I was searching our Board the other day looking for a post from about 2 or 3 years ago and was alarmed to discover the number of contributors who are no longer active. Out of interest I did a quick calculation across the top 4 divisions and found that currently there are only 18 Clubs with active Boards and more than 5K contributions, 8 active with less than 5K contributions, 3 Clubs who started but are no longer active and a massive 61 who have never started up. Is Not606 in slow decline? What, if anything, can be done to contact and attract a wider audience? Is there any way of contacting our lost contributors to try and persuade them to return? If not will this site still be operating in 2 or 3 years time?
There is nowhere near as many posters as when I was last on here many years ago.....It's probably because I left.
We had the massive influx of users when BBC 606 died, and there's been very little new blood since. Just look at the join dates of most of our members. It's tricky, we're a bit of an internet backwater that you only find it you know about it. We've tried "advertising" with twitter feeds, etc, but it never felt like it amounted to much. It was a lot of effort to maintain manually, and Twitter made running bots to post basically impossible without paying. For anyone who joined after 2018ish, I'd love to know how you found this place.
IMO, this forum is a legacy of what used to exist on t'internet - and now the likes of reddit appear to be one of the most active forums with over 8K followers https://www.reddit.com/r/NorwichCity/ and regular contributions. I just popped over to https://www.wrathofthebarclay.co.uk/interactive/board/ which says it has 12K + followers (!), and 63 currently online. I remember it being the alternative forum to Not606 where threads were a bit less moderated than the old BBC board. I guess this board, like many others of its time, are seen as a bit niche, althoug wotb seems to be going strong...
I joined in 2012 but think I just searched for football forums to join. I guess with social media, forums are a bit redundant.
There are 17 regular posters on the Prediction League and at least 10-12 more who don't post there. GozoCanary posted again recently and hopefully he'll join in again. I actually like that sort of number because it encourages more continuing discussions.
Anyone can find it simply by searching "Norwich City football forums". Google, for example, starts by listing six fan forums, we being the sixth.
