In the original Skyblock announcement thread, I left a response stating that from our server's history, we have learnt that things need to change every now and then to keep players interested. As the Skyblock server is now no better than Freedom-01 in terms of player retention, I'm suggesting a change to it.
Let's first look at why the server has failed. Firstly, Skyblock is a fun gamemode. However, keeping Skyblock permanently is not a good solution because our playerbase simply isn't big enough. A small playerbase means that people either stay on Skyblock or Freedom-01 - and it's usually the latter. Additionally, people have low attention span. Players have went on the server, had fun, got bored and stopped playing. This is a pattern we've seen before: remember the SMP?
My suggestion is to make it so that the Skyblock server's gamemode changes every month. By this I mean that the Skyblock server will not strictly be Skyblock only - instead we will change the gamemode every month, to other things like Factions or Bedwars, or even SMP. The benefit of this is that it will increase the chances of the Skyblock server not dying off completely - thus strengthening our network.
What are your thoughts on this?