Postby PaulE » Mon, 06 Nov 2017 11:17 am
Hi Paul,
From an IT admin perspective, I do understand where you're coming from. However, I do think our membership numbers help with appearance of the forum on search engines. I'd be concerned that a sudden drop in numbers would have an adverse affect on our search ranking. Unfortunately, I'm not an SEO expert, so don't know for sure.
Another possibility is that people may have forgotten that they have accounts. I've certainly joined a few things and then forgotten about it for one reason or another. Terence made a suggestion about contacting members, which could serve as a reminder to them that they have an account, and may tempt them to log back in.
Is there a feature that would allow us to email all members? Maybe we could start up a newsletter highlighting interesting topics on the forum, and start sending that out on a regular basis (say monthly).
"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do." - Angel