@Espinetenbolas:
Si, unfortunately it has become more of a community where copy/pasting a question… it's not a reference forum and there are days when there are no new posts.
For me those users are not part of the community. They are just individuals who come by and then if they've seen you they don't remember. The HL community is at the bottom of the forums page where it says "Total of registered users who have visited us today". Most of them read but don't participate and one of the goals is to get them active again because I know they have a lot to contribute and they are the ones who can take this site to a new level.
In addition to the more veteran users it is necessary for new people to join who are part of the community. The truth is that all those who enter, register, ask questions and then leave are users who are not interesting to me. But they are inevitable so that some of them, someday, decide to stay and become part of the community.
@Espinetenbolas:
I meant that it can be left as it is or changes can be made to reactivate Hardlimit… which is much harder because it's not just about changing things for the sake of changing them but changing them to improve visits, make the community interesting... etc.
I think the first step is to make a front page similar in content to TechPowerUP which is linked to its forum and community… as well as its surveys and a summary of new discussion posts, most popular threads, latest drivers... in fact the front page entries are published in the forum but are displayed differently as if it were a news portal and then the comments are the same... that is, the front page shows the forum without the aspect of a forum.
This is my goal but as I said in another thread, it's something I can't do alone. I have a limited time with which I can publish two, three or at most four entries a week. More people need to get involved.
@Espinetenbolas:
It's just to give an example of what I think would work to improve since other portals differentiate the portal from the forum and I think it's a mistake not to integrate them… because the portal is good with a lot of content but the forum is something else.
Although the front page uses a different system from the forum, my goal is to finish integrating both parts by doing some of the things you've mentioned like showing the latest discussions on the front page or the latest entries in the forum. I don't want two independent systems and for the most part that's why I want to force the use of the forum to comment on the front page entries.