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    What happened on 12 February 2020?

    The landing page for WOOF states the following:

    Most users ever online was 1,020, 12-02-2020 at 09:44 AM.

    This date rings no bells for me. What on earth happened on a Wednesday morning a few months back that caused such an influx of traffic?

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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    That is a lot of people, especially for a morning
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Quote Originally Posted by Axe Man View Post
    The landing page for WOOF states the following:

    Most users ever online was 1,020, 12-02-2020 at 09:44 AM.

    This date rings no bells for me. What on earth happened on a Wednesday morning a few months back that caused such an influx of traffic?
    Unfortunately it's not people that are causing this level of traffic. They're actually 'bots's that scan websites and try to join
    We get a number of bots joining the site and I clean that up each week. Our simple security measures block 99.5% of it

    The biggest day I can recall in terms of posts being generated in recent years was around the Brendan McCartney sacking.
    I think we had something like a 1,100 posts on the one day and 3,500 to 4,000 for the week.

    We used to regularly get more than 200 posts per day every day but those days are unfortunately long gone
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Quote Originally Posted by GVGjr View Post
    Unfortunately it's not people that are causing this level of traffic. They're actually 'bots's that scan websites and try to join
    We get a number of bots joining the site and I clean that up each week. Our simple security measures block 99.5% of it

    The biggest day I can recall in terms of posts being generated in recent years was around the Brendan McCartney sacking.
    I think we had something like a 1,100 posts on the one day and 3,500 to 4,000 for the week.

    We used to regularly get more than 200 posts per day every day but those days are unfortunately long gone
    Thanks GVG, I thought that it may be something like that.

    I seem to recall at one stage our most users online was the night of a national draft, which at least made sense.

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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Axey is right about drafts we normally get a kick in contrbutions

    Here are some numbers by day by contributions (posts) from Oct 2014 when McCartney was being moved on

    October 05, 2014

    226
    October 06, 2014

    333
    October 07, 2014

    338
    October 08, 2014

    366
    October 09, 2014

    980
    October 10, 2014

    1070
    October 11, 2014

    369
    October 12, 2014

    423
    October 13, 2014

    568
    October 14, 2014

    478
    October 15, 2014

    969
    October 16, 2014

    655



    And now for the month of May 2020

    May 01, 2020

    54
    May 02, 2020

    69
    May 03, 2020

    72
    May 04, 2020

    111
    May 05, 2020

    50
    May 06, 2020

    19
    May 07, 2020

    21
    May 08, 2020

    21
    May 09, 2020

    20
    May 10, 2020

    38
    May 11, 2020

    55
    May 12, 2020

    76
    May 13, 2020

    70
    May 14, 2020

    38
    May 15, 2020

    33
    May 16, 2020

    30
    May 17, 2020

    26
    May 18, 2020

    64
    May 19, 2020

    32
    May 20, 2020

    36
    May 21, 2020

    39
    May 22, 2020

    49
    May 23, 2020

    19
    May 24, 2020

    17
    May 25, 2020

    85
    May 26, 2020

    65
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Interesting that the number of posts are down so much.

    Have we not had an influx of new members in recent years? Wonder if it's something we could pose to the club, almost as their 'official' fan forum to try and generate new contributors.

    I know that personally my contributions have dropped significantly over this time and it's predominately due to time - though I still check the site daily.

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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Hopefully that will pick up soon once the season gets underway again.
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Could the gradual decline be due to something bigger, like the maturation of most of the posters on here.

    I mean if you consider the vast majority of the regular posters have been posting on here for 10+ years, maybe we've just seen a lot of posters change from enthusiastic posters who just want to be part of any discussion to older posters who are more inclined to only post when they feel they can add to the discussion? I know that's certainly a change I've gone through having joined here as a teenager and now being in my 30s.

    This could also be combined with a change in mindset since the premiership. After 2016 perhaps a few of us have "lost the hunger" as such and are more relaxed supporters now, and maybe even our poor performances since the flag that would have previously riled us up and gotten us making more posts pre premiership now just leave us a bit flat.

    We've also potentially struggled to bring in an abundance of new "talent" potentially because a) we seem to spread through word of mouth more than anything and everyone has exhausted their Bulldog friends already and b) as a new poster there aren't a bunch of topics you can ease your way into, aside from some of the post match threads.

    Having said that this is still the best forum in terms of well thought out discussion I frequent and still has a fair bit of activity so the bar is still set pretty high here.
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Facebook kills sites like this too I think. It's much simpler while you are on FB to post to check the proliferation of Western Bulldog fan sites than check on or to have to register on WOOF.
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Quote Originally Posted by soupaman View Post

    Having said that this is still the best forum in terms of well thought out discussion I frequent and still has a fair bit of activity so the bar is still set pretty high here.
    Could that be a problem in itself perhaps? Maybe it's easier to go on one of the FB sites and say something like "Yay I love Libba" than to read through posts on WOOF?
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Quote Originally Posted by Twodogs View Post
    Facebook kills sites like this too I think. It's much simpler while you are on FB to post to check the proliferation of Western Bulldog fan sites than check on or to have to register on WOOF.
    Are those Facebook sites moderated? The ones I have seen (haven't looked for a few years), there were some very nasty people on them.

    I don't like any forum, or social media where people get personal and attack you, and that is the beauty of this forum. We may disagree about someone's view point, but very few times in the last 14 years have there been too many personal attacks, and if there were, the moderators quickly shut it down.
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    There's certainly a level of competition which didn't exist 10 years ago.

    There's multiple large supporter groups on Facebook, BF will always attract a large audience, you've got Instagram/Twitter for quick 'news grabs' and discussion and the AFL and its clubs have all dramatically improved their content in that time.

    Soup's post above about the maturity of our posters rings true. Ultimately the key is bringing in a steady influx of new contributors, and how this can be done. I do wonder if it's something that could be put towards the club - particularly in the current space.

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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Facebook pages make Big Footy look like a Mensa meeting, absolute cesspool, our club included (with the exception of Rocco's page of course).

    I've got nothing against Facebook either, use it daily, but I don't get involved in any discussions on fan pages and the like. There are some good footy pages to follow for a laugh, or some nostalgia, but certainly not for serious discussion.

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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Some good points made about the increased competition for our attention. I think WOOF is better off as a smaller, more mature platform for the reasons that have been raised.

    I'm still all for paying/donating to the site to help cover costs, maybe even set up a WOOF patreon account or something similar. I'm sure those that visit the site daily would be happy to pay a few bucks every month to keep it ticking over...
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    Re: What happened on 12 February 2020?

    Quote Originally Posted by soupaman View Post
    Could the gradual decline be due to something bigger, like the maturation of most of the posters on here.

    I mean if you consider the vast majority of the regular posters have been posting on here for 10+ years, maybe we've just seen a lot of posters change from enthusiastic posters who just want to be part of any discussion to older posters who are more inclined to only post when they feel they can add to the discussion? I know that's certainly a change I've gone through having joined here as a teenager and now being in my 30s.
    Good use of the word "most"
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