Greetings, SB.

I haven't post for a long time here, but I am still being around. By the way, I've ACTUALLY joined in the Febuary of 2008, and I loved it. I knew even in that time, Supperbas is a decent person. And when I came to Fluidanims' IRC chanel, he proved it to me, I started to ask him to give critics, advices. We become friends (I'd wanted to hope about that).

On the topic, it is pretty sad to see there is no as much members as it should be, no as much good animations in the Portal as it should be, no original collaborations, almost nobody is asking about help... I personally think, it is just awful. I don't want to be "mean", but I'd like to suggest something to get this Website be better:
1) The Crew of Animators - like in Fluidanims, team of good animators, which are posting animations (regulary) on the Portals like Newgrounds or Youtube, with the credit to Supperbas.com.
2) Original Collaborations - 'elite' collaborations with good interesting ideas.
3) More Entertaiment - more competitions, weeklies, TUTORIALS (when there will be more active members).

I know, it's all not as easy as it looks... I will try to help as far as I can. This Website deserves to be more Popular.

- Cheers.

Yo Jart first of all thanks a lot of your support!

Don't worry about being "mean" criticism and suggestions are always welcome and appreciated!

Okay as you might have noticed killerkb has been getting more and more active lately! of course this site isn't just me and KB.
As of this moment we're inviting a few people into the crew so far 1 person has been invited but he or she is still 'under judgement' so it's still not sure if that person will in fact be part of the crew.
We try to add a few animators into the crew so we can generated kind of 'inhouse' content to promote SB.

I think you're totally right if you say SB needs a team of good animators, so far our aim has always been generate some activity first then with the most active members make a team and work on collabs, shorts, weeklies etc.

So far we focused on 'tutorials', preloaders and the activity.

Unfortunately we haven't actually released any tutorials besides the few help topics.
The preloader however is kinda kinda cool if you ask me! and a few people actually use it! but that's still only on a few animations, nothing on large scale or anything.

On of the main reasons why SB is quite inactive could be because we never actually advertised the website, I mainly didn't wanted to do this because I wanted to have the site kinda active first rather than asking people from other communities to join and just have the same members from an other site instead of having our own community.

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So what's the plan now?, well we still want to expand the crew with a few animators so far one has been asked to join the crew and is currently being reviewed etc.
but it's a slow and lonely process :P (that's why I made KB do all the crew stuff ;))
Also KB and I (and of course the crew) are working on SB Soldiers, this should something that is supposed to blow your mind. We're still working on the concept and soon we're going to actually make a basic concept and work that out and try to make it as good and perfect as we can so everyone will love it! and it will blow everyone's mind!

So I would say, try to expand the crew bit by bit until we're ready to release SB and then go for 100% activity and weeklies, collabs, shorts, tutorials etc.

I dunno what you think about that or if feel different/have suggestions.

I really appreciate your contribution here!, I will discuss it with the rest of the crew as well of course =] and hopefully we can get SB up and running and have a nice solid active userbase!

Starting weekly comps, and montly collabs would be pretty fun, since right now the site is pretty dead, we could start by having weekly collabs, then as we get more popular we could have more comps and less weeklies, that will keep the current members interested, and active, and monthlies will increase traffic and popularity, it would take time and dedication, but if it would be successfull it would be greatly rewarded.

I would gladly start up some kind of weeklies or make a suggestion thread for them if that's ok with you Supperbas

Problem is, that it doesn't really work that way.
You can't start making 'weeklies' or 'monthlies', and then hope to gain some 'popularity'.
You actually need quite some active members, to even start a good weekly, or competition.

Things like these will of course be created, but later on. For now, we need some other ways to get more people over here. Once that worked out, we can start having weeklies etc etc.

Yes, thats why mabey short competitions would be good, they would perhaps bring some members that arent active right now to be active, then as more get active again, more members will join, then we can start weeklies or monthlies.

True.
Competitions could work. Though I doubt the forum is active enough for even that.
But who knows.

I'll set one up a.s.a.p.