[Spud6]

TorQQue, granny, west and myself have been in talks about how to take the next step with BGR in progressing what we have to the next level. We know that forums are a dying thing in the internet with twitter, Facebook and other outlets that users gravitate towards.

But we have some things coming in February if all things pan out that will make BGR more user friendly and a overall more pleasant experience with trading dialogue on the site. I personally pitched the idea of bringing back the blog style form that we use to have way back in the day as soon as you long into the site. And what I mean by this is when you open the main page up you’ll be brought to the live feed such as a blog where all the big stories for that particular day or hottest threads will pop up. We are thinking this may be affective because it’ll immediately bring you to the biggest topics that are being discussed currently on the site. Because so many folks come on here and they go immediately to their respective forums to check if anything is new or continue on a forum they posted on previously. I just think if we had that thread with the super bowl posted on the home page in a blog that more folks would be more willing to click on that post and give their to cents about the super bowl when normally they wouldn’t care to post in that thread.

My dream is for users whether they use BGR or not use our site for immediate information. I want them to pull up BGR and see the breaking news they are looking for and then carry on with their day. Don’t even have to make a post, just get their information and keep it moving.

Another pitch I had for QQ was with our podcast started up this past football season we had a nice little attraction for it there but I’m to blame because I wasn’t consistent as I should have been but some things happened in my life and work took over so I wasn’t able to keep it regular like I did in the beginning. But I want to have a game of the week here on BGR and send folks out there to announce the game live on BGR and do a full live coverage of the game. We have so many fine folks doing updates of the games on Friday nights and we have a lot of traction on those threads with people following and refreshing each minute to get the next update. And I can’t thank those people who know who they are who do that for the site! But I believe we can’t take the next step in making live broadcasts from those games with people from BGR doing the games. Now doing a live feed of the game is different because of many programs not allowing for games to be shown live or even a rebroadcast. But just audio with people announcing the games could be something we could do and QQ agrees as well.

I just want to help the site become something that transcends a forums website. And this is QQ’s baby that he came up with many many years ago so everything has to go through him but I wanted to come on here and post a thread telling you some things that I’m thinking and then open the thread up for discussion to you you all about what you all would like to see from BGR to keep you all coming back everyday and not just for a particular sporting season or forum.

So please shoot out some ideas and suggestions!