Originally posted by carver9
Yep...KMC doesn't have a 3rd of the people they use to have yrs back. The activity on this site 6 to 7 yrs ago was insane. Wonder what happened to everyone.
It's not too hard to figure out. There's attrition on any site, so you need to be attracting enough new members to make up for it. With most sites, if you're not integrated with various social media and appealing across a wide variety of genres, your numbers will dwindle. The KMC interface probably hasn't changed since it was created in about 2002/2003. And while it may be surprising to some who don't realize how quickly things have changed, things like Facebook and Twitter didn't even exist in the public consciousness at that time.
Raz could have continued altering the site to keep numbers up, just like he could have steadily replaced mods who were no longer active. Or expanded the main site to attract more hits. He did neither, outside a few anomalous examples. It's not his fault - it's a privately owned site and he can do what he wants - but it's also the reason for the decline.
That said, everyone wants to say the end is coming. And it probably will someday. But there's no doomsaying moment, just the slow attrition of time and admin inactivity. And people have been saying the forum is dying literally since about '05. So not all of it is legitimate.
But it wouldn't have taken much. If there had been a "post to Facebook" button installed beneath each post in, say, 2006, I'd be saying these words to hundreds more. We tend to pop up a LOT in vs. google searches, though, which is probably why the comic forums haven't died out entirely.
Originally posted by abhilegend
Where you debated with your imaginative Iceman? Pass.
Says the man with Superman on the highest pedestal.
I enjoyed that thread not because of my contribution (and looking back, I can't stand how often I used "..."😉. After several pages, lots of people contributed to the conversation and that is when it became good -an actual debate that I had nothing to do with.
http://www.killermovies.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=348480
Originally posted by DigiYeah I remember when I signed up back in Fall of 05 you still needed a college email address to sign up. It wasn't until like year or two later it went public right?
It existed. It wasn't the widespread necessity that it is today for many individuals and businesses. At that point it was still a fledgling campus-only endeavor.
Originally posted by Digi
It's not too hard to figure out. There's attrition on any site, so you need to be attracting enough new members to make up for it. With most sites, if you're not integrated with various social media and appealing across a wide variety of genres, your numbers will dwindle. The KMC interface probably hasn't changed since it was created in about 2002/2003. And while it may be surprising to some who don't realize how quickly things have changed, things like Facebook and Twitter didn't even exist in the public consciousness at that time.Raz could have continued altering the site to keep numbers up, just like he could have steadily replaced mods who were no longer active. Or expanded the main site to attract more hits. He did neither, outside a few anomalous examples. It's not his fault - it's a privately owned site and he can do what he wants - but it's also the reason for the decline.
But it wouldn't have taken much. If there had been a "post to Facebook" button installed beneath each post in, say, 2006, I'd be saying these words to hundreds more. We tend to pop up a LOT in vs. google searches, though, which is probably why the comic forums haven't died out entirely.
Is there a site like KMC that specializes in community created content (in our case movie, games, and comic vs matches, tournaments, and general discussions on those subjects) that utilizes up to date web technologies?
I have always thought there was tons of potential in KMC if Raz or his partner were ever around to implement the needed changes to not only the forum but the content that is created on the main site (which as far as I can tell is still being updated, though probably by an aggregrator). I've spoken to Bada, Pr, Jake, and Newjak about it and they all seemed to agree.
Originally posted by Blair Wind
Is there a site like KMC that specializes in community created content (in our case movie, games, and comic vs matches, tournaments, and general discussions on those subjects) that utilizes up to date web technologies?I have always thought there was tons of potential in KMC if Raz or his partner were ever around to implement the needed changes to not only the forum but the content that is created on the main site (which as far as I can tell is still being updated, though probably by an aggregrator). I've spoken to Bada, Pr, Jake, and Newjak about it and they all seemed to agree.
I really don't know, but it's a good question. I've seen this problem in other forums as well, so it's not a problem unique to KMC.
Also, yeah, content on the main site is a big driver of traffic. Usually the most successful forums are attached to booming sites.