The death of this forum

[Eastside Urchin]

It seems to me tat this forum is dying a slow and painful death.

No one really talks about football anymore,maybe after a game but in the week it's now dead,sad really as this was always one of the better club forums but not anymore,reminds me a bit of the Canvey forum a few years back.

Now all that seems to go on here is travel info,club info,match reports and prediction league,its more of an information service instead of a bit of both,very sad IMO

[cup of tea]

It's a little bit embarrasing that I've put as many posts on the Billericay forum today (that will change in a minute) as I have on this one. I've even run out of things to slag them off about.

 

Unfortunately, I think you could be correct EU.

[DiamondGeezer]

doesnt have to be that way just need to think of ideas to liven it up and things to talk about

[BUFC]

It seems to me tat this forum is dying a slow and painful death.

No one really talks about football anymore,maybe after a game but in the week it's now dead,sad really as this was always one of the better club forums but not anymore,reminds me a bit of the Canvey forum a few years back.

Now all that seems to go on here is travel info,club info,match reports and prediction league,its more of an information service instead of a bit of both,very sad IMO

 

It is what happens when you support a losing team!!

[cup of tea]

Ahem - We won on Saturday don't you know.

[BUFC]

Ahem - We won on Saturday don't you know.

 

Make the most of it.....Saturdays like that will be few and far between

[cup of tea]

To be honest, I think we might need to leave the title challenge until next season now, but I still think we'll do okay come the end of the season.

[cup of tea]

Rarely post, but good posts when you do Jago - Quality rather than quantity.

[BUFC]

I still think we'll do okay come the end of the season.

 

I hope so.

[cup of tea]

As we're getting players back, our performances are getting stronger - but I'm ever the optimist.

[bridgefan]

Perhaps as Jago infers, we are a bit dazed and confused rather than dead

Edited November 20, 2012 by bridgefan

[SEVEN TEARS BOY]

doesnt have to be that way just need to think of ideas to liven it up and things to talk about

 

We need Treeboy and his Friday Poll back!

 

And Westy and the rest of them...

[cup of tea]

Forgot about the Friday poll.

Name change again Andy?

[Eastside Urchin]

so many posters have stopped posting,many of the top posters have stopped coming to games.

we probably have no more than 15 regular posters where 5 years ago we probably had around 50 who posted at least a couple of times a month.

Other social networking sites may have a bearing but other clubs dont seem to suffer,margate still get a good number of posters on theirs,maybe it has something to do with content

[Ian_W]

My only thoughts on this is like anything - you need to get publicity - tweet and facebook topics both as a club and individually.

 

As individuals you can facebook like, tweet & google + via the links above every topic (other sharing options appear beneath the topics as well)

 

 

The more times this forum / topics appear on social media the more people will visit. This always works, so the more that do it the better.

 

If you blog, then add a blog here - this will add further publicity every time you mention the club.

 

More people are using facebook, Google+ and twitter - but that also means a captive audience to plug the forum.

 

Every topic / post that is created here is quickly listed by search engines - search for 'death of the forum hornchurch' on Google and you will see it was listed 3 hours ago - this means more people will discover what is going on quickly.

 

The more that read the forum, the greater the chance of getting people through the gates for matches.

 

If there is anything that I can do, please let me know.

[andydick]

Without doubt the forum needs a lot more exposure. It does tend to get stale when only 2 of the 68 Blue Square Conference sides actively contribute to the BSC section of the forum.

 

Even when an "outsider" does join in, in this case a Cambridge United supporter re this weekend's FA Trophy tie, they are met with such hostility (beyond the first couple of replies) by 'Ricay even though it's obvious to anyone (bar the dim few) that the post was tongue in cheek and in good humour.

 

The constant sniping (or is this "banter") is extremely tedious - it really does need some fresh input.

Edited November 21, 2012 by andydick

[Eastside Urchin]

agree to a certain extent although when this and other FF forums were at their height was when fans were having banter with each other,it doesn't exist any more,almost as if there is no rivalry around.

[Hornchurch "O"]

Plus we've received help from other fans as to where to drink etc.

I'm an old git who don't do Facebook or Twitter.

News normally comes quicker on the forum than the Website (No critism intended)

Thompson keeps me going no matter what name he uses.

[Eastside Urchin]

Lord clunge is his new name

[andydick]

Plus we've received help from other fans as to where to drink etc.

I'm an old git who don't do Facebook or Twitter.

News normally comes quicker on the forum than the Website (No critism intended)

 

Valid points.

 

Re the website, the only way the site will be up to date is if the purveyors of any new info tell the web admins about it rather than just posting it on here e.g. the news of the Grays friendly.

 

Unfortunately there'll always be a small lag getting the site updated since it's not multi-admin. But, given that the main page alone is getting around 170 unique visits a day (295 on Saturday) the site needs to be right and it needs to be up to date.

Edited November 21, 2012 by andydick