This afternoon, I posted:
This influx is ephemeral. I bet it will restore normal inactivity within 3 days.
According to website statistics, this peak has already ended.
Why is that?
This surge or any other historical surge is unsustainable, for a few reasons.
- Our website has little to offer. Unlike surfing Reddit/Youtube/DouYin, you get far less dopamine surfing this site. On the contrast, you may even get frustrated some time by the annoying white screen / response time and get tired when reading some few long articles. Most of the recent posts are fragmented information or personal feelings / complaints that is boring and of little meaning to viewers other than the authors, or maybe even the authors.
- Any publicity or reference elsewhere attracts the same group of people and the same persons. Human like novelty, that’s why we have surges here. But the passion turns into boredom quickly and inevitably as we have little to stimulate users’ dopamine.
- Users failed to make friends with other users in real life. We have no off-line activities to help users bond and know each other. And actually there is no place for this website if two want to bond.(why don’t I use other handy IM software)
But, this doesn’t mean there no meaning for the operator to spend hundreds of dollars a year for the infrastructure and several hours to maintain this platform. I believe there must be something meaningful and informative that can be distilled. So let’s accept this normal level of inactivity and use it whatever you want as long as it is permittable by law and ToS.
