I posted about this in the Contributors tag but I felt it was only fair to follow this up a few days later with a public post, so far thankfully no hate but I fully expect a traffic trop but lets break down why I have enabled this first:
- The site is currently doing some really good numbers, in terms of visitors both new and returning and I am hugely grateful for this
- The site has 23 registered members with the last member at the time of this post joining on April 19th and if I recall correctly that used was banned for being spammer.
- The site has no advertisements, no plans to add advertisements (but never say never) and makes no money from anyone, if anything it costs money (time, hosting) while I am outright not saying we will never have advertisements on the site or some form of sponsored/donor platform I am saying as of right now and for the past 1-2 years the site has made no effort to make any form of money… just a fun side project.
- My only reward is feedback, which currently is presented in the form of analytics numbers and views on topics… while it is insane to think I would even want any sort of reward.. I really do want users to jump in and start engaging with each other.. post deals you have found to other users… share trailers we miss and much more..
- in short, it may hurt the numbers short term but I hope that people will attempt to join in as members of the site and take part - if it doesn’t work out and 6 months from now the site is dead and still sat on 23 users .. yep I’ll probably revert the login to see links but for right now I’m unsure of any decent way to engage people and have them engage not only in return but also summon their own topics… I would love to see people debating trailers n stuff and yeah I know.. YouTube, twitter and even Facebook is likely the better place for this stuff but I am trying it the old way and seeing where things end up
Thats a lot of rambling and I’m unsure why I put all that in bullet points but the TLDR of it all is - we don’t have enough members for the kind of views we are getting. If you know of a better way, share it and I will gladly take it into consideration!