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A Decrease in Activity?

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Weavile05

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    Am I the only one who's noticed a decrease in activity here on PC? I suppose it could just be because of school and such, but it seems a bit unsettling to me.
     
    How is it unsettling? I mean, you said it yourself. It's mainly because of school. It shouldn't be bothering you too much.
     
    I've noticed this myself as well...
     
    As said, school for lots of people, and also the lack of a main game coming out in Japan around this time like the last three years means less activity not only for this forum but every other Pokemon forum out there. It happens - activity has its highs and lows after all.
     
    Every single forum sees a decrease in activity in September. I've never seen one that doesn't. People are starting school and obviously have less time for posting on forums due to school, homework, and such.
     
    It might be unsettling, but it happens every year.
    PC has high and low points, but either way it's always pretty horribly active. xD

    It's not like it ever has times where it's totally dead, so it's not any big problem.
     
    From the way you guys are talking I'm guessing collge or something is starting now in America. I'm form Australia and in high scholl and right now I'm on school holidays, so I'm very active. Probably a bit too much....
     
    Ciax said:
    From the way you guys are talking I'm guessing collge or something is starting now in America. I'm form Australia and in high scholl and right now I'm on school holidays, so I'm very active. Probably a bit too much....
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    Same here for me, School Holidays are the best xD
     
    Well, the forum had gotten a bit quieter in the past few months, I personally blame the removal of social groups a few months back for the drop in activity on this site (bring back social groups damnit, I loved them!)
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    Fairly sure that has absolutely nothing to do with a decrease in activity.
     
    Masterge77 said:
    Well, the forum had gotten a bit quieter in the past few months, I personally blame the removal of social groups a few months back for the drop in activity on this site (bring back social groups damnit, I loved them!)
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    Wat? Lol.
    I am pretty certain that has nothing to do with the decrease in the activity, considering they weren't at all that active in the first place.

    As everyone has said, the academic term has started back and it will be a month or two before it 'gets active' again.​
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    Maybe people have gotten fed up with not being able to get on because the server can't handle the traffic it has? I mean if a guest can't get on half as much as I can't they are deffo not going to join. That and the school term as said above
     
    Saerith said:
    Maybe people have gotten fed up with not being able to get on because the server can't handle the traffic it has? I mean if a guest can't get on half as much as I can't they are deffo not going to join. That and the school term as said above
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    That has nothing to do with it. PC's always had server issues, yet PC has over 200,000 members. It's school, it happens every year around this time.
     
    I don't think it was always this bad though, when i first joined it was about 20 minutes a day but now i can hardly get on for 5 hours a day, more activity would mean a lot of people couldn't get on at all and maybe some guests have came on at that time and just given up after an hour or two. Some issues are always going to happen but it really shouldnt be a case of having to stay up to 4am to check this place. Be very hard to find a site that doesnt experience downtime, maybe its because im in the uk but its really bad
     
    Out of curiosity why hasn't PC gotten a different server if this one is that bad?
     
    Saerith said:
    I don't think it was always this bad though, when i first joined it was about 20 minutes a day but now i can hardly get on for 5 hours a day, more activity would mean a lot of people couldn't get on at all and maybe some guests have came on at that time and just given up after an hour or two. Some issues are always going to happen but it really shouldnt be a case of having to stay up to 4am to check this place. Be very hard to find a site that doesnt experience downtime, maybe its because im in the uk but its really bad
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    It goes in spurts, and it could be based on your locale's connection strength, as well. Since you're in the UK, if the server goes down at about noon for you, Rukario probably won't see the issue until 3 hours later because he's likely to be asleep at the time. This gets compounded by the fact that there's usually a traffic spike due to US members getting off school at about 8 PM your time.

    The biggest reason PC doesn't have a new server is the prohibitive cost of getting a better server.
     
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