Hive Growing or Shrinking?

[DeadZero]

Basically I want to know what you think, or know about the subject of The Hive Workshop growing or shrinking, and when you think it might end.
(The people, not the site.)
Pretty straight forward...

 

[Mr. Bob]

On a statistical level, you should just ask ralle. He owns the site, so he knows the numbers. As far as activity is concerned, we are still the most active WC3 community and probably one of the more active modding communities in general. Of course, assuming that ralle will do the smart thing and pull focus to SC2, we should see a massive boom in activity in the coming months.

Of course, oldfags leave, but that's just what happens. Heck, I'm pretty much inactive now. (So it's weird that I am posting this...) But, alot of people sign up.

The problem isn't that we are becoming inactive, it's just that lately, users have begun to take crap way to seriously. The mods are the only people who should take crap seriously. Instead of laughing a situation over, people would much rather just blame some random mod for it.

The other problem is that users seem to think that not caring means to break rules and get expect to get away with it. (I've been guilty of this.) That's not what that means at all. What it means is to simply let stuff go. Of course, you should still follow rules. That just means your not completely stupid. Just don't throw a hissy fit every time something changes or a new idea is instituted.

 

[Hawkwing]

It's growing in sheer numbers, but the actual productive, contributive community is shrinking. Most of the Hive's best members have come and gone.

 

[The Reborn Devil]

We are getting more and more users, and there's a constant stream of new resources coming in. The quality of these resources might not be as good as before though. I would say we're growing and when SC2 is released we will notice a great increase in activity here.

 

[Element of Water]

We've already seen quite a few new members since the SC2 Beta, a lot of people who were around at the time of SC1 but never got into WC3 for example. I'd say we're growing (in active members).

 

[Kimbo]

Its neither, all its variables on known members/new members/resources/quality etc change up and down every second unevenly.

But it is in no way "dying".

 

[Anachron]

Users increase, high quality decreases.

 

[SlayerII]

users incrase, definition of high quality changes =/

just go to news and count the logged in members to prove if the hive is alive...

 

[ike_ike]

Most of the Hive's best members have come and gone.

I've discovered that most of the users I idolised were actually pretty horrid at what they did. Or said they could do.

Anywho, that be fellows like Red Shift and lelyanra and so on who are actually good.

As it turns out, familiar user != good user. Mostly nostalgia filter

 

[Vengeancekael]

Well the hive is shrinking in quality, but is growing in numbers. People sign up these days, upload their map, it gets rejected, they leave the hive and thus, a lot of the usernames get taken, including Kael D: p)
So lets just say those who stay longer in the hive, also learn more and their resources get better in time.

 

[Fussiler1]

You guys are waaaay to pessimistic.

Imo, the Hive is growing. New talents arrive while the old ones leave.

 

[Coolty44]

The Hive is growing, undoubtly, but you have to consider...

How many people are signing up to be an active member of the community, how many people are signing up becuase they just want an account should they need anything and only log on 1-5 times a year, and how many people are multi-accounts?

Then you have to cross this with people that were active and posted alot and really were part of the community, but have since forth left to do other things.

It all just leads to the same answer. Yes, we are groing in size. No, we are not growing in active members that vist everyday.

 

[Insincerity]

It's growing in sheer numbers, but the actual productive, contributive community is shrinking. Most of the Hive's best members have come and gone.

And as they leave more arrive and eventually go and so on. It's somewhat of a cycle, and I think it's slowed down somewhat as WC3 started dying; however, I think SC2 will revive it again.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

With the world population growing and improving technologies it is most obvious that we're growing

 

[The Reborn Devil]

Ye, we are growing and SC2 will give us a major boost.

 

[Dr. House]

Growing afcourse (although i do think that WC3 bnet is shrinking )

 

[thelifelessone]

Of course, assuming that ralle will do the smart thing and pull focus to SC2, we should see a massive boom in activity in the coming months.

Why the hell does everyone think moving to Starcraft II will increase activity automatically?

That's not how these things work. Sure, you'll get SOME activity, but your the largest Warcraft III modding website. You could end up being the worst Starcraft II website.

I'm not trying to say you'll fail with Starcraft II. I'm just saying don't expect massive amounts of activity due to it.

 

[LordDz]

It's dying, you should all leave now when you can.

 

[Megafyr]

At first, new members might be worse than the old ones, but in the end some new guy will always surpass what has been done before. That's just the way it is.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

I've discovered that most of the users I idolised were actually pretty horrid at what they did. Or said they could do.

Anywho, that be fellows like Red Shift and lelyanra and so on who are actually good.

As it turns out, familiar user != good user. Mostly nostalgia filter

I remember Mecheon and Werewulf were very rude with almost anyone. In the past THW didnt have nice moderators as in mannered. But I had a protector - Wolverabid

it is growing but some old members are secretly leaving and moving to either UDmod or WC3C

 

[Fussiler1]

Mecheon

It was his job,

 

[Miss_Foxy]

From what I notice everyday, the Hive Workshop is growing on a daily basis, as stated in the Number Of Members box... I usually scroll down once every single day to check out how many people joined the Hive recently...

 

[DeadZero]

Why the hell does everyone think moving to Starcraft II will increase activity automatically?

That's not how these things work. Sure, you'll get SOME activity, but your the largest Warcraft III modding website. You could end up being the worst Starcraft II website.

I'm not trying to say you'll fail with Starcraft II. I'm just saying don't expect massive amounts of activity due to it.

We're obviously not going to "switch" to Starcraft 2, we're going to do both. It will increase the amount of activity, probably not massively, obviously.

 

[HardOn]

My opinion is, I think the Hive is shrinking. Yes, more and more join our community but, how many of them do you think would really stay active and help out in the community after their problems have been solved?. But anyway, the Hive would continue to grow.

 

[PurplePoot]

I remember Mecheon and Werewulf were very rude with almost anyone. In the past THW didnt have nice moderators as in mannered. But I had a protector - Wolverabid

it is growing but some old members are secretly leaving and moving to either UDmod or WC3C

Not sure that was a bad thing (they weren't rude to anyone, only those that deserved it).

 

[Dr. House]

its just like in real life you live in a beautifull place and when you move away and return to it 10 years later you see how much its changed. My point is Hive is growing but wc3 is dying and SCII is rising new members shall come for SCII and not WC3 since evrything that new is intresting and evrything thats old isnt (for most people that is) we can only hope that Blizzard shall continue on the WC saga by making a Wc IV

 

[Jaret]

Well, some old dudes like Wolverabid are gone (Had prob. in real life), And yes, new ones are coming. Don't think that some of them will be inactive. Some might become the most famous users of thw yet. We still have some senior users (like nice mr. PurplePoot over me), People come and go... If this site would exist in 20 years, I think a lot of the users would have left the site, new ones came... It's just life how it is. In 20 years We would have like a list of things this site is modding.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

You mean like modding Internet Explorer or Microsoft?

PS:

 

[HINDYhat]

You mean like modding Internet Explorer or Microsoft?

PS:

What is this I don't even

 

[Devine]

You mean like modding Internet Explorer or Microsoft?

PS:

both. Well considering that modding WMP is a lost cause xD

 

[Linaze]

Growing steadily (I'm afraid).

 

[Arowanna]

Well, if we look at the "Forum" part, it's shrinking, or at least in those part where I "hang around"
Same with the Texture/Skin section, same guys all the time.
Models, almost the same.
And maps, well, read OP!

We are getting more isolated, most people stick to "their part of the forums".
It's rare to see new members post stuff in the Forums, part from the Request Threads.

Thats just my interpretation of it however.

 

[TriggerHappy]

It's definitely growing.
The chatroom is constantly getting new regulars.

Probably from the Sc2 Beta.