Truth or Dare Chat Event - Next Event Sunday June 10 at 10 am MT

[Hammarling]

I'm interested, i just keep missing the time's. Either through being busy, missing the fact an event is coming, or not understanding the time differences.

For example: i've been online almost every day for the last week and i had no idea this event was coming up! I've never seen it in the recent threads, and until now i didn't know there was a specific Live Special Events section... Granted that's a certain amount on me not looking, but i didn't know there was something to look for...

Is there a way to put some sort of banner announcement on the site? Like a pinned note somewhere on the main forums page saying what the next event would be?

Equally, i don't know off hand when 10am MT is for my BST time zone. And needing to go convert that myself isn't making me more interested in the event. In your announcement post it could be nice to do a few time-zone breakdowns, or a GMT we can work it out from.

I've seen a number of these around, but i've usually just been unavailable for them. I would like to get to a couple, i think they could be a great way to get more involved. But yeah, a not good timings and just not knowing they are even happening...

[Butterfly]

Originally Posted by Hammarling

I'm interested, i just keep missing the time's. Either through being busy, missing the fact an event is coming, or not understanding the time differences.

For example: i've been online almost every day for the last week and i had no idea this event was coming up! I've never seen it in the recent threads, and until now i didn't know there was a specific Live Special Events section... Granted that's a certain amount on me not looking, but i didn't know there was something to look for...

Is there a way to put some sort of banner announcement on the site? Like a pinned note somewhere on the main forums page saying what the next event would be?

Equally, i don't know off hand when 10am MT is for my BST time zone. And needing to go convert that myself isn't making me more interested in the event. In your announcement post it could be nice to do a few time-zone breakdowns, or a GMT we can work it out from.

I've seen a number of these around, but i've usually just been unavailable for them. I would like to get to a couple, i think they could be a great way to get more involved. But yeah, a not good timings and just not knowing they are even happening...

I have tried to advertise it in chat, bump the thread before events and we did have it as a banner when the live events section was opened. It just doesn't seem to work. I don't know how else I can advertise. And sometimes I don't have hours and hours to be in chat reminding people of the events.

If you look at the stickys in this section, you will see that I created two to help with time differences. One is a link to a time zone converter. You can input the time of the event in MT time and then your location and it will tell you what time that is for you.

There is also a team up calendar which shows you all of the events coming up and it will automatically convert it to the timezone of the person looking at the calendar. So todays event will show up as 10 am for me, but will show up as 6 pm or whatever time it is for you ...

If you have any further suggestions on what times would work, what events you are interested in, or how better i can advertise, I would be happy to hear it. I am just getting discouraged because I put a LOT of my time and effort into these events and if nobody wants to attend, there is no point.

[Butterfly's Prisoner]

This could have been quite fun, but I missed the announcement and besides, today has been a bit hectic for me as I've just been returning from holiday. I would be happy to stick around for new editions, though.

[Hammarling]

That's pretty comprehensive. Well now that i know about the section, converter and calendar i'll certainly be aware of future events, and will just need the time. Time wise, it's just life getting in the way rather than it being at 1am for me.

The issue i had was that the sheer amount of activity a site this size gets had buried a lot of that. Had the same with the writing competition, totally missed it at first and took time to find it existed.
In terms of advertising ideas: make the Live Events section more prominent? Move it up to Dungeon + Competitions, in Tangents it's buried and easy to miss.
Having looked you've done a lot of work advertising, it's just getting missed! Either because people arn't looking at the section, hence moving it up top might help, or posts get swamped under all the other site activity. Wish i had better ideas...

I know how frustrating it is, i've tried to run events on a different forum. Drop-off rates can be huge. I found just making those announcements as stand out as possible, make them impossible to miss by highlighting the posts, making them front and center and obvious as Official Admin ran ideas.

[Matt:]

That really is a shame and I can understand it would be a bit disheartening with all the effort you have put in.

Unfortunately I was out when this one was on. Friday evenings and Saturday afternoon/evening are best times for me (UK) (Can do other evenings, provided not to late.)

The events that I have been able to attend have all being fun and well run. I did enjoy them. I find normal chat difficult due to my social problems, but found the organised events easier to join in with.

But it is a hard problem to solve, finding a time that suits enough people and enough people finding it.

Perhaps if more people can post and bump the advertisements near the time, that may help. I don't know.

[Jaro]

I really really wanted to be here and at your previous event as well.

But both these times I had some other thing scheduled so I really couldn't.

I don't see how people could miss it really. It is advertised very well and easy to find here.

I understand how disheartening this is for you. You put so much effort in it. But I would ask to please not give up just yet. I really hope I can be at the next event and if you need any help, you know where to find me.

[SwitchLeaningSub]

This is quite a useful tool for picking a time and day for an event, and should work across time zones providing people look up the time differences. It sounds like there's definitely some enthusiasm for these events (the cocktail one and debate one sound interesting to me ), so dont be too disheartened.

https://doodle.com/en_GB/