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I remember the admins having trouble with tables regarding forums not long ago. It was at least somewhat fixed thanks to removing the Mark All As Read button and stuff, but it's still probably not worth adding any more non-wiki related forums.
Currently mostly inactive. An incremental game I tested: https://galaxy.click/play/176 (Gods Of Incremental)
Then again, Live Blogs not even being linked in the menu anymore as well as its odd sorting system (Seriously, why is the latest updated blog at the end?) contribute to liveblogs barely being used too.
Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation project
Liveblogs in the forums were popular enough (it was open for... wow only three months? and got ~180 threads), though admittedly that was when TV Tropes as a whole was much more popular than it is now. My impression of liveblogs as their own system is that they got a lot less usage just for being moved (though the default sort placing the most recent updates at the end is... definitely not helping lol).
Edited by wingedcatgirl Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Blogs is an interesting format that doesn't quite work for the forums (with the chapters system). I'm not sure how it relates to the site's mission, but they could potentially attract traffic if developed.
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^ I mean, blogs can talk about the narrative and character tropes in a piece of work so I guess there's that.
Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation project
though admittedly that was when TV Tropes as a whole was much more popular than it is now.
T Vtropes traffic and other metrics have only increased over the years. Tropes currently gets around 140,000,000 page views and around 320,000 edits + 100,000 forum posts a month. Looking at Google analytics, we get around 40-60,000,000 more page views a month than back then and unique users has over doubled.
EDIT: although, maybe you’re basing that on how little content we had so the users must’ve seemed more condensed and hanging out on the same pages for longer. About 72% of all the pages on tropes now were created over the past 12 years.
Edited by kory Now monitoring Wishlist and Bugs
It came up in an unrelated discussion
that the reason the Live Blogs system
exists separately from the forums is an old and no-longer-relevant issue with storage space.
This liveblog system being separate from the forums is unnecessary fragmentation that leads to liveblogs barely getting any use, so we suggest archiving it and reopening the old Live Blogginations forum — or opening a new liveblogs forum if that would be preferable, but moving liveblogs back to the forums one way or the other.
Edited by wingedcatgirl