Backlash Heh, one can dream~

I hope so though. The benefit of sites like Reddit is that you have so much information on pretty much any topic imaginable all reasonably neatly organised in one place. Forums like this will always be somewhat niche in the face of sites like that.

    twitter is horseshit now. everyone knows the algorithm so all content is perfectly tailored for it, all replies to every somewhat popular tweet are twitter blue accounts trying to grow their own accounts.

    i don't really like using reddit.

    discord is making weird changes, hoping it doesn't become awful.

    tempted to code a twitter clone but adhd brain prevents that/i doubt it would get much traction. i do have ideas for how to make a twitter clone that isn't just a twitter clone though (like threads/mastodon).

    i miss small forums like this one.

      malmon i'll try. but here i feel kinda obligated to work on the site and help get it active again and i don't really have that energy anymore.

      prob the only way i get to that point again is by making lewd 4.0 and even then that would prob just turn into another year long project.

          clare That's pretty fair tbh. Hmm, how did Lewd attract people in the first place? Like, I followed an ad on uh... I think it was pomf.io? I doubt it's the same from day 0 though.

              malmon people came from a lot of different places.

              it started off as just like a few friends from a tech forum and their friends, then people came from all over the place. like:

              • i brought in some friends of mine from a site called player.me
              • i overpaid on humblebundles to get our link in the top donators until they stopped me from doing that
              • we got some ads on 4chan and 8ch.
              • our affiliation with lainchan brought in a few people until i was weirded out by their new owner during their weird civil war thing
              • i bought out a couple of similar forums and merged them with this one
              • we had some advertisements on big general forums

              and probably a lot more things i don't really remember

                  clare Ah, so money. ^^'

                  i overpaid on humblebundles to get our link in the top donators until they stopped me from doing that

                  Heh, really? One would think they would be grateful for the extra donation!

                      malmon Ah, so money. ^^'

                      @clare doesn't know this, but I've expressed my willingness to pay cash to get ads for the forum.

                      As for placing a link somewhere visible, I'd be open to ideas.

                          Backlash
                          As would I, however, even if we do get ads out there, we'd need some activity to be here for the newcomers, right? I probably wouldn't have stuck around much if this place had only one or two posts a day max. when I joined.

                              malmon
                              Hrrm, true... I wish I had friends I could convince to join the site, like Clicky did initially. The past two years have done their damndest to isolate me.

                              There's gotta be some way we can drum up activity, though. Maybe asking @Steph chan to come back, and start posting again? Timezone differences mean I can't talk to her, but a forum like this would be a great way for us to communicate.

                                  Backlash Timezone differences mean I can't talk to her

                                  If you can talk to me, you can talk to-- oh right, she's in Germany now >_< Well that's only an hour ahead of me ^_^'

                                    i think advertising only goes so far though. i think a large part of lewd's initial success was because i was perma on here working on it so much that i would just instantly dm most new members and try to make friends with them.

                                    but also on that i think appearing more lively helps a lot. like if someone joins and sees last post 7 days ago, they would prob presume dead. will try to make more of an effort of replying to stuff every day.

                                    I try to reply to as much as I can too, I'm just not very good at starting conversations >_<

                                    In an effort to though... A while ago, against my best judgement, I bought a BMW E36 328i!

                                      malmon one of the guys at work owns one of these and he perpetually has issues with it, hope yours runs smoothly besides the alternator!

                                          clare Cool! Fortunately this is the only thing that has gone wrong with it so far ^_^' Aside from the AC not working, but that was the case when I bought it. Any horror stories from your colleague?

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