Heya! if anybody actually reads this.

I checked the logs, and it seemed as if people rarely played, and when someone did login, it was for a short time‒a few minutes.

I've wiped the worlds. Well, I have moved the worlds to a different location on the server, so it generates a new one. I've also taken this opportunity to update the server to 1.20.4, and update some of the plugins. Also to get a feel, now that things are changing, should they change more? Should we do something else than vanilla survival?

  • commiespammer@lemmygrad.mlM
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    9 months ago

    One of the big things was that there were never very many players to begin with, we just had a few who were active a lot. A matrix and more promotion (what I tried and failed to do with the pvp thing) would definitely help. And I'm making a matrix channel (more secure than discord)

    • ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      Good initiative, as I've said multiple times in this thread the problem that killed engagement on the server is that with that few players you can't expect to connect whenever and find other peoples logged on at the same time consistently.

      A matrix chanel is a good solution to that as it allow more live communication than lemmy which will allow peoples to plan times when they can log on and play together more easily.

      As for promotion, it will come naturally with a more engaged player base, as the server becomes more active the numbers of posts on here will increase which will get us noticed.

    • SILLY BEAN@lemmygrad.ml
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      9 months ago

      i would say have both, a matrix room for important thing and a discord for convenience. Not like we do anything that requires the extra security anyways, we have a minecraft server. me and edward are considering to use my existing discord too, since it already has some members. (see my comment chain with edward above for more info)