you'll have so much fun when the spambots come, and make posts, by the ton. So I say delete it now, before the drama goes ka pow!
Why must people moderate,
Be on top, administrate
It's they who'll deal with all the spam, but well, I say it's already too late

Nobody's forcing anyone to go on there. If you want to, then fine. If you don't, fine again. So yeah.

Yet another PunBB forum? Seriously, PunBB isn't the only forum software out there

Well it looks like Patrick put up some gaming related categories, and based it on PunBB and said okay, forum's done, at least going by the link.

Just once, I'd like to see blindies use something other than PunBB. Just. Once. Mostly since there's some well designed forums out there using software that plays well with screenreaders and such that /isn't/ PunBB and is a lot more modern. I'd like to see that used for forums, and get away from PunBB for everything blindie forum related. Which'd also stop the idiotic 'omg clone forum' posts, too.

EDIT: Also the usual suspects joined there. Well then

I've seen this far too many times.  My own irc server, Ventrilo server, TeamTalk server... I think the new thing now is discord and, by the looks of it, where blind people are concerned, or at least those on ag net, their own forum?  Because, you know, we're not divided into our little cliques enough as it is.
I'm sorry if this comes across as harsh, but seriously!  Is it not enough that when you go game you almost always have to join clans?  Orgs?  Alliances?  Groups?  Then groups fall apart and all this drama...  If I were to honestly wish for anything, anything at all to end this year on, it would be that this forum, and those who have subscribed to it would come together in a way that would rival other communities and make us turn other people's heads because nothing could compare.  Am I wishing for a miracle?  Perhaps, but you know what?  I don't see that making multiple forums is doing any better than my wishful thinking...

Well post 8, what makes you a nonblindy? I'm just curious as it were. You are just bashing with nothing to show. How predictable, trying to be all mighty.

at least someone click the thumbs up for that little poem

I'd like to see you guys stop referring to blind people as blindies. LOL. It just looks so... uncouth? Not sure that's the right way to put it, but I am trying to be diplomatic, so can't say the word I'd actually want to.

Kai

@16, I'll readily admit that I'll call someone a blindy just as quickly as I'd call someone a bastard or any number of insults if that's what I really think of them. It's a term that can be leveraged at will, and, sadly, a more and more apt one to use these days.

I also am finding myself regretting advocating for more forums and/or other venues for blind folks, gaming or otherwise. I still stand by my original point that if a couple of strategically placed, well-run forums existed, it wouldn't harm anything, and would, in fact, most likely make the current stagnant climate more bearable, but this, kids making forums for bragging rights, is as counterproductive as anything can possibly get. For that, I have to apologize for possibly contributing to said forums' existance. Oh, I'm not naive or self-centered enough to think that my words in previous topics here, or anywhere else, encouraged someone to say "fuck it, I'll create a spam-filled, drama-infested space for 11-year-olds to get their kicks," but I do clearly recall standing firmly on the side of there being a little variety as far as the amount of forums for the blind expanding, so I do have to feel some indignation, because unfortunately, that came to pass in the worst way possible.

@Ethin:

MyBB isn't accessible AFAIK. And which version of SMF? Last one I tried wasn't that good overall but that was like v2.0.0.0 so if things have changed I'll take a look Also, ditto for Vbulletin

The golden rule of forum software is: Don't be afraid to dig into the coding to /make? it accessible, I'll dig out my jcink topic since those hosting folks run a modified IPB and their community whipped up screenreader friendly skins when I asked (for instance)

EDIT: @Defender: Ironcross had a post on blindie vs other words ages ago, not got the link to hand right now however. But from what I recall, blindie's the equivalent of calling somebody a bastard, blink is like going up to them and dropping the C bomb on their toes, however.

Hi.

well, call me arogant, but I do use the term blindy when i see that someone who is, let's say in their 20s and is not able to comprehend the most basic tasks, things in house work, going shopping and so on.
I have been a student at a school for the blind since 2008 in a city which generally speaking has a very large population of blind or highly visual impaired people.
Since 2017 I'm doing a three year training with which I'm hopefully finished somewhere around July next year. So, give or take a few months, I have been living in this city for roundabout 12 years of my currently 22 year old existence.
Over the course of these 12 years I have met quite a number of blind people and yes, and yes, I'm slowly but surely getting mad around here.
the problems with the blind comunity, at leased with quite a large part are numerus, but I will point out some of them.
There is the limited amound of topics you can exchange about. Seams strange at first, but almost every blind person I've met is either very much into computers or music, two topics which are quite interesting, but after discussing the same old iPhone apps and games for the unteenth time, it's slowly getting stale.
Another point I despise is that everyone knows apparently everyone. Before short or long you start talking about your life experiences and, where you went to school and there it starts. Hey, do you know that guy. Yes, do you know that guy as well? No, not really. Ok, because my experiences with him are ... bla, bla bla.
It sometimes feels that if you are stuck in a bubble and you can't escape it, no matter what you tried.
It might be obvious that I hold a grudge against the big part of the blind comunity, that's why over the last few months I mostly pulled back out of any blind organisations I was in, deleted many groups on either WhatsApp or Facebook, and generally got more involved with the sighted comunity, because at leased in my eyes, this is more rewarding and you meat a bigger and different number of people.
When i hopefully finish my training I already decided that I will move away from the city and start fresh somewhere.
New faces, new places.

Greetings Moritz.

Problem is Patrick right now you got....gaming discussion, development, an off topic room. using PunBB.It sure on the surface looks like an ag.net spinoff. Same codebase (as every other quick made forum by some jumped up blindie going 'omg I hate the mods on the ag forum I will make my own', same general structure (but that's not your fault, that's more how forums are)

How about this. Ditch the PunBB. Try other forum software, Ethin mentioned up there ^ about diffrent forum softwares you can try. Hell if you make it in PhpBB or SMF it'll stand out. Because. My main issue is this: You jumped and went for PunBB, so it looks and feels like every other five minute made forum. It looks too similar to every other recent forum, they all use the same codebase and all have the same idea.

Humor me. Do something different.

You want ideas: Off the top of my head....

Make it stand out. Make it somewhere people /want/ to visit. Use different forum softwares, use diffrent styles