Forums are mostly for the older generations and some forums are still around to serve the existing members but you can’t really hope to grow them.

Younger folks are on social networks and video sharing platforms.

I don’t think forums can really grow these days. Now it could be because my two songs suck and are actively skipped everytime someone plays the playlist, but I think there's more to it than that I have two of my own songs on there that I can see stats for, and there's no traffic coming from those playlists. * I have no way of directly knowing how many songs on the MPN playlists are listened to, but I can know indirectly. I'm not bitter about it (really I'm not ) but it's a common inertia in any community like these.

You raise a good point about forum members not necessarily seeing a priority in promoting MPN - I can even get my fellow forumites to promote their own music on the streaming services as per the links in my sig, I've played every song on each playlist more than 210 times now, but I can tell you from the Spotify and Apple Music stats*, pretty much no-one else is regularly playing them and there's a whole 22 people who have liked the playlist. As you know Dave, I totally sympathise with the conundrum of growth / financial viability. Would definitely be happy to pay a subscription and will sign up for Patreon (finally). Edit: I would accept subscriptions as well, but I don't think it would be the best way to attract new members, or even to keep all existing ones. Along the years, I have received countless good advice from the people here, and I don't think I need any extra motivation to keep coming back. The main reason is the interaction with the other members, a community of expert, knowledgeable players. About the matter of extra content, etc.: While I would love to see the Boddicker material, that's not the reason I keep visiting KC. Although not a super-nice solution, it could be a way to overcome the problem. About ad blockers: I have noticed that some sites require you to whitelist the site in your ad blocker to let you in.

This is to avoid generic, click-sucking links which, among other things, wouldn't encourage members to click on them. I would accept ads no problem, but i would prefer for them to be at least music-related. I'm not sure what the best solution would be, and I'll gladily follow what the admins and the members decide.

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