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Ide · 07-26-2007, 11:09 AM

I don't think it has anything to do with the forum really. Of the major mud sites, it seems like TMC has the most active forums (NIC the server-specific forums out there), TMS has the most prominent top 100 mud list, etc....Perhaps if the forum posts were front-paged a little more prominently you would suck more people into the site. Though I don't know how many of your uniques come in through the front page versus coming in through a voting page. I suspect the latter.

One thing I've noticed over the years is that the community at TMC seems to be made up mostly of developers and aspiring developers. In fact you see this across platforms (MUSH, DIKU-clones, etc.). I don't know how true this is for LP, the CWG site, and so on, but my guess is it holds true. Who else would want to talk about all these mud issues but developers? If you could find a reason to draw players to the forums, perhaps you would see more use.

07-26-2007, 11:09 AM	#3
Ide Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Seattle Posts: 361	Re: Reasons to promote/discuss your MUD on TMS. I don't think it has anything to do with the forum really. Of the major mud sites, it seems like TMC has the most active forums (NIC the server-specific forums out there), TMS has the most prominent top 100 mud list, etc....Perhaps if the forum posts were front-paged a little more prominently you would suck more people into the site. Though I don't know how many of your uniques come in through the front page versus coming in through a voting page. I suspect the latter. One thing I've noticed over the years is that the community at TMC seems to be made up mostly of developers and aspiring developers. In fact you see this across platforms (MUSH, DIKU-clones, etc.). I don't know how true this is for LP, the CWG site, and so on, but my guess is it holds true. Who else would want to talk about all these mud issues but developers? If you could find a reason to draw players to the forums, perhaps you would see more use.