Other Is site traffic down since the new build?

Just wondering if a mod could confirm?

Looking at the amount of posts/views per day, compared to what it was like on the old forum, it seems we're down a lot of traffic.

Thoughts?

 

Yep I've noticed it too - although I've not checked the actual numbers, it feels like there are fewer updated threads and less activity in general.

 

Wonder if the down time contributed? I know that with other media when something is down or not updated for a while my posting rate becomes less frequent for a while after. Usually it's because I've found something else to fill that void, so it takes some time to normalise, if it ever does even.

That said, because logs are so much easier to update now, I've found my own rate increase dramatically.

 

I have to be honest and say that I'm not visiting or posting as often as I used to, but I also have to say that it feels as if the forums have been getting steadily quieter over the months before the downtime. I still enjoy this community but it does feel like there are fewer posters, and fewer posts, than even a year or two ago.

 

I have notice it being much quieter long before the 'Great change', questions can go unanswered or receive very few posts, marketplace seems to have really gone down hill in regards to what is offered these days. Great pity as this has been a really great forum.

 

kinda thought the "Great Change" was to try and combat the drop-off (amongst other things).

 

Perhaps everyone's been here, just just occupied with other things...
https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.p...he-2016-us-presidental-election.311161/unread

https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.php?threads/e-u-leave-or-stay-your-thoughts.299681/

https://forums.bit-tech.net/index.php?threads/uk-general-election-2017.326548/

Been pretty busy and there's enough material in those events to keep us laughing/crying for a while.
Also, I wonder if the time of year has an effect, would be good to see similar figures for previous years.

 

Three largely interchangeable threads, all dedicated to flogging the same dead horse and quote-for-quote point scoring. Yeah, they bring a lot to the forum.

 

I stopped visiting the US Presidential thread due to one particular poster. He's now banned, it seems, but I haven't bothered to go back in much recently.

 

Yeah they have merged into page long posts, far too much mass debation going on there.

Merging into a 'Politics' thread may save some copy and pasting.

 

I just sprayed tea on my desk.

 

As long as it was just tea after you're mass
debation it's ok.

 

A more succinct way of putting that would be "at least it was only tea".

 

One reason for less traffic would be it appears the new forum software doesn't redirect the old vbulletin urls.

eg:

https://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=212859 = 404.

An interesting oversight to say the least given there's literally decades of backlinks and google-juice to the old vbull software's URL scheme, which are all now just 404ing

 

I feel like a bit of downtime and a redesign is sometimes a prompt for people that aren't really feeling it any more but just posting more out of habit to take their leave. I stopped posting on a forum before in similar circumstances.
I don't think it's necessarily such a bad thing if it potentially brings in a bit of new blood and generally freshens things up.

 

My policy of keeping my politics to myself failed a bit with those threads, and I regret it deeply. I must admit they made me feel considerably less welcome here even just reading through the comments. It also doesn't help when those same topics have a way of sneaking into Rick's annoying reviews.

 

What I was thinking, I'm struggling to get used to it and change my habits but I'll adjust.....

 

My impression is that traffic has been declining for quite a while, since before the refresh. It doesn't really seem as if the refresh has changed things in that regard.

It does feel like we're down to the bare bones in terms of userbase

 

I agree with bawjaws just looking at post times after I have slept a while to find very few new additions.

 

This seems to be a general problem with sites like this. I'm still a member of the PCAdvisor forum and that one is almost sleeping with the fishes.