08-14-2014, 12:33 AM
Not to sound conceited or anything, we're doing better than the vast majority on that site. Like what happened in the beginning on old MTB, some forums will have an initial wave of traffic, and the admins will think "yeah, this is going great", then all at once the traffic just slows down significantly, and then it'll just pretty much die. A lot of people lose motivation during that, and just shut it down
Though there's also ones where, due to various reasons, don't even get that initial wave. It is sad for some of those forums, but I don't have much sympathy for ones where the admin makes a forum, and doesn't try to do anything, and thinks it'll just magically take off.
I am a bit jelly of that anime forum that 30 year old is on, a week or two ago they celebrated their one year anniversary, and they already have almost 50k posts. I wish we were getting that kind of traffic.
Though there's also ones where, due to various reasons, don't even get that initial wave. It is sad for some of those forums, but I don't have much sympathy for ones where the admin makes a forum, and doesn't try to do anything, and thinks it'll just magically take off.
I am a bit jelly of that anime forum that 30 year old is on, a week or two ago they celebrated their one year anniversary, and they already have almost 50k posts. I wish we were getting that kind of traffic.