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Rant - it's always frustrating to see people considering 38k monthly active users as "no users" (piefedimages.s3.eu-central-003.backblazeb2.com)
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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Insert rant against dichotomies: this stinks "it's either as big as Reddit or empty" from a distance.

My best experience with forums was one where we celebrated the day we got 300 users at the same time. It still felt vibrant, active, nice to be there. In comparison with that forum, 38 000 monthly active users is huge.

Plus those muppets behave like they really want to wallow in their own misery.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My best experience with forums was one where we celebrated the day we got 300 users at the same time. It still felt vibrant, active, nice to be there.

Indeed, even with 20 active people you can already have a vibrant community.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 points 3 days ago

Yep!! I grew up on message boards like that, it was lovely. You don't need that many people and IMO the small end is better