EMERGENCY TCPians unite

Hello and thank you for reading this post and for any help you provide. Everyone listen, you may or may not have noticed but TCPs chat is beyond slow, I have found that It goes dead quiete often lately. Four months ago I could come on and chat all night long with at least a steady 4-5 (usually about 15) people, now you would be lucky if you talk to 15 people all night, an 8 hour night. Now I know what your thinking it's an isolated incident; that's what I thought when I first noticed TCP's numbers dwindling, about two and a half months ago. Although it has not improved at all, It has only gotten worse. So I ask you... I ask all of you. What could this mean? and how should we go abouts getting more TCPian's to fall into the TCP addiction?
We could rush into peoples home and force them to use TCP... maybe the summer has got something to do with it.

Your observation is true, chatters are dwindling by the day. The same can be said in the Forums, posters are decreasing. I too noticed it few months ago and was the reason I had posted in TCP General Topic my observation about the same titled “What’s missing?”,  because I felt getting in here become less enjoyable. I was puzzled how it happened. It used to be that TCP is a great place to chat and post something. But now it’s different, people shied away in the Chat and Forums.  It’s good thing you brought this out, so some notable members could give their thought on how it could be solved. If I could give my unsolicited and anonymous advice to bring back TCP addiction , I think it would help if some regular members to be friendly to all chatters, be it old members or new ones and  not choose or  pick-out whom you like to chat with.  I’ve noticed that some regular members won’t talk to you if you weren’t not included in their circle regular chatting buddy. Gone are the days when you would find yourself surrounded chatting with warm and friendly people even when strangers to one another, and that’s old TCP is all about. I hope this won’t hurt anyone’s feeling, this is just an observation.

I think you need the opinion of one of the oldest registered member, that is me

In the 2 years I've been around here I noticed that there are moments in which there are many persons and moments with just a few ... that's life guys, only a few people come here regularly since the day of the start of TCP, I remember that in Jan 2006 I used to chat with persons who never came back in the next months... and of course I missed the most of them!

As regards the "circle regular chatting buddy" I think that this depends on the time you usually chat: I usually chat after 8pm Italy time and I usually find the same persons chatting, I'm sure that people who chat when I sleep do find the same persons as well. The point is that when someone new comes I don't ignore them ... and everyone should do that, because everybody is welcome in TCP!

Anyway I wouldn't worry too much, it's just a moment with few persons!

My summer's boring and I come here often even at my workplace, Bushee. But somehow things get pretty nasty and there are times when we can't comem in here even though we want to. That's the particular situation I'm in right now. I think in order for more people to show up and fill their attendance sheets in, they should be paid for comin' in No, that's just a joke, to be serious, advertising more about this site and letting people talk more about here might be the best idea for this madness you are talking about

Francesca wrote:

I think you need the opinion of one of the oldest registered member, that is me

If I could add some adjective to this, I'd say "the oldest and one of the cutest registered member"

Francesca wrote:

The point is that when someone new comes I don't ignore them ... and everyone should do that, because everybody is welcome in TCP!

I agree with you on this 100 percent.

Francesca wrote:

Anyway I wouldn't worry too much, it's just a moment with few persons!

Well, I'm not worried, just a little bit concern. Anyway even with those minuses, overall I think TCP is still one the best websites to visit. Cheers.