Regaining Focus

One positive aspect of having less traffic currently of is that articles being made are quality over quantity. A couple are still added a day but alot of the new ones are really well written and have great diversity in subjects. Three of the latest is a Estonian children's show, early Beatles recordings and a play from the 1500s. Compare this to things like Albanian Spongebob when more people are here. This is a great time to purge hopeless articles and improve others

I feel the elephant in the room that no one wants to address is that when the site becomes popular it attracts alot of little kids, and this leads to quality issues and lack of diversifying from topics like Spongebob or general kids media. Then they leave.

This emphasis on quality over quantity is a great start. (Keep up the great work, guys!) The variety of new articles is also something I noticed lately. The downtime makes for a great time to look at the state of the Wiki and make it better.

Proof that, as the community has already decided, we don't need a big search at the moment. I think we need to strengthen our bond as the Lost Media community before trotting off on the next big search or launching an advertising campaign.

Improving the flow of info from here to there would be a huge step in the right direction. Discord is a great place for casual chat, but I doubt we can use it as an effective tool for searches. Once we clean the place up a little, we need to put the focus back on the Wiki and forums.

I'm sure, though, that there are other ways to do stuff as a community...

Question is, though, what to do?

I totally agree. One positive of this situation is that many people are taking their time to make A++ quality articles. I have noticed that and that's a really great thing. I've also noticed that even though we are experiencing less articles being added there are more people editing and improving preexisting articles to bring them up to even more acceptable levels of quality. Quality over quantity is a great thing, but it still doesn't help the fact that we're currently in a dry spell when it comes to the number of articles being published.  It just surprises me that there are a lot of 13-below children would even be interested in lost media in the first place. You'd think there would be at least more 16-18+ users here as the concept of lost media hunting would be more for people who are nostalgic for something in their childhood that they can't find or looking for something their favorite artist, singer, entertainer, etc had made but seemed to have gotten lost to time.  
That's an issue for sure. Because we have so many young children that visit the site and make articles that relate to them more as they're still in the age range where they've only seen kids shows and nothing more. As for the quality issue these kids don't follow the rules and guidelines and published half-baked articles that most of the time ends up getting deleted. That's when they either leave or they might stick around for awhile longer then once they find out that there isn't enough things on the site that they can relate to they just dropout of the community as a whole. 



Honestly, I don't think kids are that big of an issue. There is definitely a lot more people here and even though we've been having a rather slow couple of months we still have been getting more quality and diverse articles published and there are still a lot of people who are very active in this community. We should take this downtime as an opportunity to think about something fun that could unite the community and spark more Interest into LMW and the lost media community as a whole.  


Same. What do we do. 

Something that I hope users do when writing an article is to not choose a topic just so they can have an article to write but to selectively choose a topic based on how interesting it is. I think it would be better if people focused more on things like lost BBC and old English poems series than things like original audio from some small production or a channel with a few let's play videos.

(Also, thanks for listing my article. It makes me feel proud)

I kinda wish there was a way to comment on notice board posts... that Ring-Along Sing-Along tape is so cringy.

3. You should take the stick out of your ass.

The notice board was mentioned in this thread, and they were just talking about how to get more people excited about this site, so I thought it would be nice to be able to leave feedback on something like that.

6. Are notice board comments really needed?