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Originally Posted by corallivore
As someone who doesn't have face book, I'd sure love to see a return to the good old days on here.
Seems like a real ghost town now compared to 5-10 years ago.
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I joined in 2012 and this was an active forum until about 2016 and it slowly faded
Some of it had to do with the long time members stepping back as they were the driving force on the forum for many years
A big part of it is social media Twitter, FB, Instagram and so on but as people are finding out social media is not very descriptive and lots of misleading information out there and are slowly gravitating back to forum pages
Another part is people who lurk they love to read and learn but rarely if ever post for many reasons. Somebody figured out that on average for every person who posts there are 6 people who lurk.
Lastly I belong to 17 different actual forums for the hobby I am active on 7 of them moderate 2 and 5 are no longer active and 3 I mostly lurk on as people rarely post on those three. On the flip side I only belong to 5 FB groups and an active on 4 of them