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Last Beehive Forums

From: fixrman30 Dec 2023 19:31
To: ALL1 of 56
Would DLRF and Teh Forum be the last of the Beehive forums? Manic Geek has been down so long I doubt it is coming back. I sent Aurora a message but got no response and no action on the site.

I guess the "social media" bit has taken a toll.
From: dragonmouth30 Dec 2023 20:02
To: fixrman31 Dec 2023 13:162 of 56
Tech Hideway is still semi-active. There was a post over there on Christmas Day. (nod)
From: fixrman31 Dec 2023 13:16
To: dragonmouth31 Dec 2023 17:473 of 56
One post in 5 days. :-P Remember when 5 posts in a day were low and unusual? I know that there are still a lot of forums out there but I am surprised at how few Beehive ones there are - or perhaps I just don't know about them.

Oh well, I suppose I could be posting more...
From: dragonmouth31 Dec 2023 18:05
To: fixrman 1 Jan 14:154 of 56
quote:
Remember when 5 posts in a day were low and unusual?
5 in an hour was low and unusual! But these ain't the good old days. We also used to have a boatlaod of unique regular posters. Where have they all gone?

This forum has 2829 registered members but Brian and myself, and maybe Melloe, are the only ones that post here on a daily basis. Others, including yourself, drop in only occasionally. Geoff has been avoiding DLR. When was the last time the forum owner even just lurked here? When was the last time somebody not from the old crowd posted here? Three posters cannot make a forum look busy, no matter how hard we try. We need fresh topics to discuss and that can only be generated by new/more posters.

From: fixrman 1 Jan 14:15
To: dragonmouth 2 Jan 15:455 of 56
I think part of the problem is, as I suggested at the start of DLR, that the Forum is too specific - at least it may seem to be from the name.

I don't know where the rest of people havee gone, but I do know that spin-off forums caused some to favor one Beehive forum over another, then I think the novelty wore off and people got involved in other things. I think in a way Beehive's ease of set up and use may have made it a victim of its own success. There were many forums spreading active memberships thin. Just a guess.

Why is Geoff avoiding this place?

For my own part, I haven't used Linux in about six months after the failure I had. I ended up buying a laptop just to get by that has Windows Ain't on it (which I HATE) and getting some essential things restored to do things I have to do.

I think I need to have a unit devoted just to Linux if I am going to use it, but until I do that I really don't have much to discuss in Linux. I don't distro hop, I am not a tester; Linux via Mint has also made things pretty easy for new adopters so problems aren't as common as I think they might have been in the past.

I do spend more time in here than you might think because I drop by to see if there are any BS posts advertising kitchens in the U.K. or other nonsense, but in most cases I do not need to log in. Of course a daily drive-by is not participation.
From: Jim 1 Jan 14:50
To: fixrman 1 Jan 17:526 of 56
It has indeed taken a toll, and it hasn't just affected Beehive forums. Many other previously bustling forums have gone bust! Twitter, Facebook, etc. have absorbed a lot of people's time and attention. Sad but what can you do?


From: Jim 1 Jan 14:51
To: dragonmouth 2 Jan 15:457 of 56
The forum owner here is a jerk! How dare he not lurk! :-O (angel) :-P
From: Jim 1 Jan 14:53
To: fixrman 1 Jan 17:528 of 56
Comments in articles also have cut into forum traffic. Many people post in those threads, rather than registering for a forum. It's yet another cut into forum participation.

Aaah well, I knew the writing was on the wall way back when I was still at ET. Ziff moved from being forum-focused to comment-in-article-focused, then of course to being social-media-focused. It's just how things change over time.
From: masinick 1 Jan 15:13
To: ALL9 of 56
quote: fixrman
I think part of the problem is, as I suggested at the start of DLR, that the Forum is too specific - at least it may seem to be from the name.

I don't know where the rest of people havee gone, but I do know that spin-off forums caused some to favor one Beehive forum over another, then I think the novelty wore off and people got involved in other things. I think in a way Beehive's ease of set up and use may have made it a victim of its own success. There were many forums spreading active memberships thin. Just a guess.

Why is Geoff avoiding this place?

For my own part, I haven't used Linux in about six months after the failure I had. I ended up buying a laptop just to get by that has Windows Ain't on it (which I HATE) and getting some essential things restored to do things I have to do.

I think I need to have a unit devoted just to Linux if I am going to use it, but until I do that I really don't have much to discuss in Linux. I don't distro hop, I am not a tester; Linux via Mint has also made things pretty easy for new adopters so problems aren't as common as I think they might have been in the past.

I do spend more time in here than you might think because I drop by to see if there are any BS posts advertising kitchens in the U.K. or other nonsense, but in most cases I do not need to log in. Of course a daily drive-by is not participation.
quote: Jim
It has indeed taken a toll, and it hasn't just affected Beehive forums. Many other previously bustling forums have gone bust! Twitter, Facebook, etc. have absorbed a lot of people's time and attention. Sad but what can you do?

quote: Jim
Comments in articles also have cut into forum traffic. Many people post in those threads, rather than registering for a forum. It's yet another cut into forum participation.

Aaah well, I knew the writing was on the wall way back when I was still at ET. Ziff moved from being forum-focused to comment-in-article-focused, then of course to being social-media-focused. It's just how things change over time.


I think that, as Jim alludes to here, social media venues dominate communication these days. Who among us, even those who DO participate here, don't also have some form of other communication?

I have text messaging on my phone, and I communicate on a nearly daily basis with my own family, those I work with, and a few of my closest friends and loved ones. That doesn't dominate my day, but it does take up a measurable amount of time.

The sheer amount of Email that I STILL receive, in spite of efforts to change signatures and reduce footprints where spammers and lurkers can blast messages at me, probably still wastes more of my time than anything else. I probably AVERAGE between 300-600 Emails a day (slightly less on holidays, but not that much less). If I ignore it, I risk missing something that actually is useful when I try to wipe things out, and therefore, I try to keep the number of outstanding unread messages, spam or not, under 100 whenever possible, so that I can scan them, remove all the unwanted ones, then actually read only material that is actually of interest.

There's the social media Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and related sites. I don't spend hours in any of them, but even a 1/2 hour a day adds up.

When you put it all together, along with having to work more hours for less income these days, all of these factors contribute to less social contact in this kind of forum. It doesn't go away completely, but the participation level goes way down, and understandably so.

From: fixrman 1 Jan 17:52
To: Jim29 Apr 04:1410 of 56
I did miss article commenting as a detraction. Put all of our comments together and there you have it. Perhaps when Facefuc book, et al go away, maybe people come back to forums, who knows?

I like the privacy settings in Beehive much better. ;-)
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