Start getting people excited about it. Encourage other people's involvement. When the site is more finished with guides and sources already set up, start advertising on forums, discord, guild message of the day. Make sure all guild members sign up. People don't throw tips into an empty tip jar. There needs to be a good amount of users already signed up. People look at a dead site with no users and no information set up yet and exit out immediately. No one invests time into an empty page site but will get interested if it's full of already existing information. And it should definitely be more than one user posting all the time. We need commitment from other guildies to post on forums in an organized way to make it work. An option would be to assign roles for groups to come up with certain content. Use everyone's strengths of the game and put them to work!
I think it's a great idea since there's really no mobile apps that exist for ddo. It would be useful to the more serious players or even the ones who just want to get better and need a reliable forum to use, especially with ddo shifting more towards end-game content, raids, and the rxp grind within the last few years. I feel like the actual ddo forums lack more intense build advice and overall game advice because it is geared toward the general public. Discord is good at quick communication but character builds and general advice tends to get lost among all the different servers. The Pesti website/mobile app could easily serve as a concentrated source of easily accesible information without searching through tons of other stuff. It definitely needs to be ADVERTISED EVERYWHERE to gain any traction as it's hard to make a successful website in general. It needs to have things that people are looking for that they can't find elsewhere. Along with the complex guides, there also needs to be basic guides (or links to well-known guides) such as how-tos for raids, quests, puzzles, R10 etiquette, and simple mechanics that are (mostly) common knowledge but not always. The site needs to be easy, user-friendly, and mimic other social platforms so that others are comfortable using it. It needs to state clearly that the app is OPEN TO EVERYONE but run by Pestilence guild so that it doesn't deter anyone from using the app/site. Maybe with a function for non-guildies to send in advice or post guides as well but be filtered before posting to maintain accuracy and consistency throughout the site. Ddo is a small community but filled with a lot of dedicated and serious players who would find this useful.
Start getting people excited about it. Encourage other people's involvement. When the site is more finished with guides and sources already set up, start advertising on forums, discord, guild message of the day. Make sure all guild members sign up. People don't throw tips into an empty tip jar. There needs to be a good amount of users already signed up. People look at a dead site with no users and no information set up yet and exit out immediately. No one invests time into an empty page site but will get interested if it's full of already existing information. And it should definitely be more than one user posting all the time. We need commitment from other guildies to post on forums in an organized way to make it work. An option would be to assign roles for groups to come up with certain content. Use everyone's strengths of the game and put them to work!
I think it's a great idea since there's really no mobile apps that exist for ddo. It would be useful to the more serious players or even the ones who just want to get better and need a reliable forum to use, especially with ddo shifting more towards end-game content, raids, and the rxp grind within the last few years. I feel like the actual ddo forums lack more intense build advice and overall game advice because it is geared toward the general public. Discord is good at quick communication but character builds and general advice tends to get lost among all the different servers. The Pesti website/mobile app could easily serve as a concentrated source of easily accesible information without searching through tons of other stuff. It definitely needs to be ADVERTISED EVERYWHERE to gain any traction as it's hard to make a successful website in general. It needs to have things that people are looking for that they can't find elsewhere. Along with the complex guides, there also needs to be basic guides (or links to well-known guides) such as how-tos for raids, quests, puzzles, R10 etiquette, and simple mechanics that are (mostly) common knowledge but not always. The site needs to be easy, user-friendly, and mimic other social platforms so that others are comfortable using it. It needs to state clearly that the app is OPEN TO EVERYONE but run by Pestilence guild so that it doesn't deter anyone from using the app/site. Maybe with a function for non-guildies to send in advice or post guides as well but be filtered before posting to maintain accuracy and consistency throughout the site. Ddo is a small community but filled with a lot of dedicated and serious players who would find this useful.
This is a base minimum rough draft but something like this.