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Hi Folks,

Thanks for the feedback. Very interesting. I think those that are worried that suddenly we'll have too many posts on one board hasn't even noticed that Lyric 1 and 2 get almost no new posts anymore meaning at most all they do is disappoint a new person who doesn't understand why no one responds to their lyric. That's been verified by comments here.

As for posts disappearing faster, if we had so much traffic that we needed more boards, I wouldn't need to ask this entire question. But the reality is that while the entire site has doubled in traffic in the last year (it's tripled this month actually from last year) the Lyric boards have never been slower/quieter in our entire history. That's why I want to figure out how to encourage more participation. Right now when a new person posts on Lyric 1 or 2 and get's no response, often they never come back. If everyone posts on 1 board, then at least lyrics will get noticed by anyone logging in. The fact that most regulars don't even check any of the other boards is disappointing, but since I can't change that fact, I can at least re-configure the boards so that no one gets ignored or is confused why their lyric was ignored on Lyric 1 or 2 when people respond on Lyric 3. If we find suddenly that many new folks are posting then we can always add a second board. Or perhaps some alternative types of boards to get folks to click more than 1 time. I'll bet over 50% of the regulars here know almost nothing about what is going on in the rest of the JPF org since I can see many of you go directly to the Lyric 3 page without ever leaving that one board. There's a lot more going on and perhaps we need to nudge folks to at least use their peripheral vision a little and heck, they might just meet a new collaborator, a new business contact or find out there's more to life than just Lyric Feedback Board 3.

I won't change anything until after we've converted all the boards to the new software. I am going to call on that today and see what needs to be done.

Brian