Are you happy with GL's activity?

I'm still convinced you're him, Hans He showed a lot of interest in Liverpool like you, although all of it was strictly negative.

Idris is playing the long game brahs. "Hans" is not fooling me.

Also Fuss ffs, if you brought in a bunch of ultra fickle whiny Barcaforum people, I'm gonna hunt you down.

M99 wrote:Idris is playing the long game brahs. "Hans" is not fooling me.

This

My favorite Idris thread was in the off topic section. The fighting thread where he wanted to beat all of us up

I can recruit some people from troll football.

RONALDO+ROBBEN+BALE+RIBERY+MALDINI*RIVALDO*RONALDINHO/HESKEY = MESSI

Idri's best post

I've seen some of my gifs used on different forums. I could just put goallegacy on any new gifs I make and that would be a nice advert for the forum.

Didn't I ask you to do that months ago ffs

@James

Make it so!

RealGunner wrote:Didn't I ask you to do that months ago ffs

I haven't made any new gifs since you asked me

El Shaarawy wrote:Maybe if we unban all banned members for a week and see how that affects the forum

Badger hammering on Tom again, Idris' stance on Pep as coach, Rossonero23 providing insightful and extensive knowledge on all things Italian

imagine the return of Sciacca

Don't think it'd make a huge difference since half the banned accounts are jibers.

Fußball wrote:Let me see if I can bring some Barca homies.

Stay safe Mehdrid fans.

Having multiple accounts is a ban-able offense.

Matchday commentary threads >>> chat

But it's a matter of opinion.

Don't call me James wrote:Also Fuss ffs, if you brought in a bunch of ultra fickle whiny Barcaforum people, I'm gonna hunt you down.

Only the best.

Vibe wrote:Chat was the death of this forum,Vibestradamus predicted it the moment it appeared.

Matchday commentary threads were the best.

It is hard for new members to fit in the chatroom even more than the general forum because a group of posters there make it repelling,even I am not interested in it anymore.

Bollocks was it, chat was only during big games at weekends and CL nights not all the time.

Chat had absolutely zero to do with anything, people just got older and had less time to spend on a football forum and newer posters haven't really joined much to replace them.

I do kind of agree with Vibe though not all of it.

There could have been some kind of damage limitation if i can call it,at some point.I mean,you had the chat on for some pretty insignificant games during the weekend,or even on Monday nights when the PL teams play.Heck there was even a chat for WWE events although from a larger perspective this was a bit redundant.

I am not complaining but i guess its upto the GL staff what they really want.Do they prefer a core of 10-20 quality posters and have the forum stay as it is or do they take some measures to attract new posters even though its not known if we'd get the same level of quality ? If its the former,then i wont blame them.At the end of the day,its really upto their choice to expand the forum or not.

I doubt WWE events had much of an impact tbf, it was on at a time where hardly anyone was on.

Yeah,true.I mentioned that only to kind of enhance my point.

I don't think the chat has had much of an impact on the overall activity, that is pretty much solely down to people "growing out" of GL and not many new people coming in (due to GL's lack of fame). Having the chat on match days is just a matter of opinion, personally I cannot be following both the chat and a game (whereas a commentary thread you can refresh and check out when there's a lull in the game or at half-time). But just a matter of opinion.

This debate has been done to death and chat has no way ruined the forum. Chat has been around since 2012 and has been around at the forum's peak and has been there in it's lowest point. It hardly affects any activity except for matchday threads with posts like "GOOOOAAAAAAAAAL" or "BULLSHIT REF"

El Gunner wrote:Agree with Vibe on the chat thing. Even I sometimes don't get what's going on when I enter.

And did that decrease your activity on the forum in general? I think not. you are one of the most active posters in recent times.

Activity in chat has decreased too. It's not like there is an inverse relationship of activity in threads and chat. Before chat used to be filled with people for Milan vs Fiorentina, now we get around the same number of people in a big CL match.

It's like Mole said, people grew older and the number of people that stopped posting is far greater than new posters coming in. Ganso literally called this when the forum was created. http://www.goallegacy.net/t187-we-are-in-an-island?highlight=island

Chat ruined nothing, apart from....



Wait for it...





Just a second now.


Almost there...





LIVE MATCH DAY THREADS. The shittest threads in existence, where it's filled with 1 liners about whatever happened in the game, only unlike chat you have to physically stop watching the game for ages to take part, looking through pages, refreshing, etc etc




GLs activity is low because the core of posters that were here don't post as often because of their lives, a lot of new people lately just join up to talk absolute shit and aren't the sort of people we want anyway, or they're advertising their shitty websites.


Then factor in how many active posters are now banned for one reason or the other and you are left with this




Some old posters have less time to post. = Activity drops

Some old posters are banned/left. = Activity drops

The quantity and quality of new posters has been crap. = Activity stays as it is after a Week or so.



There's nobody coming in to replace the ones who are gone, simple really.

So is the chat box the reason people are posting less? No that's ridiculous. Are potential new posters running away in disgust because there's a chat feature? Does anybody really want threads with 4 and 5 word sentences taking up 30 pages in some shitty match thread?