Recombining Forums

[pawsplay]

That's interesting.

As I said, I know these discussions happen, I just think they happen mostly in General RPG at the moment (again, for better or worse I don't know really).

The threads you link to are from a year ago (Aug-Sep 2009), so I'm assuming that kind of activity there died down a while back? - perhaps because of the announcements burying them -

I think that definitely happened.

and perhaps that's what drove those discussion to the General RPG forum.

But I don't think that happened. I think mostly the traffic was just lost, with a few stray posts appearing in General from time to time. Apart from prognosticating on "the industry," I really don't see this stuff popping up in General very often.

 

[Plane Sailing]

Here's archive footage from

2002:
EN World - d20 News & Reviews - powered by vBulletin

2003:
EN World - Morrus' D&D/d20 News & Reviews Site - powered by vBulletin

2004:
EN World - Morrus' D&D/d20 News & Reviews Site - powered by vBulletin

Anything past 2004 seems to lead right back to the current pages, so there's nothing on 2005-2009.

You can see the comparative sizes per threads and posts. Too bad the number of views isn't visible.

Did you notice the spooky coincidence in the 2003 one?

Look at the "welcome to our newest member

Members: 9,689, Threads: 39,334, Posts: 671,077
Welcome to our newest member, jonesy The time now is 12:10 PM.
You last visited: 02-06-2003 12:10 PM

Spooky, eh? What are the chances of that?

 

[jonesy]

Did you notice the spooky coincidence in the 2003 one?

Look at the "welcome to our newest member

Spooky, eh? What are the chances of that?

Oh, wow. No, I didn't. That is freaky.

What are the chances? How many members did you get at the beginning of 2003?

 

[MadLordOfMilk]

Put in another vote for keeping things split, but rearranging the board order.

And while we're at it, could we have the navigation from the main page be, y'know, not a mess? Or, at least give an obviously link to the forums. You have to hunt a bit to find where the forums are, and even then it's in a drop-down menu. It'd probably help get more traffic in the right places if you rearranged things and made it easier to find said forums.

 

[Noumenon]

I believe we have a consensus about re-ordering the boards. Are you going to do it and just haven't gotten around to it, or do you actually prefer the order it's in?

 

[blargney the second]

Now we're being told "General RPG is too quiet, therefore I think the site is dead, so I'm leaving".

That's really bad.

I run a dance on Saturday nights. The hall we rent is huuuuge, so we set up dividers to barricade off about a third of the space. It's totally counterintuitive, but it's really important that people bump into each other when dancing. If a space is too underpopulated for bumping to occur, some essential part of the social experience is lacking, and the dance will die over time.

My advice: merge forums so it feels more intimate, but ideally you should find some way to give yourself wiggle room to grow or shrink appropriately.
-blarg