| new record again Users Browsing Forums: 68  |
degYesterday, 1:25 AM
| Fuck... usually there's at least 160 to 190 or so at any given time. That's bad. That's really fucking bad. Did an admin accidentally deploy an auto-ban phrase that wasn't supposed to be added, like "sexy", or some other word 50% of MAL users would say at least once? EDIT: And it just jumped up to 122 users. Did @Serafos poison the world's water supply with his melatonin again?  |
Daviljoe193Jan 31, 10:58 PM
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| This place is like an old decrepit dog still clinging on to it's last thread of life Time to put it down like old yeller |
| Man that's lame. This shit is my escape from the endless discourse I am constantly aware of it multiple chaotic spheres. I need a place to detox from that. |
  ♡ Harder Daddy ♡ |
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Fuck... usually there's at least 160 to 190 or so at any given time. That's bad. That's really fucking bad. Did an admin accidentally deploy an auto-ban phrase that wasn't supposed to be added, like "sexy", or some other word 50% of MAL users would say at least once?
EDIT: And it just jumped up to 122 users. Did @Serafos poison the world's water supply with his melatonin again?
EDIT: And it just jumped up to 122 users. Did @Serafos poison the world's water supply with his melatonin again?
| @Daviljoe193 its going back down now > Users Browsing Forums: 102 |
| The harsher rules over the years are probably a big factor in that. Speech is increasingly getting moderated online while websites bend the knee to payment processors and advertisers. I miss when we had debates on news, politics, lolis, gender, ect. Opinions of the masses are not exactly what the people with big money want spread. |
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| I have seen the numbers go down to 64 (or 74) just a week or two ago. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
| It might be time for the site designers to introduce a status update features like Anime planet or anilist. |
| Maybe instead of looking at the amount of users you should look at the amount of posts being made. You could have a thousand users browsing the forums with only two who are actually posting something. This thread already got nine posts including mine and recent posts are still being submitted nearly every minute. Real dead forums are the ones with no posts for several months, I doubt we're heading there yet. |
| It's been like that for quite some time, and the worse part is that many users are only here to post in Forum Games (as atrocious as the place might seem to some). It's what happens when the mods that are not invested in the community and who randomly delete comments, threads, reviews, etc. under their OCD's compulsions, often not following their own guidelines (when you delete comments inside a thread, you have to post a "thread cleaned" message, yet that is hardly ever the case for some individuals). |
| Cool. 99 is Wayne Gretzky's jersey number. @Daviljoe193 I'm not confessing anything. Zzz...  |
SerafosFeb 1, 3:22 AM
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| Forums are a dying medium. Frankly I surprised MAL forums are as active as they are. For better or worse you'd struggle to find a more active anime forum if you exclude Reddit. |
Daviljoe193 said: Did an admin accidentally deploy an auto-ban phrase I got banned because of that 2 weeks ago, same as some other users, perhaps even @BigBoyAdvance got banned because of that, and not his toxic posts. |
Reply to rohan121
The harsher rules over the years are probably a big factor in that. Speech is increasingly getting moderated online while websites bend the knee to payment processors and advertisers. I miss when we had debates on news, politics, lolis, gender, ect. Opinions of the masses are not exactly what the people with big money want spread.
| @rohan121 At least we're not Anilist ヘ(￣ω￣ヘ) |
| That's another [4th?] time or which one when you're posting such post, as mentioned at Commit's post the amount of users ain't the problem, the amount of posts is the problem. |
| On another note, we're about to hit 1,234,567 topics! |
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The harsher rules over the years are probably a big factor in that. Speech is increasingly getting moderated online while websites bend the knee to payment processors and advertisers. I miss when we had debates on news, politics, lolis, gender, ect. Opinions of the masses are not exactly what the people with big money want spread.
| @rohan121 Oh yeah I miss when basement-dwelling trumpets made twelve "No TrAnS iN mY public bAtHrOoMs!" threads every day. "politics" here was just socially inept, loli loving cheetos eaters spewing their hatred 24/7. Good riddance. There's no need to look for convoluted reasons why this place sees less and less traffic. Forums like this are an early 2000s thing (and so are we). MAL is a survivor, the activity here is impressive considering how out of fashion the whole thing is now. |
DeathkoFeb 1, 4:30 AM
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| ... "Vacation months"? What ? Certainly not everywhere ;O |
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| they should allow pure shitpost threads with no character limit enforcement |
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@rohan121 Oh yeah I miss when basement-dwelling trumpets made twelve "No TrAnS iN mY public bAtHrOoMs!" threads every day.
"politics" here was just socially inept, loli loving cheetos eaters spewing their hatred 24/7. Good riddance.
There's no need to look for convoluted reasons why this place sees less and less traffic. Forums like this are an early 2000s thing (and so are we). MAL is a survivor, the activity here is impressive considering how out of fashion the whole thing is now.
"politics" here was just socially inept, loli loving cheetos eaters spewing their hatred 24/7. Good riddance.
There's no need to look for convoluted reasons why this place sees less and less traffic. Forums like this are an early 2000s thing (and so are we). MAL is a survivor, the activity here is impressive considering how out of fashion the whole thing is now.
| @Deathko They can literally say those things on Facebook and Twitter now. Bringing back highly controversial topics is likely not going to change anything, but the problem is that they use the Rule 7 excuse to ban anything remotely fun + we have a redundant rule 6. |
| It’s 195 right now (almost twice the number) Also, a lot of people have moved to discord…>_< |
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There are 200 users browsing forums currently but most of them wouldn't come to CD anyway as there is nothing interesting over here Either they simply go to AD or episode discussion |
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@Deathko They can literally say those things on Facebook and Twitter now. Bringing back highly controversial topics is likely not going to change anything, but the problem is that they use the Rule 7 excuse to ban anything remotely fun + we have a redundant rule 6.
| @149597871 Good point. Counter-argument: I don't use Facebook or Twitter ;) |
Prophetess of the Golden Era |
A couple of new active users probably wouldn't hurt. 🙄 |
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| Users Browsing Forums: 216 Much better than yesterday, I hope it grows more but I'll settle for this. |
| Remember those cool titles you used to get for reaching 'x' number of forum posts on different sites? MAL needs that. Some badges might also entice people. |
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| Miss when there used to be around 1k people online because of AOT drama |
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| Um no, this is the most active I've seen it compared to a few years back. You even have all these replies to this post... like what. |
| Only one number matters: How many KittenCuddlers are online. If it's 1, then consider yourself lucky to be in such a majestic presence and don't blow this opportunity. If 0, then why are you here? |
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@Tawaney im speaking with experience so trust me its more active in the past you can get at least 500 users browsing the forums to an average of 600-900 users browsing the forums everyday plus replies on threads usually gets around 2 pages at least for its first day of activity
deg said: Well @Commit_Crime political LARPing thread actually managed to do it! (but yeah that's a super rare occurrence now) replies on threads usually gets around 2 pages at least for its first day of activity |
| I hang out in FG so the communities even smaller there but dang that’s really sad :( |
アイアイアイシテル~ |
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@fleurbleue not sure if those thread counts since its only multiple replies from few users unlike in the past where you can see many different users replying to a thread
| @deg Well, my thread about the most handsome user did it too (but I literally pinged everybody so not sure if that counts 🙃). |
| While the site is definitely a shell of its former self, I do still find enjoyment from it for what it is. |
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@deg Well, my thread about the most handsome user did it too (but I literally pinged everybody so not sure if that counts 🙃).
| @fleurbleue You can only ping so many users in one post before they stop being treated as "mentions". I don't remember the exact number, but I think it's around six. After those, any subsequent mentions from that post simply don't result in mention notifications. |
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@fleurbleue You can only ping so many users in one post before they stop being treated as "mentions". I don't remember the exact number, but I think it's around six. After those, any subsequent mentions from that post simply don't result in mention notifications.
| @Daviljoe193 Whhaat? Where did you get that info? And here I thought it was because you all successfully answered my call.🥲 |
| I browse CD like once or twice a month to see if there's any interesting topics- well there's some but only few and far between so the interest immediately fades |
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@Tawaney im speaking with experience so trust me its more active in the past you can get at least 500 users browsing the forums to an average of 600-900 users browsing the forums everyday plus replies on threads usually gets around 2 pages at least for its first day of activity
| @deg Okay okay fine I will trust you. I have noticed multiple same user-posting so my response is that forums are dying because the new generations don't know how to read. |
| Nowadays, forums have become a relic of the old Internet, to my great regret. |
| Forums are getting more and more old-fashioned, so it's not surprising that there are less and less active users, this is a phenomenon that can be seen in almost every forum and is not only a MAL problem. A large portion of MAL users create an account here to have a list for their anime and manga, to read reviews or to get information about a certain anime/manga/novel, only a fraction are interested in the other features... |
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Forums are getting more and more old-fashioned, so it's not surprising that there are less and less active users, this is a phenomenon that can be seen in almost every forum and is not only a MAL problem. A large portion of MAL users create an account here to have a list for their anime and manga, to read reviews or to get information about a certain anime/manga/novel, only a fraction are interested in the other features...
| @-DxP- This is partially true. There is still a high demand in talking about various kinds of things in the "General" or "Off-topic" section on websites. MAL has the advantage that it comparatively still has a slightly active community, though people tend to be more active in forum games or in personal conversations. Possibly because it's convenient since many people log-in for their lists either way. What has caused a decrease in activity can be summarized in the following points: 1) the lack of commitment from newer users: you barely see people engage with other people unless they either get "triggered" or are in their own (little) circle 2) over- and under-moderation that on the one hand allows for people to openly be hostile but then delete whole threads in which most people stay polite and have engaging and wholesome conversations with each other 3) the change in the replying system where you have to "trick" the system by pasting the highlighted quote including or excluding the inspected part of the message in a new response box in order to not auto-quote the whole response. This structure is better for app users but not for a website that is still mostly actively used on desktop devices for replying. It also makes multi-quoting more inconvenient which has been a very common system in other boards based on vBulletin which even have an own button for it |
Daviljoe193 said: You can only ping so many users in one post before they stop being treated as "mentions". I don't remember the exact number, but I think it's around six. After those, any subsequent mentions from that post simply don't result in mention notifications. @fleurbleue The actual number is probably 32 (this has been tested in AD contests) so more mentions require split posts. |
| relax guys, Atlantis 4 will save the franchise and MAL. |
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