Is there ever any outreach to Perlmonks users that haven't logged in for a while? I see so many high quality posts in old threads and make it a habit to see the poster's recent activity. In many cases there hasn't been so much as a login to the site in many years. This is natural, of course. Many users come to the site when they use Perl for a certain job and then they change employers or even just switch roles and the practical need to visit the site goes away. I am thinking that sending an email out periodically to users who haven't been around for a while would be useful. This should be more than a simple message but instead try and entice people with information about, for example: This sort of outreach is very common and I doubt anyone would be bothered by it. The campaign, if you can call it that, could even extend to other socials such a LinkedIn and Twitter. Old users may find that if their posts here can find a wider audience through those outlets than they wouldn't consider this site to be, well, quite so cloistered.

In reply to outreach to inactive users by adamcrussell

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