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I'm going to agree about the app. It'll help keep older members from leaving as well as provide a new avenue for essentially free advertising. I imagine the first week the app is out, thousands of users will be downloading it and that will, in turn, put the app on "Trending this week" lists, which will then rally in new players. Furthermore, very few really goes out of their way to tell their friends about BB as is. With an app, the mere fact that you downloaded it or rated it can alert your friends of the app and draw more "free advertising" that way as time goes by.

On a different note, there are two ways to increase the userbase: by maintaining old users and by acquiring new ones. I think the BB's should analyze whether the amount of users leaving have been increasing over time - a fix in maintaining users would be much cheaper and easier to accomplish than to acquire new users.

For everyone talking about the App, this is something that is being looked into quite a lot.

Backstory if you have not seen it:
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Marin seems like he very much wants to make one as well it is just a matter of who can help with it and how to do it, because it is kind of a sticky situation if you read his posts and why one hasn't been made yet.

Currently BBs are allocating resources to development. Once they will be satisfied with the product, they will channel more money into advertising. At least that's how I interpret what BB Patrick had to say on the topic many months ago.

Hopefully they become satisfied with their product sooner rather than later. It won't matter how many awesome changes they make to the game if there is no one left to play it.

Well Patrick said the game is self-sustainable even with 25k people playing, and I'd think even less now with new cash coming from second teams. However I think a lot of people who left will be not coming back because of lack of competition. We had 1.300 users during the peak and 700-800 regularly. Now we have less than 300. I agree with sooner rather than later.

When I was a GM, I also held a "forum day" where I was online all day to anwser questions from the danish users. It worked well and we gave 3 months supporter to question of the day. That, with the "mentor" feature is something I was proud of as I think both made a difference.

So there are many things that can be done, someone just has to do them.

+1 for the app idea.

Make a app and this game will earn millions!

Make a app and this game will earn millions!

Yeah, simple as that. App won't do itself. It will cost a lot of money to deliver high quality services and put technologies as a tool to bring remarkable result.

They don't need anything spectacular just something that works and is easy to use. Obviously I have no idea but from what I've read in the suggestion forums it sounds like there is enough money available to create an app, it's just starting the development process that seems to be unclear at the moment. Often times the best apps are the simplest, so it's not like the BB's have to go out of their way to create the greatest app ever invented.

Also, this does not have to do with the idea of an app, but why hasn't buzzerbeater taken advantage of other forms of social media to get their brand out there lately? I am aware that there used to be a blog and twitter page, but recently I have not heard of any other attempts to advertise or rally the community through external sites. I know the blog and twitter pages were not huge successes, but I think they could be fun and beneficial if regularly updated. A few retweets on twitter could lead to hundreds of others seeing the site, and even if only 1 out of those 100 decide to join that's still 1 person that would not have joined the site otherwise. Twitter has definitely grown since 2011 when the official BuzzerBeater twitter was last updated, and although I don't think it would help grow the community exponentially it couldn't hurt.

Again, these are just ideas, and I much rather an app be created before any other idea is acted upon. If what Koperbox said is true, and the BB's plan on advertising as soon as they are completely satisfied with the product of this site, than why not take advantage of the free advertising social media can provide.

So there are many things that can be done, someone just has to do them.

I agree. In my opinion U21 can do a lot towards growing a community and keeping managers from massive falling out. I was U21 coach for 6 seasons and plan to be at least 6 more, so i've seen the effect firsthand. You reach to a lot of newcomers through U21 and teach them how to train, maintain GS etc.

I would pay for this app.

In Spain we already have a mentor thread. All kinds of managers offered to help new managers at the beginning.I think this has helped a few. I hope.