Mine lurks. She has posted a couple times.
Podcast market is heavily flooded. Most people who do them tend to treat them as a second job.
Experience: My cousin runs his own podcast network on the side while working as a network administrator.
Yeah, cheap plug
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Best thing we can do is all agree if we ever get on Jeopardy to insert a plug for the website into the interview in a way that can’t be edited out
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Well looks like we have an in…
I’ve read nothing before this poast
We can’t expand because we’re too intolerant. I include myself in the royal we here. I don’t want to listen to a bunch of Trumpstains Trumping which is why I poast here. But that comes with a cost, and this is that cost.
I’m fine with this being a niche for us to do our thing and I’ll keep paying to keep the lights on if necessary.
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A podcast would be done because it is fun, imo, not to hit it rich or attract new users. I’m imagining 15-20minutes every couple weeks with several short segments like BestOf review, Walrus introduction and updates, big news items, and a check in with someone who has a blog here or something.
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If you go back and read the thread, you’ll see that the worry is not about paying bills but a decaying user base. It can still be a niche thing, but we need new blood or there will be no one left to talk to.
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Yeah I get that. You need to procreate or you die, it’s the same with every online community ever. I just don’t see us doing it without a radical change in collective mindset of which I’m not sure we are capable.
It’s not that there aren’t other people who will fit in here but I agree it could be difficult finding them in the bowels of the internet.
Most people my age use Discord, but some go on Reddit. Maybe you can get that crowd. I think if you interact with younger people in that area, you could recommend the site. I think because so many of the users know each other from primarily 2+2, it may be hard for new people to come in.
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I don’t think banner ads are going to drive traffic, but might as well try.
I have no data to back this up, but I assume most other forums pick up posters from people searching problems where the answers just happen to be in a forum. For example, I doubt many people who discovered 2p2 were searching for a poker forum–they were just searching for poker tips, or poker videos, or something like that, and happened to find their answers in a forum. 2p2 also benefited from the fact that topics like poker lend themselves to forum form pretty well–“should I raise or call” can be a complex problem to solve, but it can be presented with simple answers–either raise or call–that lend themselves well to short posts in a conversational format. If these problem-seekers liked the content they may have signed up, but even then I bet the main reason for signing up was so that they could post about their own specific problem or question and get more tailored responses than just reading posts about others’ questions.
Politics isn’t really like that. Anyone seeking out an actual politics forum likely has settled views, especially in a polarized political environment like the US. I think the closest we can get to someone seeking out a ‘problem’ is to have content that is detailed single write-ups on compelling topics, where the ‘problem’ it answers is “what is the deal with XYZ.” This would take work by members of the forum because I think it would have to be the OP of each thread–a long-form, well-thought-out summary of a situation with some personal opinion thrown in, enough that a new user could read the post and feel informed but also want to ask additional questions or challenge some of the OP’s assumptions. This would be a change for us; many of our topical threads are actually excerpts from other threads or have simple OPs like “shit is going down in the middle east again. let’s discuss here” or whatever. We know each other well enough to know who to @ for a more informed take or who is likely to chime in and what their positions are, so we don’t need to put that effort into a single OP (and often, things are happening so fast that no one has time to make a write-up, we just know we need to break the topic out from the mega-threads). For each of us, the thread is the answer to the question and the exploration of the issue is the fun of it, but I don’t think most newcomers will think that way unless they’re specifically seeking that conversation out, which again I think is rare.
I think word-of-mouth is probably the only way to grow, but even then I think our chances are low. I’ve tried to get IRL friends interested in this and they just aren’t, even the ones who will talk politics with me. PMs to folks you respect on other forums are probably the best way, because you know they’ve already cleared one hurdle: they are willing to talk with strangers on the internet in a forum format.
Long story short, we can and should try to add a few users whenever possible, and maybe we get enough to offset the slow trickle of posters that are leaving, but like ZZ I think we’ll just have to appreciate what we’ve got while we’ve got it.
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Let’s do it, I can stream and edit it. I could try to host. Who is interested?
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Our community stickiness is still off the charts high, fwiw. That’s basically a metric that measures how often people return to the forum day to day (and month over month, I forget exactly how it’s calculated). We’re always at 80+% when a good number is supposed to be like 30%. People are sticking around, there just isn’t as much engagement. I guess there’s just less to talk about now.
If we’re going to grow we can try harder to promote good discussion and talk about interesting topics. In my opinion the megathreads are boring but maybe that’s just me.
I have nothing to offer except uninformed takes on the politics side, but I could do a lot better in the off topic categories other than just posting in my blog every few weeks. I really think the offtopic forums are great.
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Yea it’s just for fun and hopefully promotes some engagement and good will between members of the community.
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I’m happy to transition the forum to dudes hanging out talking shit and knock the whole politics thing on the head. It really is pointless and kinda depressing to talk about.
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POLITICS_SUSPENDED_UNTIL_2024
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Nope. A buddy had an account there he used for poker, but started exploring other areas and thought the politics was nuts and said I should check it out. I think I did right as there was some dispute with the owners because this site started right afterwards
I think this site is better because from what I did read on 2p2 everyone there was a condescending asshole. Here, only some are, but some I have a lot of respect for. I don’t care how old someone is, how much they know, or how right or wrong they are. If the only way they can express themselves is with cartoon memes, lols, and being a dick, I will never respect what they have to say
I think it’s funny when people here gang up on me (like people did to some (senor Keed)?) on 2p2) and call me a young Fox News watching conservative lmao. I mean yeah, I’m still figuring out my world view, but I’m a very far cry from being politically conservative and wtf were they doing at my age? I’m guessing I’ve put more thought into my world view and care a lot more about injustices than most of them did before 25
About sticking around. I really don’t. The dialogue from assholes drove me away. But there are a few very good and well informed posters here and I stick my head in once in a while to see to see what’s up. I wouldn’t say I’m “around”
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Way late, but this is actually just a good banner ad in general. If I see something like this I’m at least curious.
Of course, not knowing anything, I’d probably guess it’s some r/thedonald knockoff.
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Don’t mind it much but IMO it would be definitely be better to have politics be a major part of the forum rather than have it be the main reason for the forum.
We got multiple new users to join the NFT discord and we’re actively trying to keep new people out lol. Lean into blockchain. Unstuck Blockchain Forums
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