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In an attempt to analyze this site, I am taking this excessively short survey. Thank you for your help.
I found your site Phid when I read your posts on the American History forum. I actually went to your Great Awakening site first and then found your forum. It bothers me greatly that this forum is not getting any more action than it is. I wish this site and the Religious History Forum were doing better. Historians I know would probably love to visit here and shoot the historical bull. I know I haven't spent enough time in here. I try to visit here at least once a day, and if there are new posts, I try to participate. I probably need to start some threads in the two forums you made me a mod on. I'll try to dig up some of my old stuff from college and post it here. You know, I wish I had built a site like this, but you beat me to it. Something else too, the other NJO members who are registered here seem to have forgotten this place. That bugs the crap out of me, but I don't know what to do about it. This place should have 10 times the members of NJC/NJO by now.
Donnie, thanks for your input. I know part of the reason why the site's having difficulty. To fix it, I may need to switch the forum back over to phpbb, even though I'd rather not. Hopefully there's a better solution.
To be honest, I think I like SMF a little better than phpbb2, but the support community is so much larger with phpbb2 than SMF. Plus I find it a little more user friendly to install and configure. I have a copy of SMF on my hard drive, but I was too lazy to do all the stuff to get it running. I thought this site would piggy back NJC/NJO and then take off, but I fear my site is not helping you much. History is not many people's bag I guess…..either that or they are waiting for someone to post the right subjects. Maybe a dose of “hot button” topics is what is needed.
This site is having trouble getting picked up in the major search engine, so I can't get the occasional visitor who could turn into a regular poster. My phpbb forum didn't have that problem. I agree that the phpbb community is much larger and there is more support and add ons. However, I think this is just because SMF is much newer; in time, it should grow quite a bit. As far as installation, though, I can't imagine that SMF is any more difficult than phpbb. At least you know that you can convert your phpbb forum into an SMF forum down the road if you ever wanted to. It's not that hard at all.
I Googled your sitename and it popped up number one and my forum is right underneath it, and AcademichHistory.org (neglected site that it is) is right there too. Are you talking about meta tags? Maybe there is a meta tag generator mod you can add to the forum. If the people here would post more subjects, it would have more chances to pickup a Google bot.
I was thrown a life preserver by Phidippides as I was going down on a sinking ship called the american history forums, he knows what I'm talking about!
Yes, that other forum is being devoured by spammers as we speak. Think of one of the Raptor scenes from Jurassic Park where they're surrounding their prey and pouncing on it and you'll get the idea. 😮
Well shucks, we should have offered to take that forum over a long time ago if the site owners weren't going to keep it going. Freaking political forums seem to be getting all the action these days, and history/religion forums are struggling for members. I admit religion and history are a tougher sell, but darn it, there is so much more to talk about in those subject areas. But alas, everyone seems to prefer the Myspace.com sites over what we're peddling.
Patience! They will come! Besides it sounds as though those people are long gone and any offer would have been stuck eternally in cyberspace.
I just saw that this site was being crawled by “linkiewinkie”. On http://www.linkiewinkie.com it claims that it's some sort of “social experiment”, whatever that is. Let's hope it's for the good.
I just saw that this site was being crawled by “linkiewinkie”.? On http://www.linkiewinkie.com it claims that it's some sort of “social experiment”, whatever that is.? Let's hope it's for the good.
Was it?
Check out the Linkie Winkie site and you can see if this site is listed there in the links section. It's a “social experiment” so who knows if it will work?
