Miniatures modelling, yes. Those ones focusing on table top games rules are generally more active, due the sheer amount of rules and revisions. They also have less restriction on painting (compare to historical modelling), therefore a wide a range of showcase.
Then there are the discords of the 3d sculpture artist. They pump out new project at a decent rate and use discord as a direct mean to communicate to their followers.
Voice chat overall is rarely used outside of gaming and streaming discords, so you really donāt have to care about that feature.
About historical modellingā¦ I left most of them because they are very inactive. I believe that discord/live chat would not work for forums base dense information like Kitmaker, britmodeller, etc.
As for the adds. They are a necessary thing that helps to support the site.
Honestly some of the adds get my interest , I would like to see them rotate more often
After reading through all the comments again. I have to say that I tried the old site sone years back and found navigation difficult. There are other forums out there , quite honestly they are horrible .
The new format here has kept me coming back for more all the time.
It is super easy to use and I believe traffic will come back better than before.
To put it simply I LOVE IT HERE.
This is home and we generally dont have to deal with the same crap as F.B.
I much prefer the new forum to the old for itās ease of use, especially with loading photos.
And I also prefer KM to platforms such as facebook, as itās much easier to develop friendships and build a community as people seem to be more invested in the content and their blogs.
Also, the people here are generally much more friendly than other forums Iāve seen, which makes it that much nicer to āhang about, inā.
I was a visitor for years before I joined but I do remember having issues navigating the site so I feel like I joined at a good time, the only thing that I could complain about is the lack of a member gallery for posting pics of individual builds, I see a LOT of activity from members commenting on this and that but some donāt seem to post any model builds.
RusseIle @Russelle, I dare not be so bold , the Front Page is for the proās, Iām just an armchair historian and a back room modeler. I was thinking more of a gallery on the memberās Profile Page or such.
Hi ya Russelle, when I joined last year I posted a few pics of a project Iāve been working on for the last few years and it was suggested that I start a build blog, @Johnnych01 reccomended that to me but being a newbie I wasnāt familiar with the process and I knew I have a long running endeavor, now that Iāve been participating for a while, posting different kit builds, I wish I had consolidated those topics into one perpetual blog . . . oh well, Iām still at it and learning something new every day, this is a huge forum though and thereās no way I can follow every post.
Iām guilty, couple of pieces for me by way of why I donāt, I take pictures on my iphone. Post here from an Galaxy tablet and honestly have no idea how to get my pictures from my phone to my tablet let alone how to post them if I could figure out how to do the deal. Maybe I need to scrounge up a laptop but then Iād have to remember all my logins that I know I wrote down somewhereā¦
Then ask a mod like Robin or Gino to move your other threads (you will have to tell them which ones) into one or just post in that new thread going forward.
Yes and I am not against the idea of having a special forum for user galleries (sort of like the one that Planet Figure has) if people are interested in finding user projects via that method. We would need a system to standardize the topic titles, etc. but that would be pretty easy.
, the Front Page is for the proās, Iām just an armchair historian and a back room modeler. I was thinking more of a gallery on the memberās Profile Page or such. 
