Overall, forum traffic appears down across the net. Facebook's sucking up much of the socializing time. FMAT needs attention, an active staff and an involved membership. I don't own it so can't do much to boost it. Kenpotalk is thriving and growing, traffic and participation is up there by about 35% since March. MT, is stagnant. Part of that is my fault, as I've been waiting all year for vBulletin to stabilize and debug enough to do the huge upgrade. I expect to announce that finally this month. That will enhance the blogs, video capability and many parts of the site. Traffic, we're averaging about 300 posts per day site wide, down from 900/day in 2007...though I blame the decline in TLP thread for much of that drop.
The Mentors and staff are in a slow process of evaluating MT's sections, and trying to revamp some stuff. I've got some things in the works to better tie MT and KT, and possibly FMAT together depending on how tests I need to run on beta-sites run. (I don't want a repeat of our last outage, so I test heavily before fiddling anymore. This slows down things a bit). I've trying more content building such as the video areas too, but I need help to do this. MT's also lost a number of previous active staff this past year as life and interests change. I miss their presence here.
As to the Study itself, it's still busy, but not as heated, active or crazy as during the 04 and 08 elections. Part of that slow down also falls on me, as I've stepped back from much of my past political outspokenness...better for my stress levels, not so good for keeping an area jumping.
In short, yup, we're slower, but don't count us out. We're still more active than many bigger martial arts sites. I've got the post counts to prove it.
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