Heya! if anybody actually reads this.
I checked the logs, and it seemed as if people rarely played, and when someone did login, it was for a short time‒a few minutes.
I’ve wiped the worlds. Well, I have moved the worlds to a different location on the server, so it generates a new one. I’ve also taken this opportunity to update the server to 1.20.4, and update some of the plugins. Also to get a feel, now that things are changing, should they change more? Should we do something else than vanilla survival?
It seems we never had a big player base in the first place, when I played there was never more than 3 or 4 peoples at once on high activity days, when there are peoples it’s usually 1 or 2, and there is no one at all the rest (most) of the time.
There isn’t much activity in the Minecraft lemmigrad com either. People don’t seem to know the server or the sub even exist.
If we want more activity we need a bigger player base, it doesn’t matter what happen to the server if no one knows it even exists.
In my sense the lemmigrad Minecraft community has 2 problems:
Our lack of activity on lemmigrad make us hard to notice for peoples who aren’t already aware of us.
Our low player base and it’s lack of coordination makes it so players find themselves playing alone most of the time which negate the interest of having a server as opposed to a single player world.
These 2 problems feed of each other in a loop, (2) disincentivize playing on the server which keeps activity low, low activity perpetuate (1) which keep the player base from increasing which maintain the conditions for (2).
In my opinion the main way to solve this issue is to begin by tackling (2), since it would be hard under the current conditions to increase our player base right of the bat, we should begin by improving the coordination of our current player base by making it easier for player to know when other players are/will be online, via a dedicated matrix channel for exemple.
Making sure that player are able to actually play together should increase engagement, which should increase activity on the lemmigrad Minecraft sub, which should in turn make the sub more visible and potentially bring in more players.
What do you think?
You are right.