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[Acorn]

Surely that bot must be reporting wrong I believe we have many more members than 6, although many are not active.

Larry, it is a count of those on-line at the time you viewed the page.

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I want the 33,000+ Members to show their faces.
Please.

Acorn

[wizard509]

I want the 33,000+ Members to show their faces.
Please.

Acorn

Me too, I wonder what if anything can be done to help bring TG back to its former glory, few participate in the Scribble challenges, few draw anything(including me) to show the capabilities of Xara.
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[Jonopen]

On some forums I think there is a way to show just active members. For example, ones that have logged in at least once within the last six or twelve months. That would give a more realistic idea of what’s going on.

A similar question about forum participation came up in 2018.
https://www.talkgraphics.com/showthr...ra-Web-Gallery

[pauland]

I would generally not login unless it was required to make a post. I guess I'm not alone in that behaviour.

[Acorn]

I would generally not login unless it was required to make a post. I guess I'm not alone in that behaviour.

Fully understand. Log in and you can see your PMs. Log in and what catches people's interest is better identified as it is not just a visit count. Log in and you can Subscribe to Threads of interest. Log in and show the Community is not terminal.

Acorn

[pauland]

Acorn I just said what I have been doing. From my perspective that worked well and there's so little traffic on TG that the daily posts view is fine.

From the perspective of community management I entirely get it that my browsing behaviour isn't helpful. It's not something I'd considered.

I'm not sure you can necessarily shift people's behaviour much because there is so little traffic and most of the TG posts tend to relate to the shortcomings of Magix and the latest release.

I ceased to be a real Xara user some time back but I like the community.

I think the real issue with TG is not whether people log in or not but that the emphasis of the community has moved from having a buzz about new releases and functionality (because new releases are paper-thin in terms of new capability), and it seems that the problems with the lack of software innovation and direction has led to a collapse of posts from the creative side.

TG's community has grown old and stale as have the developers of the software. No good flinging stones about it because in some ways it's about the natural lifecycle of products.

I think creatives have mostly migrated to other software than is more receptive to their interests and TG has mostly moved towards being a support group for people making websites.

There would be a lot more reason to login if there was something to login for.

The community has been somewhat let down by Xara and Magix because they are essentially running the businesses like it's 1990 while other vendors are stimulating their user communities and nurturing them via competitions, promotions, informative videos, posting and books even - definitely strong social media promotion and advertising. Xara and Magix has let the user community wither away.

I have a favourite program I use for graphics work for UIs and it's not that old but it has suffered because while it hasn't evolved other competitors have emerged and evolved more quickly. I stick with it because it works well for me and I only update when I get a great offer. I can tell that the company is struggling a bit because their social media group is starting to get thin and they've offered monthly subscriptions and users are using competitor software now.

Anyway, I digress I suppose.

Analysing thread subjects and posting trends should give the real picture. TG is now mostly a tech-support group for Magix/Xara.

[handrawn]

that's a good summation Paul

xara/magix direct users here for help; a free help forum is how they see us ....

web and cloud are now the focus; web and cloud get discussed on social media without any input here necessarily