How about interest clubs?
5yr
@pinkapricorn
Long, long ago when I was a Neopets player, I really got into the part of the site with guilds and I both ran and was a part of several over my years on that site. I loved it! I loved how people could gather around an interest and have their own little community within the community. So, Proko team, what are your thoughts on having something like this in the new Proko? Groups I'd personally want to be a part of would be stuff like "Weebs of Proko" and maybe a mental health one where people with various mental disabilities work together to help each other keep moving forward with their art despite their mental health fighting them every step of the way. There is a lot of value in the monkey-see-monkey-do phenomenon. Like even if your mental health has kept you from your art for literally YEARS, being surrounded by people who are managing to do art despite feeling awful could finally give you the boost you need :) And also just being surrounded by a bunch of people you identify with could make you feel better and thus have much more mental energy to work with in the first place :)
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John B
5yr
@pinkapricorn yeah I remember you mentioning this in the thread with @Teresa Bolen - https://prokolab.com/community/topics/aids-for-creating-community-online That's something we could look into as the site grows, but we'd want to collect more data before devoting a lot of resources to creating that functionality. Depending on the amount of daily interactions we get it could make a lot of sense for us to allow users to form guilds or tribes that hone in on specific things.
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@John B Yes definitely weigh my suggestions with what your other indicators are telling you is best to put your time/money into :) I'm happy just for the fact that you guys even consider what I say :) I'm done with living the isolated, lonely, pain-filled life I was stuck in for so many years. I wanna be a part of something bigger than myself. I wanna have an impact in the world even if it's small. So I really get a lot out of brainstorming ideas for you guys even if most of them don't turn out to be particularly useful. I'll just keep trying until something does help!! :) Just wanted to say :)
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