yeah do the developers want this to be like reddit? They have a donation button for a reason after all also wahts up with the increasing number of users but it doesnt correlate with site activity
User churn. Online communities are always in a permanent state of decline, activity always falling. New users are coming but they're currently basically just keeping the place at a steady level of activity. In order for new users to be producing more activity for the site the quantity of incoming users must be higher than the user churn itself.
hmmm im not a fan of isolationism like most of the posters here but unless its getting shilled constantly everywyhere in socialmedia i dont see how it can sustain growth over the 10 000 discord userbase
Being everywhere in social media is precisely what it needs, yes. Achieving that requires actually having resources of use that people elsewhere online want to link to though and building those takes time. Things like c/tactics will become resources that don't exist elsewhere that will be referred to often. Piggy backing on waves of influencer audiences is probably the largest ROI in terms of time invested and user waves though. Attracting influencers to come do Chapo interviews with the userbase will result in their userbases coming to Chapo to take part in the interviews and a portion of those waves of people would find various things they enjoy during their visit that causes them to re-visit later. Lots of leftist influencers are out there with hundreds of thousands in their audiences, we just need the right strategy to actually get them to come here, probably start with smaller ones and work upwards.
These are just thoughts I personally had for the record. I'm not an admin or even a sitewide mod.
i can assure you that will never happen site-wide . iirc lemmy has a per-community feature that allows you to disable downvotes? i could have dreamt that tho lol
we didn't actually hide them intentionally. it was something we meant to handle properly in the redesign but we were migrating to react at the same time that was happening. it really was just a big miss. there was a lot going on right then and we only had one FE dev at the time. we should have an update out later today that adds these back!
also, i checked, looks like that's an instance-wide feature, not a per community one. it's not something we will ever enable on our instance. that's not even something up for debate.
I'm glad you're fixing it, but it's reasonable to assume no one would have without this thread and people expressing their discontent with the issue, which is why these threads are important.
I agree with you, but the tone of this thread is incredibly reminiscent of the abuse we often receive in our day jobs which is really demoralizing. :(
we use this site too. we also hate dealing with some of the same things annoying like that live update bug that erased your comments or the live re-sorting. aaahh those are infuriating to think about
Fuck activity
But but but... One of the most upbeared posts yesterday complained about activity decreasing.. They were wrong but it matters to people.
yeah do the developers want this to be like reddit? They have a donation button for a reason after all also wahts up with the increasing number of users but it doesnt correlate with site activity
User churn. Online communities are always in a permanent state of decline, activity always falling. New users are coming but they're currently basically just keeping the place at a steady level of activity. In order for new users to be producing more activity for the site the quantity of incoming users must be higher than the user churn itself.
hmmm im not a fan of isolationism like most of the posters here but unless its getting shilled constantly everywyhere in socialmedia i dont see how it can sustain growth over the 10 000 discord userbase
Being everywhere in social media is precisely what it needs, yes. Achieving that requires actually having resources of use that people elsewhere online want to link to though and building those takes time. Things like c/tactics will become resources that don't exist elsewhere that will be referred to often. Piggy backing on waves of influencer audiences is probably the largest ROI in terms of time invested and user waves though. Attracting influencers to come do Chapo interviews with the userbase will result in their userbases coming to Chapo to take part in the interviews and a portion of those waves of people would find various things they enjoy during their visit that causes them to re-visit later. Lots of leftist influencers are out there with hundreds of thousands in their audiences, we just need the right strategy to actually get them to come here, probably start with smaller ones and work upwards.
These are just thoughts I personally had for the record. I'm not an admin or even a sitewide mod.
Time to get the tiktok house to promote chapo.chat so we can lead the gen z revolution.
But on a serious note you're right, we need more visibility on the internet
The more you piss off people by ruining the only good things this site has over Reddit the more people will continue to leave.
Put the downvote display back, not this baby proof "only upvotes" trash.
oh the number displayed atm is actually the total score of the post, not just upvotes
I know that. I'm talking about awoo's idea of completely removing downvotes.
i can assure you that will never happen site-wide . iirc lemmy has a per-community feature that allows you to disable downvotes? i could have dreamt that tho lol
Shouldn't happen anywhere, and hiding downvotes is a step towards it.
we didn't actually hide them intentionally. it was something we meant to handle properly in the redesign but we were migrating to react at the same time that was happening. it really was just a big miss. there was a lot going on right then and we only had one FE dev at the time. we should have an update out later today that adds these back!
also, i checked, looks like that's an instance-wide feature, not a per community one. it's not something we will ever enable on our instance. that's not even something up for debate.
I'm glad you're fixing it, but it's reasonable to assume no one would have without this thread and people expressing their discontent with the issue, which is why these threads are important.
Thanks!
I agree with you, but the tone of this thread is incredibly reminiscent of the abuse we often receive in our day jobs which is really demoralizing. :(
we use this site too. we also hate dealing with some of the same things annoying like that live update bug that erased your comments or the live re-sorting. aaahh those are infuriating to think about