Close 90k are one persons previous personas.

I am too.lol

Good to keep an eye on the night shift. For some great deal on some definitely genuine US dollars one night too.

Just off to kip now though.

and yet the activity on here is still way less than it was before ‘that’ upgrade…

‘Unique’ Site Visitors total of 1,675,816.

given the site never seems to remember who anyone is I expect about a quarter of those ‘unique’ visitors have posted on this thread 🙂

but there used to be a lot more who posted, forums are much quieter now in terms of posts.

given the site never seems to remember who anyone is I expect about a quarter of those ‘unique’ visitors have posted on this thread

If the last month is anything to go by I’m at least half of that number (shakes fist at iPhone)

How many of them ride?

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/

What are the figures you have?

I’m not that geeky but just judging by how topics age on the first page.

Yep, you never used to see topics more than a few hours old on the front page. At WEs the forum is just full of tumble weed now, maybe a dozen threads see any posts.

“members” aren’t the same as “page impressions” or “page visits”

This place was once a very rapid turnover of posts, and threads. It’s not hard to see why there are less and less these days.

A major event in the UK back in 2016 has pissed a lot of people off.. so “why bother posting” Sadly where once political views were met with “yeah, but… anyway been out on your bike lately?) attitude I for one (and think many others) just go “Yeah, so your opinion is..xxxx…. nah, can’t be bothered with that nor if you’ve been on your bike” and stop posting.

Some prolific thread starters have been banned, but they were so prolific that you could pretty much guarantee a new thread on a similar topic within 24hrs.. Not that I think it was a bad thing per-se’ but I do see the reasons for the Mag Owners appealing to a wider less aggressive and opinionated audience.. after all, this is a business they run.

Some posters have left of their own accord, either lifestyle changes, changes in attitude to bike riding or frankly fed up of having the piss ripped out of them.

Don’t think the new forum was the primary reason, but it did piss a lot of people off and almost made it impossible to post anything for about 6-7weeks whilst us Beta testers were posting threads about “why can’t I???…..) and a lot of posters were cheesed off with the “we’re only a few blokes in the background doing what we can” whilst they were trying to run a business.

I’m not keen on starting threads, mainly because I have diametric opinions than some on here and frankly not that bothered about conversing with them.

So these days I’m far less tolerant, and I assume theres lots of people like me, who just come on here these days and if a topic prompts a comment and they’re in the right frame of mind in between working or playing will make a comment.

I do think this place is less demographically open, it’s become very enclosed.

I do think this place is less demographically open, it’s become very enclosed.

To clarify…

Demographically open = my interpretation of the word to explain a large audience. Not creed or race specific.

I think by now we’re all aware of the issues and rationale for the new forum software, it has been explained on many occasions why and what the reasons behind it were. And I think plenty of reasonable people (like me) support the Owners through the changes. It did have an effect though (for the reasons above) and now I’m sure the page impressions and visitors are “up” and more quantifiable, which is a by-product of changing to a more modern media-friendly playroom (natch)

I personally like the changes, platform and forum, support the Owners in their quest to turn a business into a more user friendly environment and gain some  validated user experience stats out of it.
We are, afterall, only going in one direction in the all encompassed world of Social Media.