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Forum seems to be dying?

FloofyNewfie said:
Take it from me, I'm busy... I'm VERY busy most of the time and don't have a lot of time to sit down and talk to people. I'll try to find some time, but other times I just don't put forth the effort when someone reaches out to me wanting friendship.
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And you haven't ever gone in a local forum and posted "Hey, I want to chat! Hit me up! I want to meet" and then ignored everyone. You haven't gone into a local forum and asked where everyone was, and then never responded to anyone. Your experience is not typical.

Try reading for context.

This forum is only as welcoming as you make it, but not everyone is suited to the forum environment.
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Disagree. I've been around forums of all stripes since the early 1990s. This one is no different than any others where people do the same thing, and worse than most with the "insiders" versus everyone else group.

It's only difficult to make "friendships" when most people put forth no effort whatsoever. If you're too good to spend a few minutes being friendly, that's fine, but don't presume that's a virtue. It takes two to tango. If no one is interested, then there are going to be a lot of people standing around until they get tired of being ignored, and then they'll stop coming.
 
Kristy said:
Don't worry. With hundreds of new members daily, and forum thread activity rising every day, this site is extremely alive.
Do not listen to someone who hardly participates, limiting most of their activity to "likes" and "loves," or people with needs that are not being met and never will be, when they claim the site (forum) is dying. To them, it will always look that way.
To you, welcome to the site!
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Can't have it both ways. Or, maybe you think you can...
 
StuffedCali said:
It seems to be getting very quiet these days, any particular reason?
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The forum is, in a way, a victim of its own success. Many of us have met off-site, sometimes forming established in-person meet-ups, in other cases hanging out on game servers or apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or KiK. There are many of them also on Twitter. The idea was to help the zooey community as a whole, not just this one forum.

Furthermore, we the zooey community have partly become victims of our own success. In some small non-zoo communities, we have succeeded at increasing the social acceptance of zoophiles since the crisis period of 2018, but because of that, zoos that get along with those people better tend to prefer to hang out with people they have other stuff in common with. If you think about it, there are only a couple million zoophiles in the United States at the most, and only but so many fellow zoophiles are going to be specifically obsessed with My Little Pony/D&D crossover tabletop roleplay. Relatively widespread integration and social acceptance ironically tends to kill zoo-specific hang-outs.

The same thing happens to gay people. This has been seen in Israel, where the acceptance of gay people ironically led to many of their gay hangouts dying off, and the same thing happened in Brooklyn, which is one of the most gay-friendly cities in the entire world but also does not have even one gay-themed establishment.

The same number of zoos are out there, though.
 
It is getting cold and lonely in here. You know what that means; it's time to light the Dumpster Fire.
 
People come and go. and even the people who are here take time away and then are more active. you know, that real life thing can sometimes take up a LOT of time...

I know i was really active for a while, i have not been on in a while, now i am back...people come and go. I think the site is good, lots of unique and interesting people...just people come and go and come back again...
 
AriesAngyl said:
People come and go. and even the people who are here take time away and then are more active. you know, that real life thing can sometimes take up a LOT of time...

I know i was really active for a while, i have not been on in a while, now i am back...people come and go. I think the site is good, lots of unique and interesting people...just people come and go and come back again...
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Glad you’re back
 
ocumwhowurst said:
Honestly ever since I joined BF. That's all I wanted to do. Obviously there's other things I want to do but that doesn't relate to networking what's the people in my area. Hopefully this weekend will be a good weekend for everyone
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Pizza party? I miss being a kid and going out with all my friends without a care in the world, just meeting new people.
 
AriesAngyl said:
People come and go. and even the people who are here take time away and then are more active. you know, that real life thing can sometimes take up a LOT of time...

I know i was really active for a while, i have not been on in a while, now i am back...people come and go. I think the site is good, lots of unique and interesting people...just people come and go and come back again...
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Don't forget that life changes. What was true one year ago might no longer be true today.
 
ITS A Holiday Weekend, school is opening in most places. This happens every holiday since I can remember. I'd say it speaks to who the users are. A lot of yanks, a lot with families, more or less, and not as many exclusives as it often seems. Other forums have shown the same lulls in usage. The reports of the Forum's death have been greatly exaggerated.
 
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