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Q&A Actively investing in non niche network websites

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...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lundin‭ · 2021-11-12T14:15:54Z (over 2 years ago)
It isn't clear to me exactly why these particular communities would attract more users than others. 

For example we already have [Cooking](https://cooking.codidact.com/), 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.