Feedback The Activity is Low

There is little activity on these Forums especially in BST section where few things come up for sale each week or little trade activity. Unlinke old days 4-5 years back when every 1 hour a website will come up for sale. I think the owner has decided to sink the forum?

 

Not sure how much would be involved technically speaking but perhaps it could be time for an experiment? Let us drop the establishment criteria say to 2 likes or even 1 for a spell. Let us see if by doing this things pick up a bit.
Or maybe new members get a free pass from being established for a short period. What I'm advocating is that they are allowed to post anywhere for 2 weeks. Then after the 2 week trial period it goes back to the 3 like system. Chances are by the 2 weeks they might already have their 3 likes.
I believe it might be time to entertain the notion that things may need to be a bit easier to join in the establishment club.
Yes this would create more spamming, but it might also save the site from a slow death.

 

As I understand it, there is quite a bit of rules in place on this forum, mostly to avoid scammers and spammers. Which is all well and good, but perhaps it also takes away a bit of the "spur-of-the-moment" users. Which might not provide continued content all the time, but might provide some needed "new life".
I like the above suggestion - maybe together with a bit of a harder moderation (ie, if you're on this pre-established / trial period, you have next to no lenience before you're severly warned and/or kicked).

 

The end of last week and the beginning of this week have been slow everywhere, period. My twitter, G+, sites, everything is slow(er). It will pick up, of course, but I don't think anyone should expect much of the end of July (it's vacation time!). Even internet marketers need a break from time to time.

 

Nope. Activity in almost all forums on the web are down on what they were 4-5yrs ago.

 

I have noticed that it has been kind of slow around here recently. I hope that forums are not dying.

 

Actually not really.
Someone sent me link to one forum somewhere in Ukrainian city, not even capital
https://www.kharkovforum.com/

As of right now 5 PM Central time or 2 AM in that city, this forum has
Total: 1492 (392 Members: и 1100 guests)
Discussions: 523,058, Messages: 24,546,830, Members: 647,284, Аctive: 33,184
compare to DP
Discussions: 2,314,029, Messages: 17,385,754 Members: 795,851
Total: 1,279 (members: 42, guests: 1,132, robots: 105)

I'm sure 10 - 12 hours from now that forum will have 1,500 users



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Go to any forum admin forum. Heaps of threads and dicussions on the decline in forum activity.

However, my n=1 forum; activity is about 50% of what it was a few yrs ago; but but but but, traffic etc is the same, so same number viewing, but less posting.

 

In general this is the case, forums on decline but...
there is big difference between natural cause and self-inflicted harm.

Case study: Warrior popularity, which 5 years ago was almost the same as DP
still going strong and yet DP went down and 50 active users in DP and 564 members
and 8975 guests at 6 PM in W. is the best proof W. management is doing something right.

The question is: why shit happened to DP and if Shawn could avoid it from happening?



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If I had a forum that, by some estimates, was worth 15 - 20 mil. why the hell would I worry what other forums were like? Some of them may seem busy but they are not nearly in the same ballpark.

 

You 2 links show this: Profile Not Quantified

So, what is your forum's time span?



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You didn't answer my question.

Regardless, I don't care what Warrior does and proof of that, I haven't posting
in there since beginning of May (note to myself: do I care if W. or DP ban me?... Nah)
but what i can see is hourly attendance fluctuation in W. and that Ukrainian forums.

I also noticed amount of posts in topical forums in W. and DP like SEO for example,
whereas W. have posts made every 3 - 5 minutes and DP have posts made a week ago
still on page #1 or Directory Forum have my posts made around July 14 still
on the top, as I recall 5 years ago they would be gone to page #2 in no time.

Yesterday I made post in Politics forum... 180 views and not even one post? Really?



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What is a base directory? An index page?

 

The BST activity is low because we get only cheap buyer in my case @jaguar34 wanted to buy my one website which is online since Feb 2015 was earning $70 to $60 per month, for only $150 or $180 not only @jaguar34 but also there was too many people come to buy site for a cheap price but after listing that site on flippa I have successfully sold that website for $550.

Now just tell me why should I list my website here for sale ?

https://flippa.com/5419880-appsapkapp-com