Received the message about the new mobile site. The portion below in bold concerns me. That is not carrying over the discussion forums content. I've been following a wide variety of discussion forums for two decades. Several I was very active in were 'up dated', with the same philosophy of not carrying over the existing content. In each case there was a huge drop in participation. Some to the point where the discussion forums are near dead with minimal participation from a few. This was consistent across the the discussion forums of these web sites. In one case it took near a decade to build participation back up to the earlier levels, others dont seem to have recovered. One of the web sites pretty much died after this ill considered action. Anyone advising not carrying over the current discussions is doing the members of this site a disservice. Further it questions their judgement and understanding of how forums work, and other aspects of web site attraction.
Web sites live or die by their content. Eliminating large blocks of content is a significant disincentive for readers/member to move on to other sites. The appeal to members to spend extra time creating new content as filler is largely a non starter. Most of us don't have extra time to generate extra posts, topic starters.
Last, logging into the new mobile site linked here directs me to creating a new profile page. This is another time waster and disincentive to use it.
Thanks for soliciting my input. Hope you can find some top quality advice on updating LushStories.
Red/GMOFLEISURE
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Hi,
I'm reaching out to you as part of the 500+ forum posts club.
As you may or may not be aware, we've launched a new mobile site this week.
We wanted to keep the forums there new (and importing 3+ million forum posts would be a little bit silly).
However, that makes the site look empty, which isn't an encouraging sign for new visitors. The first place I always look on a site, are the forums, to see how active they are.
So, the reason for writing, is that it would be great if you would help us out, and start posting over there to make it look busier.
It doesn't have to be anything ground breaking. Repeating popular threads from the desktop site is absolutely fine. The primary goal is to make it look active.
You can log in to the new mobile site with your existing credentials: https://m.lushstories.com/forum
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
A huge thank you in advance to those who pick up the gauntlet!
Cheers,
Nicola
lus, I am always posting multiple times on the same threads so...
