April 4th, 2020 at 5:42 AM
(April 3rd, 2020 at 6:15 PM)Kyng Wrote: Somewhere in-between.
I think there's a 'sweet spot' where a forum is large enough to still have something new and interesting every time I log in, but small enough to still have a tight-knit sense of community.
I agree.
One thing I've noticed is that it's equally important to maintain that level of activity. Once a registered group of people are active on a forum with a general gauge of a certain activity level, the community either has to grow up from that or it has to maintain. If it falls, it's not a good sign.
Small forums I've noticed often last a while just because the bar for keeping them alive is pretty low. You could get on and have 3-5 posts a day, but if it's a forum with 5K posts, that's acceptable. And on the same token, if they truly die, again the bar for bringing them back is low. You just gotta get a few people back on and get some level of activity. On the other hand, a forum with hundreds of posts a day would be considered dying if it went down to 50. The bar is much higher.
