The forum went down for months. Not having SG for months, a lot of us realized we could just communicate via social media instead of a message board. I joined in 2000 at 16. I'm almost 40 now. The world has changed.
Hi, thanks for the info. wow 2000, i was 14 and had hardly a dial-up connection in my Pentium III??? You know that connection that you had to wait 15 minutes, to open a JPEG image of Monica Belluci, and more 15 minutes if you wanted to download it !!!
As you correctly said, world changed, things changed, everything changed with crazy velocity.
s for the forum as others said, forums globally are dying, or are shrinking a lot, for many variable reasons, like social media, younger people prefer the more direct style of Twitter, Facebook, tiktok, Instagram, etc...
Even Reddit has more traffic, but me personally, maybe i am a 36yo boomer, i cannot watch/track a discussion in Reddit more than 4~5 comments, i feel the flow lost with the structure, same with YouTube and Facebook comments, almost impossible to discuss with someone that replied days ago, which is much easier in a forum, and that's why i still prefer the old classic Forum style, but we are a minority.
Even the newer members that join, most forums i am attending globally, are usually people at alour age, mid-30s, and very rare young people.
While back at the early days, at least my early days, most new members were around my age, i was that years. People at late school classes or university/college freshmen.
It gets very nostalgic, to read or recall how things were, and how they are now. I won't say "dead" , but shrinked a lot.
For example here in SC, the FIFA vs WE/PES was a very hot thread/topic. Now it's mostly the FIFA modding community that keeps high activity.
I believe that as soon as we die, or "die", or retire, people that were members between 2000-2010, all remaining forums around the world, will shrink even more.
It's nostalgic and sad/pessimistic at the same time.
