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Post Competing for attention. Getting users.
Usually it's better to do it with a new site. You can take everything about it from ground up to get users. The people will come to what interests them. A lot of sites play off core interests. Youtube plays off hosting and showing things making it user friendly. Facebook plays off social lives. Twitter plays off knowledge and culture. There are many other cores that haven't been exploited or used that could be.

But really you're reading this to learn about how to improve this site. It's not new, it's old. Soaked in past and legend, it carries the world of ages gone by. I'm being too fancy. It just has a lot of stuff it holds up. The internet plays off itself trying to attract the masses. And Users are the target. Users are smart and know this, they'll flit around from thing to thing. Pandora isn't the monster it once was, Napster died fast, Myspace turned from a giant into a laughingstock. Users stick to a few main sites, and are split into groups that share info. No one's defined to a role, but how they act on info creates this role. Funny enough you can take these social outlets and use these people to share something like crazy. You know what I have as proof. Anyway, this is just an overview of the setting. To attract the masses you have to capture the people seeking info. To capture the info seekers you have to make it conceptually easy to understand. To do that you have to simplify and redesign to fit them. Google + tried and failed, not because of the idea, but because of the complexity and not being different enough.

Now how can we apply that to the site? First we have to define who we want. Then we think about how the design and purposes of the website fit them. Then we redesign based on flaws and trying to make it cleaner and more simplistic. That doesn't mean we have to throw things away(though that can help depending situationally), it means we redesign how we show it. Contextualization, burning things down to basics, re-thinking parts, changing how things are found or used. Really making it as user friendly as possible and thinking about how people will use it and what for. We make it easy to use and work.

Personally I think we try to attract active people who are opinionated and know stuff. I think we should design discussion for them, we should remove a lot of the options from plain sight and put them in filtering. On the Main page we should redesign it with contextual pop outs(not new windows) and think about what people use. Possibly some new things. This is at base a message board, but thinking about what a site is is old idealism. Sites should be for the user, and for that we might want to add more. Possibly drawing boards, an expandable chat, things that allow people to show examples, and express themselves more easily. Go wild. Extensions like making the post box a WYSIWYG editor, youtube searching by name or URL, things like that. Just making everything simpler, while adding more and thinking about the experience of a user first not the tech implementation. If we can design on these standards and ideals, when new people visit the site who fit our crowd, they'll quickly be intruiged and enticed to stay.

One last thing. A front page is the face of the site. It has to be easy access for people who have niche tastes and are ingrained, but also not kill the interest of new users. Instead it has to pull them in, and bring them to try it. I have some diagrams I drew when at the bus stop, I might upload them when I've done some extensions.

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Post Re: Competing for attention. Getting users.
weve been having some problems with our front page, anyway

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I'm trying i'm trying~ i'm making I'll try too slowly up my posting. At least once a day for a bit. Then I'll up that too twice, then four, then 8 and so on.
Until eventually I wake up one morning and find out that I am actually an Idiot hero.
On some quest too cheat on his gf or raise affection of 5 women who conveniently live in my the same dorm as me.
In which I only have 100 days to seduce them all.

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Post Re: Competing for attention. Getting users.
No, to compete is to lose one's self. Remember the goal, the end goal of all things to come.

I don't want to sound like a jedi thing, but you know know what I'm getting at. Doesn't take to be a 1960s psychedelic hippie to know.

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Grow self forever until people notice. Fuck competition. You can't beat you.

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I'm trying i'm trying~ i'm making I'll try too slowly up my posting. At least once a day for a bit. Then I'll up that too twice, then four, then 8 and so on.
Until eventually I wake up one morning and find out that I am actually an Idiot hero.
On some quest too cheat on his gf or raise affection of 5 women who conveniently live in my the same dorm as me.
In which I only have 100 days to seduce them all.

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Now we can dominate the porn industry, camera industry, AND the world!
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YOU BETTER STAY ALIVE OR ELSE I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN AND RAPE YOU DEAD.

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