Suggestions, New ideas, Questions, and Feedback for the WOF

I scroll and scroll and scroll.....lol

It is usually me that does it. 

I find that when they get to a certain length, they start to look uninviting to newbies. They open them and they see all these 'regulars' having what looks like 'private jokes'. Newbies prefer shorter threads, and while we are still developing as a group, I feel we should do all we can to encourage fresh input.

I also don't like to see that the thread was created by someone who was deleted, or has deleted themselves. Again, it looks like an uninviting place.

I don't feel that we lose anything by closing and re-starting them. Our numbers are  slowly rising, and that's despite the fact that forums are, mostly' falling and even failing. I hope that doesn't come across as too smu, but we seem to be getting a lot of things right. 

If people want to restart threads after a certain point, then I won't stop them... but would I do it? No.

I personally prefer everything being in one place, and I don't care how long it is or if there is repeated entries. Most of the long threads are not really the type of thing where people are supposed to read every page anyway, so anyone can just jump in at random. They are just sporadic, "post in the moment" threads (like what are you listening to.. you can post the same song a week later if it's what you're listening to lol). Most threads are not an ongoing conversation about a very specific topic where you must read everything to know what is going on; those tend to be short and easy to read through anyway.

When we restart the threads, then doesn't it still just look like the regulars posting all over again? I don't see it making much difference in appearances or enticing new people to post in it more. New members oftentimes post in our old threads and bring them back to life or join in wherever we are most active, so I do not think it's actually a deterrent to them if they see us posting in a very long thread.

Honestly, no matter what we do, it will always mostly look like 'regulars' posting and joking with each other to newcomers because that's what will typically be happening lol new people become regulars, but only if they choose to post regularly... we were all new at one point, and yet here we are. It's not like we exclude anyone or ignore people when they start posting because they aren't "one of us." We treat everyone as if they've always been here with us or like they're already our friend, I think. We're as welcoming as can be, and we genuinely want to get to know anyone who joins us.

If people look at anything as 'uninviting,' then that's seems like more of a personal issue than anything that has to do with us. What do people really expect in a forum? For it to only be filled with new members who swap out all the time instead of the same people most of the time? That's just silly and the opposite of what a forum tends to be, and if that bothers people, then IDK why they are looking to join a forum lol it's all about being part of an internet community and creating long-lasting friendships IMO.


Some pointers for dealing with longer threads:

You can search threads with keywords if looking for an entry: womenonlyforum.com/search

If you open to the first page, then to get to the most recent page you click on the last number, and if it doesn't take you to the bottom, then to get to the bottom you can click the down-arrow that is found to the bottom right near the scrollbar. Or reopen the thread to the most recent post

i have a suggestion...
to rid the site of the unattractiveness of the threads by Deleted members perhaps u can merge them with other threads of similar nature or other threads of the current user. like the gal that asked about hobbies for the baby...she's not here anymore but perhaps you could add it to one of the threads in the hobbies section. or delete it. since dominic and i both left at one point and came back we could have our deleted threads merged into one of our current ones.

The Ask Women area will have to keep deleted ones.. the questions are too varied to lump them together, and conversations may still be ongoing. It's for guests anyway, so sometimes the names are random and white that match the deleted names lol

yeah some of us a true pain in the ass. lol

i have a question...there is only one theme that offers no shoutbox and i was wondering if we could get just a setting somewhere to turn dark mode on or off and still have the no shoutbox option? my text is larger and i like the full view of the posts. just clicking hide doesn't really open the page up for me. is that something doable?

i'm not seeing that.

i like dark mode black and white with larger text and no shoutbox would be totally cool. take your time. love ya heather.

just the larger text is fine. the xlarge is a bit much.

Okay, done!

ah thank you sweetpea!