Hi guise. Maybe this is a bit late, but hopefully no one will mind.
There needs to be more reasons for people who stop playing RuneScape to stick around. When I talk to other former RSBandBers, and talk about RSBandB, they always mention how there was no reason for them to stick around, myself included. People get older and they do different things, I think this site needs to accommodate that somehow while making sure that the site is still defined as an RS fansite, "Come for RS, stay for the community" sort of thing. The weekly gaming things was neat and kept me here for a little while, but obviously its fallen off a bit.
In regards to the actual site, I think the front page needs a major design overhaul. It absolutely a wasteland to me. For one, the "News Feed" on the front page is mostly static. There needs be more articles there, either from the Informer or something else. Seeing as the Informer isn't a monthly issue as it used to be, I don't understand why it isn't there. Same with the Update. I honestly don't you should make people go to separate sections of the site for the Update and Informer. Obviously still have those sections there, but incorporate them into the front page. Just change it up more is what I'm getting at. Whenever I lurk or visit it's always looks like its the exact same thing.
Now I guess I'll answer those questions...
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What makes interacting with the reddit runescape community more interesting than interacting with the people here?
I think Reddit just makes it easier to post content fast and get it attention with fewer clicks. If you can accomplish that on the Forums, maybe make a frontpage for all the forums or something, then maybe that could workout.
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What do you like about RSBandB?
When I was an active member I liked the community a lot. That's why I was an active member for 4 years, because the people made it interesting.
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What don't you like? What are we missing?
Basically what I said earlier.
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Where would you like us to go in the next year?
I'd honestly like to see this site flourish with an active community again. I really don't know to accomplish that, but hopefully some of my suggestions helped. If you can bring back some other older members that would honestly be a good start. But again, I'm not sure how you would accomplish that.
I used to love this community, and I still kinda do. I'd love to see this site flourish once again.