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Actively investing in non niche network websites
I think that the website must have some new communities in "piquant" topics to survive (to become enough well-known and contributed in the next say, 50 years).
"piquant" topics would be in my opinion (just examples, no connection to existing site proposals):
- Cosmetics
- Chemistry
- Biology
- Finance
- Accounting
The last website added to the network is about tabletop games and barely has any posts in it (it doesn't have a pager); I think it was a too of a "niche" choice and the owners of the network should actively seek website ideas in fields that may be less interesting for them personally.
The aims for this post are to:
- Suggesting to community managers to consider replacing the current mechanism for community proposal (for example, allow just one person to start a community given relevant background in the field and in moderation)
- Suggesting to community members to further emphasis non niche topics so to prefer creating communities primarily on general audience topics
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It isn't clear to me exactly why these particular communities would attract more users than others.
For example we already have Cooking, which is something that concerns everyone and which lots of people around the world are interested in (as evident from the massive amounts of never-ending cooking shows on TV). If I were to guess which of our existing sites that has the highest number of enthusiasts and professionals around the world as a potential target audience, cooking would definitely be one of the safest bets. People are also highly unlikely to stop eating food in the future.
Yet this site is very inactive with just a few posts per month. So evidently there is clearly no relation between the chosen topic and the number of users actively using the site. The problem is rather that not enough people with cooking interest has found the site. There can be numerous reasons why, but the choice of topic isn't one.
We have several communities which are struggling with low activity, so it seems at least to me that we should get more restrictive with starting up new communities, rather than the other way around.
If you ask me what we should focus on, it's rather things like search engine optimization and advertising. With Codidact having a bank account now, it gives us more options to do such things.
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