EddieJ
Well-Known Member
Something struck me today. The forum has a crazy amount of 116 topic headings, and yet no off road section.
English, French, German and Austrian e-bike forums that I visit, all have highly active off road sections, so is it a case that US bike owners aren't interested in off road riding? It seems strange to me that so many Haibike owners for example, don't even use the bikes for their intended purpose, preferring to just ride on the road.
From my perspective, it is making the forum pretty flat and disappointing.
Obviously there is no point having an off road heading/section if no one is going to use it, especially as just a handful of regular forum members ever post any form of topic, none of which are off road related.
It's also a shame that the topics that regular members are posting, don't receive more response. Currently there is 3,671 forum members, so what's holding people back from posting?
Taking a deeper look at this, just one off road topic alone on the UK pedelecfoum, has nearly 1,500 replies, and approaching 54,000 views. The German pedelecforum, has even greater numbers with combined posts totally tens of thousands.
Finally, in respect of having so many forum headings, to me it would make more sense to condense things down, or have them open into a separate page. Less is more.
As it stands, the front page is just going to get longer and longer as more are added. A quick Google of creating a successful forum, states that "the more topic headings, the less inviting that a forum is, and the more daunting that it becomes". Common sense really, and perhaps that is what is putting people off from posting.
Any thoughts?
edit.. 50 views and not one comment. Certainly an enthusiastic bunch on here.
English, French, German and Austrian e-bike forums that I visit, all have highly active off road sections, so is it a case that US bike owners aren't interested in off road riding? It seems strange to me that so many Haibike owners for example, don't even use the bikes for their intended purpose, preferring to just ride on the road.
From my perspective, it is making the forum pretty flat and disappointing.
Obviously there is no point having an off road heading/section if no one is going to use it, especially as just a handful of regular forum members ever post any form of topic, none of which are off road related.
It's also a shame that the topics that regular members are posting, don't receive more response. Currently there is 3,671 forum members, so what's holding people back from posting?
Taking a deeper look at this, just one off road topic alone on the UK pedelecfoum, has nearly 1,500 replies, and approaching 54,000 views. The German pedelecforum, has even greater numbers with combined posts totally tens of thousands.
Finally, in respect of having so many forum headings, to me it would make more sense to condense things down, or have them open into a separate page. Less is more.
As it stands, the front page is just going to get longer and longer as more are added. A quick Google of creating a successful forum, states that "the more topic headings, the less inviting that a forum is, and the more daunting that it becomes". Common sense really, and perhaps that is what is putting people off from posting.
Any thoughts?
edit.. 50 views and not one comment. Certainly an enthusiastic bunch on here.
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