Am I the only one who feels that the forums are pretty slow despite the large amount of users who use the site?

number of accounts created 1.5mil (or higher or lower didn't check)
number of alts 1.4 mill
number of users 100,000
number of noobs that don't know about forums 85,000
number of russians who only post in their private boards 1000
number of forum inactive users who quit the game 2000
numbers of forum users who only post in private boards or barely ever post 5,000
number of dumb posters 3,000
number of people who market and nothing else 2,000
number of people who don't post more than 10 posts a week 1,000
number of normal people who post on a daily basis 1,000
number of people normally online at any given time 200

thats your problem. there are about 200 people online at a time and 80% of those people play in game away from the forums. in the olden days with a smaller community of like 10,000 people who were active and always on who knew about the forum and in game that had boosted the activity so much more than now just a bunch of in game non-forum users.

DropKick... y u so wise?

I remember far back when this site was more active, although that could have been because wibbles was here.

Made up statistics without sources ftw

Well the reason that I think the forum activity isn't like its use to be is because of the changes that occurred. The reason I think that the forums have slightly decreased activity is because of the roll back that happened a while back. Before the rollback I remember seeing the forums full of active players. When the rollback happened and ended I start to see a lot of players just fade away. Im not 100% sure this is the reason. It could be that people are just starting to think that there are better games out there. I myself go inactive sometime because I think the same thing. Currently there are a lot of members on the site but I also believe that most of the new players don't realize there is a forums. Because I remember when I first started and I didn't know that there was a forum till I was black belt. In my opinion there should be announcements in the game that broadcast to beginner servers that introduces them to the forum. It may or may not help forum activity but it is something.

I agree with this. Same happened in my case.


Its called torilife

^^^ Same...

Also nice statistics Dropkick lol.

DropKick's post is pretty much the truth. The game is about the game, not the forum around the game. If you look at a dedicated forum, they tend to have much larger active user bases and much higher activity rates.

If you guys didn't realize there was a forum, then how did you register?
To make an account you have to be on the forum :l