Spells of Magic Revival!

Hello Everyone, I'm Alice, and I'm deeply in love with this website, and community, and everything it was long time, and still is to a smaller extent... I really really want to bring this site back to life, to invite more people over here, to restart our covens, so anyone reading this, I would love to hear some suggestions!

I myself think that most new people here simply keep to themselves that fact, that they found this site! We should encourage them to spread the word to their friends, and do a little work on our side! I will invite my friends since we are all lovers of occult and witchy stuff :D

Login or Signup to reply to this post.

Giving this some thought, I think a rather large part of the problem is that there are so many alternative means of communication these days. Not only do we have the forums and chat, but I'm sure people are spread out over things like Discord, Snapchat, WhatsApp, etc. Having many means of communication likely results in the community being fragmented.

For myself, I only use the forums. I don't particularly care to use Discord if I can help it, and I don't use the chat here because I use a screen reader and the chat isn't exactly the easiest to keep up with when using a screen reader.

What can be done? I don't know. It's not like anyone can stop people from using what they want.

Well that and there are a lot more apps with better features now. People can find a lot more of what they need instead of coming to here and the groups here are dead and inactive and half of them just need removed so new ones can get made maybe.

I think if this was made into an app a lot more people would use it because a lot of people prefer mobile app nowadays and possibly spruce it up a little to make it look more appealing to others. Also adding a southern hemisphere option for when looking at the wheel of the year.

I'd love for this site to adapt and be revived, but most users don't want to put in that amount of effort [some see witchcraft as a hobby, it's a fad to some, and others are far too busy to spend a ton of energy with little reward] I feel some of this is because this is an older site. Not many people do forums these days. If we had a mobile app it might help, but I feel we could branch out into other social media to get our name out there [we have a Facebook which is seldom used, and a YouTube which isn't consistent. Don't know about TikTok, Twitter, Insta or other social media] Honestly, it's hard to get people to commit to conversation. This is a site to learn about magick and the average user is in their teens. Nothing wrong with that, but very few want to dive deeper than "the basics" and when it comes to prioritizing their lives, spirituality is lower down [again, not everyone, but I remember being that age, you're super hyped about the winter holidays, then slowly stop practicing as social events and exams ramp up until you feel that chill in the air and your brain starts thinking of Samhain and the cycle continues]

I try to log in every day. I check the spell's comments, article comments, then the forums. Occasionally, I have mail, but unless a conversation catches my eye, I log out. I've gone through the motions of planning out and writing forums which get 1 or 2 people going "wow, neat" but no real engagement [which is why I put that effort into articles] Most witches are solitary and prefer to lurk and observe [half because they're shy, half because they're afraid to say something silly. My advice is to ask, nobody's going to be mean, and if they are, they're just a troll you shouldn't listen to] Find where your energy can best be spent and do that.

Welcome. Suggestions.. let's see.
From memory, this site was popping with light and activity in 2013.
The members page and guest viewing page catch alot of users eyes. Keep it. It's kind of exciting to feel like you're working together on common topics.
A deterrent from users staying could be the content that is taken from TV shows and other nonsense.
Users can tend to be introverted. Conversation should be encouraged every so often, to check up on one another. Common courtesy?

An app sounds like the next big step. This would require other platforms representing the site to be more active and proactive on current social media.
Keep the sites versatility of its features.

If possible, make the site a 1st or top 10 search results when searching key words involving spells, witchcraft. I noticed back then, this site would pop up sooner than it does now.
Hope this helps :D

There might also need to be a rebranding.

In my experience, mobile apps like Amino and Discord draw a lot of people, and when those people ask about other communities, they are often discouraged from SpellsofMagic because we aren't seen as credible.

We don't delete fake spells and we don't seem to moderate the content on our website, so the knowledge of our user base and admin is questioned. Many people I've talked to assume the reason we don't delete the fake spells is because we believe them as well.

Most people glance at the covens and spells, they don't stick around long enough to see the forums (that tend to show we're more knowledgable).

At this point, our reputation precedes us, and even if we advertised we'd still be fighting against the reputation we have that's been built for the past 5+ years on the more active corners of the internet.

i only have a few suggestions.... first maybe we can make the artical page more user friendly and booming again with relivent stuff to this day and age as well as catering to those of us that find solace in the old ways.... two maybe we can re work this chat system a bit its way to touchy yet i feel the rules are there for good reason so maybe just weed out those that no longer apply and add a few new ones... three i will be adding a link to this page on my discordgroup for witches of all kinds if that is ok it might draw some people to your site and hopfully its ok.. because i can see many a benifit to free publisity and more trafic!!! thank you all for your time and blessed be to you all..

Well said, Nekoshema, and sorry for the lack of engangement.

I am a old, some might say crone, newbies who is still learning how to navigate the forum. After talking to my grandchildren it would seem Facebook and the like are more popular.
I am finding the site extremely helpful so thank you to all who have put in a lot of effort to make it what it is.