I’m very new here and imho, as a fairly impartial “outsider” observer, this site is “caught in the middle”...
Doesn’t have the engaged active members that make a good old school forum work ie. substantial percentage of highly engaged members willing to make good high quality posts, members willing to help each other, those receiving help following thru to help others in turn, lots of heated but fair non-judgmental non-childish debates, geeky tech info, etc. I’m sure at some point(s) in the past, this forum was all that, but as an observer, I don’t see much of it now.
On the other hand, it also doesn’t have the immediacy and visual delight of new school social media... whether IG/YT/FB etc that are vibrant with infinite photos and videos. Always there to feed us with instant shots of dopamine from watch porn, just with the flick of a thumb. If anyone wants to replicate that here, it’s hard to compete with having to jump thru hoops to post any pictures.
So it’s caught in the middle. Neither here nor there.
But OP has brought up a good reminder that maybe we can all play our part to make this a better old school forum by creating depth of content? Imho, forget about trying to be like social media which is all on the surface. Forums can’t compete as the nature of the beast is entirely different.
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