In an effort to close the site but keep it online, so myself @Jaded and @Old Man Metal can move on to screamindemon.com, I was approached by a handful of people with ideas to make that happen.
During the course of these discussions, one I had with Old Man Metal seemed the most promising and made me realize I may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If it works, it will conclude with everyone getting what they want. The core community gets to continue here as usual reading all the horrible news you can fit into your head, and I can step away and work on what I want to do.
After speaking with @Knox last night to iron out some details, I think we will move forward with that plan, which is as follows:
Dreamindemon.com will remain open, although and the new Front Page will now be a handpicked selection of forum articles as we have been doing over the last month or two. For anyone confused about the "front page" -- it's the site's landing page (dreamindemon.com). You are currently in the forums (dreamindemon.com/community).
I will be handing over the DD side of the forums to @Knox. She will be picking a couple of moderators to help her run the place. I will continue to handle the technical stuff, but otherwise, I will only be moderating the Screamin' Demon side of the forums.
The only changes coming to the forums will be that we will reopen Three Things and the Bold subscriptions will change. We will be going to a Patreon only method of upgrading. It works the same way, but instead of paying $20 a year via Paypal for a Bold membership, you just pay $1 a month ($12 a year) via Paypal to Patreon. There are various reasons why we want to go this route, but one of the big ones is we want the Bold membership to be a perk of being a Patreon for the site - along with some other things that are not forum specific.
As for Screamin' Demon and how it ties into this site:
As I stated before, with SD, we plan on focusing on horror movies, metal, video games, etc. Instead of creating an entirely new forum for it, we will be using these same forums (or the lower half) in an "unoffical" capacity. I will moderate those forums and grab a couple of people to help out.
Screamin' Demon will be heavily focused on video-based content such as podcasts, livestreams and edited video content. We currently have a few things lined up.. a podcast for movie reviews with myself, Jaded and Old Man Metal - along with some special guests. The Pulpit of Doom will return but will not focus entirely on true crime... we will pick a few popular crime related stories for that week but also discuss a bit of everything (so not that much different, really).
Two others (a music reviews\reactions segment with myself and Old Man Metal as well as some video game streaming) will be out around April and I will be on camera for those. Patreon members will have access to this content weeks before they are published to Youtube.
So that's the idea. We are hoping the Patreon side of the house can, at minimum, keep this awesome server paid for and get us to the point that SD brings in some new blood and allow is to advertise again. All I really have to do at this point is modify our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/dreamindemon), get Patreon linked to our forums and just start working.
The DD handoff to Knox will take place after this coming weekend. She may (or may have) reached out to a couple of you regarding moderating. She will need help getting articles "promoted" which is what gets an article on the front page (and, in turn, generates the most views). So if you'd like to get an article promoted, work on those titles!
There's probably more I am forgetting but I'm sure it may come up in any of the upcoming comments\questions. And look, I don't know if this will work, but if it does we all get what we want. After all of the emails and messages I have gotten since I announced shutting things down, I feel it is worth a shot.
Edited to add that while I was checking on one plugin, I found we are behind in a handfull of them... including a MAJOR xenforo update. So I will be updating the forums... starting with the major Xenforo update. It's an API update, which is a big deal as a lot of the plugins had to be re-written to account for this (also why the Patreon plugin is not currently working).
I will make a forum upgrade thread later today and will be on Discord while it is ongoing in case there are issues... which there very well could be.
During the course of these discussions, one I had with Old Man Metal seemed the most promising and made me realize I may be throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If it works, it will conclude with everyone getting what they want. The core community gets to continue here as usual reading all the horrible news you can fit into your head, and I can step away and work on what I want to do.
After speaking with @Knox last night to iron out some details, I think we will move forward with that plan, which is as follows:
Dreamindemon.com will remain open, although and the new Front Page will now be a handpicked selection of forum articles as we have been doing over the last month or two. For anyone confused about the "front page" -- it's the site's landing page (dreamindemon.com). You are currently in the forums (dreamindemon.com/community).
I will be handing over the DD side of the forums to @Knox. She will be picking a couple of moderators to help her run the place. I will continue to handle the technical stuff, but otherwise, I will only be moderating the Screamin' Demon side of the forums.
The only changes coming to the forums will be that we will reopen Three Things and the Bold subscriptions will change. We will be going to a Patreon only method of upgrading. It works the same way, but instead of paying $20 a year via Paypal for a Bold membership, you just pay $1 a month ($12 a year) via Paypal to Patreon. There are various reasons why we want to go this route, but one of the big ones is we want the Bold membership to be a perk of being a Patreon for the site - along with some other things that are not forum specific.
As for Screamin' Demon and how it ties into this site:
As I stated before, with SD, we plan on focusing on horror movies, metal, video games, etc. Instead of creating an entirely new forum for it, we will be using these same forums (or the lower half) in an "unoffical" capacity. I will moderate those forums and grab a couple of people to help out.
Screamin' Demon will be heavily focused on video-based content such as podcasts, livestreams and edited video content. We currently have a few things lined up.. a podcast for movie reviews with myself, Jaded and Old Man Metal - along with some special guests. The Pulpit of Doom will return but will not focus entirely on true crime... we will pick a few popular crime related stories for that week but also discuss a bit of everything (so not that much different, really).
Two others (a music reviews\reactions segment with myself and Old Man Metal as well as some video game streaming) will be out around April and I will be on camera for those. Patreon members will have access to this content weeks before they are published to Youtube.
So that's the idea. We are hoping the Patreon side of the house can, at minimum, keep this awesome server paid for and get us to the point that SD brings in some new blood and allow is to advertise again. All I really have to do at this point is modify our Patreon page (https://www.patreon.com/dreamindemon), get Patreon linked to our forums and just start working.
The DD handoff to Knox will take place after this coming weekend. She may (or may have) reached out to a couple of you regarding moderating. She will need help getting articles "promoted" which is what gets an article on the front page (and, in turn, generates the most views). So if you'd like to get an article promoted, work on those titles!
There's probably more I am forgetting but I'm sure it may come up in any of the upcoming comments\questions. And look, I don't know if this will work, but if it does we all get what we want. After all of the emails and messages I have gotten since I announced shutting things down, I feel it is worth a shot.
Edited to add that while I was checking on one plugin, I found we are behind in a handfull of them... including a MAJOR xenforo update. So I will be updating the forums... starting with the major Xenforo update. It's an API update, which is a big deal as a lot of the plugins had to be re-written to account for this (also why the Patreon plugin is not currently working).
I will make a forum upgrade thread later today and will be on Discord while it is ongoing in case there are issues... which there very well could be.
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