Why the reduced publicity?

[Bitcoinbride]

 I find this forum to be an interesting place to gather knowledge on bitcoin & other related/general topics. I can see that the forum has been existing for a long time and I wonder why I never heard about it up until recently. There are definitely many others who have never heard about this forum. Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

[Pokapoka124]

You may be onto something here. No everybody that knows bitcoin knows bitcointalk forum. A large percent of the people who know bitcointalk are the OGs, newbies visit more of clubhouse, crypto Twitter. That’s one reason I think OGs suspects “newbies” to be old users coming back again to create alts. If you read bitcoin history bitcointalk.org is always referenced. Bitcointalk is rich with bitcoin history. Unfortunately people don’t care much about history these days.

[hatshepsut93]

Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

No, this isn't some hidden deepweb community, obviously. This forum has millions of registered users. It's just that forums are something that is viewed as very old-fashioned these days, today other forms of communication, like social media groups, chat channels, twitter threads and so on.

[jackg]

Bitcointalk has been sliding down search engines for a few years too too when searching for crypto related subjects. I'm not too sure why this is, maybe some sites started favouring news articles or more modern social media and reduced where this forum stood. Perhaps the other media was considered more reliable, moderated or something too (eg Wikipedia having several editors for most pages or warnings when there are only a few).

[JeromeTash]

Forums are mostly a thing of the past as more people started adopting social media like Reddit and twitter. To make matter worse, the forum is still using the old SMF software, which looks boring and unattractive to new forum users. Features like notifications and mentions are missing, making constructive discussion and engagement hard.
Even when you try searching something crypto related, most of the topic that show up on top are from sites like Reddit despite Bitcointalk being the oldest crypto forum.

[Twinkledoe]

Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

No, this isn't some hidden deepweb community, obviously. This forum has millions of registered users. It's just that forums are something that is viewed as very old-fashioned these days, today other forms of communication, like social media groups, chat channels, twitter threads and so on.

The forum may be old-fashioned on its own but let us appreciate that there are so many valuable information waiting to be uncovered by users. And this forum can exist even without outside promotions as this can survive already with generous donations from various users. There are so many social media channels nowadays, but the information that you can get from here for me is priceless.

[5W-KILO]

I knew about BTC in 2011, at that time a close relative decide to give me 1 BTC for free but I never believed in the technology so I turned him down, I knew about bitcointalk in 2017 can you see the difference? Its possible not to know about this forum even when you know what BTC is until you go deep in doing research

[boyptc]

No.

There's no need to stress that out. It's on the internet and anyone who searches or looking for the forum will eventually find it out. Many of the members here have found it without even someone introducing it to them.

The members are increasing despite many forums and groups have already existed that are also bitcoin related.

[sheenshane]

Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

You're wrong, even on Youtube, there's a TheBitcoinTalkShow that can everyone watch regarding the forum.  What is the purpose of hiding?

Besides, we have IMO more than 3 million users here but I don't know how many of them are active you can check all stats in all user's profiles you can find them here.   https://bpip.org/
Do you think the hidden agenda is not to gather more users on this?

[Upgrade00]

I wonder why I never heard about it up until recently. There are definitely many others who have never heard about this forum. Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

Bitcointalk does not engage in publicity at all. As far as I know, there is just one official Twitter account and besides that, the forum is not represented on other social platforms. The reason for this could be so the forum is as similar to Bitcoin as possible. Bitcoin does not engage in publicity but rather allows users find it out and do their own research.

The forum is definitely not readily reachable to a average individual and more publicity would surely be helpful to get more users on here.

[PX-Z]

I only guess is because of google's changing algorithm of showing in the search engine page and the forum is out of date for that matter. What I know google show topics in top if it met certain conditions like mobile friendliness, their schema is applied, fast loading page and etc.

There's no agenda hidden or what, you just need to know how search engine woks.

[KingsDen]

Forums are mostly a thing of the past as more people started adopting social media like Reddit and twitter. To make matter worse, the forum is still using the old SMF software, which looks boring and unattractive to new forum users. Features like notifications and mentions are missing, making constructive discussion and engagement hard.

Op is saying why people are not aware of the forum and not why the forum is losing its database. It is only when someone is aware of the forum and have used it that he will complain that it's obsolete.
Majority of the influx recorded here are during bitcoin bull runs. At the time, people will on their own be sourcing for bitcoin related information.
However, SEO of bitcointalk is low. If you do not make a search with bitcointalk related terms, you will not find this place.
I personally joined by recommendation and I believe it's the fate of many.
The forum I think has started some kind of publicity as seen in BtcTalkShow on YouTube.

[pooya87]

It depends on what you search for.
Searching for basic price related topics or nonsense such as tokens would always redirect you to news sites and other places where they are advertising token scams. But usually bitcointalk is among top search results in first page when you search for anything else (like technical questions about bitcoin).

On top of that if you search "bitcoin forum" in google, literary the first result is this forum!

[GeorgeJohn]

I find this forum to be an interesting place to gather knowledge on bitcoin & other related/general topics.

Actually is another place to acquire another kind of knowledge especially cryptocurrencies and specifically Bitcoin, anyone who is opportune to adventure he or herself here is at advantages to comprehend cryptocurrency, forum is like institution were knowledge is been dispense but it's only for those who are willing to learn will understand it's nature, you can also impact your knowledge or share knowledge with people through your research analysis of cryptocurrency.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

To my best of knowledge, the forum hasn't advertised itself before and that means all users that are here came because they wanted to and not because they got tricked to. There's a big difference between quality and quantity, what the forum has is quality and those that want that are those the forum are interested in. We're not looking for crowd that'll turn the forum into something else. In the past we have had situation when the forum was over taken by spam and it was an awful situation. We won't want to experience that again as the quality of conversation on the forum will reduced.

Again this is a forum and not a social media kind of platforms, majority on the internet this days don't go after information they go after entertainment through videos and that's not what the forum was created for so obviously, not many will be interested in the forum. Vintage are old but gold and that's what the forum is.

[Jawhead999]

If there's an agenda to make this forum is private and it can be reached if you met several requirement (using Tor or deepweb) obviously you wouldn't find this forum now. You doesn't aware of this forum since you don't search about Bitcoin forum and many top articles less advertise this forum (they only want if you paid them). I don't know how old are you, but back on 2017 where Bitcoin and all ICOs is bullish... so many people already know Bitcoin. Probably you're not really interested with Bitcoin on that years.

[NeuroticFish]

Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

Did you need a secret link or something like that to get here? I don't think so. Nothing secret, no such agenda.
I think that in your case it may have been the timing: for quite a while google search downgraded that ranking of this forum, hence you didn't find it so easy (but it did still come in search results).

But excepting that odd period of time, if one was searching for bitcoin related things, this forum did (and does) come in the search results.
With the huge quantity of useful information here, I don't think that specific advertising is necessary. As I said, if one is interested in bitcoin, he will find this forum.

[isaac_clarke22]

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This kind of reminded me as a gamer back in the days not knowing that such gaming forums like GBATemp forum exists. It's not just happening to this forum. It can happen to any forums that I could also have not been aware of.
And yes, it's not like those social media platforms that gets into the mainstream in no time. When it comes to forums these days, people might have been thinking of something like Reddit or 4Chan.

[TinaK]

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This kind of reminded me as a gamer back in the days not knowing that such gaming forums like GBATemp forum exists. It's not just happening to this forum. It can happen to any forums that I could also have not been aware of.
And yes, it's not like those social media platforms that gets into the mainstream in no time. When it comes to forums these days, people might have been thinking of something like Reddit or 4Chan.

Because people are seeking information and found this forum, not the forum itself seeking attention to the people I think there's no hidden agenda for that. The forum doesn't have ads so that people will lead to the forum, it's just people searching on it.
But as I can see is different these days, those who came up here asking about how to rank up, how to earn money or how to obtain merits to rank up. Nobody wants to learn and asking what is blockchain and bitcoin or are they have correlation to each other.

In short, the forum is open to all.

[DdmrDdmr]

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I always fall back on this matter by exemplifying the Spanish local board. With around 580 million people that speak Spanish world wide (483M native), and if we consider that crypto is picking up traction in latam countries, being El Salvador a core exponent, the Spanish local board barely sees any new meaningful accounts. Although some will undoubtedly prefer to just pave the board sections in English due to them being more dynamic and diverse in content, the gap between language potential and reality here is extremely unfitting. I mean, not even a single person has landed here from El Salvador …

Now there is likely a cocktail of mixed ingredients behind this: SEO factors, cultural habits that shift people over to more dynamic and less prosaic means of communication, mobile friendliness, visuals, competitors, and so forth. Without being certain, I’d still say that lack of visibility is the core factor that is involved here. You need people to get here first, and then people will decide how long they’ll stay here, and of those other factors play against a certain loyalty to the platform.