Gotta use ad blocking browser,not just here,most sites.

What gets me are the non-model pop up ads that cover the screen and are replaced as fast as you can delete them. 

I keep getting booted off line and often have to log back in when I just change forums.

I just wanted the magazine mailed to me...nope you have to buy an online subscription and paper is extra. 

Seriously thinking of both canceling my subscription and leaving the forums too. Been a member here since 2003 and been buying tge mag since long before that. 

Subject specific forums are dying in general these days. And the days where every company or product had their own forum are over as well. It's a change everywhere, not just here. Forums were a big fad when the internet first took off. But they have been dying off for the last 10-15 years. It turned out to be a lot of work, for minimal benefit. 

Steelnavy hasn't been updated in over three years and is basically unmoderated now. Modelwarships gets just a couple of posts a day usually. Starshipmodeler I think is going to disappear completely soon. 

you can add ModelWarships.com to the slower list as most new members who registered there are spammers as i have seen them. i am a moderator on a tech site for at least 14yrs plus was 1 on another tech site but no longer a mod there as was not posting for a while but i know what i am talking about.

Britmodeler

Kitmaker

Modelerssocialclub

They are three that are really busy,maybe not like in their heyday,but pretty good activity.

On the other hand,these are also much slower

Modelersalliance

Steelnavy

Spammodeler

Edwin

Sad to see this. I have often enjoyed your posts and inputs, O. 

I don't often get the time to come on here, and when I do, the issues you mentioned sure do not make the experience an enjoyable one. I do remember how it was like in the early to mid 2000s, when the forum activity was a blast. Back then, I participated under a different user name, which got lost. When I got back into this hobby around 2018-2019, I recalled this forum and signed up (again). 

On the matter of FSM subscription, I am still a subscriber although I am feeling the content is far from how it was back around the '90s and prior. 

None of the forums that were really active from like 1998-2005 are still hopping today, if they are even in existance.

There were days if you missed just one afternoon of checking forums, it seemed like it took days to catch back up.

Today, only a handful of forums get more that a moderate amount of activity. Some might be dormant for days before a new post is made.

" O"

        You are going to be missed for sure. Listen, May God Bless and You take care of yourself. As us sailors say " May you have fair Winds, and a Following Sea". The mag has slipped for me too. And this mess here on the sight has me wondering. Well, based on  things here looks like I'll be vacating soon too. It's just no fun anymore.T.B.

Sad to see this. I have often enjoyed your posts and inputs, O. 

I don't often get the time to come on here, and when I do, the issues you mentioned sure do not make the experience an enjoyable one. I do remember how it was like in the early to mid 2000s, when the forum activity was a blast. Back then, I participated under a different user name, which got lost. When I got back into this hobby around 2018-2019, I recalled this forum and signed up (again). 

On the matter of FSM subscription, I am still a subscriber although I am feeling the content is far from how it was back around the '90s and prior. 

Missleman, message sent on PM.

Stay safe.

Jim 

O, lots of us have felt that way as well.

Just be sure to keep your participation on your own terms.

See you elsewhere.

Bill

missileman2000

Guys, what is MSC?

 

 

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I've actually seen the forums acting close to normal than before the hiccups.

Guys, what is MSC?

O, as somebody once said, I feel your pain. I know where your coming from in frustration with how things work on here for the past while. Probably the simplest workaround is to make you photo posts elsewhere, as in other forums that many of us frequent, then copy and paste them onto here so no loss when things go sideways.  Simply have another go at pasting the post. That's what I do, and others here do as well.

But if you choose to lessen your participation on here, I know that I'll be seeing your work elsewhere. 

Ditto on seeing you on MSC! I too check out this forum occasionally now. Put my  worth in or attempt to help out a newby. It's definately not like it used to be. 

Stay safe.

Jim 

See you over at MSC !!! 

Didn't realize that you were here as long as I have been,actually a little longer.So you remember the good old days and all the great members who have left.So sad to see it the way it is now,especially when remembering the past, oh well,nothing stays the same.

My own participation has been curtailed,but I still check in and help out where I can.Would be nice at some point to see a resurgence

Well, O, that's really sad...

Can you tell us where to look for you and for your great builds?

Then again I can understand you - these forums are not really state-of-art with how the pictures a re uploaded for example. Statements about hard drive costs have been true 20 years ago, but not now...

Then there are those loading problems...

And this all impacts the participation - hardly anything happens here anymore... And that's because talented people like you decide to try their luck elsewhere...

I've been a user here since 2007 and I don't know how much longer it's going to be...

Catch you on the 'net...

Paweł

I'm sad to see you go, good luck with wherever life takes you my friend. 

I can understand what you're feeling. The issues with the site and the generally slow posting has really put a damper on my usage of the site. I used to post every day. Now I'm down to twice a week or so.