I’ll try to contribute, I used to make threads all the time, can’t remember the last time I did though.
As for bringing in new users, I’m not sure this will work but could make existing users more active and slow down the decline.
Edit: this piqued my interest and I had to go look up my thread creating history. I joined in late 2012 and made a lot of threads during my first few years, with a gradual decline after that and I have only made one thread since 2019.
Looking back, a lot of my activity was around either predicting, reporting or analyzing sales data and for various reasons that is a lot harder to do now.
The appeal of this site for me was always the weekly sales charts. We were able to speculate and talk about how well a new release would sell or how much of an impact it would have on hardware, it was always exciting to look at the new weekly data and discuss it, that simply doesn’t exist anymore.
The rise of digital made this sites software charts increasingly unreliable to the point where they were abandoned and the industry in general has gotten more secretive about sharing sales data which has led to monthly hardware charts rather than weekly.
Weekly estimates is what differentiated this site from other sales based gaming forums, without them this site is just NeoGAF/ResetERA/InstallBase with a significantly more outdated/less mobile friendly format.
As much as I would love for this site to get more users and more activity, that’s just never going to happen because the thing that made it unique doesn’t exist anymore.
Last edited by zorg1000 - on 04 September 2025When the herd loses its way, the shepard must kill the bull that leads them astray.
