This site might draw in more users if the FAQ were more persuasive
Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2023 10:43 pm
I don't want to tell you how to run a website or build a community, because I don't know how to do those things skillfully.
But I would have joined this website earlier if the FAQ had been customized.
I clicked "FAQ" and I saw what looked like a standard, boring FAQ about phpBB. I know about phpBB. It has been a vague cluster of background knowledge for years. It does not thrill me like 911 controversies and decentralized networks thrill me.
So maybe this forum is supposed to be a place to make your own communities? If that is the case, the FAQ could say, "Hey, are you ambitious and self-empowering? If so, come on in and make your own community for your niche!"
Is this forum supposed to be traditionalist? if so, the FAQ could say, "We welcome traditionalists. Listening to Devo is optional."
Is this forum intended to fix problems with well-known boards? If so, maybe the FAQ should say that. E.g."We tried reddit and we didn't like policies A, B, and C, so now we started this place, which has different, better policies."
But I would have joined this website earlier if the FAQ had been customized.
I clicked "FAQ" and I saw what looked like a standard, boring FAQ about phpBB. I know about phpBB. It has been a vague cluster of background knowledge for years. It does not thrill me like 911 controversies and decentralized networks thrill me.
So maybe this forum is supposed to be a place to make your own communities? If that is the case, the FAQ could say, "Hey, are you ambitious and self-empowering? If so, come on in and make your own community for your niche!"
Is this forum supposed to be traditionalist? if so, the FAQ could say, "We welcome traditionalists. Listening to Devo is optional."
Is this forum intended to fix problems with well-known boards? If so, maybe the FAQ should say that. E.g."We tried reddit and we didn't like policies A, B, and C, so now we started this place, which has different, better policies."