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For the Pathfinder players, don't forget there is a Pathfinder forum at EN World that always welcomes new Pathfinder fans/posters:
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For the Pathfinder players, don't forget there is a Pathfinder forum at EN World that always welcomes new Pathfinder fans/posters:
Pathfinder RPG Discussion - EN World D&D / RPG News
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That's actually part of a long-term plan. Expensive to do well, though!
Have you tried the Pathfinder forum here? There is little Pathfinder discussion in General RPG, but there's plenty in the Pathfinder forum!
I will probably renew my subscription at some point to help the site, but I will admit I am in no rush to do so.
Here are my thoughts:
1) Subscriber only stuff: I have taken a look at it from time to time but I have never seen anything I was particularly excited about. I mean the amount of content is well worth the small price, but there's nothing there I'm that into.
Part of that my also be that I honestly couldn't tell you what content I have as a subscriber. Is there a singular place somewhere that has a list of all the good stuff I get? Is there a place for a non-subscriber to see the list of goodies he would get by subscribing?
Lastly I had though that the search function would be the number 1 thing I would like being a subscriber. I did use the search function from time to time but not nearly as much as I thought I would have.
2) Changes in the forum as a whole. It may be the forum reorganization as Morrus said, but to me the perception is the site has slowed down quite a bit the last few years. There are three forums I visit religiously...General, 4e, House Rules. I browse pathfinder once in a while.
I never really look at the other forums and personally don't like a lot of different forums. I like a general forum that is hopping with new content all the time, it lets me get a peak into threads I might never have noticed because they were in a smaller forum.
3) What I want. Right now, what do I want out of being a member? My main answer is speed. Features are nice, but at the end of the day I don't have a lot of free time anymore. I want to go to my 3 forums, see new content, write some posts, and be done.
The boards performance has been good ever since the last big sql cleaning, but if membership gave me preferred speed rates, extra features that made my browsing quicker, etc then I'd pay you more than $3 a month. Time is money afterall.
Here are my thoughts:
1) Subscriber only stuff: I have taken a look at it from time to time but I have never seen anything I was particularly excited about. I mean the amount of content is well worth the small price, but there's nothing there I'm that into.
Part of that my also be that I honestly couldn't tell you what content I have as a subscriber. Is there a singular place somewhere that has a list of all the good stuff I get? Is there a place for a non-subscriber to see the list of goodies he would get by subscribing?
Lastly I had though that the search function would be the number 1 thing I would like being a subscriber. I did use the search function from time to time but not nearly as much as I thought I would have.
2) Changes in the forum as a whole. It may be the forum reorganization as Morrus said, but to me the perception is the site has slowed down quite a bit the last few years. There are three forums I visit religiously...General, 4e, House Rules. I browse pathfinder once in a while.
I never really look at the other forums and personally don't like a lot of different forums. I like a general forum that is hopping with new content all the time, it lets me get a peak into threads I might never have noticed because they were in a smaller forum.
3) What I want. Right now, what do I want out of being a member? My main answer is speed. Features are nice, but at the end of the day I don't have a lot of free time anymore. I want to go to my 3 forums, see new content, write some posts, and be done.
The boards performance has been good ever since the last big sql cleaning, but if membership gave me preferred speed rates, extra features that made my browsing quicker, etc then I'd pay you more than $3 a month. Time is money afterall.
Yes: the subscription page.
Click on the big green subscribe banner to the right ----->, or the subscribe button at the top of every page ^^^^, or the subscribe option in the main page main menu.
Or simple click here:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/payments.php
I promise I'm not trying to hide it! I've plastered it everywhere!
Sounds to me like a financial resolution would be to recombine the various forums we've split. We deliberately split TONS of stuff from General RPG into their own forums.
I could move all the stuff back into one big fat forum and it would speed by faster than you could keep track of.
We split stuff because we thought it made it easier for people to find the stuff they were interested in. Like 4e? Look at the 4E forum. Like Pathfinder? Look at the Pathfinder forum. Like 3.5? Look at the Legacy forum.
That would contribute to the perception. You don't see the increasing traffic because you don't look at it.
Well, if you're a multi-billionaire stockbroking genius.
And in that case, you shouldn't be browsing EN World at work!
I think the first line just goes to show how direct I am in my viewing
As for the second one, I completely understand why you split things into different forums. I get it, it makes sense. I'm just tell you my browsing behavior. Maybe its me being lazy or just stuck in my ways, but I look at 3 forums for the most part.
I apologise for using red mod text - this isn't a mod post, but it is an important one.
I've started a poll in Meta about the structure of the forums. Because we've moved almost everything out of General, a common theme in this thread is that "because General is quiet, I assume EN World is quiet".
Given that traffic is UP, not down, this is clearly an optical illusion caused by the forums splits. There's craploads of traffic - we've just moved it out of General and split it into bite-sized chunks.
The poll in Meta is about recombining stuff into General, or keeping it split out into a number of manageable forums.
I don't promise to do what the poll says (I'll be discussing it with the mods as well), but I will definitely take it into account. You'll find it here:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/286346-recombining-forums.html
I've started a poll in Meta about the structure of the forums. Because we've moved almost everything out of General, a common theme in this thread is that "because General is quiet, I assume EN World is quiet".
Given that traffic is UP, not down, this is clearly an optical illusion caused by the forums splits. There's craploads of traffic - we've just moved it out of General and split it into bite-sized chunks.
The poll in Meta is about recombining stuff into General, or keeping it split out into a number of manageable forums.
I don't promise to do what the poll says (I'll be discussing it with the mods as well), but I will definitely take it into account. You'll find it here:
http://www.enworld.org/forum/meta/286346-recombining-forums.html
Mark CMG
Creative Mountain Games
Before I click on a link I always check my status bar and if it reads something other than what I am expecting, I often skip clicking through. Maybe you could change that page name to benefits.php or subscriber_benefits.php or something more promising, even if the dual pupose is to include payments.
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