Hi,
Unfortunately in an SH sense our time to trawl the site is considerably reduced due to V starting a new job. (but on the flip side, a great job see is really loving)
When we looked in the forums we couldn't help thinking how quiet it was! Nothing about the recent floods, no advise on how to grab a Christmas snog under the mistletoe.
Please don't tell us this site is entering it's late middle age with quiet resignation to the inevitable whilst wearing comfy slippers and drinking coco?
The forums have gradually slowed to a virtual standstill since they were re-formatted some time ago. When there were fewer options, with regard to where to post, the whole thing had a fresher look to it. Fresh posts, even the uninteresting ones, have become rarer, and many have lost interest, I suspect because there is seldom anything new to respond to, and if there is anything new it has to be sought out rather than popping up in front of you. Posts and readers are dwindling, so it's just not the same, and it's difficult to foresee any imminent improvement.
The forums, as us long term residents here knew them, are finished. The site has evolved....for the better or worse is a matter of opinion. The site is now about the ads and the chat rooms and cams. Those of us that used to like the banter of the forums are old timers. Times they are a changing !!
Archive all the forums to a cobweb filled part of the interverse with no ability to link or copy and paste it. Start a new forum with three sections Lets meet up, dogging and general chat. put a decent size link up right next to the chat room link.
Lets give people veteran or new the chance to be able to talk about stuff without some jaded old timers putting up a link to a post with a blah blah blah we did this to death in 1765 and killing it stone dead.
keeping quiet
Well that's a first!