SC2SEA.com - Starcraft 2 SEA eSports Community Site

Fading community - needs change
 

An open letter to the greater sc2sea community and sc2online...

Hello friends,

I have noticed of late, how desolate and empty this website has been. The once bustling hub of South East Asian Starcraft 2 community is reduced to streambot and the occasional tournament bracket being linked.

Obviously the community is significantly dwindling and there are less active members of the community, but I do believe there are still a larger amount of active members of this site, just NO ONE posts or talks to each other anymore, its a bit of a catch 22 - not conversation > so you don't post either > so there is no conversation.

I don't want to just sit by and watch it all fade away... I believe there are two major decisions that everyone needs to make for this hub, or cultural home of this community to survive.

Firstly, Post - talk - share.. make conversations with no one, eventually others will continue the conversation. I remember how great it used to be to have conversations with so many various opinions and characters within the scene. There are a few less people, but still plenty to make a conversation.

Secondly, and this is an open request to Eddie... Get rid of SC2ONLINE website and bring everything back to the hub. There is minimal activity in sc2online - no one ever wanted to split the community onto two websites but yourself. I understand you wanted your own thing and a bit of control on the site - but this is the page everyone has book marked, you're not going to change that. I love what you've created there, but there isn't the spirit behind sc2online that there is here. Perhaps there is a better way of doing this rather than scrapping what you've made there... Take over sc2sea? bring in other blizzard games to a larger community site? implement significant changes to sc2online so that we can feel at home. What do I mean by that? 100% with out ANY doubt, the hub of this community has been the chatbox. Front and centre as it is here... it was the #1 feature used by everyone in this community. There are more chat lines that forums post by miles. Implement this COMMUNITY focus and then the community will consider moving. Without it, the tournaments are not with the community and both will (and will continue to) suffer. Also fix up the website, a community is built around a forum and a chatbox, all the other promotional stuff on sc2online is secondary without the community. The functionality of that website isn't for the community, its for your amazing tournament series, while that is flourishing, the community the develops the talent to fuel your tournaments is not. You have to see this as what fuels your future success and understand it is vital

Please share your thoughts on what I have presented above, I only hold one opinion, but I believe its not an uncommon opinion.

One Love.
ChadMann.

EDIT: A few people have messaged me saying they would like to contribute to news articles and fixing up the site... PAPERCLIP - can we please get some new people mod and news article access please? - Who else is an active mod besides me and Nem?