Written by Guys, I see you visiting the site but not signing up for the site. I have on average a 100 views every day or two. Where are the sign ups? Afraid of information being shared? Can’t be assed to sign up for another site? Afraid to join when no one much is here for fear of boredom? Afraid we can’t scale? Afraid of the longevity of the platform? Why so few signups after 4 years? Site loads too slow? Feel apprehensive about my ubiquity? The publicness?
Let’s see if we can answer these.
Info: I can understand the fact that cash transactions on unknown sites are scary. We are hoping you make vigorous use of Trustpilot to help keep everyone involved honest as their storefronts will be at risk.
Signing up for another site. We can institute social logins whereby you use your pre-existing accounts and sign up with the push of a button.
Fear of boredom: I get it. Um. I have no life and hope to entertain daily to get the ball rolling and corral people into the levity of daily creation as a sort of challenge so hopefully we get more and more entertainment (and the stuff is faaaairly lightweight so we are good for now on ability to host your entertainment and figure out expansion, that will be a good problem to have. So that’s the scale thing.
Stability. I have maintained the project online mostly for 4 years, had help. The intention is to be stable and get three years’ hosting when the bill is due. I have pretty much all the backups. And old users are in the site database, they just won’t show unless they activate. There are around 150 Fastfrwrders. So that’s the numbers thing.
Site slow to load: I can tailor that, I do quite like the site as is with allllll the info. But yeah it can be brought down and some plugins shifted around to subdomains so as to remain light if it is really such an issue.
My ubiquity: Yeah. Well. It’s also data? I will be using my Fastfrwrd activity as a case study to complete my Bachelor, rather public and selfish use but I multitask so showing what the site can do, testing its effects on myself first, setting some kind of tone, checking assumptions, reflecting on the process to find out how to do it safely. This is how you build community sometimes. You have to nest a bit. While you figure things out.
I Marie-Curie my way through things. I’m not gonna ask you to do something that I would not do.
I do this. I enjoy it.
The publicness, you can private your account and groups. I choose public because why not whatever and I privated for a while and no one could see more than a few posts that had been public before on the timeline.
There is a sort of inevitability to growth with exposure. And gratitude or service. It’s a fruit tree guys.
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I just don’t know what this is? The front page has a brief explainer then goes into story about Sols, werewolves etc (sorry to those that wrote it, nothing against the creativity, just I do not understand the site). Maybe the what/how could be distilled and put simply, front and centre ?
Also, clicking on activity, it looks like only you are active on the site. I am sure you are great, but I personally would want to join if there were more people using it.
Valid and fair! Once someone joins it’s another person to make the site more fun, it’s sort of a catch-22. Anyhoo, thanks for sharing and maybe we will make the frontpage a bit tighter in conveying all you can do here! Thanks for sharing!