Anyone know of similar website for softball? Any chance a softball forum could be added?
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Heybucket.com was very good a few years ago
My daughter is seven years removed from transitioning from high school to college softball. I don't think I've spent time there in four years. Maybe other people moved on as well. It used to be very active.
I've been to the 43' site a few times but it's mostly posting for players, tournament advertising and bragging. It isn't terrible, but I wouldn't call it informative.
From what I can tell, the more sport and level specific a site can be kept, the more informative it is, and the less confusing it is for the posters. FI, on HSBBW there’s no doubt what’s being discussed is baseball, and from I’ve seen over the years, few posts have been made on “small diamond” ball. But then again, its getting to be more and more a HS/College site than a HS site. That’s understandable as posters’ children finish HS and move on, but it kind of defeats the purpose of a HS BB site.
What I’d like to see is something that segregates HSV, HSJV, and HSFR form each other. Although they’re all HSBB, they are very different levels.
I don't see any reason to segregate various levels of high school ball. Would we then need to segregate Legion and travel as well? Once the kids are playing high school ball at any level its all part of the process.
In fact, yesterday I was thinking back to when the site changed and Julie was looking for feedback. It takes time to adapt to change. Several months later looking back I believe the site is much improved just due to the most recent posts all listed on the right of the screen regardless of forum section. Not having the location of the poster next to the name seemed like a minor inconvenience at first. Its learned along the way if its not in the profile.