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LadyPact -> RE: Site slowing down? (11/25/2015 3:42:03 AM)
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Define slowing down. Are you talking about new people joining, forum activity, or perhaps something else?
All sites like this go through an upswing of new people joining from the period (in the US) from around Thanksgiving through New Year's. OKCupid did a study on it a few years ago and the trend happens because of the reasons that you'd generally expect. People who are single are feeling that extra holiday pressure to meet someone, there's more time off from work and school, social obligations are different, etc. There's another peak that happens again closer to Valentine's day. If you watch tv, you'll see an increase in ads during certain times of year to reflect this, especially for certain dating sites.
If you're talking about forum activity, that's where this site and FL part ways. FL, being more of a social site than a dating site, isn't exactly hurting for activity. There's more posts and comments in the larger groups (those with 50,000 or more) than you see in all of the sections of this site combined. I can't speak for anybody else but my friend feed has plenty of folks reading, commenting, and posting events.
In my opinion, CM/CS has trouble from various issues in the past year. The most recent of which are the posts from the folks creating sock puppets and/or folks using the forums specifically to harass other people. Considering there have been a ridiculous number of ToS violations on the forums recently, it's no big surprise that a number of people have stopped posting or are posting less at this current time. That's after the site took a hit from the name change. After the mess that was made by Mod3. Not to mention there are some other undesirable characters running around the place. It's not exactly the kind of atmosphere that a lot of people want to spend their internet time.
The Fifty Shades phenomenon hasn't really slowed on the other site. (God, help me, that damn flick premiered on HBO recently and they'll play it 600 times at least before it falls off of the rotation.) I don't think that part is quite over yet.
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