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Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski
Yes just looked at the stats for May 2019. 40,388 unique visitors and 195,024 site visits and it's up 22% from May of 2018... More unique visitors and site visits but seems fewer people posting, although I don't have those stats. So, people still come here to get info and lurk but I think lots of the casual conversations that used to take place here, are on Facebook and Instagram is my bet...
Fine for our sponsors but I too would like to see more people posting here and sharing info... Too much noise, unknown people, arguments, wise guys and BS on Facebook for my taste but people seem to like the drama...
Anyone have any thoughts about what we can do here to get more people posting? Let me preface that by saying I just don't want to open the site up to anyone, I'd rather have quality then quantity...
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Gerry.. I enjoy the forum style of posting, but I am old school.. FB is what people are using to the exclusion of all else.. I sell stuff all the time. On Craigslist now I might get one response in a week.. On FB I get 15 in an hour.
Its not the forum or its content, its social media..
I used to post a lot of "general" fishing topics here because I liked good online discussion, and robust, reasonable debate, especially during winter, but I don't know, its just not generating much interest any more...
People here want to see "reports" and " What size,what color, what depth, what boat, what bait, what river, what bay, what bouy" type of stories... Then they just move on without contributing.
The forum discussion format was great for many years, but I feel people are bored with it.. I am on a LOT of discussion forums, many different topics, and almost all have suffered from declining posts/lack of enthusiasm/interest. A few international ones with membership approaching a million have slowed to a crawl. Its just the way things are with "modern social media"... bob
