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people weeding themselves out
#winwin
Hard to tell if people even see your content or just don't care ๐ ๐คท
Stay humble, use nostr, stack zaps โก๏ธ
True story
Love it ๐โ๐ผ. Makes me wonder why that is ๐คทโโ๏ธ
I'm not leaving
Tomorrow I'm closing my website of almost 20 years which had a super active forum until AI came out a couple years ago. As we've said our goodbyes I had an endless list of 8 - 12 year members reappear, saying, "I didn't say much over the years but I was always reading along." - many of them almost daily.
We were getting thousands of visits every day but maybe 5 posts a day the past two years. Maybe I should have told people to say GM and GN.
Well, that's just how it goes.
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I used to be super active in a couple of very niche forums and over time the engagement just dried up. It is kinda sad but if thereโs a demand, people will build new things.
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Yeah, I get why it dried up. Most of it is AI. The forum was super active for 15 years and in the past two years I've lost more than half the traffic, and so did my competitors. I built that traffic over nearly 20 years, and poof, it's mostly gone.
And that's ok. I get it. My business model changed several times over the years and I had to adapt to survive. But too many factors came together at this point to make it interesting to continue, and I was ready for a change a few years ago anyhow.
So no hard feelings, no sadness, just excitement to be free to pursue other things. It was just disappointing to find out that so many people were around for so long but mostly didn't say anything in the forum. They enjoyed reading it and now they're sad I'm closing it down. I wish they would have engaged more when they had the chance. I'll make sure to stay active here on Nostr. I won't forget the lesson.
Is it worth archiving read only?
I pondered what to do for probably three years and couldn't come up with a viable solution.
I thought about keeping it open, read-only, but the community forum was the heart of the website and it would die. The online training program wouldn't function, and I couldn't send driver applications to companies. So, basically, it would become an old blog and forum that would slowly die but had to be maintained.
The other thing I want to do is pass the torch to the next generation. If I kept it open, it would continue to garner traffic and hold others back.
I'm permanently archiving everything, and some long-time members are starting a new forum on Discourse. I'm thinking about trying to do something with the materials, because a lot of it is fantastic stuff, but not sure what to do.
Finally, I'm concerned that I could eventually run into some kind of legal issues. Maybe I missed a tiny technicality somewhere along the way and it comes back to bite me. You never know.
So I just decided the best way to end it would be to save it all permanently, thank everyone, and put it up on the shelf like a trophy, knowing it was a legendary pilar in our industry for a very long time.
I will always think of ways to reuse those materials. I may end up allowing others to use them on their websites if I find someone who seems to have a similar ethos as we had.
I use to run tons of forums back in the day I love em I hope someone builds a forum on nostr that will be easy to create & control sign in w npub & go. I want to learn pidman & put forums like vb3 4 & 5 in images to be easy to setup. Too bad the company bellied up last year & vb is now abandoned ware. Now you have to rely on nulling activation.
Coming up on 2 months here in a week or so!!
Youโre killing it dude! Showing everyone how itโs supposed to be done ๐ฅ๐ป
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1 year anniversary around the corner over here ๐ซก
Itโll be here before I know it! ๐ซก
here for the real ones
I am not leaving! It will be 2y soon ! ๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐
I love Nostr!
Love at first interaction ๐
And often it's the same dude.. ๐ ๐คฃ
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Yes, nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg9cra4jwh4ay750qnlaqhwpd0yl5v5uhrvuge9u00dl2p5grrsrcqpaeh6k and nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7enjdankzargdahzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6qgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqxr7t5h0l25ej73pm04zgz9afeexyzsjx67s5v0xxf2sshjn4sx6sfucyv0, don't think that we did not notice what you did here.
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And we never saw them again ๐
I'm here. ๐ช
Still here despite spending more time touching grass than being online
One by one, we'll win. ๐ช
Isn't that about so. ๐คฃ๐ฅณโจ๏ธ๐
I'm still here. You still have me muted and only occasionally unmute me to gaslight me and mute me again
It's ok Digit he muted me too ๐ญ
He'll take me back ๐
Why are they like this?
lmao
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I'm not leaving.
I think gradually then suddenly applies to nostr as well. We will get there!
We believe you ๐ซก
Literally true for all aspects of life
Ultimately, it's still social media, which is shit whatever the underlying tech.
The ones who stay get muted into oblivion :P
i don't even know why i stayed but maybe because i can zap people cents like I'm a fucking billionaire
Here for the long haul ๐ฎโ๐จ
Where do they go though?
Reminder to self that I should be more active here as well. The vibe is very refreshing after being dragged down the X doompipe