Eyes on Final Fantasy: Posting Activity History

[ShunNakamura]

Well I have been an off and on member of a community that did bit of an Exodus.

I could go on and mention a lot about it, though all my information is second hand. The Exodus occurred while I was on Hiatus and I missed it. I was lucky to find the site where the community moved to(Since the New owner of the original community did everything in his power to prevent the move(disabling PM's, etc)). The new one is only a few months old and it has risen above the old site according to the site stats I have seen(and is even worth more according to those site calculator things(despite not even being 7 months old yet)); though the community still hasn't reached its old glory and the focus has changed(it covers a very large number of games now rather than just one).

However, even without the new owner the site probably would have died. It was a niche focus that was beginning to spiral to start with. Which is one of the mistakes the current owner says was learned from the old site.

Of course the situations are different. What works once may not work again. The fact that the owner did what he did may have helped(after all disabling PM's and rolling the forum backs and all sorts of other drama isn't a good way to keep members).



As for spicing things up. Well a site that I frequent nearly as much as EoFF now; it has blogs(create a forum account, you get a blog), the user profile is customizable to a fair deal(I have seen some pretty neat user profiles, they even have a monthly contest for best profile). And EoFF uses a newer version of VB so I assume we can do all that too.

Not that I myself use those features(ok I admit I played with my profile)... but some people probably like them. It also seems they have more social groups. And while a bit silly/image-sharing they do bring people together and create activity. Such as the Anti-Social Group(which apparently has a bad habit of dying off only to be revived again), The Drama Club, the Loli Lovers, The Ecchi Club, The SOS 団 Guild Club, Clubs for games they have information on, clubs for video game guilds that use the site, etc.


But in the end the community has to have heart. If the community has a whole begins to become dispirited then... well that isn't good(no duh).





Edit- Yikes.. I just was using some of those website value calculators so I punched in EoFF and apparently it has gone done in worth 2-3 thousand in as many months(which I would have taken a screen shot before telling cubestat to update). That can't look good to the owners. www.eyesonff.com estimated worth and web stat from Cubestat.