A community for leaders on the Imzy platform.
How's Everyone Doing?
It's been pretty quite around here the last week or two so I figured I'd make a post just to stir up some conversation amonst leaders. Hows everyone doing? My communities have been pretty quite as of late, how about yours?




Xmess Holidays seem to make for quiet days. I have noticed since beginning Beta however that North American holidays (and weekends) are often a bit quiet so I don't think it's necessarily a new trend.
Any big struggles in your coms lately?
Yeah, a lot of social media goes quiet or off it's rhythm over holidays. (As a holiday loner, I've been keenly aware of this for a long time.) Social media thrives around work and school schedules.
Yeah absolutely. Same patterns here.
Perhaps we could do a "leaders shout out" to other communities over the holidays to encourage cross pollination of member Bees. (I like Bees!!)
Could be fun :) I should also look into comms to crossover with my Nerd Music comm once in a while. My themed lists could be useful for that.
I LOVE LISTS
PS have you visited /lists yet?
Sounds interesting, I'd be willing to participate.
I haven't. I should post my nerdy holiday music list there. I can't get Imzy to load it right now, so I'll hit it up tomorrow. Thanks :)
Yaaaas Lists are my fave.
The holiday music list in question if you are curious.
I hope to make the Friday mixtapes a regular thing soon. I was gone part of Dec and will be gone part of Jan, so I am posting a bit slower until that's all done.
You may want to cross post to /lets_grab_coffee or /Moonbeam_Cafe or even to /Christmas for maximum exposure of your nerdy holiday picks!
I posted to Christmas. I'll check out the others and post when I have new mixtapes:) I try to spread out my exposure pushes, but I will make my music comm a thing! (My other comm is too niche for publicity pushes, but it will chug along.)
yes, please
You might like /beecultists.
Membees.
The beecult would definitely be open to some cross pollination :)
Nothing really, other than the ongoing effort to get people to comment on my comms.
What coms?
On Xmas Eve we should go on commenting sprees to gift other comm runners with activity.
Haha totally.
I have some free time today but starting later this afternoo I'm booked solid until late Sunday night.
My primary comms are /thought_provoking_tech and /geeks_kingdom, but I help out with several other comms too such as /twitch and /discord.
All of mine. :\
I post questions, discussion prompts, polls, and interesting links but nobody wants to comment.
So, despite the fact that my community has more posts, a similar one has more "activity" according to the rankings.
My community (/wikipedi ) has been a lot quieter lately, but only because I've stopped posting daily because I'm the only member. Otherwise, I've been trying to contribute as much as I can to compensate for the dip in users.
Have you advertised it elsewhere? (On Imzy or otherwise?) if applicable try pairing up with some of the busier communities it might help! 💜
I haven't, but I'm considering it. Figure I will when I return home after the holidays.
Good plan. Hope that helps get some action for ya.
We have had solid participation in WOTD this week.
Yeah WOTD has been hopping. Wooo!
Okay, I'm a noob. What does WOTD (something of the day?) stand for? "Word"? 🤔
Word of the Day.
Unless it means We Often Talk During (Movies).... But I'm pretty sure it is word of the day. 😀
Cool. I'll have to check out your community to see how you use it!
Stop on by. Feel free to comment or post! The Day part of it is more a name than a rule.
We're trying to get the word out there. What I'd really like to see is people listening to our podcasts, and then posting in our group. My plan is to invite contributors to get the ball rolling... Our community doesn't have much activity. I've had some success getting people involved in other communities, which is nice, but I'd love more people in ours!
Which podcast?
The Reclamation Society podcast! Here's our latest episode: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reclamation-society-podcast/id1120739105?mt=2#episodeGuid%3Dhttps%3A//reclamationsociety.podbean.com/e/the-dark-knight-is-the-joker-an-atheist/
It's also on Podbean...
I've been having a hell of a time stirring up any kind of participation in mine, which is really discouraging (I think everybody's taken off for the holidays). I do have two additional leaders now, though, which I think will take some of the load off.
A community I started last month has only 2 members. A community I own that has 970+ members has an average of 8 people on per day... It just seems like Imzy is losing popularity. And it's not just the Christmas season, either...
It's hard to start a social media platform. I'm not losing hope but it does seem like you may be right.
There is just no incentive to be here. There are no karma scores, no mass sharing of posts (like Tumblr's "reblogs" or Twitter's "retweets"), no bots, and no private messaging.
As a community leader, I try to provide fun events for people to enjoy so that they keep coming back, but it seems like everybody has lost interest in them...
It has nothing to do with you or your community. It is the Imzy platform that is to blame. It lacks features that keep people coming back.
No, I get that. But I can help by making my community more interesting.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/imzy.com gives some idea of Imzy's popularity over time.
I've been doing fine. Now that finals are over, I can now participate more on IMZY! :D
In my experience, 25 years since I first got on FidoNet, the holidays are always quiet.
Merry christmas... Even IF you celebrare it tomorrow or not at all, happy hollidays
To be brutally honest, it's been like being trapped in an Egyptian pyramid's tomb with a dead Pharaoh. My "community" of one has only been up for less than a week and all the action has been with the wonderful staff at imzy. Don't get me wrong, they're great folks and ever so helpful and intelligent and talented but it's sorta' like incest. Or as they said when I lived in West Virginia, like kissing your sister. A little strange would be most welcome and appreciated. But it'll come. Eventually. s
People are trickling into /paradoxes at three or four a day. Honestly I'm just going to get to 100- we're at 89 now.
I was hoping to have a great start to the year it's not going that way. Tried to change to healthy living etc. Instead I am looking at 3 surgeries and an unknown unless messing w my vision etc. Basically I have been taken off work and I have no way to make ends meet... so that's why I've been quiet not much positive to say
Oh blah that sounds really rough. 💜
Good luck with all of it!!
Thank you for the well wishes
No problem. If you're interested and it is relevant to what is up in your life I colead over at /Spoonies so feel free to vent there or something if that would help. 💜
Oh no. Feel better!
I have had no participation in mine,even after asking for some. I think I'm going to close shop.
Don't give up on yet! Imzy has only recently opened up and these things take some time to get going.
I too have this same issue. It is seriously frustrating.
At least on Reddit, the /r/random button might lead more people my way by accident.
I'm okay, but I haven't been on here because of personal reasons and not to mention my communities aren't that active at all. I'm the only one that posts things so I don't know...
I've been great personally!