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Saying that people don't stay because they're treated rudely is a very 2013 thing to say. Have you looked in W&B lately? We're not scaring anyone away because no-one is even joining
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I do think we are nicer to newcomers, even to the point we seem really desperate. They join and leave anyway. Maybe they're being put off by all those in-jokes they don't get.
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gotta agree with these points. i've been nice to newcomers and i've stopped all the in-jokes and shit, it's activity this forum craves and i think our lack of it is what's driving people away ultimately.
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I think jumping ship to a new forum isn’t going to help anything. Better to build on what we already have.
I think this is actually solvable if we put some effort into it. I mean right now we have a new thread like what, once every two months? There’s no attempt to get discussions going, other forums generate new discussions a lot faster than we do.
We’ve not really done anything as a “community” in forever either. Every so often someone throws out an idea for like a TF2 competition or something but nothing ever goes anywhere. Remember when half the forum was playing Minecraft together? That was a high point of this community for me.
There’s more we could do to interact with the wider Oddworld fandom as well, y’know? We play host to a couple of fan projects and the occasional fan art post, but I’m sure there’s more out there we could do something with somehow.
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personally i believe this to be the main issue. there's no new conversation and we seem to be despirited as a community. i've been avoiding posting lately because i thought i was part of the problem, but now i realize inactivity is the last thing this forum needs.
if there is to be change i think we should build on and update what we have here rather than start all over again, but if we
did start a new forum i'd be all for it. either way i'm all for our betterment, i care about this forums future.