Advanced Japanese Book Club Welcome to our Advanced Japanese book club! In this club we choose a Japanese book, read it together, and discuss what we’ve read. It could be meaningful discussion on the content, questions about vocabulary and grammar that confuse us, or just motivating each other to ke…

[image] downtimes: Sure I’d love to run the club. I probably need until next weekend to set up the home thread. Great! And no rush. It only starts in a month. We would probably want to have a quick discussion about the schedule, but there’s still plenty of time. :+1:

[image] downtimes: The amount of votes was still pretty low though.. Yeah, I’ve been thinking that too. My nomination won in the IMC with seven votes out of twenty-four total voters, or just under thirty percent. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about winning, it’s just that I’m no…

[image] Belthazar: [image] downtimes: The amount of votes was still pretty low though.. Yeah, I’ve been thinking that too. I am observing this for quite some time now. When we started the Advanced club almost 6 years ago, we had 27 voters in the first poll, and now we’re down to 12 (ev…

Same thing happening in the IMC, way less people voting and even less people participating :confused: Maybe a book club overload? We have started so many book clubs, can’t keep piling them up. Though you’d think it should be balanced by new people showing up, why that is not happening, I don’t know…

My guess is that there are so many clubs that people are spread out and can’t participate in them all. Also, people won’t want to read every pick anyways.

ah yeah, I forgot about that, yeah, that’s huge if the fire hose gets turned off A lot of people in the past mentioned they lurked frequently before joining, and without a prompt to even lurk, then I can imagine losing that group of new forum members. Maybe now that the whole drama around software…

[image] Escalus: I think it’s interesting that the decline in voting in this club roughly corresponds with this change … Interesting! I never use the wk dashboard so… but now that you mention it :eyes: Seems like the new dashboard has the community widget as a default, similar to how it was b…

I know that I only made the jump to visiting the community, because I noticed that the threads names were changing (so it was active) and there were book clubs mentioned (so it was interesting). Don’t think I would have ever bothered visiting otherwise, probably would have thought that it’s only dis…

たしかに :eyes: I feel like we should make a request to staff to please consider bringing back recent thread feature. Forum stats: 124 new sign-ups and 1500 active users the last week can’t be a lot of traffic. Not that I remember how it has been before, but it feels like a tiny number. [image] Edit…

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I don’t spend much time outside the book club section these days. Does anyone have an idea of how the WK forums are doing in general?

I think it’s interesting that the decline in voting in this club roughly corresponds with this change…

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