Forum Declines?

[foxyloxley]

True
but at least the social sites keep these places clearer :?
but even when they DO wane, the users there, are NOT the type interested in IT in any way shape or form, so are a lost cause for our purposes

and to attract the upcoming gneration, you will need to offer them something that isn't just IT tech, it MIGHT be media / music etc, which is TBH IT Tech too, but for now, it isn't

and to do so 'we' WILL have to adapt to the new familiar, social sites are the way that people do utilise the www today, each day on FB they get more LOG INS than AO has had VISITS in AO's entire history
at present they [FB] are getting up to 300 MILLION users actively using their accounts daily
AO's biggest online, before the upgrade was 5000 .........
it IS a new phenomenom, and one that can no longer be ignored

I am also part of the TAZ forums, we too, would like more members, but for us, it is not too vital, as we do it just for the 'fun', any income generated would be nice ...........

but here .......... it is VITAL to AO's future as ANY type of web presence the it adapts to what we HAVE, NOT what we would like .......

and for that, I point you to my earlier post.

it may too, just finally exorcise JP's ghost from here too, as he would no longer be able to say that this was all his 'concept'

my 0.02c

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adding pic of me poor old knee, no work for a year but no income either
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