Possible plan for the community.

[David]

I think you’ll find traffic will reduce.

I may log in only once a week, whilst visiting every other day, but it’s the forums I look at.

 

 

 

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[Ed]

Thank you for the feedback.

I genuinely don’t know where to go with this. I’m stuck in a loop with the forum. Hardly anyone posts here, claiming that they don’t because the forums are too quiet (because no-one posts).

At the current rate of loss, I’ve got 5 months and the site will have lost all its visitors. I don’t want to just let this community die.

[Ed]

I should probably point out that the forums make up 90+% of the community site so it would be difficult to not visit the forums while you’re here. There is no community blog right now.

[Ed]

Anyone else got an opinion on this, or any ideas?

I really don’t want to close this community as we get to Christmas this year but if I don’t make some kind of change that makes the community more appealing to people to spend time here and interact, that’s what we’re facing.

[Ed]

The most popular page on the site in July was the Naked Experiments Glossary. It got nearly 6 times as many visitors as the next nearest. The forum (as a whole – ie adding the pageviews for all pages of the forum together as though they are one) came in a close third, just slightly behind the Master Dare List page.

The average number of visits per month for the top 10% of visitors fell from 8.1 to 6.6. The number of visitors who arrived for the first time in July but then visited again fell by 22% compared to the same figure in June, even though the number of new visitors fell by “only” 18%. I’ve got to do something to make the site stickier – that much is obvious.

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