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We've reached 40,000 members!
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Didn't we have over 200,000 at the old place? This seems like very low. I know many accounts over there were inactive but here we quickly got to 30,000 and then slowed down to a crawl to get to 40,000 in the next 10 months.
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That was from 2004-2017, so 13 years of gaining members to reach that point. However, you are correct that it has slowed quite a bit since the beginning, but that's because we don't really have a consistent source from which new members can come, unless other forums implode and its users move here, or some other unforeseen event occurs, we're never going to get a huge influx again.
My biggest problem with offtopic Era is not the Trump threads. They're usually fine and relevant. My problem is that offtopic has become an all encompassing bad news aggregator many times just random and providing no reflection. Just depressing shit for the sake of being depressing and shocking.
Did the old place have one or more of this consistent sources of new users coming? If so which ones?
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I'm not sure to be honest, I was never actually a NeoGAF member, I actually came from VGChartz myself.
Message boards aren't really a thing anymore. Social media / Twitter / Reddit / Discord are the new hotness.
I'm surprised and pleased that Era is as strong as it is.
Probably around a third or more of those were dead or banned accounts. The actual traffic was pretty much the same as it is here now. I would guess the vast majority of active posters just shifted over here.
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Speaking of which, at least a few hundred of the members, and maybe a few thousand, are probably literally dead.
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The others got stuck in the middle, because the middle is a great place to be ^_^
I can't argue with that. Its almost like click bait titles or something to that effect.
I forgot to mention its also become the place to be if you want to know who's the latest racist asshole in the world. Many times racist shit deserves a thread and a news report but often times I feel like Era loves to post new threads about every single new racist shit in existance even if it's the smallest, most banal, thing just because. Every. Single. One.
*PLEASE READ OP*
it started to double as *hey here is a juicy thread* and now people are preemptively adding it to their own thread titles
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No. At least as far as I know. I was making a joke about how the last place did and now I have a couple shirts that I can't use.
GAF had the benefit of being around before social media's rise. No place will ever reach those heights again.
Plus, like others have said, GAF's supposed userbase didn't account for banned users. The active users was much smaller
Yeah, tons of forums died over the years, and various groups of them would end up at other living forums like GAF. But now pretty much every forum is dead but here and a few more. So the people here are more or less the last people who still go to forums over other types of sites like Reddit, Twitter, and Discord
And how many of them are alt and troll accounts?
Anyway, I hope the number of moderators are commensurate with the userbase here.
Anyway, I hope the number of moderators are commensurate with the userbase here.
Hi, new posters.
PM me your social security number and I'll tell you all about ERA Prime. It's great.
PM me your social security number and I'll tell you all about ERA Prime. It's great.
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That can't be right, can it? I think NeoGAF is more active than that at least.
I actually went back a few days ago and looked through the front page and active users online...it was super depressing.
This place rules and I'm really happy it exists.
Hold on. In the same time we had 3 million posts the old place had 60,000? For real!?
And most were probably shit talk about ResetERA or disgusting eugenics talk by white supremacists.
Both. There's a wait process, and the majority of people who want to join already have.
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