The perspective that there are too many regions recruiting, as is a talking point lately, is probably not the problem as much as telegrams are over-relied on to be a recruitment solution. Instead, I think we probably need to have a new type of system created to help here. Possibly a page that replaces the current The World page. I don't really have the history on the feature being added, but if the point of regions tags were to help people find regions, they're not really doing that so much as being symbolic, or some form of region self-expression. So maybe we need something that capitalises on the region tag's concept more.
We currently have a primitive and clunky way to report regions by tag, but there are so many single-nation regions or dead regions in this format, that most any search reports over a thousand largely irrelevant results, viewed ten regions at a time, with absolutely minimal information on anything that pops up besides size and whether or not it has a delegate.
I recommend nuking this system and replacing it with a more advanced region finder, where players may search by keywords, filter by tag, with results displayed in aesthetically enticing boxes which display:
- The region's flag
- The region's banner as a backsplash (if it has one)
- Every region tag it has
The first X characters of the WFEA small region-entered advert, or the first X characters of the WFE if an advert has not been set.- Its WA population or delegate voting power
- Found date?
There are third-party Discord finder sites such as Disboard which use this idea to get advertisement out for servers with a substantial degree of success. Perhaps we can use this same concept where regions who have a WA population greater than or equal to five, consistently over the course of several days, get automatically enrolled, and their respective region recruiters can help bump their region's result into better visibility.
If we wish to further expand the likelihood of nations moving out of their feeders, we can include a link to this page in Max's Note to Leader telegram upon nation creation.