So it's been a interesting year on the BBS Network.

We've had multiple changes to how things work, and let's be honest things have only gone south IMHO.

Don't get me wrong,  many of the changes were needed but has it really changed anything?

We've had adjustments to:

✔️Post purchases, were a post was an "NFT" which you could earn revenue from. To now promotions were you can promote interesting content, and gain reputation which I'm still yet to see a use case for.

✔️Whitelisting changed to "Partnership" which in an ideal world is meant for the "Top Contributors" I use this word loosely.

Why?

Well in an ideal situation were BBS has many users this would be sustainable, but it hasn't and it isn't. Many boards just Partner the most active members just to try and cling onto the little life these fading boards have.

✔️ "THE GREAT RESET" removing whitelisting from everyone.

This lost an abundance of users due to many finding it unfair and the fact they'd "worked" hard to gain whitelisting. They'd have to start again, be organic , genuine and were unable to earn "easy money". It removed many of the Gamers of the system which I for one agreed with, though it feels we are kind of slipping into the same net we were previously in. 

I use the word "worked" as many still seem to think that is what BBS is, the more people that see BBS as work the less chance this platform has.

✔️ Revenue model completely flipped on its head.

Non partners don't begin to generate cashable until they become partners.

Partners now earn 100% revenue from their content oppose to a 50/50 split with owner of the post.

Boards Admin now earn from Non Partner content.

Better or worse? I'll let you guys and gals make that decision.

So theres the main changes that have occurred over the course of the last year better, worse, a change for good? That's all still yet to be seen.

We've missed alot of the road map set out by BBS, yes it's in development, things get missed this is understandable.

Though no updated road map, new information or vision shared by the Network.

Though as active users, members, pioneers you'd think we would get a little more back from the Network or are we just Guinea pigs?

MetaBBS feels neglected, we get the odd post from admin with the latest updates, though that's it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also looking at the feed the Mods look to be out of office to.

We've currently hit an all time low of 1000 active daily users, though you can likely decide that by 4 or 5 as its the same users across many boards. So 200-250 active users at most a day?

The BBS price is currently 93% down from its ATH. Yes this could be negligible as the whole market is down but we tend to only have sell pressure so without any real innovation, advertisement, update, vision will we ever see any strength?

The Twitter page is minimal, the official website hasn't been touched since I've been on BBS by the look of it.

Struggling to see what's next for BBS, an end of year post from MetaBBS could be in the pipeline and would really help. With a Roadmap, future plans, the year ahead,  and possibly something that makes people's time here feel worth while but we will see 👀 

Eeesh, I believed in BBS at one point, that belief is waning I'm not going to lie. 

What's next?

Thanks 

@LGuigs