Incredibly annoying part of that format. The fact that it’s a feature and not a bug in 2023 is wild.
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One thing I do like The Sabre for is I’ve gotten some good deals from their Ticket Exchange board.
Just this past season I got 2 for $50 for JMU in the big $ donor lower level seats, and 2 for $100 in the same area for VTech.
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Both sites can exist and serve a purpose for folks interested in discussing all things UVa sports. I also started on the Sabre before it was the Sabre. Format aside, I gravitate mostly to basketball content, so I prefer it here…
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I think there’s advantages to both formats. Here you don’t need to wade through posts on topics you’re uninterested in, for the most part anyway. But there, the most relevant news is usually at the top without having to click anything. I think a lot of people just click over there once a day to sort of get the headlines if there’s any.
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The VIP news feed has helped offset that issue for me on this site tbh, at least for basketball. As long as I’m able to find that thread I can check the most important pieces of news and be good to skim discussion about the rest.
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Exactly, I’m on both of the sites daily- I can’t get enough lol, however there are definitely more trolls there that can’t wait to rub anyones nose into any news that suits their fancy.
For example- “I thought Reece was definitely going to go pro? Based on the EXPERTS on this board it was a foregone conclusion”. This was one of the arguments that instead of *enjoying the news that Reece was coming back, it had to devolve into something worse than that.
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That other board used to have a lot of people with good inside information. But that was many, many years ago and they all got run off back to their e-mail groups by the petty people you describe.
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Yeah but here when there’s something timely you show up on the homepage and that thread has 100 posts since yesterday.
Their format, as I think I remember them saying, is designed to maximize page views for banner ads. It’s massively worse than this format. I think they would have made more money long run by switching to a better format. It’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t. Creating more value for your customers most always leads to more money for the business.
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I enjoyed that other forum for a time, but the general tone of discussion and disagreements just became a bit too toxic too often at a certain point. It’s not always the case, but was frequent enough that I just got tired of it. Still check their non-rev sports boards like others because those boards stay pretty good and have good info, but pretty much ignore the basketball board at this point.
I very much appreciate that while this board is not perfect, and every once and a while the tone of some discussions gets a tiny bit hostile, for the most part folks on LRA have been really good at debating in a respectful way. People have opinions that are all over the place, but I can’t recall anybody accusing others of being a Hokie in disguise (happens like daily elsewhere) and generally people can disagree without being argumentative.
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Thesabre is too anti redshirt for me. Clowns.
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Think it’s actually really intuitive. Good job
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I think the thread you’re referencing was like 2+ weeks after Reece decided to come back. Really some insufferable guys on there.
I get wind of some program info here and there but don’t really post it. The “source interrogators” are too much of a headache.
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I don’t understand why the 24/7 guys think this board is so hard to navigate. I’m 66 years old and have a bad case of CRS. I can barely plug a radio in and my son has to help me all the time on my desktop. I’m definitely the most technology challenged of anyone on this forum. I have never had a problem on this forum. I think it’s simple
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Even moreso than Fresh? 
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There’s other UVa forums?
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First post here. I use other sites that use this format and vastly prefer it to the format “over there”, despite what you folks here would deem my advanced age. It was particularly galling to me to see a new thread every day on the ACC Network that asked and answered the same questions that had be rehashed several times before. A constant comment whenever I link that site to another is “The 90s callied and want their format back.”
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It’s perfectly okay to mention other UVA websites by name here…reading through these posts I realized some of you might have thought otherwise.
Mention link discuss, all good here.
Apologies to any I left out
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This is why we’re revoking your admin privilege. It’s us vs them and we always win.
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Thanks Hooz! We always return here anyways because we know where our bread is buttered
But seriously we are ALL UVA fans no matter the website, Facebook group or Twitter, so I’m happy to share info from other sites as well. What it means to me is that I know I can come here and we are getting all of the sources of info!
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Every forum format has its strengths and weaknesses, but it really doesn’t take all that much to learn to navigate each of them (says the boomer). As far as content goes, that varies. FWIW, I remember the days of virginiabasketball.com and virginiafootball.com. Those were the days most were using AOL with dial up modems. It was also a time when I would go to Mikeysurf’s Wahoo Wagon because the pages would load faster. A little less traffic. (On football signing day, everyone on virginiafootball.com would keep hitting the refresh key and watch the screen try and load. Things are so, so much better now.) I still visit The Sabre most days, but, in all honesty, I thought Mike Ingalls did a better job with it. As far as content goes, that varies from day to day everywhere, although the publishers at Wahoo247 seem to think that people are still more interested in football than basketball, soccer, lacrosse, baseball, pickleball, tiddle-lee winks, etc. It’s what happens when a Florida alum is running things. And, all that said, these days I do spend more time here than anywhere else simply because I believe the content is better.
Edit: FWIW, I also remember after things were moved to The Sabre, the old domain names were acquired by porn sites. That raised a few eyebrows.
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