Yeah. It's just like YWS except in a different format/structure.
But...I'll join if you can make me a site administrator! Nah, just kidding. But...
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That's pretty cool, Goofy, and I'm sure you spent a lot of time on it. However, I'm afraid you're advertising to the wrong group of people for your site. Pretty much everyone here in YWS likes it here, and is already established. If you can offer a service or twist that YWS doesn't have, something that makes it unique, then maybe you could persuade some YWS'ers to join you. As it is, I'm afraid you won't get many people joining. Sorry.
I run the international online magazine Pie, and I want to give you some advice as to setting up an online community - especially if you want to compete with what's out there already. Firstly is that this kind of thing takes time. You've come here and given us a URL, but the site itself is a forum with very, very little content. You're not yet at the stage where you can justify link-based advertising on your much larger competitor's websites. Secondly, when creating a community you need to do more than just have an idea. Like Jen says you need to offer something different. My community took two years to get to where it is now and its still growing. I did this by creating it locally and beginning to involve my friends. You then need to think, "What can I add to draw more people in?" And then you add such and target those next people. It helps to get people who are equally passionate about what you're doing on board too. You need an email contact list who have consented to receive regular news or updates from you, as this helps you make and keep contacts. When you have enough visitors of people you KNOW, you should then ask them what you should perhaps get rid of, how you can improve...develop and such. Once you've addressed these issues you can then begin to look at advertising and targeting. Coming here is a good idea because the audience shares the same interest. Perhaps they're not getting the same attention on their work in YWS as others and want to share elsewhere? If so, you need to make it clear you can offer them that. People will only be tempted, however, if there is clear activity on your site.. which there isn't. You must get off the ground before you can advertise and you should do that by bridging contacts, involving friends and so on.
No. YWS started off as a spiritual successor to a writing site popular in the late 90s/early 00s (that Nate was part of, mind you). Nate built it as the other site was dying, and ended up getting a decent amount of membership from that site. He also got a lot of membership from people finding it through organic search.
A writer is a world trapped in a person— Victor Hugo
Ink is blood. Paper is bandages. The wounded press books to their heart to know they're not alone.
Well. For people who want to have a smaller forum (many people think YWS is too big) this might be a good alternative.
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