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Shutting down the Dailyheights Forums (now with explanation) — Brooklynian

Shutting down the Dailyheights Forums (now with explanation)

dailyheights
dailyheights
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
So I'm starting to think that the boards are feeling a bit provincial. The focus is on PH, and although we know Prospect Heights is the official Curbed.com Best Brooklyn Nabe, I really feel like we're missing the big picture.

I don't know how often you check out the other boards... I certainly don't as much as I should.

Bottom line, I think it's time to take the boards out of the shadow of Daily Heights, and spin them off into a separate entity that's more generically Brooklyn. Any objections?
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  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    PS. Here are just a few stories you may have missed. So many boards, so little time...

    Shocking Experience with Legends Car Service
    I told him that I'd NEVER been asked to pay upfront before and that I wasn't appreciating his attitude at all. He said, "I'm not driving you anywhere unless you pay me first you NIGGER BITCH. In fact, get the FUCK OUT OF MY CAR. I won't drive you anywhere. Take your boxes and get out."
    http://www.dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2706

    2 Toms Restaurant
    has anyone here been to Two Toms restaurant?
    is it worth the trip?
    out of 5 stars, how many stars would you give it?
    http://www.dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2254

    Adios, PH/CH
    The Missus and I are leaving the dog-mess landmined sidewalks of the PH/CH area for Sunset Park. Jessica's walk through the middle of a knockdown, rock-throwing incident instigated by young black kids toward a nebbish-looking, spectacled blanquito was the last straw for Jessie.
    http://www.dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2695

    Shooting in CHThis is actually a pointer to an amazing NYT article following up on a Feb. 28 shooting on Carroll St. off Eastern Parkway. I won't give away the punch line, but the article details a Craigslist-inspired encounter between an older eccentric CH furniture dealer and a young Carroll Gardens hipster.

    http://www.dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2545
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    i think generic brooklyn would be great as a main type of message board :p than sub cat for the diffrent areas.
  • sterling2000
    sterling2000

    Subject: Re: Amazing stories on the other Brooklyn boards...

    dailyheights wrote: So I'm starting to think that the boards are feeling a bit provincial
    Prospect Heights provincial?!? Nah! :)
  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    armchair_warrior wrote: i think generic brooklyn would be great as a main type of message board :p than sub cat for the diffrent areas.
    Well, I don't really care about restaurants in Bay Ridge, do you? Or what's happening today in Canarsie? If we had a generic Brooklyn board and nothing else, you would have to wade through that to get to what interests you.

    I'm simply talking about moving the boards to a new URL so it's not seen as "that Prospect Heights board."

    We've already registered BrooklynPeople.com, so we could move it there, unless someone else has a better idea for a URL.
  • lovemynabe
    lovemynabe
    dailyheights wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]i think generic brooklyn would be great as a main type of message board :p than sub cat for the diffrent areas.
    Well, I don't really care about restaurants in Bay Ridge, do you? Or what's happening today in Canarsie? If we had a generic Brooklyn board and nothing else, you would have to wade through that to get to what interests you.

    We've already registered BrooklynPeople.com, so we could move it there, unless someone else has a better idea for a URL.

    Isn't BrooklynPeople covers the entire Brooklyn?
  • qtrain
    qtrain
    dailyheights wrote: We've already registered BrooklynPeople.com, so we could move it there, unless someone else has a better idea for a URL.
    How about Brooklynwhat?

    It's generic enough (like BrooklynPeople) to accomodate a diverse set of boards, pertinent to the information sharing character of the forums, but also a paean to that unique New York form of interaction, screaming WHAT? WHAT?
  • emily
    emily
    Why not DailyBrooklyn?
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    dailyheights wrote: Well, I don't really care about restaurants in Bay Ridge, do you?
    Hey, some of us do care about restaurants in Bay Ridge! It's an easy train ride from here, so I definitely consider it within my radius of places worth going for a good meal.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    dailyheights wrote: [quote=armchair_warrior]i think generic brooklyn would be great as a main type of message board :p than sub cat for the diffrent areas.
    Well, I don't really care about restaurants in Bay Ridge, do you? Or what's happening today in Canarsie? If we had a generic Brooklyn board and nothing else, you would have to wade through that to get to what interests you.

    I'm simply talking about moving the boards to a new URL so it's not seen as "that Prospect Heights board."

    We've already registered BrooklynPeople.com, so we could move it there, unless someone else has a better idea for a URL.actually i goto bay ridge quite alot :p. for clothes and food. they have some nice stuff. and they have more pubs/bars than any other place in the borough.
  • armchair_warrior
    armchair_warrior
    now thats two guys who goto bay ridge :p.
  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    EmilyM wrote: Why not DailyBrooklyn?
    Taken. By someone at New York Magazine. Right around the exact same time that we registered dailyheights.com.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Brooklynfix.com isn't taken.
  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    haha... BrooklynJones would be even better, but it's already taken.
  • emily
    emily
    Carnivore wrote: Brooklynfix.com isn't taken.
    I think I like that better than BrooklynPeople. BrooklynPeople has sort of a feel-good, Sesame Street type vibe to me that isn't really in keeping with the character of this board. :twisted:
  • ar
    ar
    Carnivore wrote: Brooklynfix.com isn't taken.
    How about FixBrooklyn.com :lol:
  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    Got it.

    Brooklynian.com
  • qtrain
    qtrain
    dailyheights wrote: Got it.

    Brooklynian.com
    Excellent.
  • ar
    ar
    Nice
  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    I'm kind of surprised it was still available. It's an actual word in actual use...
  • qtrain
    qtrain
    dailyheights wrote: I'm kind of surprised it was still available. It's an actual word in actual use...
    Only 95 hits on Google.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    don't most people say brooklynite? or not. i just got here, so what do i know? just seems like brooklynian is kinda hard to say. says this native north carolinian, recent chicagoan.

    i'll miss "dailyheights". it's a little jazzy.
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    sweet tea wrote: don't most people say brooklynite? or not. i just got here, so what do i know? just seems like brooklynian is kinda hard to say. says this native north carolinian, recent chicagoan.

    i'll miss "dailyheights". it's a little jazzy.
    Definitely. People from Brooklyn are Brooklynites. That's probably why Brooklynian isn't taken.

    I don't think you should change the name of the individual boards- just the main page that links to them. This should still be dailyheights.
  • dailyheights
    dailyheights
    qtrain wrote: [quote=dailyheights]I'm kind of surprised it was still available. It's an actual word in actual use...
    Only 95 hits on Google.

    Check back in 3 months. :)

    Daily Heights won't go away. The dailyheights.com blog will stay, and this will still be known as the dailyheights.com message board.
  • isa
    isa
    Daily Heights is dead. Long live Daily Heights!
  • amyskittysitting
    amyskittysitting
    dailyheights wrote: [quote=EmilyM]Why not DailyBrooklyn?
    Taken. By someone at New York Magazine. Right around the exact same time that we registered dailyheights.com.


    .....how about BrooklynDaily then :D I have to agree with you on your reasons. I've had a hell of a time promoting the Brooklyn Heights board and the little voice I've gotten into it seems to be a back and forth with whoever is asking... and me. I like the idea of a collaborative board that makes everyone get to know all of the neighborhoods, or at least have an opinion. A collage de Brooklyn if you will.
  • quijibo
    quijibo
    dailycrooklyn is available
  • lovemynabe
    lovemynabe
    How about:

    BrooklynArea.com
    BrooklynZone.com
    BrooklynDistricts.com
    BrooklynLocality.com
  • isa
    isa
    I think it should be a "AmIHotOrNot" type site only with people fighting and accusing each other of destroying Brooklyn and us judging which poster is more Brooklyn. So maybe AmIBrooklynOrNot.com? Who's in?
  • rhodamine
    rhodamine

    Subject: Re: Shutting down the Dailyheights Forums (now with explanat

    dailyheights wrote: the boards are feeling a bit provincial
    im not sure if its the boards so much as some of the people/attitudes on here that are so provincial.

    i know its soured me (for one) on this site more times than not lately... :cry:

    i sure do miss the dh of yore, when it was all friends, photos and content... not endless debates on race, semantics, bullshit, whining, etc. oh well, things change i suppose.
  • stacey
    stacey
    Isa wrote: I think it should be a "AmIHotOrNot" type site only with people fighting and accusing each other of destroying Brooklyn and us judging which poster is more Brooklyn. So maybe AmIBrooklynOrNot.com? Who's in?

    LOL - Im in as long as the backround music is the Mr. Softee theme song :twisted:

    I can go for BrooklynsHot :)
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