These alterations are the result of months of critique and feedback from community members both new and old, and self-reflection on the inadequacies of how the forum was laid out. We don't wish to create a divide in the Skullgirls community or favor one group over another. The overhaul is ongoing so expect more changes in the upcoming days, some of which will address complaints that the community has recently voiced.
For those still wishing to participate in off-topic banter with fellow Skullgirls community members, Steam Community group BnBeez (formerly known as Unofficial Official Temporary Skullheart) may be right up your alley. Formed after Skullheart went down for an extended period of time in 2013, the group has since become a haven for fans of Skullgirls who wish to discuss the game and other miscellanea in a lax, comfortable atmosphere.
Skullheart's new years resolution is to slim down, shape up, and refocus itself on what this website was created for; providing a quality discussion hub for the Skullgirls community.
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