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[kruddler]

No doubt the rise of the Facebook fan pages has affected the discussions on forums.

We used to say (somewhat sarcastically) that bigfooty was for kids.
Well a lot of those kids have grown into thirty somethings now and have probably stuck with that forum.

It's funny though...when I looked at our forum just after the glitch we had 11 registered users online but something like 160 guest viewers.
It's currently at 7 registered and 82 guests.
I don't know how accurate the figure is but we may have a few folks who just visit, read and don't post.

I'm not sure how much of the forum is visible to the 'unregistered' at the moment but if we could turn some of those visitors into contributors it might  be useful.

Either way, we're an endangered species and we have to find a way of re-inventing ourselves, or we will die out.

I'm one of the younger ones because my age starts with a '4'.
I remember when we had 15, 13, 10yo's who used to post regularly.

You might get the odd one come back to post occasionally (JWG or whatever her new name is now) has posted in the last 12 months on occassions, think she was 16 back in the day. BG used to post here but prefers the (dare i say it) 'incestuous' nature of facebook where if you don't drink from the coolaid you get banned. I literally got banned for backing up our coach - cannot recall if it was Teague or Halford (or both) but they wanted blood and if they couldn't get the coach they would get anyone who supported them.  :

There is no new blood coming in, and while it is a shame, its somewhat unique.
We are like the animals of Madagascar, allowed to evolve largely untouched by the outside word, living in (mostly) harmony and as a result are different to the rest of the worlds creatures who exhibit much different traits.

How many are active?
Lets ask them.....