A FORUM STATUS UPDATE

Needles & Grooves said:
We are also open to suggestions of other potential funding sources as we move forward and the need for funding increases.
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How about a fundraising raffle or something like that?

I'll volunteer to fly anyone (in the continental US) to San Antonio to go to a local show. Hotel and food is on them (unless they won't murder me in my sleep). Drinks are also on me. Winning personality is all their responsibility though.
 
Tyr said:
How about a fundraising raffle or something like that?

I'll volunteer to fly anyone (in the continental US) to San Antonio to go to a local show. Hotel and food is on them (unless they won't murder me in my sleep). Drinks are also on me. Winning personality is all their responsibility though.
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Don't give @Mather any ideas of how to get more people visit his murder dungeon arcade
 
Indymisanthrope said:
In general, are there metrics about the number of active users per month? Unregistered guests versus registered accounts? Are the site runners generally happy with our current growth/attrition rates? Do our numbers indicate anything about the health/longevity of the community?
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I have zero insight into the interpretation of the below statistics, but wanted to share anyway.
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And breaking down February 2021 to show the nuances of the above averages
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Indymisanthrope said:
I’m curious whether the forum software allows for any customization during the account creation process?
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Specifically what kind of customization are you curious about?

Indymisanthrope said:
Just wondering where/how new people are continuing to find us. It’s not like there’s advertising, or a product to sell, or all that much evangelism for the community. But there’s still a steady trickle of people signing up. Are they just stumbling across us when they do a Google search for something related to a record? Via Instagram? Word of mouth?
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Maybe @RenegadeMonster could help fill in the blanks on this one, if possible.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
Oh I just meant like adding a question to ask how they heard about the site. I assume that the time when people were looking for the old forum and getting punted over here is long over by now, and the numbers look fairly consistent over time, so I take that to mean the site is doing something right; do we know what that is?
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For myself, I saw the forum mentioned on Reddit a couple/few times and was getting really sick of Reddit and finally decided to check this place out. One of the best decisions I've made this year.
 
Colonel_Angus said:
I have zero insight into the interpretation of the below statistics, but wanted to share anyway.
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And breaking down February 2021 to show the nuances of the above averages
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Specifically what kind of customization are you curious about?


Maybe @RenegadeMonster could help fill in the blanks on this one, if possible.
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We do turn up on Google search results. But as to where people are finding us I can't say for sure. I haven't enabled tracking analytics on this site. So we don't know if someone came from Reddit, Instagram, Google Search results and what not.

I believe we have also been mentioned on some other forums by posters over the past 2 years.

But we are currently not advertising to drive traffic to this site nor have we ever done that. Hence way way we are not tracking these types of statistics not to mention for everyone's privacy.
 
Based on the data above it seems like there are consistently around 400 "active" users. I assume active means posts with some regularity. Whatever funds may be needed to sustain the forum beyond the next two years it might be useful to estimate the individual ask (if there ever was one) based on that $400. I'm guessing it's less than a modestly priced LP a piece.
 
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