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daxxh
Posted 2022-01-24 9:17 PM (#23729 - in reply to #23728)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		I think people will check the site more often if you introduce challenges more often. It seems like there is a lot of activity at the beginning of the year when most of the new challenges start and very little at the end of the year.

I wasn't paying attention and thought that the January Mini Challenge ended at the end of January. Because it is winter where I am and the days are short, I have more time to read. I was able to finish this challenge quickly. That will not be the case when it gets warmer and the days are longer. I would have a hard time with a mini challenge that only lasted for a month in June. If the goal is to have people engaged with the site, it won't matter if they are all 12 months long. People will be looking for the new one. (And commenting in the forums.) I get lots of recommendations by looking at what others are reading, reviewing and putting on the Award Worthy Novels list. If more people are joining new challenges, that is more books for me to check out.

Maybe you could vary how long the challenges are based on typical book length - three months for topics that tend to have shorter books and six for the 1000 page topics. Or 3 months for 1 book mini challenges, 6 months for 2 book mini challenges and 9 months for 3 book mini challenges. Or one month for a holiday-based challenge like the Halloween Mini Challenge.

I doubt that everyone will join every single mini challenge for various reasons, mine being time to read everything I want to read. I also try to make one book fit multiple challenges so what I choose for a mini challenge may not add to the overall yearly book count. The more I can do that, the more challenges I can join.

I am looking forward to the new challenges and the books that I will find that I may not have otherwise noticed.

Edited by daxxh 2022-01-24 9:35 PM

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