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Can I ask a question?
I've noticed a slow down in hte number posts in the last few months. What i would like to know is.
What can I do in terms of improving the site would result in you posting more?
Is there something missing from the site?
Is there something blocking/preventing you from posting on the site?
Are you finding the site boring/dull to look at and it's turning you off from posting?
I would REALLY like to know as it's good for me to know the information as it will help me make this a better site.
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I like the new design of the page, maybe topics like the "Super Asian Girl Thread" are a bit worn out. Well, I can only make poor guesses about why some of the really great participants here post less.
But I can tell you what bothers me about the new site:
-The forum is so slow, I open other pages in parallel tabs to browse them while I wait for the recent posts in the forum to load. And that's only for the hot topics listed on the front page... browsing the forum is absolutely not pleasant for me.
-I don't look into the story bank too often anymore, many of the old stories are missing and the newer ones just don't work for me, too few evil girls ^^
-Also, I can't tell you exactly why, but the new story bank doesn't feel easy to browse
I don't mean too much criticism, I'm more kind of a leecher trying to get the ice broken
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It's dark, the holidays took too much energy, work has been crazy, and my recurring depression is recurring.
I wish I had made more progress with submitting older stories, but I always end up fighting with the story submission interface for some reason. It would be nice to have a simple list index to the stories as well as the "snippet" list.
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Love the new Magic Girls Saga. Mainly good girls doing magical things to each other and to normal people. Hoping for an alternate path with some bad girls in control of things or under the sub current of the currently dominant good girls. Just biding their time and staying out of attracting attention.
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As for everyone else I don't know. Maybe it goes in swings. I do know the start of the year, after the holidays, a lot of people just veg. Just an idea, I'm sure it will be back in short order.
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I think that the big reason for slowing down was that after Xmas we were all a little drained (this happens to many forums) and the first 6-8 weeks of a new year are usually a big trouble in terms of free time. I hope everything will straight out by the beginning of March.
Rihgt now I'm guilty of not contributing to the reseeding, to my defense I planned to reseed some of Julie/AK stories, but I can't get in touch to obtain the permission.
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Anon wrote: As far as I'm concerned there's nothing wrong with the forum (although parallel navigation is a bit slow).
I think that the big reason for slowing down was that after Xmas we were all a little drained (this happens to many forums) and the first 6-8 weeks of a new year are usually a big trouble in terms of free time. I hope everything will straight out by the beginning of March.
Rihgt now I'm guilty of not contributing to the reseeding, to my defense I planned to reseed some of Julie/AK stories, but I can't get in touch to obtain the permission.
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There has been less heroine stuff happening in the news to report on too.
I sometimes wonder if the short “recent topics” list actually encourages people to reply or post new topics less.
I also think there is a *lot* of content out there. Not our style and focus – and not quality like we get in the story bank – but I wonder if people are dividing time.
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Make karma, thanked posts, thank you's left, and quantity of posts have a little more meaning.
Certain amount of points opens up different exclusive areas. With extra content, videos, stories, etc. New stories go there for a week before anyone else sees them. Or donated art, images, videos. Eventually it migrates to all since I would not want content blocked forever unless you are in the gold, platinum, uber category of board member. Just a little perk. Want to see it, then get off your duff and at least say thank you or respond with 'thank you, loved the story, more Uberhotty stories please'
Nothing against lurkers but this might coax a few out to participate.
I can read about tits crushing steel all day by the way.
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However - the last thing I want are people posting things like "+1" just to up their post count - so I think a post count and Karma combo might be smart.
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I could have a separate menu for the forum but it would look ugly and and i want to keep the menu as tidy as possible.
The speed issue is one that is being looked at my the developers of the software and will come in the next major version, it should be out around September.
The storybank software is about to be released, i'm just waiting for the new version to be released, it will speed up that section substrancially, during tests on a dev server that i own I've recorded a 45% increase and a 25% reduction in the server load so we will see improvements there, also the sort by author will be fixed for that and i'm also looking at a new story entry page and a story view page so there will be improvements there.
when I started this topic it was to see if there was anything that i was doing that was stopping people using the site, i'm glad that on the whole it's noting that I've done but a general malaise int he genre that reducing the post count, hopefully that will go away and we will see a general improvement.
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Sarge395 wrote: Out of the blue thought.
Make karma, thanked posts, thank you's left, and quantity of posts have a little more meaning.
Certain amount of points opens up different exclusive areas. With extra content, videos, stories, etc. New stories go there for a week before anyone else sees them. Or donated art, images, videos. Eventually it migrates to all since I would not want content blocked forever unless you are in the gold, platinum, uber category of board member. Just a little perk. Want to see it, then get off your duff and at least say thank you or respond with 'thank you, loved the story, more Uberhotty stories please'
Nothing against lurkers but this might coax a few out to participate.
I can read about tits crushing steel all day by the way.
I don't think this will increase activity but instead encourage spam. A limit like "reach 25 posts to access this area" doesn't account for one-word-posts which aren't really usefull in most threads. If you also take Karma and/or Thanks into consideration it will become too hard for newcomers to fulfill these requirements.
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njae wrote:
Sarge395 wrote: Out of the blue thought.
Make karma, thanked posts, thank you's left, and quantity of posts have a little more meaning.
Certain amount of points opens up different exclusive areas. With extra content, videos, stories, etc. New stories go there for a week before anyone else sees them. Or donated art, images, videos. Eventually it migrates to all since I would not want content blocked forever unless you are in the gold, platinum, uber category of board member. Just a little perk. Want to see it, then get off your duff and at least say thank you or respond with 'thank you, loved the story, more Uberhotty stories please'
Nothing against lurkers but this might coax a few out to participate.
I can read about tits crushing steel all day by the way.
I don't think this will increase activity but instead encourage spam. A limit like "reach 25 posts to access this area" doesn't account for one-word-posts which aren't really usefull in most threads. If you also take Karma and/or Thanks into consideration it will become too hard for newcomers to fulfill these requirements.
I agree with njae, I think it would keep some people from posting, and some people would just spam +1 post.
like others have said the reason I'm not posting to much right ow is life got a lot of pressure on me at the moment and I haven't felt all posty lately.
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