An idea- "One Room/24 Hours"
Hello, 7Cuppers!
I hope you all are doing well.
As you all know we have one support room and one community room open 24/7 for both adults and teens while the rest of the rooms being pop-ups. While in my recent meeting with everyone, I heard many want specific rooms to be opened, at least for a day.
So after a lot of discussions and brainstorming with the community and the leaders, we would like to bring and execute the One Room for 24 Hours plan.
Vision - Allow everyone in the community to spend a day in their preferred room for 24 hours and cherish the good old memories while ensuring support and safety for everyone.
Considering the present constraints, we cannot make every room regular. But, we can try to open an additional room for 24 hours apart from the regular rooms for both adults and teens. It will be a trial run for a month and after a month we will do the follow-up and seek your feedback to better the support for everyone.
Example- Lets say if you all voted Anxiety Support Room for Monday and Relationship Support for Tuesday and so on. So, on Monday, Anxiety Support Room will be opened for 24 hours and after 24 hours it will be closed to open another room for the next 24 hours while the rest of the rooms will be pop-ups.
We like to open 6 different rooms on 6 different days. On Sunday, regular rooms will be functioning while rest stay as pop-up rooms. To be clear, regular here means one support and one community room for both sides.
You can request to open a pop-up room apart from the regular and 24 hours room in any day as long as a moderator is available in the pop-up room.
Poll Closed
I understand it might not be the best idea but it is something I guess we all can try and figure out how it goes.
Important Note- If we find any unsupportive, unkind and disrespectful behavior in these rooms, it will be subjected to get closed. Also, it may get removed from the trial preferred rooms list! So, I request all to maintain a supportive and respectful environment in all the group support rooms.
We will continue to hear your feedback, thoughts to improve our group support rooms. We want this to work for everyone.
Please share any feedback or ideas as to what is shared above. We look forward to hearing from you!
Thank you!
The Group Support Team!
@ASilentObserver Yeah... No Thanks. I'm not going to reschedule my life around your 24 hour room schedule. Nope. Not happening. I dont even know when 35+ (My "old" hangout) is even open on the current pop up schedule. To be a FAIR and UNBIASED "support site", ALL rooms should have been opened 24/7 like the LGBTQ room was reopened to be. :)
@Figgy50 agreed. Reopen all rooms
@Figgy50
Fortunately you are not required to reschedule your life <3 You can vote on what day you would prefer the 35+ room to be open and we will try to accommodate you.
@Figgy50
Winks at fig, I get you.
@An1mal Hi Ani!! I hope you're doing well!! I'll try to catch you in the rooms if I can. (I cant stay more than 5 minutes in them untill I feel uncomfortable and have to leave 😳 )
Also hope you are doing ok too, its been too long already
@ASilentObserver there is a bug with the form. i select adult, and i have to vote for both, adults and teens.
I havent voted because there is only 1 room that interest me and any day would be fine for me, so its hard to vote for a specific day. im here regulary
@TortueDesBois
Sorry about that, I considered setting it so people could select any day, but in the past people have just selected everything possible and we don't really learn anything from it. I believe I didn't set any answer to be mandatory, so perhaps you could fill it out by skipping the poll section and leaving a comment saying which room and that any day works?
@TortueDesBois
Fixed
@ASilentObserver
Does this include Disability Support?
@WeedyGarden
The disability room for adults is already open 24/7. Learn how to get access here
@WeedyGarden it will not affect disability and LGBTQ which will remain open 24/7 with the key as its the case right now, but other rooms that are currently popup will open for 24h by rotation.
@WeedyGarden Only you Weedy .. 
lol Kidding 
Gotcha .. see you in the room so I can pester you as always lol.
@ASilentObserver
Hi
can I just have an answer to one question? If this is a mental health site ( I know its free and everyone gives support here without being paid) but why are the lgbtq room and disability support room back open and not others? I have a disabled son by the way, as well as friends and relatives part of the lgbtq community. This is purely a question because this is a mental health site. Not a lgbtq or disability platform ( i hope there are some available). Its like 7 cups have opened those rooms out of fear of being branded anti lgbtq? Or anti disability or something. I know for a fact those rooms got trolled too.
I used the 35s room. It was safe and I saw the same people there. I had friends. It was safe. Older people are left out and cast aside everywhere. We have all the anxiety and depression problems that younger people have , as well as extra problems that come with life experiences and age. Do you know at bad points in my life in the UK i looked for platforms or forums for support and couldnt find any? Because i live in the wrong country, or Im over 25, or Im female not male.
7 cups was the only site that was inclusive of everyone with mental health problems. Thats what made it special. The rooms will never be the same like this because people will just rush to the rooms because theyre open. Not for the right reasons.
@warmheartedTurtle6662
I miss you too turtle, we had a good connection and miss so many that went into 35+ it was like a family to me
@An1mal
Hi. I hope youre ok. I have looked in the rooms but I dont know anyone there now. When 35s is open I think everyone comes in. Just like when other rooms are open. So people dont get to talk and find each other. I get anxious when I dont know people after things that have happened here. Im glad youre ok 💜
@warmheartedTurtle6662 Turtle!! I miss you too!! I hope I can find you in the chats soon!!
@warmheartedTurtle6662n Turtle - I don't know if you remember me; I'd like to keep in touch since the groups went away but your PMs are close. Could you drop me a line when you have a moment?
@ASilentObserver
Awww yeee Obs! Thank yall for all you do! (:
@ASilentObserver
This is actually a pretty good idea I like the idea of pop up rooms being alternated out every 24 hours as A it
Anyone here?
@modestYard8589I I am here but have no idea what I am doing, not familar with this board at all
@Sue10
Yeah, im kinda confused too lol
Boing, boing,.....
@ASilentObserver i think its interesting to open rooms by rotation allowing people to see their room again but without have too many rooms at once. thats actually a great compromise. i hope it will be successful and help members to get more support on the specific topics. Can't wait to see the results of trial
@ASilentObserver Hey I like this idea! It at least gives us something to work with. Can you open a healthy living room on Fridays?
@quiet000humming
Please fill out the survey if you want your suggestion included in the tally
When does the poll closed?
@reachforgoals
As mentioned in the post, the poll closes December 8th.
