Even though you guys have promised change, your actions have proven you intend to do nothing of the sort. When Gaia first came along, it was charming and original. It wasn't afraid to try new things and be quirky. Now though, Gaia is trying to be like everyone else instead of being original.
There was a time that sites were trying to emulate Gaia. What happened to that?
You guys turned your back on the roleplaying and anime fanbase that made Gaia great started trying to copy the bigger sites that, frankly, aren't the same genre of site. You're going to have to face it, Gaia is not Facebook and never will be. As long as you try to emulate sites that Gaia isn't, things will continue to fail.
And stop trying to be Zynga. Zynga is just a cash grab by some money hungry CEOs. There's a good reason their stocks are tanking.
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What we are doing is putting more focus on Gaia Online. The Gaia team has more developers working on it now than it did before any of the changes occurred a couple weeks ago.
It doesn't matter how many developers you have. What matters is their vision and what they aim to do.
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We are making and continuing forward with big plans for the site. Part of that is examining our presence in the mobile space currently.
It doesn't matter how big something is if you have no clue what you're doing. 'Big' does not automatically equal fun. Concentrate on what is fun first. If it's a small project, so be it.
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We're very interested in how we can make Gaia's mobile experience better, both through the app and through a mobile browser itself. In order to understand that though, we need to understand what our users are using their phones for or if any of them even have phones. The poll is not one sided or singularly focused. The data we gain from it will be of use to both sides of the company.
It's one thing to want to know what you can do to make Gaia's site more smartphone friendly, but most of the users are underage without parents that are rich enough for unlimited plans. This is part of the 'emulating sites Gaia isn't' problem.
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Those looking at the poll and seeing evidence of us lying or contradicting ourselves are being too limited in their judgment and are looking far too much down one path and not seeing the other paths coming from it.
Honestly, being attacked for expressing concern about continued poor business choices covered up with promises of 'change' doesn't seem very professional. You're the second admin that has done that. If you're going to claim to listen to the userbase, actually do it. Let us have a genuine say in what's going on.
Why do you think projects keep getting so little response? Because you guys get hung up on something that's popular on another site and think Gaia needs a copy of it. That's just bull. Until you guys started fumbling around for everything from the internet, Gaia's users had come to expect a certain kind of thing from Gaia.
If you want to know what you should work on,
form a system to let users outline their own projects that can be voted on by other users. Then you'll know what people actually want.
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