Do you remember when....... (Page 1/3)
pokeyfiero NOV 10, 06:43 PM
You could refresh the screen and several people would have posted in different subject titles?
or even new posts appear while you were still typing a post?
IMSA GT NOV 10, 08:45 PM
That's the sad part. I remember in General Chat, you could make a post and if nobody replied, it was already pushed to the second page by the end of the day. Now, the posts stay on the first page for up to 1 month.

[This message has been edited by IMSA GT (edited 11-10-2025).]

Raydar NOV 11, 03:01 PM
I'm blaming Farcebook. As useless as it is.
pokeyfiero NOV 11, 03:48 PM

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Originally posted by Raydar:

I'm blaming Farcebook. As useless as it is.


I think it has lot to do with interested traffic.

Fiero's are not being picked up as an interest to younger people and a lot of us have been around the block a few times now.

There is also the polarization effect. Many people avoind differing perspectives and rather stay in a like minded non discussion box.
I my self have veered away not from so much differing opinion but from vicious opinion. I want differing o[inion and perspective.
Facebook tends to group everyone up.

Facebook is so much bigger and offers people the NONchoice algorithms of what kind of town square they reside.

css9450 NOV 11, 05:24 PM

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Originally posted by pokeyfiero:

I think it has lot to do with interested traffic.

Fiero's are not being picked up as an interest to younger people and a lot of us have been around the block a few times now.




That doesn't explain all the other dead forums that exist across almost any subject you can think of. I used to be on a bunch of formerly-busy forums, on a wide variety of subjects. Sports, music, photography, other car forums, model trains.... They're all dead, or nearly so. The "Photography On The Net" forum used to be enormous! Now it's shut down. I don't think it's because of young people not getting involved, it's because of young people going to Facebook (or Tiktok or Snapchat or Instagram or whatever it is they like now). Scroll back on any one of those forums and there's a HUGE dropoff after about 2010-2012 or so.
pokeyfiero NOV 12, 02:02 AM

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Originally posted by css9450:


That doesn't explain all the other dead forums that exist across almost any subject you can think of. I used to be on a bunch of formerly-busy forums, on a wide variety of subjects. Sports, music, photography, other car forums, model trains.... They're all dead, or nearly so. The "Photography On The Net" forum used to be enormous! Now it's shut down. I don't think it's because of young people not getting involved, it's because of young people going to Facebook (or Tiktok or Snapchat or Instagram or whatever it is they like now). Scroll back on any one of those forums and there's a HUGE dropoff after about 2010-2012 or so.



Like I addressed

"Facebook is so much bigger and offers people the NONchoice algorithms of what kind of town square they reside."
TheDigitalAlchemist NOV 12, 10:49 AM
It's something to do with the evolution of communication - Remember custom ringtones? much less of a "thing" now that most folks make less than ten phonecalls a week. Forums are ghost towns, even Discord - folks use the DMs and voice chat in Discord instead of the 'phone'. You can share images, videos, etc as you voice and text chat...

Facebook, Instagram, Threads,X/Twitter, its "easier" to do those on a phone than most forums...

I miss the world of 2010. even up to around 2015-16. 2020-2025 has been crap.
Raydar NOV 12, 11:50 AM

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Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist:
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Facebook, Instagram, Threads,X/Twitter, its "easier" to do those on a phone than most forums...




Maybe I'm showing my age, but I mostly hate doing "internet stuff" on my phone, even though it's what all the cool kids are doing.
I much prefer using a desktop.

But I also have grown to hate talking on the phone for more than a few minutes at a time. I generally text people to ask if they're busy, before I call and tie up their time.

blackrams NOV 13, 02:29 PM

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Originally posted by Raydar:


Maybe I'm showing my age, but I mostly hate doing "internet stuff" on my phone, even though it's what all the cool kids are doing.
I much prefer using a desktop.

But I also have grown to hate talking on the phone for more than a few minutes at a time. I generally text people to ask if they're busy, before I call and tie up their time.



This, I appreciate. To cut down on scams and sales calls, I have my phone set to only ring if the caller is in my contact list. If not, it goes to voice mail. It's amazing how few real spoken messages I get now.

Rams
Doug85GT NOV 13, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by css9450:


That doesn't explain all the other dead forums that exist across almost any subject you can think of. I used to be on a bunch of formerly-busy forums, on a wide variety of subjects. Sports, music, photography, other car forums, model trains.... They're all dead, or nearly so. The "Photography On The Net" forum used to be enormous! Now it's shut down. I don't think it's because of young people not getting involved, it's because of young people going to Facebook (or Tiktok or Snapchat or Instagram or whatever it is they like now). Scroll back on any one of those forums and there's a HUGE dropoff after about 2010-2012 or so.




Reddit is killing online forums. You can find a Subreddit on just about any subject that you can find a forum on. With Reddit, you have one account which you use to visit all the subs. Yes, there is a Fiero Subreddit too.

The youth today are used to going to Reddit. They will post their questions there. Many if not most of them probably don't even know that there are forums that exist outside of Reddit. Reddit has an app while the vast majority of online forums do not. Most of the screen time people have today is on their phone.

This is not to say that I like Reddit. I don't like it at all. The rise of Reddit is what is killing all the other online forums.