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I seem to remember the oldest post on the front page was never less than 1 hour fresh and that you could post and reasonably expect a few replies even in the darkest depths of 3 or 4 in the morning. Now we seem to be getting to 9 or even 10 am and there are some 8 hour posts still clinging on at the bottom of the page. Is it just me? Maybe I'm looking a bit too favourably at the past now that I'm an old man etc etc?
Definitely. Forum dies after about 11pm these days, unless Drac is on nights... And no where NEAR as much arguing/constructive sharing of perspectives than there used to be. This may or may not be a good thing, depending on what you enjoy.
Everyone's dashed over to the grit.cx forum instead
Suns out bikes out.
and apart form the occasional bit of jock-rage nothing seems to get the temperature rising - which is probably a "good thing" but makes it less fun as a spectator, place needs some proper big-hitters 😆
I'm sure a mod will be along soon with some stats showing more members than ever, more posts than ever etc... 🙂
For me the forum has just got too middle class first world problems to be interesting.
BikeRadar is even worse, absolutely dropped off a cliff there. I've noticed it getting quieter here though.
You lot. Replying to the OP. Spoilsports.
It isn't helped when one suffers ambush adverts while browsing here.
Much quieter since Jamie's been abstaining.
Well none of us are getting any younger. The forum is mainly for those of us with not enough work/part time work during the day before we're tucked up in bed early after a nice cup of cocoa...
It is down at the moment.
Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page views
Same period last year = 7,625,454 Forum page views
So down 5%
ohnohesback - Member
For me the forum has just got too middle class first world problems to be interesting
The ironing.... 😀
It is down at the moment.Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page views
Same period last year = 7,625,454 Forum page viewsSo down 5%
What about post rates?
[i]Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page views
Same period last year = 7,625,454 Forum page vie
So down 5% [/i]
[whinge]given that the biggerer and biggerer ads mean that the pages take at least 5% longer to load, if they load at all, I suppose that's not too bad[/whinge]
there is an answer to the ads 8)
or at least there is an answer until it logs you out again...
[i]Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page views[/i]
Ban the lurkers!
There's nothing to discuss now that the election is over and 26" is officially dead.
Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page views
A good 100,000 is probably me whilst at my place of employment
Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page viewsBan the lurkers!
I guess we have about 58 regular posters, so that means 7,227,200 lurkers.
A ratio of 1 poster to 1.25m lurkers!
Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page views
51% of which was Ernie Lynch stating 'facts'
Wonder how many unique IPs ?
oldnpastit - Member
There's nothing to discuss now that the election is over and 26" is officially dead.
😀
We could discuss the merits of different types of gloves??? 😉
It does seem like a News24 loop sometimes,but I always thought that was down to the crap search capability. 🙂
... have we done a review of chamios creme? the silent suffering!
... have we done a review of chamios creme? the silent suffering!
I'd never considered the suffering of Chamois cream.
It should really join a union.
From a personal perspective this place is an absolute mine of information,but as mentioned above it does come across as very middle-class and at times almost elite-ist.I'm of average intelligence but occasionally have to Google what the hell some of you are talking about,and I mean terminology not technically !
I'd honestly rather view than post,as the typical reply % seems to consist of 15% helpful debate 15% agreement and 70% immediate high-brow judgemental smugness.
Its almost like certain people revel in being the first to belittle a new post on here,Noel Coward had nothing on some of you bitches!
N.B believe me I checked those percentages totalled 100% far too many times before posting,and almost auto-spelled Noel as Neil,imagine the irony of that !
A good 100,000 is probably me whilst at my place of employment
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Could it be simply that, as a couple of retailers have told me, mountain biking is flatlining while road cycling is growing? Go over to Cycle Chat and you'll find it very busy, especially on the newbies and What Bike? fora.
Definitely. Forum dies after about 11pm these days, unless Drac is on nights
I wish I had time to visit when at work.
It's all gone downhill sice the Big Hitter clampdown
You're safe then.
It is down at the moment.Last 30 days = 7,227,258 Forum page views
Same period last year = 7,625,454 Forum page viewsSo down 5%
What would be the comparison to say, 5-6 years ago?
I post less and less.
It's because I'm actually enjoying work and riding my bikes 😀
I blame 650b
Drac - I wish I had time to visit when at work.
Mwhahahahahahaha! Give over... 😆
Could it be simply that, as a couple of retailers have told me, mountain biking is flatlining while road cycling is growing?
Certainly happening a lot. Saddle Skedaddle were saying they've seen a big shift from MTB trips to road trips since the Olympics.
Lots of 'old style' forums are quieter, although this one seems perfectly busy, Facebook 'groups' and 'sales' pages have eaten into a lot of the traditional forum territory. All but killed another forum I frequent, a bunch got fed up with criticism of their posting style so they just set up a 'secret' group on Facebook where you only get invited by each other, kind of reverse moderation.
How boring must that be? The fun of an open forum is the variety of posts it receives.
Could it be simply that, as a couple of retailers have told me, mountain biking is flatlining while road cycling is growing?
Well considering the number of road bike posts that's a bit of a red herring. I reckon it's all the closing duplicate thread things, far more activity if we could argue in triplicate. That and the trolls are normally dull and really obvious.
Road sales are definitely growing and for us overtaken mgb.
Think of all the roadie threads and complaints here!
I agree the trolls are more obvious but it must be tougher with a more troll-weary audience.
I ride SH alot. Leith / pitch / Holmbury winterfold..... Definitely seen a shift round this area towards Road. Last few trips over this year, the hills have been really quiet. Used to be a huge gathering of bikes up on leith by the tower and a good buzz...
Now the journey to sh in the car takes me double the time as I am constantly getting stuck behind large groups of mamils
Road riding in the area has exploded.
Good for me though as the trails are much quieter!
When this forum started nobody would have dared mention road bikes and if they did it was furtively with comments about the dark side. Road cycling is now an active topic on here.
Should STW embrace this and begin to cover road cycling as an "add-on" to off road? There is only one other magazine that publishes decent road cycling photography and that's Cycling, which is getting a bit far up its own bottom really. STW could, if it hit the right balance, appeal to a far wider readership in a much more interesting way and pick up some of the new Mamils with cash to splash. I might even go back to subscribing because I would enjoy the variety of a bit of road, cross and mountain.