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  • Member since
    September 2006
  • From: Bethlehem PA
New forum coming?
Posted by the Baron on Tuesday, November 12, 2024 6:37 AM

On FSM's Facebook page, there was mention of a new forum.  Is that so? What's the target date to launch it?  Will our existing content get migrated to the new forum?

If a new forum is coming, hopefully we can attract back everyone from this forum who've given up on posting because of the technical issues.

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

 

 

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 7:19 PM

I'm willing to give it a shot,see how it is,and then decide on my level of participation,I mean I've been here for 20 years,why not?

  • Member since
    November 2018
Posted by oldermodelguy on Thursday, November 14, 2024 6:27 AM

I'd like to see some form of FSM forums be around. But more reliable in terms of access. I'm still here after all our recent crashes and access error codes though. There just isn't much activity to participate in.

  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, November 24, 2024 2:07 PM

the Baron
If a new forum is coming, hopefully we can attract back everyone from this forum who've given up on posting because of the technical issues.

I've seen it before, at other places.  I cannot say it makes me sanguine.

As in a periodical-based forum with over 500 active members online, and running about 10K posts per day and close to 100K "views" per day.  A new executive was bought in to manage the elephant.  Sadly, the executive's experience was closer to hamsters and mice.  The online forum collapsed as it could not handle a tenth of the volume.  The "regulars" functionally revolted, and three different versions of the previous forum software were stood up.  The third version has become stable, at about 20% of the previous volume.  The Periodical's 'new' forum is mostly bots and shill accounts and has perhaps 1% of the volume, and appears happy with that.

Other places have weathered such changes, but usually by shedding about a third or half the "regular" user base.

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