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Welp poll numbers have been dropping every year apparently and not exactly by a small amount. Today's poll in 2015 had double the votes(22k). Today's poll in 2012 had 4x the votes (44k).

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Zeus posted...

That's always been true for a lot of games. Only the huge games seem to get large amounts of traffic.

I spose, but activity is still down all around. I remember the smash bros brawl board having over 100k topics when it was in it's prime. Certainly no board will ever come close to that again.

EDIT: Meant over 100k PAGES of topics.

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TheWorstPoster posted...

What poll?

Was talking specifically about today's poll of the day, but it's essentially EVERY poll. I made this same topic a few months back and it was the same thing. A question posted 10 years ago had 10x as many votes as the same question posted in 2020.

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Far-Queue posted...

Your mom's pole attendance is waaaaay up though

Eh, she's basically a shut in. I don't think many people would want to go there anyway. Not sure why I'm responding seriously to a joke.

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Zeus posted...

You mean 10 years ago more people went to the front page instead of linking to the boards and thus bypassing polls completely? Yeah, I can see that happening, especially since people care less about polls than ever before thanks to Gamefaqs allowing these contests to be rigged by outside groups. Between that and people not going to the front page, I'm surprised that even fewer people aren't responding. Instead of 90% not voting, I'd expect it to be 95%+

Haha ok that could be part of it, but all around games also have far less topics on the boards I've noticed. Even new games that come out, some of the boards are just ghost towns. Not to mention it straight up shows you how many users are on the boards at any time and it's pretty low.

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party_animal07 posted...

This site'so structure was obsolete 10 years ago. They've tried to add new features, but it was already too late by then.

I forget the name of it, but there was a plugin or addon that increased site functionality, but they'd always break it.

Yeah it has barely changed since it first started. I think this was one of the first websites I ever visited as a kid on the families Windows 98 . Seems like most people on here are in their 30s (I'm getting there) but the younger generations use reddit, YouTube, etc.

EDIT: Wow, I'm really late to this party, but I just now realized they changed the domain name too!

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Revelation34 posted...

Who would even take over?

Apparently his sister. But it just seems so...out of the blue for him to be dead. I'll wait for confirmation but I feel like he's not dead.

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I made a topic like this awhile back, but just curious of peoples thoughts. Today's poll has under 10k votes. This same question posted back in 2009 has 99k votes! Do you think GFAQs is actually "dying"? There is very obviously far less people on this site these days >.> but I don't see it ever actually dying.

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First flew the greedy pelican; eager for the reward, white wings flailing.

Today's question of the day was asked in 2009 and had a total of 80,000 votes. Fast forward to 2020 and there is only 8000 votes. Do you find the decline of GFAQs traffic depressing?

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First flew the greedy pelican; eager for the reward, white wings flailing.