No New Article Tonight - Sorry

[Rob]

Although I have several things int he works for the site I've already written one article this week and I simply don't have the time or the expertise to write enough to fill all of our updates.

It seems I may have oversold how often we can update here at Webcomics Community.

When I built this site I had hoped that by now folks would be writing articles and submitting them on their own the way they did at Webcomics.com before it went "pro." So far we've had lots of content from a dedicated few but for the most part the rest of the membership has done the wallflower routine... watching but not contributing. We know folks are reading the articles. The average views per article is better than 200 with the more recent articles receiving the lowest views so far (but climbing) and Dr.BlkKnight's Comic Reef article sitting up top with over 800 views.

We just aren't getting the participation that comes with it.

Don't get me wrong. I love the conversations that go on here daily and I wouldn't change that. I had just hoped that by now those of you who know "stuff" related to comics would be sharing and those of you who know people who know "stuff" would not only be bugging them to join us but would also be bugging them to write up their expertise and sharing it with us in article form.

So far that's not happening as much as I'd hoped.

Corvus has been towing the line for us since day one on Fridays but eventually he's going to need a break I'm sure. He's only human (at least most of him is). And as much as I would love to do nothing but write articles all day that tell you guys how to make your webcomics successful; sadly I'm no expert. My knowledge is limited and so is my time.

If we don't start receiving more community participation on the article front we may have to change the update schedule to once a week with site reviews (as long as Corvus can keep going) on Fridays.

For this week though, it seems certain that there won't be anything new for tonight.

Sorry.  :'(

I am trying to work things out and get more people involved. Right now things that pay me money are taking priority but hopefully in a few weeks I'll have more time to develop some more site resources.

In the mean time though, if there is anything you can do, any ideas that you may have. Let's hear it.

I know all of you folks are pretty busy. Any ideas may help. I'm open to suggestions.  :-\

[Dr. BlkKnight]

Hmm...I could always offer to do webcomic reviews in a weekly fashion.

[Knara]

I suggest that there's nothing necessarily wrong with having WCC be primarily a creator forum.  There hasn't been a really good web comic creator forum around in a couple years now (not one that was primarily to that goal).  The last really useful one that I ever was part of was the buzzcomix forums.

WCC will need some time to grow into what it will become.  In the meanwhile, if you're worried about front-page freshness, maybe you want to not so much write articles, but perhaps do a 2-3x weekly summary of interesting forum posts on the front page, etc.

[Gibson]

I think I mentioned before that I have a bunch of articles on writing that I'm happy to have posted here, but I don't know how to go about posting/having them posted. I would assume that I'd send them directly to Rob, but I don't know how or even if that's correct. There may be a thread somewhere on what to do, but I haven't found it. Let me know and I'll send them.

[ran]

I think I mentioned before that I have a bunch of articles on writing that I'm happy to have posted here, but I don't know how to go about posting/having them posted. I would assume that I'd send them directly to Rob, but I don't know how or even if that's correct. There may be a thread somewhere on what to do, but I haven't found it. Let me know and I'll send them.

Just send him a PM with links to each of them, he's usually pretty fast about getting back to people.