Posted: Jun 08, 2017 11:53 pm
For this forum? Maybe, but not likely. It's social change and differences in use of various platforms, informed by changing circumstances, both technical and social.
RDF is what birthed this community, and when going from web 1.0 to web 2.0 it still fucking died, despite going with the technical trend and the fact that the web 1.0 version has been as confrontational, if although maybe more reflected, than any following version was at least.
Some people like the fighty end of the internet, some people don't. Further, preferences change too, so you might like the fighty part one year and can't bear it the next. Fuckloads of people joined the community at the same time, spurred by an (at that time) very active debate about religion/non-/anti-religion that took place at that time. Chances are that a lot of those people would quit the game at about the same time too. That's pretty much what happened. Most of our users quit over the last two or three years, for example. (Not counting the infighting inherent to any group of people who regularly spend time together.)
I don't think most of that has anything to do with the very obvious decline in fora like this one. It's really just technical accessibility and convenience. Our "generation" started that shit on fora, and we're going to stay on fora. The next batch started on facebook years ago, they'll likely end their stint with facebook.
RDF is what birthed this community, and when going from web 1.0 to web 2.0 it still fucking died, despite going with the technical trend and the fact that the web 1.0 version has been as confrontational, if although maybe more reflected, than any following version was at least.
Some people like the fighty end of the internet, some people don't. Further, preferences change too, so you might like the fighty part one year and can't bear it the next. Fuckloads of people joined the community at the same time, spurred by an (at that time) very active debate about religion/non-/anti-religion that took place at that time. Chances are that a lot of those people would quit the game at about the same time too. That's pretty much what happened. Most of our users quit over the last two or three years, for example. (Not counting the infighting inherent to any group of people who regularly spend time together.)
I don't think most of that has anything to do with the very obvious decline in fora like this one. It's really just technical accessibility and convenience. Our "generation" started that shit on fora, and we're going to stay on fora. The next batch started on facebook years ago, they'll likely end their stint with facebook.