Thread: New Member Confused

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Since I've been on this forum almost since day one maybe I can help. I'll spare you the "inside the sausage factory" details and just say that in the roughly 15 years of life this forum has had a lot of water has spilled over the dam. We've had personal wars, server failures (4 or 5 IIRC), lost data, and the typical people turnover that any social organization will experience for a similar array of reasons.

Perhaps the biggest thing that has changed in more recent years is the number of online networking options that people have. Facebook, Instagram, snap chat, and probably a whole bunch more that an old goat like me doesn't know about yet. Couple that with changing interests, personal time constraints, death, and more, people move on.

Some things are constant throughout the history of man though, whether people realize it or not. To that point I offer the notion of, "you get out what you put in". There are some guys on here who've joined up relatively recently.....say the 2 or 3 years, who have actively posted and been readily accepted by the more senior members. So I would encourage you to post away and see what happens. Activity breeds activity.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Since I've been on this forum almost since day one maybe I can help. I'll spare you the "inside the sausage factory" details and just say that in the roughly 15 years of life this forum has had a lot of water has spilled over the dam. We've had personal wars, server failures (4 or 5 IIRC), lost data, and the typical people turnover that any social organization will experience for a similar array of reasons.

Perhaps the biggest thing that has changed in more recent years is the number of online networking options that people have. Facebook, Instagram, snap chat, and probably a whole bunch more that an old goat like me doesn't know about yet. Couple that with changing interests, personal time constraints, death, and more, people move on.

Some things are constant throughout the history of man though, whether people realize it or not. To that point I offer the notion of, "you get out what you put in". There are some guys on here who've joined up relatively recently.....say the 2 or 3 years, who have actively posted and been readily accepted by the more senior members. So I would encourage you to post away and see what happens. Activity breeds activity.

I'd say Uncle Bob's on target. The "disruption" you refer to was back in mid-2011, as I recall, and it was driven by a necessary change in forum software which changed the "Look & Feel" of the screens to a degree. Some features gained, but a few popular features lost (like the "MORE" button that scrolled back through posts in sequential time order) and some members either could not address the changes, or chose not to and dropped out. Some have embraced other formats, using Facebook, etc for their social media "fix".
My $0.02, and my time here is a lot shorter than Uncle Bob's. The key point is Unc's closing - Activity breeds activity.