Mr S,Mr S wrote:Also, FB doesn't bring Winston direct income, unlike his forum or other blog sites if he has any. Facebook groups, if he is going to use them, should probably be locked and keep other people from posting, allowing Winston to be the only one to post links or updates that redirects individuals back to the main forum to read and reply to topics there. He is actually killing his bread and butter, a slow death. As others have requested I believe posters wanted a real time chat room environment so since Winston has denied that request, those that wanted that option are using FB instead of the forum. If Winston doesn't modernize and adapt to the changing fickleness of online users, his forum will lose much of its appeal and his revenue may dramatically be reduced as readers go elsewhere.
I don't post much anymore cause there is no real decent dialogue among users here and there is little appeal to spending time writing decent material when there is no decent feedback. I think forums are a dying internet technology and will be used less and less as blogs and other social media with real time commenting will appeal to readers. I also think it's easy to put up ones own website now or blog and write for yourself with revenue generation rather than for someone else. Writing takes time and time is money so nowadays I would only post quality items to a personal site or get some kind of payment for posting.
Winston should maybe start thinking about where the trends are heading to preserve his main income stream or he may lose it in a few years. What Roosh has created with his ROK site is probably the direction Winston should be taking, quality written content under certain topic headings with main commentary by readers at the end of the written piece. Pay decent contributors a cut to continue writing content for the site, invite new writers on a trial basis. Keep the forum site going but know that it will be a slow death as internet trends change among the younger generations. Most forums appeal to the 30+ age demographic the teens and 20 somethings rarely use forums like this anymore, they don't have the attention span for it.
BTW, once I actually do get my own unrelated site up and running, posting to HA will be few and far between. Right now I only do it to kill time in between doing other things that I'm taking a break from so my days are numbered here as well and I'm assuming for others in similar a situation. It was good in its heyday, but trends have changed starting around 2012ish or so, and now it's becoming more and more noticeable that these kinds of forums will be going extinct. I give it less than 5 years, that's my prediction.
Aren't you forgetting something? YOU were the one who first told me that I got to market HA on Facebook, Twitter and other social media, like everyone else is doing. After that I set up our FB group and Twitter page. Remember? How can you forget that? I was following YOUR ADVICE.
Only one guy wanted the chatroom, Eurobrat. No one else really cared. Live chat rooms are not saved. What's typed on there are not saved. So what's the use? Every business and movement has a FB page or group, so there must be a good reason for that.
There is no evidence that we are losing traffic due to FB. Where is your evidence or logic for assuming something like that? There is zero basis for that wild speculation.
You guys are sounding hysterical like those in the Salem Witch Trials. To you guys, any random comments without basis must be true. Very weird. I thought we were intellectuals?
Look at the index page. We have an average of 60 users online throughout the day now, which is almost double what it used to be. That's an INCREASE, not a decrease.
What does Roosh have that we don't? Sure his blogs get a lot of traffic, but why are you insinuating that we have no blog? HELLO?! EVERYONE here knows we have a blog. So how are you the only one who doesn't?!
http://blog.happierabroad.com
In fact, the latest blog posts are shown on the Latest 100 forum topics page.
latesttopics.php
Are you new to this site or something? How the heck could you not know that we have a blog? WTF?!
Sure I can post more to the blog or get other writers to, but I can't control the amount of traffic there, or the readers comments. Some things are not in my control.
Eventually we will move the blog to a Wordpress platform though, so it's more customizable. It's one of the 1000 things to do on my list.