Dips in activity

[Randy]

Does your forum ever experience dips or drops in activity? Maybe during the holidays?

How do you deal with this and combat it?

 

[Nebulous]

Promote more, post on other forums... Or just focus more on who's actually logging into your forum and interact with them more than you normally would.

 

[PGen98]

Every forum goes through it, even the super popular ones. People have lives, seasons impact forum traffic, and people's interests change over time, so it's not uncommon for forums to go through ebbs and flows of activity. Promote, get the word out, send out a mass email once in a while to let people know you're still there, and just work on generating content.

 

[Nebulous]

Every forum goes through it, even the super popular ones. People have lives, seasons impact forum traffic, and people's interests change over time, so it's not uncommon for forums to go through ebbs and flows of activity. Promote, get the word out, send out a mass email once in a while to let people know you're still there, and just work on generating content.

 

[PGen98]

Oh you ARE the content of OT . OT thrives because you're driving this bus, and driving it fast!

 

[Nebulous]

Oh you ARE the content of OT . OT thrives because you're driving this bus, and driving it fast!

Aww, thanks ....and some days I feel bad that I didn't do enough

 

[PGen98]

Aww, thanks ....and some days I feel bad that I didn't do enough

Oh no, hon, you do so much for OT. I've been here, what? Five minutes the context of the site, and I can see that clearly.

 

[Nebulous]

Oh no, hon, you do so much for OT. I've been here, what? Five minutes the context of the site, and I can see that clearly.

I am the same way when it comes to my actual IRL job. Everyone tells me I am great, I've been given awards, immaculate performance evaluations every time, etc...but I always beat myself up saying I didn't do enough. Oh well, I suppose thats a good thing.

 

[PGen98]

I am the same way when it comes to my actual IRL job. Everyone tells me I am great, I've been given awards, immaculate performance evaluations every time, etc...but I always beat myself up saying I didn't do enough. Oh well, I suppose thats a good thing.

A true self-motivator that's never satisfied, love it . Means you'll keep on pushing to do more, never sit on your laurels.

 

[Nebulous]

A true self-motivator that's never satisfied, love it . Means you'll keep on pushing to do more, never sit on your laurels.

 

[PGen98]

 

[Shawn Gossman]

For sure.

I dip in activity, lol.

Holidays and vacations mean time off work and more time outside for me.

I learned a long time ago, you have to take breaks or you'll burn out.

I burned out from forums after doing them for 15 years. I left them for quite a while. I'm back but I know how to step away if I need to.

Keep your sanity haha

 

[Kale]

It happens all the time on forums, especially back during the prime days of forums. I just shrug it off as during the holiday season I suspected and assumed people were dealing with family and other life things for the month. November to December can be slow months IMO.

 

[Nebulous]

For sure.

I dip in activity, lol.

Holidays and vacations mean time off work and more time outside for me.

I learned a long time ago, you have to take breaks or you'll burn out.

I burned out from forums after doing them for 15 years. I left them for quite a while. I'm back but I know how to step away if I need to.

Keep your sanity haha

It happens all the time on forums, especially back during the prime days of forums. I just shrug it off as during the holiday season I suspected and assumed people were dealing with family and other life things for the month. November to December can be slow months IMO.

Not for me, time off and breaks means I am here more!

I should go on a trip somewhere when I take vacations from work, but I usually just chill at home.

 

[Kale]

Not for me, time off and breaks means I am here more!

I felt like during my teen years it did mean more spending time online on forums, websites, etc.

 

[nomad]

Unless you are paying for the posters, it is very natural to see dips in the activities. When that happens, I buy posting packages on various web master forums.

 

[safeinsanity]

I have a lot of members who don't post anything. They registered, made a few posts, and then disapeared. It sucks really.

 

[PGen98]

I have a lot of members who don't post anything. They registered, made a few posts, and then disapeared. It sucks really.

It's the unfortunate side effect of forum ownership, lots and lots of lurkers. I lurk on a few forums, some I pop by when I can and try to post, and some I'm a member on, keep tabs on, but don't post unless someone tags me, because of personal reasons. Hopefully you'll get more of the active types in

 

[Nebulous]

I should go on a trip somewhere when I take vacations from work, but I usually just chill at home.

My next vacation I am going out of state, visiting a couple different ones!

I have a lot of members who don't post anything. They registered, made a few posts, and then disapeared. It sucks really.

Don't feel bad, we have like 1000 of those.

 

[nomad]

Unless you offer something special it is difficult to make your users stay on your site. remember how TikTok managed to grow big even though there were already a lot of platforms.