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Offline StromGeeza

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Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« on: June 26, 2022, 11:51:18 »
Good job this place is more of an institution for society's misfits than a motorcycle forum, right?

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/why-are-online-motorcycle-forums-drying-up-and-dying

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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2022, 15:38:00 »
Check the ABR site - it seems to be dying on its a*se
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2022, 16:10:54 »
Could part of the problem be Facebook..?

Personally,  this is the only forum I'm a member of however, I've joined quite a few "groups" on Facebook.
Generally, what ever vehicle I own, I join a group to get info and tips, just like here.

I know Facebook is a "Marmite" thing but it has its uses.  :shrug:
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2022, 17:23:30 »
Yep the FJ/FJR forum is about to shut down, I've been on it for over 13 years and it was going long before that. It's been an excellent forum, but the bloke that runs it can't give the time to it any more and to be honest there's been very little traffic for 6 months, on the wane for a few years. Lots of the regulars from there are now using a FB group.
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #4 on: June 26, 2022, 17:37:06 »
This site was secretly set up as a social experiment.
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2022, 18:29:53 »
You obviously found the cheese at the end of the maze.
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2022, 19:00:16 »
It wasn't cheese he found, it was a fatberg.
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2022, 19:20:06 »
It was a group of special individuals. Yes, I am using 'special' in a yellow bus, window licking sort of way.
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2022, 19:23:15 »
  lol lol
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2022, 19:54:57 »
I'm wondering if I will avoid getting my fruit confiscated on the banana forum?
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #10 on: June 26, 2022, 20:04:57 »
I only ever found two that were worth reading, this one, of course, and the VTR forum.
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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #11 on: June 26, 2022, 20:06:33 »
Do you have a link to the VTR forum mate?

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Re: Why are online motorcycle forums dying?
« Reply #12 on: June 26, 2022, 20:13:07 »
https://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=43894
I just looged in for the first time in seven years ( now I don't have a VTR anymore)
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