[Behemoth]

Oh yeah, this site needs more users if it's going to last much longer. I was here before it was open, and while I admittedly was never a regular poster, I've found my activity becoming next to nothing in the two years it's been open and it seems like a lot of the people who joined back then have long since left as well. Outside of the hangouts, most of the site seems pretty dead. Like, the last event had more staff threads than actual user ones. There's not a lot on this site to retain users: it has low activity, we only reliably have event and cash shop updates, our RPing scene is pretty nonexistent outside of private RPs, and outside of the storyline and regular events, I don't know if there's much here that other sites haven't done before.

I don't know if that sounds dickish or not to say, and there are parts of the site that I enjoy (I do like the fact that you've turned to simple, alternative ways of hosting events [IE: the corner games] when other sites don't) but I do think there are root issues to be addressed before the site has any growth. And it's important to maintain user growth/levels: there are always going to be a few people who stick around for awhile, but I think that most people who join avatar sites have a lifetime of a few months before leaving/taking a break until their next few months of activity.

But yeah, like others have already said, it's bad to go around spamming this site on other avatar forums and such, so I'm not going to get into that. What I can tell you is that word of mouth advertising is probably not a plan to rely on, since there are so few active people on the site (and less people who would do it) that I think it's pretty unfeasible that the site would reach that many people through only a few channels. Running an ad might seem expensive initially, but it's really your best bet if you want to attract a broader user base. If you place an ad well, then more users = more people buying runes = you hopefully recoup the initial loss. I could probably make you a couple decent mock ads. I'm a marketing intern, that's kind of what I do.

You might also want to consider a Youtube campaign (a video series of some sort) but as there's only a few of you, I don't know if any of you know anything about video, so that might not be feasible. On a more userbase side, I know of RPG advert communities on Livejournal that allow you to link to forum-based stuff, so if anyone ever wanted to advertise their Trisphee RP on a community like that, the worst that could happen is that people don't join.

tl;dr my name is behemoth and i only come on to complain about things at length hooray


@Quiet Man: Wait, there's Trisphee fic? I should try my hand at that. Y'know, I doubt we have that much fic, but I'm going to see if I can get fanfiction.net to add a proper Trisphee category. Might not get any more users that way, but it's not like it can hurt.