What's happening in here?

[Synthlight]

Originally Posted by justin_ator

I get where you're coming from but I feel like this is a whole different topic altogether. Stagnant site dev and event holding =/= userbase growth. They are related, yes, but are different things to be addressed. (and no I'm not saying the event team is failing at hosting things, just including that in the statement)

It's leadership. It's personality. We need a Mario or a Sonic and we don't have that. You have that personality upfront and then everything else starts to unlock and become possible.

You guys all do a great job at what you do. But compare front page posts now to 2007. What is the difference? How are we inspiring visitors to be part of what we do and who we are as a community? We are mostly playing to content hungry existing users. *existing* being the key word. I go through the same thing in webhosting. If you try to compete with Amazon on price and convenience, you will fail. If you compete on customer service and a handheld experience, you can thrive. Obviously there is more to it than that but I think I made the point I wanted to make