[Posting in AF for visibility]

G’day

It’s no secret that activity levels on this beautiful and once-vibrant forum are at all-time lows. If you’re reading this right now, it means you care even a little bit about this place, and probably have some ideas on how we can breathe life into it again.

Over in the mod subforum we've been brainstorming some ideas but really need a whole lot more brainpower, hence this call to arms.

I’d like to request 3 things from everyone:
1. How did you initially discover the forums?
2. What’s kept you around?
3. Any ideas for acquiring new users?

e.g. for me:

1. Article comments linked to the forum. This was how I and many others actually discovered the forum’s existence in the first place. I was a commenter for a good few years before even realising there was a forum connected. InsideSport still gets a decent amount of traffic who visit for the articles, and it seems like the lowest hanging fruit for getting new users involved.

2. Initially it was Joffa keeping everyone up to date with EVERYTHING. Legit, the FFT forums were almost entirely my one-stop-shop for Aussie football news because Joffa would scour the internet daily and collate all the relevant stories for everyone. Is there any way we can beg him to come back? (I don't know him outside of the forum)

3. Kind of already summarised above, but my two ideas are re-connect the forum to the articles, and bring back Joffa.

I know we're all a negative bunch sometimes, but can we please keep all criticism in this thread constructive/as positive as possible? No negative comments about other forum members here please - save that for another day when we hopefully still have a forum to express said feelings...