Has anyone ever taken up a kickstarted or GFM to launch and advertise a website aimed at competing with TBP specifically on the grounds mentioned here? I mean do enough ads to get it noticed and clearly say it is meant to be very different from that site? I would not want it to be just like here as this site has issues to, but definitely not as ridiculously woke and hypersensitive as woke.net.
BGG exlipsed about everything game related years ago. The only reason it doesnt have more RPG and video Game traction is because they treat those sections like dirt half the time and staff people who have no clue what an RPG or video game even is the other half the time.
Pretty much anything can compete with RPG.net because they have turned away so many.
Prior to all this it was rediculously easy to make, and lose, a forum on Yahoo Groups. But last year they totally gutted the system so severely its actually LESS functional than the original E-Groups Yahoo bought up 20+ years ago. But Y-groups had lost most of their userbase long ago as they regularly did mass covert group purges and account bans out of the blue. They were BGG before BGG. This on top of Ya-Hell being overrun with literally thousands of harvester bots collecting emails for spam mail companies.