Just me or these forums dying?

[pxi]

In other news, the sky is falling.

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Edited November 8, 2014 by pxi

[Frozen_Heart]

It seems like its dying to me. However that's largely because the people I know are vanishing one by one onto different things.

In reality there are still many people on the forum.

[vexx32]

We should definitely get some solid stats in here, if possible, eh Kasper?

[sal_vager]

No worries, I can probably post another 10,000 times before the end of the year if I need to

[longbyte1]

It's just school and stuff, I'm sure the forum activity will peak again during the holidays.

[Rainbowtrout]

Nah, different people are just coming in and older ones are disappearing

Half of the people from when I signed up are gone now. Back when *shudders* roleplay and chat threads existed!

[Starwhip]

Nah, different people are just coming in and older ones are disappearing

Half of the people from when I signed up are gone now. Back when *shudders* roleplay and chat threads existed!

Yeah, I "knew" (eh, back when the original Elevator Thread was still open, we had conversations... it was frowned upon by the Great Moderator Vanamonde) a bunch of users from when I joined. They never got more than 50 posts.

Now they're gone.

But new people are coming in all the time. I don't think it's dying, we're just in a bit of a lull while everyone plays 0.25 and Real Life Simulator 2014.

[TMS]

I tend to use Reddit more these days, in spite of Reddit's terrible GUI. I wonder if that's a trend amongst longer-term users?

The modding is far lighter-touch, less outright cheerleading, it's easier to spot new emerging mods and (for whatever reason) Squad seem to respond to Reddit commentary/critique more than their own forums.

On another note, every large forum I've ever run or contributed to goes through this sort of existential crisis from time to time. It's usually unfounded.

[KasperVld]

We should definitely get some solid stats in here, if possible, eh Kasper?

Yup, like I said earlier in the thread I'll prepare some more in-depth statistics around new year's

[Frank_G]

I am online here almost every day, at least for a post or three... and i see many people that are posting frequently. It has become a little more quiet after .24.2 but that isnt the baddest thing. Sometimes structures simply rearrange.

[Boomerang]

I tend to use Reddit more these days, in spite of Reddit's terrible GUI. I wonder if that's a trend amongst longer-term users?

The modding is far lighter-touch, less outright cheerleading, it's easier to spot new emerging mods and (for whatever reason) Squad seem to respond to Reddit commentary/critique more than their own forums.

On another note, every large forum I've ever run or contributed to goes through this sort of existential crisis from time to time. It's usually unfounded.

My own experience with the KSP subreddit has been almost the opposite of what you've described, but I've noticed that trend of Squad seeming to pay more heed to reddit users than around here.

Edited November 9, 2014 by Boomerang

[John FX]

I think a couple of very very regular posters have taken sabbaticals. One I can think of off the top of my head used to post on AVERAGE over 10 times a day (4500+ posts in less than a year) yet they have not posted in a month at least.

When the heavy posters take a break it can seem as though the whole forum is dying but it is not, it is just returning to the state before the floodgates opened.

All is good, some people could do with reading the blog on constructive criticism though.

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My own experience with the KSP subreddit has been almost the opposite of what you've described, but I've noticed that trend of Squad seeming to pay more heed to reddit users than around here.

I just had a quick look and it seemed like one big list of posts with no categories, did I miss something?

[Majorjim!]

and (for whatever reason) Squad seem to respond to Reddit commentary/critique more than their own forums.

I've noticed this too. Do more people use the ksp subreddit than this forum?

[longbyte1]

I've noticed this too. Do more people use the ksp subreddit than this forum?

No, but it's certainly more rigidly organized since the hot, pressing questions are usually brought to the front page from upvotes.

[Sun]

Well, the forum games certainly have been too quiet the past few hours.

[r4pt0r]

to be fair, you keep spamming the same picture, and adding rules to your game on the fly

[Kinglet]

Well, nobody posts video games on off topic anymore. Never. If I make a thread about a game, it gets no attention and dies. Why?

[worir4]

Just wait till 0.90 comes close to release. You wont be able to access the forums at all.

[vexx32]

If you guys want to discuss psychology of why people respond to one thing and not another, I'd recommend that be its own thread entirely. I'm not sure it'll work that well in a forum setting, though, so you might want to even take it up on the IRC at some point.