I found some content on one of my old sites. Oh the temptation of revamping one of them, but moving the site onto jcink. The only thing stopping me now is the fact I'm happy on the sites I'm currently on and I need more practice with jcink coding. I mean sure it would be easier to revamp the proboards site but I view it in the past and that is where it will stay.

The need to post all the autumn stuff grows by the day. Pumpkin spice iced lattes and pumpkin cider donuts and apple cider tea all have my brain here thinking it's October and I need to do the spooky season things. RELAX BRO ITS STILL AUGUST TIL WEDNESDAY YOU CAN WAIT. But at the same time I have everything DONE and cannot WAIT anymore AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

My confession is sometimes I forget to update certain things and sit there wondering what I missed. Gosh does it cause me pain.

I know I'm on multiple sites but I can't help but start working on a site I created previously with plans of possibly opening it just because I want too try out another concept idea. Plus it gives my characters a new home if they don't have one currently.

How does one keep activity up without being a total dick about it? Even the smallest amount of pressure to get members to post seems like it's too much. But at the same time, there's lulls. Always so many lulls. So how do you go about getting higher activity, or bringing in new members? I feel like I haven't had a new person in awhile.

to be honest I'm really glad the influx of new members is always slow on Ramora.

we get a new one every few months and it gives me time to integrate them and get used to them before another one comes in, so I have them memorized and recognized and I'm never like "who is this person" on my own site. considering for our genre we are massive that really helps. I feel if we were an 80 person site I would die.

^ I mean don't get me wrong. I like having smaller sites. We have like... 10 members maybe? I just would like to be closer to like 20 lol. I am a social introvert. I like new friends. I like new stories. And I post so much I wear my members out. So it'd be nice to have some new blood.

Edit: I 100% want new members for my own selfish gain, and I'm okay with that I suppose. NEW FRIENDS

I need Shadow Clones to be able to do everything I want. Little ole me can't handle all of this by himself T-T

Found this perspective pretty interesting, so I thought I'd share the opposite. Couldn't generalize about how 'they function' based on the criteria you're targeting (integrating everyone who comes around) since it varies if it's even a conscious thought at all. However, as someone who joins almost exclusively these, as termed by Kuroya , "mega-sites", the numbers you're listing to me are numbers I want to see for these reasons:

a) Availability of choice, diversity. The more people on the site, the better chances I'll find what I'm looking for in terms of characters I'd like to throw mine at. 
b) That medium town-city feel, where you don't have to pay interactive attention to everyone while simultaneously getting surprised by new voices in the middle of what you're doing. Keeps things lively. 
c) If the site has fewer than those numbers, the risk of site death is naturally greater unless the whole small group is committed to being around even during the periods they're in their grave irl.
d) As the person who makes the first move more often than not, it's a luxury to me to have a large map of goings on and launch my interests into the fray of what works best for me. I don't need integration, it's more likely I'll require getting beaten away with a stick. 
e) Large-scale events can be spectacular. 

I speculate that most of the people on "mega-sites" vibe with at least some of these aspects, and the newcomers who need more orientation do fade out if someone doesn't immediately have an idea on how to slot them into their goings on based on the character read. It's, to some degree, an unspoken rule to pick and choose from the market (as a newcomer) and notify someone or multiple people of your existence so as to get involved with their existence(s). Not everyone will have the interest, time, or headspace to fit your thing, which is why it's always better to cast a wider net. If you don't get discouraged in the process of fishing, you will get a good catch eventually. Study your intended fishies. 

Bring appropriate bait. 

But not everyone likes fishing and that's okay. 

I think the biggest site I ever ran had like 25 members. Maybe 30. But they came and went. We stuck around like 10-15 active long term people, with a bunch of shorter term people that came and went. Some came back, some didn't. It's just really interesting to me. I really like the long term members, the ones that stick for years, which I have. But some of the short term members, or even just prospective people, bring in really good questions and ideas.

As a staff member, I really appreciate someone coming in with fresh eyes and looking at my stuff, questioning everything, making me explain lore and whatever. It's a really nice feeling. But it hasn't happened in awhile. With bigger sites, I would imagine this happens a lot as well, but of course it would have all of its own problems too.

The thing with a lot of bigger sites too though, is that there's usually an admin team. It's not just one person in charge of the 80 or so people in the site. It's "okay I'll run this and this, you run that, that person is in charge of these things" a team. I can't imagine being a solo admin for more than like 10 people.

I ended up with an unexpectedly large site almost overnight. I am super thankful for my co-admins, we are all experienced so that helps. I've modded on even larger sites and the best way to avoid "slipping through the cracks" so to speak is to get in the plotting channels and wrangle people. There are too may folks on larger sites for admins to get to involved with making sure everyone has thread partners so you have to be a bit more involved with searching for plots. Its usually the wall flowers I see getting lost.

Some dude once threatened to sue me after I banned him lmao. His reasoning was that he owned the copyright of some art he was using for an OOC and it was being hosted on site via his application, thus giving him grounds to sue me for infringement or something. I told him to pound sand and basically told the rest of staff to let it sit. Petty, but it felt so good to be the target of impotent rage.