◆ [Date updated: 2022/05/05(Thu) 10:27:19]
■I wonder if it's a problem specific to Heyuri to gather new users, or
│it is simply because of the way internet is nowadays
│
└■A little of both (;^Д^)
│
│To get people to visit a site like this in the age of the corporate and
│censored web, you can't just sit on your hands and expect the masses to
│get lucky with a search engine and find you (I challenge anyone to find
│Heyuri on a search engine without typing "Heyuri" nor anything that
│only Heyuri users would be familiar with!)
│
│Both the site owner and the users need to be proactive in promoting it -
│not in a shill-like fashion where it comes across as someone clearly
│trying to gain fame/fortune by luring people into their site, but in an
│earnest way that is mutually beneficial to all parties
│
│For example:
│
│- putting up links in places where potential users might be found
│ (reciprocal links, link collections, SNS posts/profiles, description
│ sections of uploads, forum signatures...)
│- recommending the site to friends and users of other places you fre-
│ quent whenever it's relevant to the conversation (e.g. someone expli-
│ citly asks for links to fun websites/imageboards, someone is reminis-
│ cing about the old days and asks if anything like that still exists,
│ etc.)
│- making strong friendships with other site owners (users of other
│ sites are more likely to visit if the owners are on good terms)
│
│...etc!
│
│Now getting visitors is one thing, but turning them into fully-fledged
│users requires giving visitors a reason to keep coming back. If nothing
│of interest has happened since they last checked the site (or the site
│is clearly abandoned/neglected) then they'll wait a little longer
│before returning next time - or simply not return at all! (;´Д`)
│
│So the site owner and users have to be proactively using their own site
│as well. If every time someone visits they come across some fresh OC, a
│funny/interesting thread, some fun admin/mod shenanigans, new features,
│etc., then they're more likely to come back for MOAR ヽ(´ー`)ノ
│
├■User: kaguya
││Thank you for the well-thought post ヽ(´∇`)ノ
││I will never neglect Heyuri, and agree those are what needs to get done but
││I don't like seeing my efforts being all talk - so I've been thinking about what
││I can personally do on the matter both as the admin and as a user. ( ´ω`)
││
││I told this before but I think at Heyuri's scale, a user can have nearly as much
││effect on the site as its admin does, and much of the effort I put into Heyuri
││wouldn't necessarily require me having admin access in the first place (´Д`)
││This may change in the future/You probably know I don't do 0 administration,
││but I can't bring myself to believe few active users would magically start sharing
││Heyuri on other places just because I am maintaining it, so it leaves me with
││some moar responsibilities to see Heyuri RISE (´ー`)
││................(;´Д`)
││
│└■If you ever need inspiration for things to work on, I still have that
│ │big townhall list ヽ(´ー`)ノ (although some of it is now outdated...)
│ │
│ └■User: kaguya
│ │I do, I need!! (´Д`)
│ │I will be busy until weekend, so I don't really want to start doing something big
│ │until then but feel free to tell your ideas in the meanwhile ( ´ω`)
│ │I also don't know when can I hold the next townhall for reasons i stated on /q/
│ │
│ └■It is done. May kamisama have mercy on ur soul... ヽ(´ー`)ノ
│ │
│ └■User: kaguya
│ │A lot of the points require kuz's help or straight out developing work (´Д`)
│ │I will look into and respond to it, but give me few days plz
│ │
│ └■Most of the "needs doing" and "optional" items are easy fixes/mods
│ │that only require some minor wrangling at most - other users and I can
│ │help and there's no hurry, so don't give up so easily! ヽ(´ー`)ノ
│ │
│ └■User: kaguya
│ understood (=゚ω゚)ノ
│
└■User: lg
│How I ended up on Strange World and Heyuri was trying to find a place to post AA's. I did not know what Heyuri was at the time or anything else about it. I just found Strange World through a balls-deep web search ( ’~’)
│
└■You landed on the one place where 2ch-style AA doesn't work... <(;^Д^)
│
└■User: lg
I was able to found my way through that, by the hard way (;´Д`)
by the hard way I mean that once I posted an MS Gothic AA on a MS PGothic formatted page. (hint: its /lounge/)
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