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<blockquote data-quote="NationalMatch" data-source="post: 4089163" data-attributes="member: 48586"><p>I subscribe to a bunch of forums but don't do facebook, twitter, etc. One of these, The Firing Line, is a gun forum that has greatly dwindled in participation. A relative newcomer asked if it was dying. The consensus seemed to be, yes; all such forums are.</p><p></p><p>One answer in particular: <em>Younger generations see forums as antiquated repositories of Boomerisms and far too slow for the immediate answer that modern technology allows them to get on other subjects.</em></p><p><em>They do search forums and read posts as "guests", because they know that useful information is buried within.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>But they don't like taking part and don't sign up....They hate wading through the Boomerisms and ridiculous 5-page posts about some particular member's history with [X] rifle, just to see that they never answered the question, "Should my trigger have a little horn here? This one seems modified."</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>They hate asking a question, only to be berated for buying a stupid gun that they knew was stupid.</em></p><p><em>They hate asking a direct, pointed question, only to see zero replies for weeks, because no one else ever stepped back to ask, "Why <u>is</u> [that] the way it is?"</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>They hate the rants. They hate the tangents. They just hate forums, because they represent Boomers. And Zoomers (and many Millennials) just hate Boomers.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>They are using other things now. Slack, Quora, Slingshot, Mumble, MeWe groups, Discord, Facebook groups, Twitter, Reddit, and more.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>All of them have better response times than forums (even if the information is false and worthless), and many offer the equivalent of 24/7 live chat -- because that is pretty much what some of them are, just live, logged chat.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>As Boomers die, there is no new blood to replace them on forums.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Boomers, Gen X, the lost generation, and Millennials, in their respective numbers, are all that is left.</em></p><p><em>As we leave, the numbers just dwindle. Zoomers rejoice as forums implode, disappear, and take with them decades of valuable information (but also a lot of garbage).</em></p><p></p><p>That seems to be the impression I get. Even a formerly popular political action forum I subscribe to has way less traffic than before, and each year it gets worse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NationalMatch, post: 4089163, member: 48586"] I subscribe to a bunch of forums but don't do facebook, twitter, etc. One of these, The Firing Line, is a gun forum that has greatly dwindled in participation. A relative newcomer asked if it was dying. The consensus seemed to be, yes; all such forums are. One answer in particular: [I]Younger generations see forums as antiquated repositories of Boomerisms and far too slow for the immediate answer that modern technology allows them to get on other subjects. They do search forums and read posts as "guests", because they know that useful information is buried within. But they don't like taking part and don't sign up....They hate wading through the Boomerisms and ridiculous 5-page posts about some particular member's history with [X] rifle, just to see that they never answered the question, "Should my trigger have a little horn here? This one seems modified." They hate asking a question, only to be berated for buying a stupid gun that they knew was stupid. They hate asking a direct, pointed question, only to see zero replies for weeks, because no one else ever stepped back to ask, "Why [U]is[/U] [that] the way it is?" They hate the rants. They hate the tangents. They just hate forums, because they represent Boomers. And Zoomers (and many Millennials) just hate Boomers. They are using other things now. Slack, Quora, Slingshot, Mumble, MeWe groups, Discord, Facebook groups, Twitter, Reddit, and more. All of them have better response times than forums (even if the information is false and worthless), and many offer the equivalent of 24/7 live chat -- because that is pretty much what some of them are, just live, logged chat. As Boomers die, there is no new blood to replace them on forums. Boomers, Gen X, the lost generation, and Millennials, in their respective numbers, are all that is left. As we leave, the numbers just dwindle. Zoomers rejoice as forums implode, disappear, and take with them decades of valuable information (but also a lot of garbage).[/I] That seems to be the impression I get. Even a formerly popular political action forum I subscribe to has way less traffic than before, and each year it gets worse. [/QUOTE]
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