Hi, my name is Brock Beauchamp, and I'd like to talk to all of you!

[Cowtipper]

How long is a while? It's been stagnant since we've moved over here. I didn't want there to be an onslaught of 1,000 new faces in a month, but a few new people here would've been nice so it's not the same 8 people talking at each other each day. 

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think he said a year. I'm not sure. He will probably chime in here before long. 

[whippoorwill]

But it seems like we get new people and they don’t post. 
and I miss KC and batmags

edgy I like old movies and shows too. I don’t think the Non baseball forums are being used enough

[Cowtipper]

The "new people" we got are just writers trying to get views for their writing, not really  "community members."

[whippoorwill]

Yes I do read and enjoy a lot of the articles but I wish they’d segue into more of the posting around here. I know it’s hard to comment on Mets content if you do not or cannot actively follow them but there is other stuff they can join into. 

[Centerfield]

I think the conversation has been kinda lively (on the Mets board anyway) for what has been a dead Mets season.

I'm glad some guys are back.  I thought I saw Fman posting not long ago.

Wish we could get Greg and KC back.  Miss those guys.

[seawolf17]

I hung out with Fman yesterday. We played a few tunes together at a festival.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Tell him to get back here!

[MFS62]

1 hour ago, seawolf17 said:

I hung out with Fman yesterday. We played a few tunes together at a festival.

Tell him to get his effing butt back here. It's been tough trying to F in his footsteps.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

I've been posting less because this team has been just so bloody hard to watch.  I'm sure that's the case for a lot of people.

[Edgy MD]

It's gonna be a finish not to be missed.

[The Hot Corner]

I sent a message to KC 6-8 weeks ago telling him that I missed his input and hoped to see him posting again in the future.  Never received a reply or saw him post since then.  I remember he was one of the members most against the move here.  

I am happy for the longtime members that returned to posting since the move here, but unfortunately for each member we had rejoin the discussions we seemed to have one the dropped out.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Attracting new people is a slow process, and I felt I was pretty upfront about that. We need to attract traffic, and that's a months- and years-long process that I chip away at behind the scenes.

Right now, the biggest problem is that the Mets are a complete and utter failure. That really hurts in-season traffic, particularly the second half of the season. As a person who has run a Twins site for 20 years, I'm painfully well-versed in uncompetitive teams and what they do to traffic in the second half of the summer.

As for forum traffic itself, here is the number of posts per month since January 1, 2025. It's basically the same as last season. Not terrible considering how the Mets started and continued throughout the season.

As for the years-long process I talked about, here are Google clicks. This is the key to new traffic, and what we'll keep working on indefinitely. But as you can see, it's all moving in the right direction. Somewhere around the year mark, the domain finally asserts itself, and this number starts to rapidly grow.

Typically, we tend to do our best work in the offseason. That's when others take their foot off the gas, and we lean in. In most cases, our biggest gains come from November through January.

Of course, baseball is going to kick us all in the balls this winter, so... *shrugs*

Like I always say, we take the long view. We'll keep plugging away, and we'll make it work in time. It'd just be nice if the powers that be weren't working against their own fans.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I like the new format. I appreciate the work Brock has done. Some of the features, such as the ability to easily post photos, are excellent.

I miss some of the people and hope they come back. I do not miss the ones who brought abuse and pain to the site.

LGM. 

By the way, the one game the team has lost since the deadline was the one I drove six hours to see. Life of a Mets fan, to be sure! I did get a cool game ball pitched by Jefry Yan. 

 

 

[Edgy MD]

I think some of the missing folks isn't a refection on the new home, but new choices they have made.

I would encourage any and all to reach out to those you miss.  Tell them about your Jefry Yan balls.

[Cowtipper]

So, we don't get a huge amount of poster participation, but are the views our threads are getting at least human beings that aren't posting members, not just bots and our active members? That's some consolation. I used to post on a baseball forum that slowly lost posters over time, but I continued to post because our posts and the threads still contributed to the greater world of baseball knowledge and still got views via Google links and stuff. 

[ashie62]

I like starting IGT's and reading the Daily News

I never understood why someone would get on me for IGT thread hogging in 2024 and never had  started even one IGT themselves. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

On 9/27/2026 at 6:31 AM, Cowtipper said:

So, we don't get a huge amount of poster participation, but are the views our threads are getting at least human beings that aren't posting members, not just bots and our active members? That's some consolation. I used to post on a baseball forum that slowly lost posters over time, but I continued to post because our posts and the threads still contributed to the greater world of baseball knowledge and still got views via Google links and stuff. 

Yeah, the search numbers are slowly climbing. SEO is painfully slow. But, ultimately, new members will start appearing. I promise that as much as I can promise anything that I can't directly control.

For example, our Red Sox forum was just a smidge larger than this one. It was a pretty small, tight-knit group over there as well. We relaunched the site in August of 2024, and it took close to a year before new users started appearing. Just last month, I was approving new member posts multiple times a week over there.

When I started, a search like "mets forum" would return this site somewhere in the 7-10 position. A site barely gets a click on the back half of page one. But now we're consistently hovering around #3 in those searches, and I'm quite confident we can get to #2, and somewhat confident we can get to #1. That's when we start seeing new users appear. Google search is *incredibly* top-loaded, and AI results have made it even more so. If you're not in the top two, maybe three, it's often pointless to be on the list at all.

[whippoorwill]

I think the Non Baseball Forum should be public