Post by Admin on Dec 28, 2023 0:43:05 GMT -5
We have had support from a handful of members that have done an amazing job of keeping us alive thus far, but we aren't really seeing much in the way of new members except for spam bots. Browsing other boards from our host Proboards, the directory of boards looks to mostly be a cemetery of dead or dying forums. Most either haven't had any activity in years, except for spam bots, or they're similarly limping along with a few active members. Many have single-digit numbers of members even after months or even years. This is discouraging.
I want to try keeping us active as long as I can and hope that our members will continue checking in on us and contributing so that we don't die out like most boards seem to. I fear this is an uphill battle, though. Message boards in general just aren't what they once were ten or twenty years ago. Many thriving boards of yesteryear are gone now and some that remain have a fraction of the activity that they once enjoyed. From what I've read elsewhere, the consensus seems to be that boards have largely been slain by social media like Facebook. Part of the problem with message boards is that they tent to be more limited, like focusing on a narrow range of topics, whereas sites like Facebook allow and cover anything. There's also millions of users versus hundreds or, on larger boards, thousands.
Please don't allow message boards to die off. We still cling to the hope that maybe somebody somewhere would be interested in a more old school setting where not anything goes, where we have standards of decency by which we are respectful of one another, as opposed to the putrid hate found almost everywhere else. We haven't given up hope yet.
I want to try keeping us active as long as I can and hope that our members will continue checking in on us and contributing so that we don't die out like most boards seem to. I fear this is an uphill battle, though. Message boards in general just aren't what they once were ten or twenty years ago. Many thriving boards of yesteryear are gone now and some that remain have a fraction of the activity that they once enjoyed. From what I've read elsewhere, the consensus seems to be that boards have largely been slain by social media like Facebook. Part of the problem with message boards is that they tent to be more limited, like focusing on a narrow range of topics, whereas sites like Facebook allow and cover anything. There's also millions of users versus hundreds or, on larger boards, thousands.
Please don't allow message boards to die off. We still cling to the hope that maybe somebody somewhere would be interested in a more old school setting where not anything goes, where we have standards of decency by which we are respectful of one another, as opposed to the putrid hate found almost everywhere else. We haven't given up hope yet.
