Outdated Airsoft Websites
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Colin Allen
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Very much so; they are often poorly designed and so outdated that you can see the chisel marks.
Colin Allen
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Not if the OP was making a general point; while the statement may have been somewhat too sweeping, it is true of many sites.
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No denial of that. Being specific about what one considers to be outdated is the first step toward modernising it. "I feel" doesn't hold the same weight as "I can demonstrate this to be the case" or "I can give this example of a problem".
With retail websites, my biggest frustration by far is poor stock keeping along with the default setting of showing both in stock and out of stock items.
Every new skirmish site I've played at had been clear with its safety rules on its website. There is a fairly new site that was desperately lacking in explicit rules or clarity on the website when it launched but they took the constructive criticism well and updated accordingly.
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While this is true, the OP's main question was whether other people encountered similar issues. That generally just needs a variation on 'yes' or 'no', possibly with a further comment, as a response. The OP did not appear to be asking what we could do to help sites improve their websites.
I do agree with you about the quality of retail websites; however, many or most of these are very small businesses who probably do not have the resources to upgrade their websites, although I really would like to be able to go to a website that only showed in stock items.
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I hate the fact that so many airsoft fields switched to Facebook, absolute pita finding the same info more than once thanks to weird meta 
, old skool sites that maintain a traditional website with a working calendar will always get my vote.
As for retailers sites, meh, take em or leave em
, old skool sites that maintain a traditional website with a working calendar will always get my vote.As for retailers sites, meh, take em or leave em
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This. Annoys me so much as I don't use Facebook deleted my account few years ago and never regretted it. So it's a big annoyance when sites are like this. Especially when sharing photos from game days I have to get my mates to look for me and download any images of myself.
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Sites (and shops to some extent) often have websites which look like they're 20 years old. I'd guess it's down to available funds and that the vast majority of site owners aren't web designers so it's a case of use what you can. However this doesn't excuse a lack of basic information such as site rules, that's just lazy.
As annoying as it is I can understand why sites have started to move over to social media. The majority of people, especially the yoof, are on social media so it makes sense to be on there. An old regular site of mine had a forum but when Facebook came along usage dropped significantly to the point where it became uneconomical to keep paying for hosting.
When it comes to shops if the site isn't easy to use just I'll go elsewhere
As annoying as it is I can understand why sites have started to move over to social media. The majority of people, especially the yoof, are on social media so it makes sense to be on there. An old regular site of mine had a forum but when Facebook came along usage dropped significantly to the point where it became uneconomical to keep paying for hosting.
When it comes to shops if the site isn't easy to use just I'll go elsewhere
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I hate the fact that so many airsoft fields switched to Facebook, absolute pita finding the same info more than once thanks to weird meta
As for retailers sites, meh, take em or leave em
The best ones also had their own sections on forums. I really miss when airsoft lived on proper forums. Back then you didn’t just get discussions, you got build threads, site gossip, proper tech advice, and a solid buy/sell section all in one place. It felt like a real community instead of a scattered mess across Facebook and random retailer pages.
I wish the scene would drift back to that style again. AF‑UK is carrying that torch now, but twenty years ago you could spend whole evenings catching up on Arnies, ASCUK, and UKAN. Page after page of builds, banter, classifieds, and the same familiar names posting every night. They were proper communities. May they rest in peace. And Zero In if you had to, still technically around, though I haven’t been able to reach it for a few days.
Now we’ve got Facebook groups, Discords, retailer sites, scattered pages… none of them come close to how good forums used to be. Nothing has that same sense of continuity, history, or the ability to buy and sell safely within a community that actually knew each other.
Keep up the good work Mods, you’re keeping one of the last proper corners of airsoft alive
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Ascuk & ukan, I remember some of the build projects, such as stens & a Lewis gun, decades before a manufacturer had a working model.
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You can understand why because of the sheer number of users. The problem is that FB and so many other social media platforms are so anti-gun, allegedly to keep advertisers happy, that airsoft has to jump through hoops as pages/accounts end up being banned or shadow-banned when algorithms work like the Scunthorpe problem.I hate the fact that so many airsoft fields switched to Facebook, absolute pita finding the same info more than once thanks to weird meta
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As a new player, sites can be of outdate(d). Trying to find up to date info was a pain in the arse. I really like this one as its clear and accessible. Having Facebook is annoying for sports. Wheelchair Rugby League was almost exclusively organised on FB, well till the RFL got involved and F***ed it up. As platform its a mare to find reliable info AND so many drama llamas...
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Unfortunately in my experience unless they're for a site airsoft groups are full of them
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