Questions tagged [site-growth]
Questions about how to increase user base within the community
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Any best practices to promote and boost the activity in Web3 Discord Community Server?
StackExchange fam! I'm a newbie community manager, and I'd like to hear about your experience in growing your Discord Community Server!
Since I started to work on growing the Discord Server I've made ...
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How can I attract users to engage with non-political forum games and communities amidst the overwhelming focus on politics?
I feel like some users are so entrenched in political discussions that they overlook or dismiss non-political content.
Is there a subset of users who intentionally downvote non-political posts as a ...
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Facebook fanpage : how to reach German and American targets
I'm the admin of a facebook fan page named "Eventi Culturali Napoli", I would like to see some visitors from abroad, especially Germany and the USA, what can I do for now without doing paid ...
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Rankings: How to deal with low number of reviews for user generated content website?
I have a community based website and I am receiving some complaints about the way I make the rankings of content.
The focus of the platform is user-generated reviews. The problem is that I use an ...
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Models of community growth
The academic literature often proposes simple models that help us think about the behavior of a system. For instance, the Bass Diffusion Model is a famous mathematical model that captures the dynamics ...
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How do I gather the people to create a new Stack Exchange community?
Technically, to create a new Stack Exchange site, there is a procedure on Area51. This is covered by the question How do I create a new community on Stack Exchange?.
However, since then there have ...
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What are the best practice for starting community groups?
I am really keen to hear about research and authoritative material that this community know about starting and sustaining real-life, face-to-face, old school community groups? It would be nice to know ...
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How to reach tech talent interested in developing countries?
I work with a nonprofit called Alter Global that supports tech entrepreneurs across the developing world by connecting them to global talent, capital, and networks.
We're rolling out a Tech Fellows ...
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Steal Hashtags in social networks as guerrilla strategy
I am thinking in this strategy more like a guerrilla way. I have articles about companies and I understand that is not very polite to steal their hashtags. However, it seems a good way to reach a new ...
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Encouraging use of a new Facebook group
I recently created a Facebook group, linked to an extant page, hoping to make it easy for all community members to participate. I've gotten a decent number of people to join the new group, and am ...
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How to encourage members to engage with the group?
My friends and I created a Facebook group for programmers and alike. Its aim is to have members asking questions and others answering them. As well as a source for programming related articles and ...
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Encouraging people from Facebook buy/sell group to use free classified website
So I have 3 buy/sell groups in Facebook with 20,000+ , 28,000+ and 43,000+ users. I wanted to encourage them to use a classified website and tried a lot of things for this, but so far I only get an ...
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What forms of guerrilla marketing can be effective when building a community on the web?
I read a lot about small hacks that can help when gaining traction with very small budget. Some of the most commons strategies are:
Profile signature in related forums. No cost, but some forums have ...
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Can I use data from public Google Docs file to seed my new site?
I have a website that depends on reviews. In the initial stage I will have a classic chicken-egg problem. I need reviews to attract readers, and I need readers to attract writers.
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How to discourage a community from growing?
I have the opposite problem that many here probably have. I built a piece of software that was originally intended for myself and a handful of clients. I'm rather proud of it and it works very well ...
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Build a "liking" feature that best fosters an active community
Facebook has "likes", Instagram has "hearts", Twitter has "favorites" & "re-tweets", Pintrest has "pins", reddit has "upvotes". Each of these methods of showing you enjoy something have different ...
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An indifferent server manager who is a close friend of the owner
I am an administrator on a small, new Minecraft server. Our administration team has a "Manager". However, it seems that he is unwilling to do any jobs. From plugin configuration or even simply ...
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Best practices to promote a private beta SE site
I'm one of the more avid users of the emerging Internet of Things Stack Exchange. With the holidays our private beta has gotten a bit long and we are struggling a bit to re-engage with the pre-holiday ...
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Determine where my traffic is coming from?
My community has grown in fits and starts over the years. There are long lulls of a stable user base, then we get an influx of users over the course of 3-5 days. Some of those users end up sticking ...
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Appropriate gamification badge rewards for young community?
I am in the final stages of preparing to launch a new community. One of the things I keep reading about is how "gamification" helps to improve engagement in a community. I'm going to start small on ...
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How to crowdfund for Solar Nonprofit to garnish funds to initiate first project
I am the founder of a nonprofit organization trying to achieve our first project of installing photovoltaic solar panels in our city's largest public high school energy spender. Garnishing funds is ...
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How can I introduce topic based subforums to my site without splitting up the traffic too much?
It is a decision I am facing and that I struggle with: How can I split up the community into different subcommunities like reddit.
Currently users post on the main site. Everyone was fine with that, ...
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How to increase user engagement rate?
I have for the past month been working hard on a new project for myself about learning Korean. Writing the blog and sharing everything I do, is a real blast. However, as you might imagine, a response ...
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Are there any bad side effects of having a Dislike or Downvote button on a forum-based community? [duplicate]
We are still developing our forum community, and we're going to be having a "like button" where users can like a post or replies that they find interesting or like a post from a reputable or ...
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How can a community raise funds to help offset costs, even if site is non commercial?
I run a very small community with a nascent population (online; not associated with a geographical area). Even though my intention is to not necessarily create a profitable business out of this ...
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How effective are popularity contests as a way to recruit and build community membership?
Imagine a community one of whose activities is running contests where the winner from a set of finalists is determined by popularity (i.e. most votes). A feature of these popularity contests would be ...
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Do more users engage in a community with a more specific topic?
I have a knowledge website that lives from user generated content. It is still at the very beginning and not having much active users yet. The website is similar to Wikipedia: users can write about ...
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How can an online community measure its growth and development?
Is there a more effective way to measure how a community is growing and developing than just with simple metrics like:
Total membership
Number of new members per week or month
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What are best practices for creating engaging experience in a forum-based community?
So, I'm building a science and tech forum website and I need recommendations on
how to make the experience for the members more engaging so that more of the membership will return, and become more ...
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How can I measure growth trend of third party communities?
When one is the operator of a community platform, its possible to get a wealth of statistics to know how one's community is doing at any time and this trend over time. Examples are:
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How can I bring a community around a wiki of a fictional world?
The community I'd like to create is based around a fictional encyclopedia, simply a wiki, powered by Wikidot. It's pretty close to what the SCP Foundation guys do, in the content, but rather in the ...
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What metrics are helpful to describe the health of a community?
So I am managing a lot of sub communities and it became very hard to keep track of every single one. Moderator features are still in development and it happened already that I didn't notice bad ...
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How should a tech company communicate on Twitter?
I'm working in a software company where we regularly do coding dojo (practices with peers) and tech monitoring to stay up-to-date (reading article, watching conferences, etc.).
I'm a software ...
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How can I get people to join a site and not simply glance and pass it by?
A Stack Exchange site I participate on has been getting many questions in the Hot Network questions list recently, which has resulted in many questions getting lots of views.
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Placing a short announcement of our community in a professional journal
How do I best approach the editors of a professional journal about the topic of our site, if I would like to ask them if it is possible to place a short inviting announcement/comment about our ...
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How should a community transition from one platform to another?
I am building a community platform to help an offline community communicate better. They currently are filling the gap with a private Facebook group but lack some tools to do this well and also ...
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Getting word out for community to grow
I've recently finished making a social network. It's a platform for creators to meet and collaborate on their big ideas.
On a bunch of Q&A sites (some of the stack overflow sites included) I ...
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How can automation be used to grow and manage an online community?
I've heard a little about bots being used to moderate chatrooms and got thinking about how automated replies and smart bots could be used for other aspects of online community building beyond just in ...
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How do I encourage the development of subcommunities?
My users have a range of topics they discuss. Obviously, not everyone is interested in everything. The platform has the ability set up different tags. These tags become subcommunities (on other sites ...
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As a user, how can I stay on top of a fast-growing community?
I have a good "problem": a fairly new Stack Exchange site I participate on1 took off running. Our users are active, we get lots of engaging questions and answers, and our metrics are in good shape.
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Facebook Giveaways
So I've recently started a new gaming blog. I have nearly 100 Facebook likes and I seem to be getting some traffic across my website.
I recently ran a Facebook giveaway in which I asked users to ...
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Made changes based on feedback from users, later found that a larger silent majority didn't like these changes
In my last question, I got advice about how to keep up with my community. Since then, I've tried to stay engaged and brought on another community leader to help me. Growth continued. Over the month of ...
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How can I encourage people to use the (secondary) chat feature on my community's software?
I have a site that I moderate where the main part of the site is strictly professional.
However, there is a separate chat feature that I think people most don't know about. Bonding with others in the ...
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How do you choose the software that runs your community?
How does one determine the appropriate software to utilize for a new community? I'm starting a new community and know that I want a place to put blog entries and a place for users to chat about things....
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Attracting experts to a young site with little expert content
I'm a member of a new online community that I'd like to see flourish. In order to grow and gain traction we need to increase our user base, in particular by attracting experts in our topic.
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Community Leader is not productive and hurts site growth
I am one of 4 co-founders for a Minecraft community that is going live in January. In addition to the 4 of us, we have two administrators and a few moderators.
Founder A is the guy that provides the ...
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How do you handle sudden growth and expansion in a mature community?
I am a moderator in a community that has recently had a sharp increase in growth and activity levels.
Our staff team is pretty small, and before the growth, I found it easy to balance my busy ...
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How can I tell if a small specialized community is dying or if the long time-scale of activity is natural?
Our small community is naturally expected to have a longer "time-scale" for new activity appearing on the site than for example a typical medium-sized Stack Exchange community, because it is very ...
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Managing and maintaining tagging infrastructure on a community board
Many forums have the ability to tag a post (often with multiple tags). This site does too, I see. What is the best way to prepopulate these tags? I know here users can add new ones after they get ...
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How can I save a dying wiki, as its user?
I'm a semi-regular user of a game-related wiki, and I've noticed an extreme drop of activity after a sequel to the game came out. I hoped it was temporary occurrence, and we'd start to get users back ...
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