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[Spud1200]

Sometime when I come to the forums it can be somewhat busy but nothing exceptional. When I'm on the forums for for days at a time, this place can be dead and when I say dead I'm by no means exaggeration.

Is their noting we or the owners, the mods or anyone can do to get some more traffic around this place. These forums are the only ones I visit to the extent I care as much as to post this thread and genuinely enjoy the overall atmosphere and look forward to getting input from the regulars. For example the thread I posted in the Linux and open Source section .

Like I said I'm on my own with this and this being my biggest passion I'm all ways looking for external feedback . Theirs over 100.000 members and as of posting this I'm the only one logged in on my own when I've just looked before posting this thread.

Is their nothing that we or anyone can do to get some of the old members back or even more traffic around hear.

This place is the only forum I'm really interested in but it gets pretty lonely being on your own all the time, theirs gotta be something the the owners can do.

 

[pete.i]

Well I'm still here. I joined in 2014 before the change. To be honest a lot of the stuff posted here these days goes way over my head. I'm also not a gamer so posts about games do not interest me. I think help forums generally are becoming less and less relevant. Back in the day when computers were rare and expensive I was on a couple of computer help forums. But as computers have got cheaper and people, especially youngsters, tend to use their phones I think this type of forum is becoming less relevant.

 

[Spud1200]

The reason I've liked your post is because I actually agree. Its such a shame because these forums in particular go back a long time and the information that has been contributed, the knowledge of even like people who work in the IT industry is unreal .

Even though I've had my troubles to deal with I never forgot about this place being like my second home.

Games too do not interest me. I'm more Server Linux, Security and Networking. For me, when I get that urekia moment of finding out a solution and having all the pieces of the puzzle fall in to place, that's what I'm constantly looking for with my next learning adventure is that hit .

Like you said about youngsters being on there phones being mobile tech and even wearable tech, 30 years ago , the internet didn't practically exist, and that's even in my lifetime.

Maybe its me, maybe I need to expand out, maybe start looking at something like Tablets and even Mobile Tech .

 

[Ste]

It'll take a fair amount of time to undo the damage that facebook, instagram, youtube and tik tock death scrolling has done.

But we can DOO IT!!

 

[pete.i]

Thing is computers, even laptops, are not particularly portable like a phone is. Kids, and those are the people that run the show, would much rather use a device that can go with them where ever they go. Us oldies don't use our phones anywhere near as much as a youngster does. Most youngsters these days have absolutely no idea what is going on in the real world because they live inside their phones. Every time my children visit, and my kids are in their forties and fifties, out come their phones. My grandchildren are even worse. I have to bite my tongue when they are here but that is the way of the world these days.

 

[Ste]

Yes, I know. I have some friends that are only like 7-10 years younger than I yet I still have to ask sometimes, "uh, hey can you hold a conversation without looking at your phone?? ""