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Originally posted by Aeson
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I think there's a lot of good things happening/happened at WPC. It would be better for all involved if the split never happened of course. (Except me, as I never would have become dictator benevolent servent of the people ... )
Apolyton still gets a lot of search engine traffic since it's a PR5 forum founded like before the internet or something. (At least the internet for me!) About 300 to 600 users are "active" at most times of the day... though in reality it's rather less than that because vB overreports as it counts sessions for quite a while after they've probably left. In either case, this is about 5 to 6 times as many users as WPC, and about 1/3 to 1/4 of CivFanatics. (Which both use vB and so have similar issues with the over-reporting.) So Apolyton isn't that far gone ... just needs some interactive content to keep people around and build a community.
The content creators who left for WPC would have a bigger audience here. As is, anyone who does happen to Apolyton for on-topic stuff quickly goes back to Google and ends up posting at Civfanatics because they have people posting already. If some of these other forums would like to merge back or get involved here we could quickly build a vibrant on-topic community again. Rainy season starts in July and I'll have the roof on the house by then I hope. That gives me a decent run-up to BE to work on the site if they release in November. You'll want to be on-board this train
(if only because Sava and Felch are in charge of bringing snacks and Wiglaf will be the entertainment ... )
Apolyton still gets a lot of search engine traffic since it's a PR5 forum founded like before the internet or something. (At least the internet for me!) About 300 to 600 users are "active" at most times of the day... though in reality it's rather less than that because vB overreports as it counts sessions for quite a while after they've probably left. In either case, this is about 5 to 6 times as many users as WPC, and about 1/3 to 1/4 of CivFanatics. (Which both use vB and so have similar issues with the over-reporting.) So Apolyton isn't that far gone ... just needs some interactive content to keep people around and build a community.
The content creators who left for WPC would have a bigger audience here. As is, anyone who does happen to Apolyton for on-topic stuff quickly goes back to Google and ends up posting at Civfanatics because they have people posting already. If some of these other forums would like to merge back or get involved here we could quickly build a vibrant on-topic community again. Rainy season starts in July and I'll have the roof on the house by then I hope. That gives me a decent run-up to BE to work on the site if they release in November. You'll want to be on-board this train
(if only because Sava and Felch are in charge of bringing snacks and Wiglaf will be the entertainment ... )
A world of problems to work out, but a world it could solve, too.
For that matter, maybe talk to Buster (no relation) at CGN. Now that it's just an archive, why not? Might be a profit in gaining that much more content, and you could probably work some SEO out of it...
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