For such a busy and active place, the forums are very quiet! My guess is that people just forget they're here - a kind of 'them and us' between the music part of the website and the discussion part. The fact the music part of the site is very Facebook in its style probably means people don't bother looking beyond it. They comment on music, job done, move on...
I think the forums could and should be a very helpful place for the 'Loopers to talk music but I suspect people just aren't driven or attracted to them from the 'main' site.
So my suggestion would be to, perhaps, have some kind of indicator on the forum link to suggest how many posts have been made since their last visit - just something to shout 'you're missing stuff'. Whilst I'm loathe to add workload to the development of the site, I do feel the forums are largely overlooked and could be so much more if people used them.
This could've been discussed before - I haven't searched if I'm honest - but I'd love to see more collaboration on ideas and techniques via the forums, so I'm just putting ideas out as to how more users could be attracted to take part in the forums.
Just my 2p.
I think the forums could and should be a very helpful place for the 'Loopers to talk music but I suspect people just aren't driven or attracted to them from the 'main' site.
So my suggestion would be to, perhaps, have some kind of indicator on the forum link to suggest how many posts have been made since their last visit - just something to shout 'you're missing stuff'. Whilst I'm loathe to add workload to the development of the site, I do feel the forums are largely overlooked and could be so much more if people used them.
This could've been discussed before - I haven't searched if I'm honest - but I'd love to see more collaboration on ideas and techniques via the forums, so I'm just putting ideas out as to how more users could be attracted to take part in the forums.
Just my 2p.