Ownage Omg
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3) Makes event hosting easier and look more legit since a lot of p mods I know like to host events.
Sadly the forums aren't driving in players to events nowadays. I remember back when I used to advertise the
Pink Skirts events
every week via the forums, but it became too tedious to advertise on the forums for the level of attendance it brought (practically zero).
Nowadays attendees are virtually all brought in through the in-game calendar. A handful may come from Twitter or via Discord. The feeds on those two platforms in particular are automated so it's very easy to keep them going even if between them they only generate a handful of attendees. (For what it's worth, I can only speak for the Pink Skirts here)
The truth is, I don't think people generally go to the forums to
look
for events. Quite often you might see threads in the events forum where players are in the spirits to host an event, but you generally never see players then hosting more events after their first when they only use the forums. Consider the RuneScape Gathering - a huge event back in the day, but when it stopped getting hosted and advertised via YouTubers it fell flat, and attempts to revive it bore no fruit.
The forums just aren't the platform of choice when it comes to advertising events. It's manual, and the level of traffic within the events forum just isn't high enough. I don't really think that allowing the team to have a coloured background on the forums will really change that. After all the issue lies in
relevant traffic
, not one of trust.
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