Is havin' two names for your childs 1st name the new thing? People's kids soundin' like rare Pokemon
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Post by Colour on May 27, 2014 15:32:29 GMT -5
outsourcing? With Design forums for instance they have resources etc to pull people in, trying to work the angle you guys are playing to get people in.
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Post by proburdslegund on May 27, 2014 17:58:27 GMT -5
I agree, needs something to spice the forum up, I mean if its just a place to hang out or comment on each others topics why hasn't everyone just stuck to facebook or other social media sites
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Post by Zangetsu on May 27, 2014 18:08:37 GMT -5
outsourcing? With Design forums for instance they have resources etc to pull people in, trying to work the angle you guys are playing to get people in. If you have any ideas on that feel free to share. Originally Visions and I were going to just post around forums with advertising signatures and try and build rep up elsewhere so people would start coming here. I agree, needs something to spice the forum up, I mean if its just a place to hang out or comment on each others topics why hasn't everyone just stuck to facebook or other social media sites Facebook sucks. It's not quite the same doing things on Facebook as doing things on a forum. A forum gives a sense of community imo. And it would be nice to have a lil community of like-minded people here. Plus gifs work on forums, and gifs are great. Everything's more organised than FB is. And other social networking sites don't do what we want justice. We picked a forum because that's the feeling we're trying to recreate.
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Is havin' two names for your childs 1st name the new thing? People's kids soundin' like rare Pokemon
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Post by Colour on May 27, 2014 18:15:31 GMT -5
outsourcing? With Design forums for instance they have resources etc to pull people in, trying to work the angle you guys are playing to get people in. If you have any ideas on that feel free to share. Originally Visions and I were going to just post around forums with advertising signatures and try and build rep up elsewhere so people would start coming here. Yep, give the forum a theme (no not a design theme). But an actual theme, for something that people come here for, then the general talk is an extra. Just a thought.
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Post by Visions on May 27, 2014 18:21:53 GMT -5
Pretty much what Zangetsu said. There's a huge difference between facebook and a forum. Me and Zangetsu have quite a few good friends we've made over the years, having them all on a forum like this is great and that's pretty much all we wanted in the first place, so our goal was met in that sense. Regardless, we do have plans to try and bring in new people, but if it doesn't work we won't be hugely bothered. We're quite happy with how the forum is going right now, and this is pretty much exactly what we had in mind in the first place. Even compared to forums with thousands of times more members, we're far more active. 1,000 posts in a week is pretty cray, and is easily 10x more posts than pretty much all of the other main proboards forums, so we're doing quite well. I think a lot of the problem can be rooted to what you're expecting from the forum, not the activity itself. If I'm being honest. We're a laid back community with a lot of humor and a nice collective personality. We're never going to be able to compete with forums that get millions of times more traffic and that shouldn't be expected of us either.
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Post by Visions on May 27, 2014 18:22:43 GMT -5
If you have any ideas on that feel free to share. Originally Visions and I were going to just post around forums with advertising signatures and try and build rep up elsewhere so people would start coming here. Yep, give the forum a theme (no not a design theme). But an actual theme, for something that people come here for, then the general talk is an extra. Just a thought. This goes against the entire idea of the forum. We're not a themed forum and never will be.
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Is havin' two names for your childs 1st name the new thing? People's kids soundin' like rare Pokemon
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Post by Colour on May 27, 2014 18:22:57 GMT -5
It's slowing down rather quickly though, no?
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Is havin' two names for your childs 1st name the new thing? People's kids soundin' like rare Pokemon
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Post by Colour on May 27, 2014 18:23:31 GMT -5
*Double Post* Or I could just be checking back too often
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Post by Visions on May 27, 2014 18:31:17 GMT -5
The start of the week is always a little slower compared to the end of the week and the weekend.
According to the analytics we've actually gotten more active over time, not less.
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Post by Chelonian on May 27, 2014 19:11:08 GMT -5
I found you on PBS advertising board if that's of any use, information wise.
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Post by Zangetsu on May 28, 2014 4:05:52 GMT -5
It's slowing down rather quickly though, no? New games have been released, people could just be doing things other than replying to threads or posting new ones. Me and Visions will post whether or not there's activity among the other members, so when people do check in there will always be new threads to reply to and old ones that are active.
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