Where did everyone go?

[beforewisdom]

It seems like a lot less people are participating in this forum these days, including a lot of beloved characters whose posts I've enjoyed reading over the years.

What happened?

Was there a 28 Days virus in Europe?

[XindestructibleX]

The 28 Days virus hit kind of hard. Also people started getting houses and kids and such.

[mo!]

Ive been asking that myself the past weeks as well. It isnt fun, if no one is really talking besides their log....or even abandoning it.

[silver]

hopefully, everyones out getting fitter...
'tis a touch ghost town on a lot of forums these days I think.

It's a shame because it's a more useful long term format than other social media alternatives

[quote] It isnt fun, if no one is really talking besides their log....or even abandoning it.

[XindestructibleX]

(I quit training too, I simply perform physical labor when somebody asks for it - mostly moving and digging stuff!)

[hakko]

Forums in general peaked years ago, didn't they? Before people moved on to FB etc (where vegan groups are doing pretty well).

I don't like the social media too much (too instant and repetitive, no real "depth" in discussions etc). But maybe a personal training log thread isn't the best available option, either?

I'm evaluating getting an overview log of my running, pretty automatically from data recorded by my GPS watch. Like this:


It even comes with a friendly bit of competition and a whole lot of other vegans also using it. I'm not surprised people use it instead of a forum? I guess there are similar sites for weight lifters etc?

But sadly, there's no VFW coming out of it.

[tal]

Still here.

What tends to drive long term traffic is people maintaining training logs. It gets people logging in regularly and more likely to look and contribute to other postings. Unfortunately, for various reasons people have stopped either training or just updating their logs (myself included).

So if you want to help turn things around, start a training log and starting reading and commenting on other peoples

[beforewisdom]

[quote="hakko"]Forums in general peaked years ago, didn't they? Before people moved on to FB etc (where vegan groups are doing pretty well).

[israel]

[quote]It gets people logging in regularly and more likely to look and contribute to other postings.

[sergio]

FB/twitah/whatever killed message boards.

Is that or everyone is injured.

[baldy]

[quote="israel"] im just saying about the boxes that the logs still will show

[israel]

[quote]Not sure what you mean here, do you mean the "Latest Forum Topics" box?

[tal]

[quote="israel"]yes - usually its something like 80% of the titles that are in that box that represent logs and not regular posts (and all this logs have the coolest and most interesting names - no match for the regular posts lol)

[quote]It's the latest forum posts, it always has been. Training logs are forum posts, hence they show in the list.