GFY Is Almost Dead
This is a fact. Most of you will not want to get into acceptance of it, but pull up similarweb and look at the traffic trends for the past several months and couple years.... Numbers do not lie.
This, in spite of the fact that by all outside indications, the forum should be busier than ever!
- There are more adult Websites than ever before
- There are more adult webasters now than at any point in history
- there are FEWER adult webaster forums than ever before
- Forums are still huge in the webmaster and affiliate sector
- there are THOUSANDS of adult webmasters that can be found in the other (non-adult) forums that never come here
So, Porn is Definitely not dead, Forums are not dead, and affiliate marketing is not dead, but GFY visitors counts continue to plummet despite even less cometition?
It has to do with the way it is run...
I can only speak for myself, so I'll just provide some insight in to why I Personally rarely come here, even though I am primarily an adult webmaster, I visit BlackHatWorld daily (or more) and am very active on several other forums as well (that are webmaster but not adult webmaster, such as this one)... T
If these things are that repellant to a forum junkie like me (who literally forces myself on here from time to time to give it another shot) it's a safe bet at least some of these things (if not all of them) are what is chasing people away in droves:
Bad User interface - inconvenient and cumbersome to use even on desktop let alone mobile, and extremely outdated
Time limit between search queries - VERY annoying and a time waster... you're not losing anything with someone performing 2 searches within 30 seconds - that's a ridiculous restriction. have yet to see that at any other forum in the 10 years I have been a daily user of them.. If there are no results or perhaps one were to make a typo, that 30 second wait to submit another query is almost a guarantee most people will leave the site
REALLY slow searching, with the SAME chaturbate ad as an intersitial - comes across as cheap, and considering most of your visitors are adult webmasters/affiliates who are already part of the chaturbate affiliate program, who do you think you're pitching to?
Too many Trump loving "red hats" posting right wing political nonsense and racist shit - if you don't put a lid on that it'll turn into 4chan
Ridiculous milestone requirements - 100 posts to send a PM? stupid.. I've heard of 5 post minimum, I've even heard of 25 post minimum - but 100? considering how repellent you make the process in comparison to other forums? most people are not going to stick around a community that makes them feel unwelcome - and that is precisely what that does from a user perspective
I fully expect a few people to get uppity and defensive, whatever, that's your prerogative - but these are facts....
Hopefully this can just serve as some helpful advice, maybe you will get a thing or two out of it to help improve the forum so it can actually continue to exist for another year or two or more