{"id":4507,"date":"2015-09-08T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2015-09-04T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T20:15:12","slug":"the-future-of-thepulp-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2015\/09\/08\/the-future-of-thepulp-net\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of ThePulp.Net?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThePulp.Net<\/a>Around six months from now — on March 26, 2016 — ThePulp.Net<\/a><\/strong> will celebrate 20 years.<\/p>\n

I’ve been pondering what to do with the website the past couple of years. That anniversary might be a good time to make some changes.<\/p>\n

So, I thought I would turn to you, good readers, for ideas and suggestions.<\/p>\n

ThePulp.Net isn’t the oldest website devoted to the pulp magazines, but it’s pretty close. Ever since it started (originally called .Pulp<\/strong>, on AOL’s web hosting service), the site’s focus has been mainly its pages linking to pulp websites and to sources for pulps and pulp-related items.<\/p>\n

It has grown from an initial four pages to several hundred pages, and more than 1,000 unique, curated links.<\/p>\n

In addition to the pulp-links pages, I’ve added an extensive pulp references bibliography, listing nearly 350 books and articles; a gallery of over 100 different vintage photos of pulps<\/a> on newsstands and in the hands of readers; the marginally successful PulpWiki<\/a><\/strong>; audio recordings\/podcasts of pulp convention panels<\/a>; and two pulp-related blogs, my Yellowed Perils<\/a><\/em>, and Michael Brown<\/strong>‘s The Pulp Super-Fan<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Other features have come and gone, such as the forums, the alt.pulp FAQ, pulp polls, and The Pulp Companion<\/em><\/a> (which is still posted online, but no longer updated).<\/p>\n

But in 2015, \u201csurfing the web\u201d isn’t quite what it was back when the World Wide Web was a relatively new thing. These days our online lives are more focused on social sites, such as Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Tumblr, etc. So maybe links pages shouldn’t be the focus of ThePulp.Net any longer.<\/p>\n

Changing times<\/h3>\n

Looking at the stats, monthly visits declined between 2008 and 2013. The number of visitors increased somewhat and stabilized in 2013 and 2014, but are tending down again this year.<\/p>\n

Since I don’t run advertising on the site, my interest isn’t to boost visitor count as a way to make money. (Heck, ThePulp.Net costs me a couple of hundred bucks a year for domain names, webhosting and such, not to mention time spent maintaining it.) I use the visitor stats simply to gauge interest in the site since I rarely get email or other feedback.<\/p>\n

I run ThePulp.Net as a pulp fan who wants to provide something useful for the pulp-collecting community, as well as to help spread the word about the pulp magazines.<\/p>\n

There are some visual tweaks in the works — which you should start seeing over the next few days and weeks — as well as other additions to come later.<\/p>\n

What can you do?<\/h3>\n

Now, back to where you come in. Should I consider shifting focus from links pages to articles about the pulps? Adding more blogs (if I can find writers)? Chucking the whole thing?<\/p>\n

What would you<\/em> like to see? What would you<\/em> do?<\/p>\n

Do any of you have any thoughts or suggestions? Make a comment below, or send me a note<\/a>. I’m open to hearing all ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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