I know I'm lagging behind on the time table I had told everyone about, but things are moving ahead behind the scenes and in the next few months I expect groups to be a fully functioning thing here on Sep7agon. I also know that a bunch of you think groups will thin the population a whole hell of a lot, so I'd like to explain my plan to you first.

After the site upgrade and groups are functioning, I'll invite a couple popular groups from Bnet or other communities to come and try them out and give feedback. While this is happening, nobody will be able to create groups and only those invited will be able to join the test groups that will be set up. As was the case with Anarchy in the past, activity breeds activity, regardless of if it's separated from the main boards, and so it's my hope that we'll attract members from those test groups into our general population, merely by hosting their community.

After that is all done and I can see a clear increase in the population (and once the groups don't fall apart) I'll open group creation up to the most active members and allow anyone to join a group. When that doesn't kill the forum (which I'm hopeful it won't, although it may turn out to be bad for overall activity) I'll allow any and all users to create groups.

So since these plans are starting to come together, I wanted to get the community's pulse on this: which group(s) on Bnet do you think would do well here or would want to come and try it out here? Any groups outside Bnet that you think might be interested?

Eh. The few groups I still hear about from bnet are not exactly held in high esteem.

I still only see this working the same way the sep7 skype chat worked out. Everyone splinters off into their circle jerk and the main loses content because of it. But we're obviously going to test the waters so, so be it.

What are the advertising plans so far? Outside of bnet/halo archive/same group of faggots.

I intend on spending some ad money on Google to get the word out, and I'll also continue to search for places to plug the site wherever I can find them.