Quantity doesn't necessarily mean quality either but I feel like I made that point a post ago anyway
Welp then...

you dont have to tell me anything because i understand your perspective. but actually what i am trying to rank is the only thing i've felt was worth ranking of my own in half a decade and it's a single diff. obviously it takes a lot of time and effort to become bn but how many land acknowledgements that bns are volunteers in a system they didn't design and are only upholding their own preferences which isn't malicious do i need to make before i can talk about my own perspective as someone who only even tries to rank just a tiny bit of my work as someone who has spent a lot of my own time in the editor and also has feelings about the art i create there.

wish i can edit my bad grammar oh well

U have to account for not having connections within the game too now idk whether anyone in this thread actually has and/or uses their connections to make ranking maps easier but it 100000% is a thing
Also an important point that I forgot to mention before is that there is no point actually sifting through bns at all and realistically you will have the best chance just spamming everyone because being closed doesn't really mean much and also you might get lucky outside of the bns interests

Out of all bns that I got for my maps I like actually Legitimately (as in they were open and they accepted after a request) acquired MAYBE 50% of them
Some were closed
Some I'm convinced only took the set because of the GDs (And also were closed)
And at the same time I got responses (plural) like "Honestly I would take this but I'm burnt out and cba and find someone else I'm sure they will take it" (They usually don't)

But then you do that (message closed ppl) And you feel like a dickhead and also you are lowkey scared that they will blacklist you or something because the request you sent wasn't perfect NHIX but below 6* and female japanese vocal and this specific mapper inspo like it's all fucking bullshit everyone should be like maxie and also just add more people man

I personally at least try not to request to people who are closed and/or people who I think will obviously refuse the map but I always end up requesting to them anyway out of desperation to just get it done

AND then u do it and go on twitter and read enon being annoyed at the fact that someone complained about this when u go to his profile and look at his first ranked XD Try not to laugh challenge when u read the names (They are all the same Genuinely 5 ranked sets and 3 bns in total)

"peppy kinda hates the concept of fyp, making it an external site and therefore opt-in might make it less of an endless spiral of algoithmic slop or smth lol" source? pretty sure he was never confronted with it

someone should vibecode osu shorts where ur given a map 30 seconds around the preview point and if you don't like it you can swipe so we can finally doomscroll osu maps. short form osu content is the future, invest now

https://osumappi.ng was a project i worked on last year that was trying to do just that. I pivoted away from that into making just osu! twitter with additional QoL things particular to mappers. This is not an advertisement, the platform is dead as hell.

i like the idea and execution of that site but it won't fit in osu imo it looks too instagramy / twitter vibe osu needs its own way to make it entertaining

fyp only works because they are like 10-20 second short attention span videos i just dont know if that translates well into osu

also it doesnt help at all that the current website searching capabilities are so fucking bad like its actually embarassing