when does this forum get hot?

[Bak3rm3]

I'm guessing it gets hot right when applications start opening in September. Does it pick up? coming here to find useful information and help but seems kinda dead right now?

 

[Adelaide9216]

I was about to start a thread saying the same thing. The forum is quite dead for a while now I find.

[feralgrad]

I'm not sure when it gets busy, but by the time I made my account last year (around January-February, when admissions results were coming in) the forum was pretty active.

[Sigaba]

On 8/14/2019 at 1:16 PM, Bak3rm3 said:

I'm guessing it gets hot right when applications start opening in September. Does it pick up? coming here to find useful information and help but seems kinda dead right now?

IME, it varies from application season to application season and discipline by discipline.

FWIW, it's my observation that when applicants build more on existing threads in the most appropriate fora, as opposed to starting new threads for similar topics across multiple fora, things run much "hotter."

Something that bears keeping in mind, following the change in management last July, the Grad Cafe lost some prolific / experienced moderators who really brought it. In a post that has since been deleted, they laid out the reasons for their departure.

To be absolutely clear, the current group of moderators is just as capable, but its members post a bit less frequently.