What Happened to CB? Options

[marynmissouri]

I have been a member for a little while now and I have noticed in the past month or 2 that know one is here anymore? Usually when I have a question it is answered within a timely matter but now I see people just looking at posts and not answering. I wonder if it has anything to do with members who learned what they needed to know and moved onto bigger things?

[brooklyneast05]

^still makes no sense unless you assume that people in cb's past were less busy. the problem isn't more are busy, the problem is there is less of us. if 100 out of 500 people are busy it's not a big deal. if 85 out of 100 are busy, it's a big deal.

anyway

i think we all still care to a degree and that's why we're here. i duno about you guys but i'm holding onto the thought that maybe jusun will get on, fix some things, and it can go back to being active. it's not gonna happen probably, i get that. it's probably too far gone, we've lost too much activity. we're catering to an audience that hasn't been there for a while now. most people don't care about myspace, and if they do, they can customize myspace 2.0 as well as most of the layouts that get submitted here anymore. we've lost our niche. i don't see how we're gonna find one. it's hard to imagine how jusun,or staff with more power, could even fix the place if he wanted to. it would take a completely new direction. we'd have to drop our primary focus on myspace, and move to something new.

people say tumblr, but nobody is gonna come here for tumblr unless we are producing amazing stuff that is cb exclusive and we keep our designers loyal to us only. people aren't gonna submit their tumblr layouts to us like they did for myspace, because tumblr allows you to submit your layouts straight to them. so why would a designer wanna waste their time going through us and not straight to the main audience? they'd be hurting themselves unless we could give them a good reason why we are better. if cb was still the big community it once was, we would at least have some weight and be able to say "hey but look at how many people are visiting our site to find layouts, come here and those people will come for your layouts too."

unfortunately, we can't say that anymore. it used to be a given and take with our designers. give us your layouts and we'll put you in front of a big layout audience and give you exposure/views. so we have no reason why designers should help us, because we can't/don't help them in return.