The forums are stagnating - what should be done about it?

[Hephaestos]

makingmusic476 said:

Hephaestos said:
Well I stopped at your 2 reasons cause I disagree on these... the main reason the userbase might be decaying is sales....
we don't have full sales charts and what is available is difficult to browse through. I used to be able to do comparative graphs on the fly, but I just can't find where to do that anymore. All these features that were unique to this site are gone...
why would someone come here? small community with a news system that lags behind mainstream sites, what in this would attract someone?

I'm not saying the site is bad... just that what brought me here isn't there anymore.

Well, the rest of the piece backed up my second reason, but if you don't want to bother, then OK.   =/

I do agree with you, however.  The removal of functionality in regards to the numbers has probably played a part as well.  I know I first signed up just to ask where the hell the charts had gone, when they were taken down briefly back in 2007.

sorry didn't mean to offend... i'm not able to respond on the "too many boards" as I only ever use the hot topic link and the My topics for followups.... well not true, I do click on PC forum once every 10 days to see zarx's weekly thread ^^ there's so many that it's easy to find (and that justifies your point 2.. no activity in a board means it's not a necessary one...))