New people and activity
Jun 8, 2020 11:18:41 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 11:18:41 GMT -5
Just gonna be kinda blunt about it.
We are never going to attract new people here if the site isn't showing it can be more active. There were a bunch of ads posted places, and we've had people advertise on this site because of it, but we haven't had a single new person join. And that is going to be a problem in the long run on keeping things moving forward here.
I'll be honest. If I didn't know what Whazzit was and haven't been a part of it for almost forever, I wouldn't join up right now. There's just no enough going on for me to want to put effort into starting.
Bondings are great. Having new ones starting every few weeks is awesome. It means, if people were joining, there's almost something new around the corner to start with. But, right now, that's basically the only thing we're offering.
There's been no site wide events, or even any talk of it. There's not even any news posts with plans on where this site is going, or general updates, or anything really even showing admin are up and active. There's absolutely nothing to encourage people to post outside of bondings.
Sites can absolutely be super active with just four or five people, if those handful of people are up and about doing things.
The last try, we had jobs for bpsp, and earning .5 bpsp per post, and word of the day and music challenges, and generally, I felt all those things encouraged people to post more. Not just focus on bondings.
New people coming in and seeing bondings going on, and active threads with character development, and a bunch of things to do and rewards to earn? That just might start getting us the newcomers we need.
We are offering almost nothing to encourage people to join. To put effort into starting up. We can't just look at this site, and tell ourselves this is how it has been done for a decade, and decide that's good enough.
What about random event threads? Pick your own adventure, end up with a surprise shiny. Half bonding, half, I dunno. Not. Get speedbondings going. Encourage people to submit new shinies, so we can get some new things on the site. What about a pokemon-style refugee board. I remember us having one where you can go meet a random shiny or get a wild one. Pay a fee, get a random shiny, decide if you want to try and bond it or move on and try again. RNG would be fun with that.
Any weekly to monthly challenge would be fun.
Rank rewards? Why have ranks if we don't get something out of it?
Rewards for holding x amount of bondings? Chases? More encouragement to participate if you want.
I think some of it would be better once we have more shiny choices, but still.
Like, please don't think I'm trying to shit on anyone here. I am desperate to see Whazzit take off again. I want to see new people and old people and go back to having a ton of shinies to choose from. I'm not trying to say anyone is doing anything wrong or failing. I just think this needs to be a conversation, so we can start tempting new people to join.
And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. If ya'll want to do challenges but don't have the time or energy to babysit those kinds of things, I am absolutely willing to help out. I have a ton of free time when I'm not at work. I'm not asking to be made admin, I'm just saying that I'm not asking for anyone to do something that I'm not willing to do myself. I've run word of the day stuff before. It was fun.
All in all, I just don't think this site can survive on only offering people just bondings anymore.
We are never going to attract new people here if the site isn't showing it can be more active. There were a bunch of ads posted places, and we've had people advertise on this site because of it, but we haven't had a single new person join. And that is going to be a problem in the long run on keeping things moving forward here.
I'll be honest. If I didn't know what Whazzit was and haven't been a part of it for almost forever, I wouldn't join up right now. There's just no enough going on for me to want to put effort into starting.
Bondings are great. Having new ones starting every few weeks is awesome. It means, if people were joining, there's almost something new around the corner to start with. But, right now, that's basically the only thing we're offering.
There's been no site wide events, or even any talk of it. There's not even any news posts with plans on where this site is going, or general updates, or anything really even showing admin are up and active. There's absolutely nothing to encourage people to post outside of bondings.
Sites can absolutely be super active with just four or five people, if those handful of people are up and about doing things.
The last try, we had jobs for bpsp, and earning .5 bpsp per post, and word of the day and music challenges, and generally, I felt all those things encouraged people to post more. Not just focus on bondings.
New people coming in and seeing bondings going on, and active threads with character development, and a bunch of things to do and rewards to earn? That just might start getting us the newcomers we need.
We are offering almost nothing to encourage people to join. To put effort into starting up. We can't just look at this site, and tell ourselves this is how it has been done for a decade, and decide that's good enough.
What about random event threads? Pick your own adventure, end up with a surprise shiny. Half bonding, half, I dunno. Not. Get speedbondings going. Encourage people to submit new shinies, so we can get some new things on the site. What about a pokemon-style refugee board. I remember us having one where you can go meet a random shiny or get a wild one. Pay a fee, get a random shiny, decide if you want to try and bond it or move on and try again. RNG would be fun with that.
Any weekly to monthly challenge would be fun.
Rank rewards? Why have ranks if we don't get something out of it?
Rewards for holding x amount of bondings? Chases? More encouragement to participate if you want.
I think some of it would be better once we have more shiny choices, but still.
Like, please don't think I'm trying to shit on anyone here. I am desperate to see Whazzit take off again. I want to see new people and old people and go back to having a ton of shinies to choose from. I'm not trying to say anyone is doing anything wrong or failing. I just think this needs to be a conversation, so we can start tempting new people to join.
And I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is. If ya'll want to do challenges but don't have the time or energy to babysit those kinds of things, I am absolutely willing to help out. I have a ton of free time when I'm not at work. I'm not asking to be made admin, I'm just saying that I'm not asking for anyone to do something that I'm not willing to do myself. I've run word of the day stuff before. It was fun.
All in all, I just don't think this site can survive on only offering people just bondings anymore.