What's being done to attract new people to sythe.org?

Does sythe.org advertise anywhere?
Whats the PR team doing in terms of attracting new people?
Is the UI getting an update?

It's the upper staff team's responsibility to make sure there is demand for their website.

We all know that runescape, sythe's main market, won't be around forever. I think that we need to brainstorm some ideas to attract new people here.

Looking at nulled/cracked/ogusers/HF etc, what do they do that would be of benefit to sythe?

 

i advertise the site through my blow and go services

 

Would you be open to the idea of CDT operating as an advertisement team? I think partly, it’d be a fantastic idea.

I must say though I agree with you. As much money as I see come through here via donations you would think there would be more traffic. Where is that money going? No way it costs 10,000’s of thousands of dollars to host monthly.

 

Richard has never, and will never spend any $ on advertising. Largely due to the value add being minimal at best. Forums in general are an antiquated concept, and especially one as niche as this - which comes with a plethora of problems as it is.

 

Being non existant.

The only update I think Sythe will ever get is when the site goes down for whatever reason eventually and Richard is like 'well fuck that anyways' and it stays down.

I do think an investment into some updates in terms of forum design and functionality would be viable, and while I don't think that'll directly attract new people, it will tempt current users to stay around. Right now we're flogging a dead horse.

 

It could be passed to CDT and given some budget, but as we know marketing services are expensive and no one is going to do it for free, and richard wont bother.

 

I always took it as we cannot do any advertising because of the site's services. Extensive advertising may piss off jamflex.

 

Nobody wants to admit the fact runescape is dying along with our most favorable forums as well.

 

Getting Richard to spend the money on it, especially at this point, would be like trying to draw water from a stone. Good luck, my friend.

 

I fail to see how outside advertisement would benefit this forum in any shape or form.

New users who come in here do so because they already know what this forum is about and already have clear intentions on what they plan to use it for (aka to earn money)

Because of this you would have to advertise this forum either as a way for people to earn money or for as a way to get runescape gp and/or services. Which most services providers already do so by themselves.

And lastly, like some people already said in this thread, it's best not to attract too much attention from Jagex.

 

Well, we're trying our best inviting people over. But there are other things that need to be done in order for people to stay active.

Everytime something is suggested that would allow a better understanding/clarity for newcomers it never passes, so that would be something to change.

Advertising is meant to bring new people, if someone already knows what sythe.org is, do we call them new users still? I don't think that's the whole point about advertising. Advertising is meant to bring people who never heard of sythe.org

 

Advertisement isn't just about bringing in new people, the site still looks like it's from 2007, it seems no matter what Richard hasn't got a care in the world about it, long as donations keep rolling in he's happy. Everything just seems to get suggested and some hero will come in and say oh lets give it to CDT.

Reality is the site is dying, the game may also be dying but still has a huge base of players. The thing is everything has switched to discords etc.

More interactions from mods would be good and maybe being a little active, holidays or not surely there's enough mods out there.. Zora seems to be the only professional one out there.

Sythe would need some drastic changes for it to improve, start with the staff first.. shit's so biased it's unbelievable.

 

Good points, and I agree with you on them all.

But then that begs the question: how would you advertise Sythe.org ? What is Sythe.org meant to be ? How would advertise and promote this forum to a person who has never heard of it ?

If you want to advertise something you must first need to understand what would attract people to the thing you are trying to advertise. Which is something that requires time and a huge quantity of brainstorming.

 

Advertising won't happen, as mentioned above... But Sythe.org is a marketplace could be easily advertised as such. Google ads for example, everytime someone searchs for keywords like "buy gold" etc, it would pop-up. But again, it won't happen so

 

Yes, this is exactly the point I was trying to make:

Sythe.org is intertwined with Runescape itself, it lives in symbiosis with Runescape and cannot survive without the game.

So the problem is not the fact that Sythe.org is losing popularity but rather that Runescape itself is. That's the issue.

Sythe.org exists as marketplace for people to buy and sell gold and services on Runescape, so it's obvious that if the game loses popularity then so would this forum too.

so the supposed "solution" to fix Sythe's dying state would be to advertise the game rather than the forum, but at that point you would just be doing Jagex's job for them, with the only difference being that you won't get paid for it.

 

No, not Necessarily. If Sythe.org ever shuts down, due to reasons with current owner irl/personal another site just like this would pop up by someone heavily invested and trusted in this community to be ran just like this one. Game is really dying day by day & this forum is aswell. But it can always be replaced with something much better.

 

Meh, I do not exactly agree with this.

Sythe.org dying out is a symptom, not the cause. the cause would be runescape itself dying too.

Sure if a new forum would pop out that had an owner which is invested than Richard it could help, but I don't think much could be done if the game is still dying anyway.

 

Think you misunderstood, but that's ok. Yes runescape is dying and this "forum" is aswell. But all games eventually die out. So lets keep it running while we can, even if Richard wants to part ways with Sythe.org. Another website just like this could pop up and be fully operational.

 

Yes I agree, if a new forum comes out and becomes more popular than Sythe then all the better.

But at that point said forum would have to shift their attention away from Runescape and more towards other games, ones that are more popular and most importantly not dying like Runescape.

 

True, but i'm sure it would be just like this. Sythe offers other games aswell, but the main priority would be runescape.