Why is the recruitment side of this game so horribly neglected?

[Gula]

First response covers basically what I'd say.

But overall, perhaps things are different on the JP side.

[Barraind]

adding voice require more bandwidth, more work from programmers whose job is NOT voice software, will likely results in something that can add new problems to solve, and frankly it will be unlikely the feature will work as good as other software dedicated to the scope

Voice chat in an overwhelming number of games, including every MMO thats done it, has caused performance and stability issues and added nothing, since we were all using teamspeak or ventrillo or discord anyway. If your addition isnt going to be better than what people already using, its not worth adding, especially if its resource intensive.

[Anya_Synia]

As the main recruiter of the FC I'm in, even if you have a board it still takes a lot of work and dedication to build up a community, especially a high quality community. I find it quite easy to recruit you just got to be willing to put the work in. I just initiate conversation with random players that are not in a FC, then if I don't like their personality I don't invite them. I also search round the popular discord servers and have even recruited members that were looking for a FC on this site. Shouts and PF are a terrible way to recruit, you will get much more success if you get to know people first. If you are not willing to put in the work then you are going to find recruitment very hard.

[Eldevern]

This is just an idea inspired by dating sites (I have no idea of which one it comes from but the idea doesn't sound wrong) :
There is nothing that allow to show we could be interested to play again with people we meet in dungeon or raid when using DF. What we somehow miss, is something that could show a mutual interest (mandatory to escape trolls) to play again with the same team/players.

[Dfess]

I would like to see a voice chat for parties/raids.