a question for the tech savvy...

... is this medium dying? i mean posting in a forum (not this one in particular).

this is the only website i belong to, but i read a bit elsewhere, and i think i'm noticing fewer posts at all of them.
if you believe this medium is dying, what, if anything, do you think will replace it? or please correct me; i need that, too.

thanks, y'all!

Forums in general have been dying out as facebook, whatsapp, Snapchat and the like take their places. This has been happening for more than a decade.

This particular one seems more resilient than most. We shall see what happens.

I've notice this to; discussion boards in general seem to be going the way of the Dinosaur. However, I know of several Christian forums that still seem to be going strong, for which I'm thankful.

Apparently, "Threads" is doing great, about 70 million users at its start up...but that could be the novelty effect.

Looks like a significant number have already been silenced there.

Always a pleasure to read one of your posts.

I'm a member of quite a few Christian Boards. Several are all but dead. Two of them I like a lot, one of which is brand new, and what I like about this one is there's a good sized community (family). I haven't been around long enough to get to know the different personalities that can make things extra fun, but have hung around just because of the community.

I'd say that one's I was a participant in peaked in the early 2010s and were slowing down by the end of that decade, and continue to slow down. A Board can thrive with low numbers so long as there are enough active members to keep things hopping.

remember that summer is in full swing & for some, summer is short.

i read the words 'discussion boards' and have myself a thorough forehead slap. that's what i should have said!

i believe the censoring is why some folks like it? sad, though.

yours, too! especially when you're being hilarious and lots of people don't seem to notice it

you know, i thought of that. but it's only summer in the northern hemisphere and i don't like to exclude the folks from down south.

ps-- i thank God for summer, but it can't be short enough for me. lol

It's all good. I think people probably knew what you meant.

I joined out of curiosity. I never posted anything, but in my bio I wrote: "I love the Lord Jesus. MAGA2024." I was banned for violating their rules before the sun set. I guess it's gonna be a "safe place" for libertards.

I call them Bulletin Boards.

good grief! i wonder for which statement were you banned? both?

Hi @notmyown,

Always happy to see you, and thanks for asking such a great question!

I think you've been here for as long as I have -- back in 2009, forums were hoppin'! This was the first Christian forum I joined, then tried 3 others (all of which have closed,) mostly because I was going through some things and found I felt better when I was able to see people exchanging ideas.

These days, I think there are so many choices (and with much shorter communication formats,) that I've lost touch with a ton of people -- mostly because we disagree on or aren't part of the same social media apps. I'm always sorry to lose friends but I've prayed that God would lead me to the sites He wants me on and that's it, because otherwise it gets too overwhelming.

Of course, if I feel especially moved to follow someone to a different media, I would (probably fussing all the way because it's yet another thing to keep track of, but I would try!) I'm also trying a new site right now because of God leading me into other subjects of interest that are taking up the majority of my free time.

I also think attention spans are shortening all the time, which of course I fall victim to as well. The number one complaint I get about my posts is that they're too long, lol, and I completely understand that. Sometimes I just skim posts as well, and I encourage people to skip mine as well if they're not interested. I just take it as, long posts are only for a small fraction of the community, but that's ok. Even if it only reaches one person, that might be the exact person God had in mind to speak to through that post.

That's what I love about writing though -- it's not like the phone where you get stuck listening to Aunt Bertha's hour-long rant about her garbage can being knocked over -- you can just move on, and at any time.

I do think writing is very much a dying art though and these types of forums will probably continue to dwindle as the younger generations rise up and are more averse to any piece of written material over 8 words , but who knows. I might be wrong about this, but it seems to me that these more writing-centered mediums are no dominated by older people who stay at home, are retired, or have conditions in their lives that isolate them from most others in real life.

I remember when I started, I think the Singles forum's majority age bracket was around 20-35. These days I would guess it's more like 30-55 and up.

"Back in my day," people would have never dreamed of a place like this or something called the internet, so maybe something even more helpful and user-friendly is right around the corner.

Blessings to you and so glad to see you posting!

not totally, though. the Caribbean & South America receive northern travelers & ravelers from abroad expanding the summer activity. where i live, real summer weather is about 4 months only. enjoy the day notmyown!

Yes, as a few other mentioned above, these types of bulletin boards flourished in the early days of the internet and started to decline around 2005.
As with a lot of things in life, things change and so does the evolution of the internet.
Certain jobs or professions will disappear in 25 years too, some of which i've listed in the boomer topic.

They didn't say but that bio statement was the only thing I'd shared. They just said I broke their rules and I could appeal within a certain time frame if I wanted to. My reaction was to delete the app(s) from my phone. With what little time I had there I didn't see a single tweet or "thread" that was of interest to me. I think you'd have to be a libertard to understand half of what was being shared because a lot of it was Greek to me.