Why such a low-fanbase ?

Can anyone tell me why this site has such a low fan base ? I actually like this site, but sometimes i feel like there's no one in this site at all sometimes.

RXR.: Sometimes I'm alone here too haha.

Partly it's that we don't have a critical mass of users.
Partly it's that some ex users got frustrated with others' opinions.
And partly it's that, being a smaller site, edeb8 isn't usually the first debate site people find.

I'm always looking out for suggestions to attract people that fit with the site, though.

admin: How many active users are here?

Silver Crow: It varies. 10-40 I'd say, a number of folks lurk. These last couple of days we've had 60-70 unique IPs hit the site daily. The number varies a lot though through the weeks and days. Some are more active than this, some are less.

admin: Hmmm interesting I will use it on my debate. Do you know how many users DDO had when it was as old as Edeb8?

Silver Crow: Not exactly but it was somewhat more. Mostly because there were less alternatives back then. This was late 2008/early 2009 or so. I didn't join DDO until mid 2010.

admin: How long has Edeb8 been active?

Silver Crow: Since early November 2013.

admin: Thanks for your time. I'll ask Airmax what he knows but I doubt he will be as cooperative.

Silver Crow: In fairness I joined DDO earlier than airmax did

admin: Who was the main mod then? Were you ever a voting mod?

Silver Crow: Nah, I've never been a DDO mod. I ran against Airmax for president once and since then we never got along. This was before there were "mods".

admin: If I'm not mistaken the first "mod" was innomen and ore_ele, followed by airmax. It went with the presidency at one point.

admin: Ore_Ele? But he's still president.

Silver Crow: Not "still", a bunch of folks have come and gone like TUF, bladerunner etc

admin: Who won? Who was your chosen vice? PS I think you are better than Airmax cause your like friendly but stern teacher will Airmax is like a robot.

admin: TUF was the coolest. He had a show where it revealed Mikal and Whiteflame's face.

Silver Crow: Airmax of course. He had all the forum people on his side. My contention at the time was that airmax didn't understand debating and basically came to DDO as a career politician, which frankly I stand by. But I basically had never posted on the forum because I was there more for the debating side of things.

I didn't have a vice. Airmax effectively didn't either since his "vice" quit a few weeks in haha.

Silver Crow: Yeah, I have a MASSIVE respect for TUF. Smart guy, one of the few DDO guys I trust. He did a ton of work behind the scenes and was amazingly dedicated.

admin: I'm here now. Watch the numbers climb. (I'm only half kidding)