New start time for WBAYDN! (Reverted)

Now we really need to ditch daylight saving time (or make it permanent and quit switching).

 

So... I'll be able to get some actual honest-to-goodness sleep next Christmas? Is that what I'm hearing?

 

That's what alarms are for DOC.

 

The new evening start time is perfect for NBW, it’ll definitely garner a lot more responses. However, I thought the midnight start for WBAYDN? made total sense. New day, new thread. With the new format, users are going to be engaging in conversation and posting pics in one thread only to have it shut down on them in the middle of the day. Does the very occasional slow start to WBAYDN? really matter? Why mess with a good system?

Anyway, just my two cents, appreciate all the effort you put into this great site.

 

I miss the good ole days when WBAYDN started whenever the first BA cracked a breakfast beer with their eggs and bacon.

 

NBW has been like this for a while, great to see the logic applied to all the pertinent threads!
Thanks @Todd

 

Will New Beer Weekend / New Beer Sunday threads continue to remain open through Sunday 11:59 PM PST/PDT (or through Monday for special holiday editions)?

Or will both NBW/NBS and WBAYDN threads close at 3:59 PM PST/ 4:59 PM PDT?

 

This seems like it could be BA’s biggest change in my time here.

IMO, next to reviews, WBAYDN is the most important part of the site. The old system was definitely biased towards East Coast US users (which as an East Coast US user, I totally supported). The new system is clearly biased towards the Brits.

Beyond the reasons cited above, is that a business decision (trying to cut into the European market, especially post-RateBeer), possibly carving out a different user base niche from other NextGlass properties? Is it for the convenience of Europe-based staff and mods? A subtle eff you to the rise in nationalism in the U.S. and around the world? Or is something else behind it?

For Americans who often think they’re the center of the universe, it’s gonna be an adjustment starting a session in one day’s thread and having to switch to another day’s thread the same afternoon. Hope it doesn’t piss off long-time WBAYDN users. (For me, it probably won’t — unless you start renumbering the thread at Day 1.)

 

Also, to our European friends, occasionally when there is good early participation in WBAYDN (as there should be often now with the most active user base starting their day at 3pm), a call goes out for the thread to hit a certain number of pages. Y’all are now anchorman in that situation. Just a little bit of American beer drinking culture leftover from the pre-craft days.

 

Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!

 

FWIW that's why I'm 100% behind the change.

I've seen lots of complaints that frankly can be solved by just carrying over the conversation from one WBAYDN to the next WBAYDN at 6 p.m. Texas time. Sure, it's not as convenient, but neither is bar-hopping.

*drops in $0.02 and slinks back into the background where he belongs*

 

Is there a firm reason the previous thread must be closed at exactly 0:00?

Can we encourage new beers to be posted in the new thread, started at 0:00, but allow a “Last Call” for conversations to continue in the previous thread until say 0:30 - 1:00 BA Time, before it is locked?

Would resolve the primary complaint noted yesterday, in terms of the sharp break in continuity of discussions.

Previous to last year, there was flexibility in the closure of the previous thread, leaving it open well beyond 0:00, which allowed folks to respond in the early morning to posts from the previous evening, while the new thread was underway.

@LarryV
@champ103

 

Solid.