Topic: Reduced forum activity - page 2. (Read 1346 times)

less bounties for the 3rd world country lads + abusive dt members

This forum is build for mobile devices, i don't know what are you talking about here that this forum is not build for mobiles, you will need a phone that supports WAP browsing like the Ericsson T20s
https://www.gsmarena.com/ericsson_t20s-211.php

Or search for an app that emulates WAP, and then you can access bitcointalk from your mobile device
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5276911.60;wap2

Depends on your phone.

I find it just as quick now almost to hammer it out via phone.

You need a good phone with a large screen. Of course so much easier to use the phone anywhere gym, beach, restaurant while slow coaches are still munching. than a laptop .

I don't find it much of an issue compared to the laptop but if you have a small phone then it would be pretty rubbish.
I suggest something like a galaxynote10 or 20plus. Or one of those that fold.  I haven't tried one yet.

I think this is my fav forum software. I'm a member of quite a few but this basic layout and function is by far the best for me.

We never had a mobile version during the last 2 big bulls so a more mobile friendly version would be good but it wont change any of the points I made in my last post on this thread.

Prepare for the next bull. Maximize and utilize  every type of willing participant or you will never reach the volume of the last bull.
If people dont believe the next gold rush is open to them. They wont come here.

Best thing for this forum is to make it appealing to everyone who is interested in making money. We all known 99% of users come initially for that. Later a proportion do become genuine enthusiasts.

Mobile version, okay a good thing to have but won't really be enough to turn things around on it's own.
Still, undeniably, it would be a nice addition and a positive thing.

Whatever makes you happy, pal.

You could use your phone to look up what "caca nerveux" means and to find a remedy against it.

I bought a bluetooth keyboard to use with my phone. It's geat for typing replies, but you still have the problem of the small screen.

You hate = everyone hates right?

We've had this discussion recently and several times before that. I rarely visit the forum on my phone and when I do, it's only to read up a bit. I'm not quite sure if there's anyone who likes to type on a mobile phone keyboard. I hate chatting and messengers already because of the small screen, so why would people want to type entire forum threads on their phone? That would be a golden recipe for one-line posters.

Number one thing we need to improve for bitcointalk forum is full mobile support.
There is no excuse anymore for not having it done so far (sorry theymos) and I am just being honest.
Young folks are using mostly smartphones now and less computers.
I am was also testing new epoch software and coinbistro, and even if I think it would be big shock and initial resistence, in the long run it would only be good for everyone.

The thing is with most modern designs I feel like there's too much white space, and not enough content. I know people generally like the minimalist view of modern designs, but I'm quite a big fan of getting the most data possible while also retaining some sort of readability. I think SMF does this perfectly, and I'll be honest I'm not a great fan of the new forum software layout how it currently is. There was a forum software out there that I liked the look of, but can't remember the name of it. It has some modern features which made the usability pretty nice too.

Although, I don't think the software is whats causing the traffic to dip, or at least the illusion that traffic is dipping. Since, I haven't been able to verify whether there actually has been a significant downtrend of users recently.

Update: The software I was thinking of is Discourse. Its modern, and has a lot of blank space, but I quite like it for some odd reason. Although, even so I don't think I prefer it over SMF. There's just something quite appealing about SMF.

I personally tend to avoid mobiles due to the security risks associated with them. Plus, I'm not a fan of most operating systems since they are often either partially open sourced with certain parts "closed" source or they're completely non open source. Plus, the screens are generally way to small to do any sort of long formatting of posts. Too many mistakes, when a keyboard offers ten fold more accuracy.

But signatures are a problem, why do i need to go to settings and block the signatures or the user because their signature is spamming and annoying?
What if i am accessing the forum without login in?

Why is not the opposite?
If i want to see the annoying spamming signature i turn the signature ON.

And this is another reason why most of the activity is moving to chats, like telegram or discord.
There is no signature on those chats.

Also i notice that some treads there is a warning saying that the creator of the post is a scammer, i never seen that on Discord or Telegram.
Take a look at ONION tread, there is a big warning, but there is no warning on their Telegram.

Is the same when you visit your favorite porn site for many years and then they start to add popups and annoying advertising and the videos of your favorite model only last 30 sec because if you want to watch more you need to pay, what users do? they go somewhere else.

But this forum have very old users who been in crypto forever and is good to know about their experiences so we the new generation will not make their mistakes, or that is what i am trying to do.

For me that's the main reason. Normally at work I had some more time in between to check the forum. Now while working at home I am more concentrated so don't be that active during working hours like on the office.

Unfortunately for some this is a big problem, for me personally it is not that the forum is not very mobile friendly - but if the memory serves me well there are some solutions, albeit unofficial ones that can help with that. I've also tried to fight those who post too large images and those who quote the same to make their posts look better - but the last 10 posts I report have remained unhandled, and for what I've deleted in a self-moderated thread I've been accused of I delete posts because I disagree with someone's opinion.

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Why did you get so caught up in users signatures when I nicely explained to you how any user can block them in two steps? Each campaign manager decides which post to pay for and which not - just because someone has something in their signature doesn't mean they shouldn't write "LOL" "YES" "NO" - it's actually quite normal in everyday communication.

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Reduced activity, in my opinion, is mainly in that new users can no longer easy create 100 accounts that will become a Full/Senior member in a few months - I am not sorry because we lost that activity.

It isn't the signatures that \re the problem, but the lack of supervision or monitoring by some of the campaign managers.

One solution would be to restrict links in sigs to Bitcoin Talk threads or posts, or to domains that are owned by the poster.

4Chan was launched in 2003 and their layout never has changed, the sub board /biz is popular with crypto users.

I now see why this forum has lack of activity, for example, the other day a user who had a paid signature quote one of my posts, and he made a joke and wrote "LOL"
I did not understand the joke, i actually never encounter a joke like that, if that was the joke, the reason for the joke was that he went trough all my post history and found some questionable truth about me, just imagine the time spent doing that, i notice that the user comment was emotionless behaving like an human spambot, i also notice that the user had a signature promoting some site, and then i got it and understood that some of those users who had signatures are getting paid to spam Bitcointalk with their comments lacking human emotions.

Instead 4Chan there is no signatures, and nobody is directly promoting scams, everybody is free to do whatever and is more alive than never, never upgrade since 2003, and i never been stalked when i post there.

This forum is mobile intolerant unfortunately. If it supported mobile viewers, it would not allow those stupid great useless images, and the pratts who insist on making nested quotes to make a one line reply.

I feel the same way... I don't actually see any need for the forum to be upgraded as it contains everything that is necessary for the promotion of discussion in the format that it currently is.

One thing that would definitely help and is probably years overdue is a mobile version. Many, many people read the forum from a mobile device, which can be irritating as there's usually a lot of scrolling involved.

Over 50% of all web traffic comes from mobile devices, and though the trend seems to have leveled off in recent years, the forum would definitely see more visitors / users with a more user-friendly mobile layout. Don't have a clue as to how practical making SMF mobile friendly is but my guess is its not easy or it would have been done already.

Not many signature campaigns as they used to be. That's the  #1 reason.

#2 reason, even though most of you don't want to believe it, bitcoin is not as popular as it once was.

#3 reason is a general one. Forums died long time ago.

#4 reason, it became impossible for most people to rank up unless they really put their time and effort in their posts and that was actually intended.
(good news for the good posters, bad news for the account farmers.) Action > Reaction.

The forum may need a little bit of change until such it will achieve something great to which it will be presentable to most users will going to like. Yet, it does not mean changing the forum into unnoticeable where we can't distinguish the old and new forum. The improve should be done gradually so that user can get into adaptation and of course can comment something that it can add to the bitcointalk forum beautification. However, most forum I see like this is usually are text and there could be audio and video but seldom it will be use and that only depend on the user. But this is one added feature to a forum I have been into. This is just my thought and nothing should be taken seriously.

No. Wrong.

They selected some of the least successful morons spreading misinformation and crushing the free speech on this forum.
Why else would people that have been here all of these years need to spam chipmixer?
They are broke down bums that are crap at trading and have very poor judgement in general. Some of the biggest failures here in terms of why most people honestly join this forum. To make money. That is why the forum explodes every BTC high. The gold rush.

It is very simple why the traffic has left bitcointalk.

1. This lull always takes places after a bull has run out of steam and we wait the next period of time for an all time high where the mass media slathers bitcoin over the news 24/7 and people think bingo... here is now the next gold rush opportunity. People even some long term holders really start to capitulate on long bears or stagnation well below last ATH.


2. Other mediums have picked up heavily on crypto. Not all projects are released here. A lot of people get there crypto news and opportunities else where than a pow announced release on here now.

3.  Merit, trust and campaign managers have ensured that there is no more easy access to quick coin or token grabs in any worthwhile amount. Along with the crash in interest due to the long stagnant for bear cycle we've been through. Alts have killed themselves off generally due to dilution death. There are few that " appear" to have some life aka liquidity, volume and cap. These are mostly fake. The distribution is narrow and everything about them is artificial. A handful of exceptions.

4. Even when we hit the next btc ATH I am not expecting this forum to hit levels it did in the last gold rush here .
The word is out now that not just anyone knowing nothing whatsoever can turn up and spam and get their paws on some coins to dump into USD.

5. Although it was annoying for some people on the forum who primarily enjoyed the alt forum , having all of those people filling the forum with crap or gambling their 50 or 100 bucks to try to make 100x more over night breathed a lot of activity  and life and action into the forum. Most were really compulsive gamblers and even their  50 bucks  spamming bounties were gambled on other alts etc.
The answer was not really to kick them all off. The answer was to separate them from those that wanted serious discussion.  You should have kept all the traffic gambling and tons of small steaks and them all spamming the shit out of twitter facebook and all other social media linking back to projects on here for their " bounties" . Smarter folks were simply suggesting junior  (noob jails) for several boards. 

Most of the fools wasting their money on those far out new projects or spamming the shit out of their social media accounts that all linked back to projects here for bounties  were noobs who would never make it off the junior boards but that didnt matter since the only fools that bought into those projects were others of the same type who would be locked there also.

All of that initial WOM traffic , free SM advertising,  free SE traffic  and tons of small steak gambling shares from either them of projects seed money they got a tiny bit of from spamming and advertising for them GONE.
If you take away the small and unskilled peoples ability to grab a tiny slice or their belief they can gain a nice big slice you take away all the effort and drive they bring that is both negative and positive to the forum with a poor design.  But could all converted to mostly positive if the design was changed. Also you could change a negative environment of reporting snitching and punishing.  To mostly recognition and rewarding. The crapsters would just remain in noob jail and have no negative effect on the senior boards.

This is irrelevant until the next bull and BTC ATH.
A couple of people trying to jump start the forum at this point is pointless. People come for MONEY
Better start redesigning the forum to capture all the wind it can next time at ATH to drive it forward.

I'm not sure if newbie members have any restrictions when it comes to certain settings in their profiles - but if signatures bother you so much, here's a simple solution -> Click Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences -> Select Don't show users' signatures + you can also block users avatars in same way.

Now that we have a very simple solution to block signatures and avatars, can we conclude that some things stem from the fact that some users of this and other forums do not really know how to use the forum, or adjust it to their needs?