5ba0a8 No.6373
There's been some talk here about a christian forum online that's not a part of 8chan. I think this is a good idea. I have some basic programming ability and wanted to ask, what do you think a good Christian forum would look like.
I have the following ideas:
1) It would not be a image-board
I think 4chan is popular due to legacy reasons and 8chan and the other chans are just spin offs of 4chan. I think mass appeal requires a non-chan board
2)It would have to be mobile first.
Again today we live in a mobile first world - It would have to have an app and an online version
One question that really gets to me is what's the best UI for such a discussion forum? Chan replies are too hard for normies and not every Christian is tech savvy. Reddit format without upvotes or downvotes might work. Maybe reddit type formatting with chan style bump rule. Or maybe some way to organize main discussion and sub discussions? What would be good for both mobile and general discussion?
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5ba0a8 No.6374
Also what other features would a Christian discussion site have to have to be good/successful
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eecf4e No.6375
Imageboards are popular because of anonymous, no account needed posting. That is what's missing outside of this place, there are plenty of Christian forums on the internet that have been going forever.
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5ba0a8 No.6376
>>6375
I disagree. Anonymity and no account posting does create an interesting dynamic on image forums - but I don't think that's the reason 4chan got popular.
I think 4chan got popular in the past because of it's crazy free for all content.
It'd be interesting to have an anonymous mode or anonymous section, but it should have a signed in section as well.
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eecf4e No.6377
>>6376
Have you done some looking at the current state of Christian forums?
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5ba0a8 No.6378
>>6377
I checked worthy Christian forums and Christian forums.com
They seem to have a large userbase but content is rather dull
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eecf4e No.6380
>>6378
Puritanboard and baptistboard both have a high number of posters and a long history. They use a traditional forum software called xenforo.
hermeneutics stack exchange is high quality discussion.
What differentiates what you have in mind from what already exists?
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5ba0a8 No.6382
>>6380
I donno. I guess to work today it would have to be more of a social network type thing than a forum
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eecf4e No.6383
>>6382
That's the last thing we need
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eecf4e No.6385
>>6383
>>6382
Not meaning to be negative
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5ba0a8 No.6386
>>6382
Forums and imageboards are like usenet groups were back in 2010. A declining technology that nobody wants to use anymore.
We need something different. It doesn't have to be a tacky privacy breaching app like facebook
but it does have to stay local to be useful - ie connected to the local church and local community somehow
something along the lines of these but with a public chat oriented function
https://new.echoprayer.com/
http://www.youversion.com/
or
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9d5f79 No.6417
>>6373
I dislike 8chan because of all the degenerate boards, but I'm not going to join a forum moderated by Catholics (it would be exactly like /christian/ where non-Catholics get banned).
If you want a fruitful discussion you will need
>strict rules for transparency (all bans and deletions being visible to everyone)
>mods from different denominations
>all denominations partaking in the moderation, like f.e. needing both an Orthodox and a Catholic moderator in order to ban someone
>different boards (/politics/, /history/, /news/, etc.) so you can discuss topics like the Catholic church sex abuse scandal without being deleted/banned by butthurt Catholic mods for "off topic"
I value inter-denominational dialogue, and I think all true Christians agree that real Christianity needs to be promoted in the world regardless of denomination.
I have a degree in CS, but setting up an imageboard is super easy, anyone can do it. What isn't easy is getting a following, as you can see that both here and on /christian/ the amount of posts per day is very low.
Call it something like 4christian.
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eecf4e No.6418
>>6417
Why is diversity of faith in mods necessary if everything is transparent?
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9d5f79 No.6420
>>6418
just to be doubly sure
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713edc No.6479
>>6418
We should allow everyone who is willing to acknowledge some basic articles of faith to post on the main boards and have a heresy board to transfer heretical posts to. It should be possible for anyone to recognize what the articles of faith are. But the temptation to ban all the other denominations is strong.
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5ba0a8 No.6484
>>6479
Hmm, I was thinking a website/app with thousands of different forums, the first as a chat and bulletin board space for local churches to end prayer requests, and notify of events. This would be moderated by someone from the local church and can be set to invite only.
Then another bigger one for denominational discussion that the denomination members of that denomination could moderate. After that a large 18 + board where anyone even atheists, gnostics and mormons could participate freely - sort of like a god themed /b/
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f628a0 No.6485
>>6484
Why would churches and denominations want to use your platform instead of the sites and irl forums they already own? Nobody is asking for what you're pitching
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5ba0a8 No.6486
>>6485
well I noticed that people are selling church organization platforms that let them keep in touch with their members - notify them of events, clubs, activities etc.
So if there's something like that connected to an app that lets churches notify members and keep in touch, I think they'll encourage their members to sign on and I was thinking I could kickstart a Christian online community that way by offering churches free church organization software, getting them to sign on members and making money through an attached christian online store, advertising events etc.
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f628a0 No.6489
>>6486
So you're not talking about a new imageboard at all, you're just telling us about an idea you have to enter a saturated church software market and also host a boomer forum.
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5ba0a8 No.6491
>>6489
Well I'm definitely not talking about a new imageboard - if anyone thought that people would use a Christian image board we could set one up tomorrow for minimum investment tomorrow. No one's doing it because we all know that it would have almost no users and would likely fail.
I am talking about a Christian forum that allows for free speech based Christian discussion. I'm thinking church software might be the way to get users at the church level which is where a l Christian forum with meaningful userbase would start imo
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5ba0a8 No.6493
>>6491
For me, I'm not an if you build it they will come kinda guy. It's gotta have a means of attracting and keeping users and keeping people engaged. Otherwises I don't see the point of doing it. The world doesn't really need another Christian forum and I don't see the clear benefit of anonymous christian posting that can't be achieved by using occasional throwaway accounts on other Christian forums. It's gotta be different and the way to build community online is to foster and use communities that exist offline
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f628a0 No.6494
>>6491
>No one's doing it because we all know that it would have almost no users and would likely fail.
Not at all, it would be great. Look at this place, its effectively an entirely new board and new userbase just from 7 months ago that already has thousands of posts and regular traffic; entirely based on dissatisfaction with the moderation on the larger board.
Your idea is to compete with existing lame internet Christian forums, and compete with normiebook for church community pages, at the same time on the same platform. It's naive, and like I said nobody is asking for it.
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f628a0 No.6495
>>6493
Now I'm really lost, what is your objective?
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5ba0a8 No.6496
>>6495
well the goal is to create an online space where Christians can meet, speak freely to one another and exchange ideas. I just don't think a forum or Christian image board is really a good way to achieve that objective
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dff364 No.6796
>>6418
because you can't really trust Catholics.
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