DocAndersen
Over the last four years, I have watched this site, in particular, I have watched ten authors (originally) now dow to 6 authors. 4 do not publish as often or at all on the site anymore. Of those ten authors, I have found two things that have changed in the last 30 days.
- Time to 50 views has increased. Most of the ten authors I was watching go to 50 pictures in less than 24 hours and over 100 views in many cases. They are now struggling to get to 50 images in 48 hours.
- The rate those authors are getting comments is also way down. The easy way to determine that is the following.
- In July 2018, to make the most commented area on the site, you had to have more than 20 comments.
- In July 2019, you had to have more than 15 comments.
- Now, on occasion, you can make a list with six comments.
- It used to be that being on either the trending or the most commented list was a 20% bump in views. It is still a bump, but now it is only around 5% more views.
- The daily rate of new posts has gone down. From last July (around 42) to this July (about 36 now), Some of that is, of course, due to the utter lack of new posts from all authors waiting for approval. Of the last 58 days, the admin team has only published posts on two days.
- Last but not least, views as a whole are down now.
It was for a time that we saw more views on older posts. That is not the case. Right now, we see opinions on posts shared (Sharing is Caring and another author who is sharing everything on Facebook right now)! I would generally be starting a new “how can we fix the site services around now. But, honestly, I can’t right now. There is one glaring issue that is a problem for the site now. It is a massive issue, and it is directly driving down views.
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please send a note to the admin team – too many days have passed!
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Yes
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Thanks for reading and all you do for everyone else on this site!!!
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Yes
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Q: PLEASE SEND A NOTE TO THE ADMIN TEAM – TOO MANY DAYS HAVE PASSED!
Yes (3 votes) – 100%
Q: THANKS FOR READING AND ALL YOU DO FOR EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS SITE!!!
Yes (4 votes) – 100%
Hmm. Another sad story. They all started with a bang.
we aren’t there yet, we still have life left!
To be frank, I am losing my motivation in this site. I am working just for the sake of the members and not for the earnings anymore.
i will honestly tell you, that you could make 2 or 3 times what you are making every month with a couple of minor changes in the way you interact on the site.
I think we can only persevere and not lose hope for better times.
I agree we have to keep thinking things will get better.
There are users who write for a number of sites. As soon as one becomes dodgy they pack and leave. If the front page had exciting articles people wanted to read then we would have more visitors.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100301030451/http://factoidz.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120210183008/http://factoidz.com/
This is how Factoidz got views
I have seen that type of stuff – it isn’t new. its been happening for a long time.
What Factoidz did was take the best stuff they had, not the most recent article, that was in a different section, and spotlight them. Waaaaay back when I joined Factoidz as I logged on to post, I would be captured by an article and read and comment, read another, it was rare for me to post more than 1 item a day.
What should happen is an army of Mods goes through articles and finds the best and puts them on the Front page to attract viewers.
that was similar to what Niume did and what Hubpages does now. There are of course huge costs to having professional moderators running a site. They are not cheap.
sorry I am really not sure what you mean.
I will be switching up my series in order to keep my motivation to write going.
that is good – important to change things up sometimes!
All we can do is keep on trucking by putting out our content.
we also have to ping the admins in support of those who cannot publish right now.
And that is sad that it has come to that.
it is, but we slog on to infinity! ours is not to reason why 🙂
Still sending emails. Each day I look for new posts from the members waiting. So sad for each of them. I know our comments and view will decline as members continue to leave the site, unfortunately.
so do I. Today I got all of your posts in the initial scroll, That hasn’t happened to me in a long time. i sometimes get one of your posts.
My tech post was the last new post in the 24 post scroll (or 25)
That means not many posts are here unfortunately.
it sadly does, 24 or so new posts a day, way down