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For the first time, I think ever: At 21:08 Mextime I was alone member on the forum.😡
Location: Mexico city
I have a suspicion that the server probably had a small out! Normally that resets the member score!
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IMHO there is very little activity on the forum... Only a few topics active a day and that's on the general forum. Worried.
im not sure you chaps have an "off topic" section on here but may boost attendance on the site. just an idea.........
im not sure you chaps have an "off topic" section on here but may boost attendance on the site. just an idea.........
But we do - that load of drivel is called the Wednesday© Thread and it starts every Wednesday at 7pm UK time
fair enough, just an idea... why is it limited to every wednes tho? server space?
Wedthread is not for everyday and IMO not anything that will give more to the forum.
What we need is more threads like Richs speaker revival, Leslies recovering his frets, Eugenes amazing restorations of everything vintage, Martins rebuilds of anything, Chartz BG and so on. Thats for vintage.
Martin in Germany made som very interesting threads of more modern equipment. As I'm into vintage I can't say much about newer equipment.
One of the problems in vintage is that it's normaly more or less the same guys/girls posting, and as it is time and money consuming to make an interesting thread, only a few does it. A lot of newbies goes in get a solution of their problems and then never post the result and mostly never a pic or two.
I see myself as one of the newer guys posting and that started I think about one year ago, since then I dont remember any newbie posting a longer thread.
I dont think the forum is detoriating, it's just a low season, spring is coming up in the northern hemisphere, the limies is coming out from their caves😁, where they in the dark winter month made their B&O repairs, the Dutch guys made clogs😁,and now its house and garden that needs some time.
I'm living in nearly eternal spring-summer, and we only make house and garden just before xmas🙂, and as I'm waiting to get my BLs 3000 flat and 3702 down from Texas I wont make any thread before they are here. And as money and wife says buy no more, I have no plans to do more before the virus hit me again. I'm sure there are more in my situation.
Location: Mexico city
Activity on site does tend to wax and wane. There could be reasons for this:
1. High activity corresponds with the advent of new exciting products.
2. The server software has a bug which has meant posters with high post counts sometimes need to post two or three times before the post is accepted. As a lot of posts are generated by a relatively small number of people, this has had quite an effect. We are attempting to fix this though with distinctly middling results.
3. People find that their interest change over time. Look at the archived forum and you will find very few names you recognise. A number of members who added greatly to the site has simply found other things more important to do.
4. Stereo is a dying format. When I first started on this site, the vast majority of questions were on stereo systems. These days, surround and AV is much the greater area of interest. This is more expensive and has a smaller audience.
5. Boredom - there are only so many times that one can answer 'How do I connect my (insert piece of B&O) to my (insert cheap probably Chinese other make).
We will be launching the new server soon - and we should have a launch burst of energy! 😁
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@peter- i was one of the early birds on the old site (nokinnikon) i used to love being on that back then.
i do understand what your saying.
@ soren, when you say limies (limey's) are you referring to the lack of vitamin c on the old naval fleets of the british?
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