I've already seen the active thread regarding no articles being published and I've been reading all the opinions. Looking at my forum stats one may think I am a pretty new member here, on the contrary, I was here on Boddunan since September 2009! I was very excited about Boddunan and my expectations were huge. But over the time I lost interest in writing articles on the site since I felt there was no much justice done to the article session. And I've stated this in forum years ago and got not much notice.
I've opened this new thread since I'd like to point out what I think went wrong and I hope active users of the site would add their insights as well so as to fix this issue. So let's make this thread to introduce new ideas.
First of all, let me list out the things I think Boddunan shouldn't have done.
1. Accepted lots of irrelevant and poor quality articles which no one is interested to read.
Boddunan accepted lots of articles which are not up to any standards. At first, I wrote articles by proofreading it before publishing and making sure at least I did my best. Then I found out many articles which are barely 150 words and have nothing useful in it getting published for Rs.10 and Rs.15. And the articles which are well researched and written gets like Rs.30. So what's the whole point? Write some casual posts and publish daily and get more money than a well-written article. Relevancy is another matter, usually, a good article is like 800-1000 words. No one reads more than that on the web. I've seen 2000 words articles on Boddunan on medical science topics which I think is not much relevant and will not yield much clicks.
2. No benefits for getting more page views.
My article on Creating custom social networking website got 35000+ hits. I think people are interested in those kinds of things. And all I made out of it is Rs.10. On the other hand, another article of mine on Supernatural experiences gained Rs.80 but only got 900 views.
When more page views yield more money writers will share them on social networking websites.
3. Much less importance to articles on the website.
Articles are not published daily, but everything is published altogether on a particular day. Also visibilty of articles must be more on the website. Article section must be the core. But instead it's buried along side with all other sections.
I would really love to see boddunan back to it's glory and making progress in such a way that it'll compete with sites like hupages in future. But we have to go a long way.
I lost interest in writing articles here long before. I have almost 1000 rupees in my account and I thought of publishing a few more articles to withdraw it, then find out articles are not getting published and the last article published was 3 months ago.