May 14, 2017 So in the last few months I've been pretty inactive, due to a combination of irl responsibilities and a general lack of interest. While I was "away", I used other means to get my music news, most notably fb groups. What I would consider to be the "main" fb group I used saw insane success and growth (from 3k to 8k in a matter of days) and it got me wondering how a fb community could do so well but a site with an admin team as dedicated as ours can't. I think I've figured out the main reasons and have ideas on how to fix them. -First of all, there's a pretty obvious divide in the forum. There's Em SXN, and then there's everyone else. Now, ofc, there are some great Em SXN regulars who contribute, but they're few and far between while awful cancerous shitposters are a dime a dozen. Now, to my understanding, the argument for keeping Em SXN is that its our biggest sxn and we'd be losing a huge chunk of our members, but that huge chunk is the whole reason the rest of the forum hardly experiences any growth. I'd say around 90% of Em SXN posters are so cancerous they actively discourage new members from signing up EXCEPT for other equally s--- users who share their view. We're turning away dozens of @Jehovah's and @Thy's to accomodate ppl like @ConspiracyGang and the like. @Koolo I'm sure you're familiar with the expression you gotta spend money to make money, well in this case you gotta lose members to get members. No one wants to join a forum where its 3 dudes discussing new music and 12 ppl saying it's s--- and recommending MMLP2 instead. -Secondly, and I mean this with as much love as possible, our marketing is horrendous. Our biggest means of exposure are our fb pages for the respective SXNs, half of which are dead (the pages not the sxns) and the ones that are popular post normie trash "the mind, the heart, the soul" type memes that only draw in more normie trash stans like we got after TPAB. If we want to draw in new GOOD members through those memes, we need a total overhaul in that department. You can still post all the Kendrick and drake memes in the world just don't share the ones my weird uncle who preaches about reel hip hop shares, because then you're gonna get 100 new members who only f--- with REEL HIP HOP. As I've mentioned to staff before I'd be more than willing to help in this department. Tldr, we need to trim the fat from s80 and market ourselves towards ppl who listen to music this decade otherwise we're gonna remain stagnant. If staff disagrees pls don't lock thread I'm just tryna create a healthy discussion about the future of our site. (also a lot of what I said of em sxn could apply to cole but em sxn is the more pressing issue)
May 14, 2017 This forum was founded on the Em SXN..its not going anywhere...theres plenty of other forums for young thug and other faggets who think they can rap
May 14, 2017 I have no idea if this would help the site or not but you have good points behind them so this is a beneficial discussion.
May 14, 2017 Does that mean it's worth letting the site stagnate and die over? (not saying the sites dying but it certainly isn't growing, at least as much as I would like and I KNOW not as much as staff would like)
May 14, 2017 fr tho the whole forum been kinda dead recently think we just need to attract more members as a whole, like i said i think we should be attacking social media more but no one responded to me on that so idk
