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« on: August 27, 2007, 12:49:11 PM »
This is to let everyone know that I am heavily considering shutting down the site and forum. Contributions have all but dried up (and before anyone says anything, no I don't consider a video you recorded last night a suitable contribution for the site; for the forum, sure, but I can't fill the site up with videos like that), people come to my forum and post the same things they post here and vice versa, and most of the whopping 48 members that I have don't post or visit. And many of those that do visit and post seem like they'd rather be elsewhere. I just don't have the patience or enthusiasm to continue wasting my time any longer. Sure, there are over 10,000posts, but when you dissect those numbers, its really quite shameful. Gil had 2700 or so of those posts, I had 2400 or so, Stephen has 1200 or so, and everyone else had anywhere from a few hundred to 0. IOW, only the big mouth and the admins are posting with much frequency.
I thought for sure TWC Today would succeed because no one else has a site like it. IOW, its filling what I thought (and what the post counts on this particular forum would prove) was a needed service-a site for current TWC stuff. I truly beleive to the core of my soul that the problem is that TWCC is trying to be the Wal-Mart of TWC message boards. Sure, the current content is gone from the site, but the same still remains on the forum (IOW, its the most popular area of the forum, so lets not cut off the hand that feeds us). If people can get their current TWC fix here, why would they go elsewhere? And most have not gone elsewhere. Even though the focus of my site and forum is current TWC, this forum still boasts more (and frankly, better) current TWC discussion.
I will give it one more month. At the end of September I will review the growth of the site and forum, and if its not reasonable, then in all likelihood the site and forum will be shut down.
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