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Well, he is in a finals game tomorrow night which means he is likely to login tomorrow at some point. There is still hope.

I fully appreciate the workload you undertake for the HGL, Wagner.

I hope he does. And if/while he does, he also needs to reply. Maybe, just maybe, if you also send him a message (I guess you already did though, so of course there's no need to fill his BBMail inbox more than necessary), he would get better idea of the urgency.

Thanks, MrJ. I can assure you, that what is seen from the surface, isn't the whole story, what becomes to workload. I mean technically it seems like a simple little league, but one would never guess the amount of "base work" which still goes into it, even though it is kind of established and some things can be copy-pasted to new Threads.
But again, same applies here; structure of HGL Threads has been built with usability in mind (believe or not - it's not necessarily very easy to make very user friendly UI in these 90's forums..), so they contain lots of links, and updating them is a nightmare of some kind - which repeats itself in every 3 months, very unfortunately.

Which brings me to one questions, which comes to the surface one Season after another; should HGL stay on the same thread to possibly save some trouble (during this off-season/transitioning process)?
It would also have some clear negative side effects though.

Last edited by Wagner at 7/20/2026 7:36:30 AM

I would probably support moving to a one-thread model, just to have everything in one place. If it would make your job any easier – even better! As for finding my team's score sheet, it is not so easy now, and I don't think it could get more difficult

Thanks all for the great work managing HGL!

One thread has advantages, true. Two threads or more should be more ordered, but, for example, I have posted probably in both threads the same at some moment ?

Whatever the choice, I'm behind it.

Wagner wrote:
Which brings me to one questions, which comes to the surface one Season after another; should HGL stay on the same thread to possibly save some trouble (during this off-season/transitioning process)?
It would also have some clear negative side effects though.

kecal wrote:
I would probably support moving to a one-thread model, just to have everything in one place. If it would make your job any easier – even better! As for finding my team's score sheet, it is not so easy now, and I don't think it could get more difficult :)

This was not my point actually.

The point was staying in the same forum thread from one season to another - not to stop publishing the second HGL (Scores) thread. So the question was, what do you guys think of staying in the same threads for xx amount of Seasons (as long as close to 1000 messages limit is reached)? Like I've mentioned, there are downsides to that too.

If I would stop publishing Scores Thread altogether, then you would have even harder time finding your box score post, should everything be in one forum thread.

I'm not quite sure how is it possible that "it couldn't get any more difficult" to enter your box score post?
You click to either one of HGL Threads, scroll down to box score post, and click the link after your team name at "Team abbreviations and links to team's own box score post for Season 5:".
I'm just wondering how much easier could that get... Organizing this through forums, I don't think it could become any easier.
Like you can all see, there are plenty of other essential information in first 15-20 posts on either HGL Threads, and these won't be moved just for convenience of possibly avoiding one click per (some) manager(s), in order to access your box score post... even if everything would be moved (to "prioritize" box score posts, they still wouldn't fit into first page, as there are 18 of us).

Last edited by Wagner at 7/24/2026 4:39:53 AM

Although, I don't know if you have all managed to check the Homegrown Central post that I created, but it has links to all of our HGL seasons, stats, records and much, much more. It is already sticky-ed to make sure it is permanent. Here is the link: (332147.1)

With that said, we could still sticky a HGL Official Thread and the HGL Scores thread and let them run until 1000 posts require new ones to be made.

I had a glance, but need to check everything out 100% thoroughly.

Stickying them would be possible, yes, but again the only dilemma is whether or not cons outweight the pros, in terms of staying on same threads until they fill.. that's the point I'm trying to get into.