Ryuu96 said:
The way I see it though, is that there are multiple issues. 1. The site owner has completely abandoned the site, aside from paying to keep it running, it is on autopilot. How are we meant to fix technical issues the site has, how are we meant to keep the site updated with a modern/fresh look, how are we meant to provide enticing new features to the website, how are we meant to stay on-top of the ad issues, how are we meant to advertise the website, how are we meant to create a mobile version of the website that actually works, if we have to rely entirely on unpaid volunteer work from users we have to find at random by desperately asking around if anyone has any coding experience and if they can take time out of their lives and work to help us out...And from what I've been told over the years, under the hood of VGChartz it's pretty messy so it would take someone months to work their way around it anyway. 2. However, even if those issues were fixed, sites like VGChartz are a dying breed and they're all struggling to grow, aside from sites that ripped users from an already large website in a split off (I.E. ResetEra from Neogaf) but if you were to create a brand new forum website nowadays, you'd probably be called crazy. What is the incentive to join VGChartz over the much larger ResetEra or NeoGaf? Or Reddit? Even Discord is heavily hurting these types of communities now. What is the USP of VGChartz? The GameDB? GameFaqs has that, it's more updated and barely anyone uses VGChartz's GameDB with only a few users heroically keeping it up to date, Lol. The sales numbers? We had to dump sale tracking for games because it was completely inaccurate due to the rise in digital. VGChartz also comes from the age of "console wars" due to our focus on hardware tracking, nowadays the console wars are all but dead due to PlayStation dominating Xbox and Switch essentially being its own thing and people realising that being a console warrior is a bit sad, I don't think the younger generation gives a shit about "console wars" which is what VGChartz was born on. So VGChartz needs a new USP and it has struggled to find one Imo. It's still nice to have hardware tracking but I think in light of how sales have gone the past generation that people are caring less and less about it. 3. If we want more activity then everyone needs to chip in, I don't know how to encourage that though. I've too often seen in the past like 1-2 users making 90%+ of the threads. Though I would also point out that (and it's no fault of his) but Trunks manages to post news articles way before anyone is able to make a thread and thus discussion has slowly moved towards articles instead, in a way, the articles are directly competing with the forums. There's not much we can do about that, aside from hope people make more original threads (u'know like that Mafia stuff, or just fun questions/debates). I did make a suggestion one time that when Trunks makes an article there should be a little button which he can click that also generates it into a thread, Lol. |
Yep. That's a lot. Should be thankful the place is standing at all.
