oh my god, are we dying.

[ishy]

Yes, but right at the end of the school year it's not too surprising. It's just a crazy busy time of year.

[wynnyelle]

Yeah. It is. I'm just going on the data from my forum for the last two years in which we were much busier during this time despite that.

[rd]

oh my god, are we dying?

Yes you are, sometimes you can change it and sometimes no matter what you do, your forum will be dead.

* Royalduke has seen quite a few forums with thousands of members die.

[wynnyelle]

I've seen quite a few die as well...take a look around the net, how many booming forums from the year 2000 are still around?

Nevertheless, I'll die before my forum does.

[Specklefur]

It's been a little over a month and we're down a little bit. I agree with ishy that it's not surprising - I noticed a little bit of drop this time of year last year.

I think you need to calm down a little - not to say that I blame you and I understand where you're coming from, but you've been posting a lot of things up lately and not only bringing me down and discouraging, but it seems like you are to yourself as well. Like I said I'll advertise for you, but just stick it out a little longer. If it's just the time, it wouldn't surprise me which is why you should.

We all love you, and the site as well. You've got a lot of loyal members. :3

[wynnyelle]

I love you guys too. I'm not giving up. I'm sorry I was such a downer lately, but I was just trying to alert people to the fact that we got an issue.

[Specklefur]

I know. :]
And I don't think you should give up, anyway! Just that maybe you should wait it out a little and not stress out about it quite as much, but I can't blame you for feeling that way. I'd be working extra hard if it was my site it seemed was dying.

[Allusion]

Are you sure that registration e-mails are being sent out and that they don't end up in spam folders?

Have you tried registering a new account from the normal registration page (not from Admin > Registration), just to see what happens?

[di3f00l]

I'm thinking maybe before most of the new members were bots.

edit: WOW I just looked at your forum, that's an amazing job! You grew like crazy for a free smf start! :O

[Specklefur]

For some people it did end up in the spam folder. However, some people did not receive theirs whatsoever.

[wynnyelle]

Yes, some people just don't get them at all. It seems most people are fine but we get a few who say they do have problems. I set up a guest account people can use to let us know if they need help with straightening that out.

LOL our forum was cloned over from Proboards. We spent the last 5 years acquiring all those members and posts! Almost all of them were ported over.