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Seems like Facebook has killed a lot of forums.
Frankly-this forum ain't what it used to be-it was buzzing back about 10 years ago. Now -of all the members-only a couple dozen-if that-are hardcore posters. I even kinda miss that troll Wyre Wizard!!!
It's sad.
I miss Menard, Sister Grace,Scott,Circus-OH- ANDREW - and  so many other old friends.
Maybe it's because,since I had to stop working-I see very few folks beyond Tiana,my kids and my school freind Larry in the real world. My buddy Todd-the Nam Vet-got committed to a nursing home. He was a friend I'd known for over 30 years.
Aw-f**k it. I don't see no one no mo'. Funny how when you lose all yer money you lose all your so called 'friends.'
It sucks getting sick. Folks who usta come drink with you make themselves scarce. Go on to the next sucker they can drain. f**king vampires.

It's true that the golden age of forums was some time back, but I will say compared to some I belong to this place is pretty hoppin'.  Yeah, there are a dozen or so of us who account for a lot of the posts, but that's often true.  Membership in that core group will shift, but the core will remain.

This place is the only forum that accepts me and my quirks as they are: no judging. Any posts that give offence - like the one I made a few days ago about "taking a knee" - it is gone quickly.

Facebook?  :thumbdown:

Yes, independent forums in general are dying, it's not just this place.

Facebook is part of the reason. Reddit is the other. Reddit really is just a giant network of forums with a neat front end and some hip branding.

That said, I'm here until the lights go out, even if it's just us 4 (and ER, of course).

Word, brother.  :thumbup:

An exit strategy: never be without one. Why that'd be like not sitting with your back to a wall with a clear line of fire on the door in a restaurant.

IF ALL THE LURKERS HERE WOULD LOG-IN ONCE IN A WHILE THIS PLACE WOULD BE BOOMING.

(YES, DEAR, THIS FOR SURE MEANS YOU!)

PS We do have new people here, I see one among us of late who seems to be doing fine. :-)

OK, OK, I'VE LOGGED IN! DOES THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY ER?  :wink:

No plans to leave. Facebook/Reddit are too sloooooooow, and they require jscript. Seriously, they're doing nothing which couldn'tve been done 20yrs ago, why do they need all that client-side scripting?

This must be the third thread started on this topic... it does echo in here more often than not. 

Na, just short memories. And the forum search function isn't that great. :)

We're all dying, RC...     :D

i've been here off and on for years, it's usually a matter of time to be here for me.
   my own forum was shuttered after 7 years a couple of months ago. in our case, it was partly  facebook, but mostly because 2 of our mods and 6 of our prolific posted died over the course of the last 2 years. the rest of us just lost the heart to keep trying.
  i'll try to be better, and i may invite a few crazy women from my TT forum. some american, some australian/kiwi, a brit or 2....
 

The crazy women would be more than welcome here  :smile:

Truly, I prefer to think of this place as "undead."

Maybe you are.  I'm not.  Just because everybody else is doing something doesn't mean I'm going to give in to peer pressure. 

I think part of the reason this particular forum has slowed down might also have to do with the fact that the site it's attached to isn't updated at all anymore. 

People ask this all the time - but it's ultimately kind of a silly question.
The answer, overall, is no. For multiple reasons - firstly, the Facebook format simply isn't an adequate replacement for forums. It's also not a good format for any number of things - chatting, customizing, meeting new people, free promo, etc. Facebook is both literally and figuratively a drab and gray website.

Many times when this question is asked, there are circumstantial reasons behind it which have only a secondary relation to the general state of forums - I've seen it on sites which went down and lost all the user profiles and then came back up, for instance. These things compound whatever effect Facebook (and whatever else) has. But there's also an underlying fallacy, which Facebook&Friends are quite happy exists - the idea that the entire internet is moving to Facebook is a mentality in-and-of-itself, and it's most likely one that Facebook at some point or another has paid someone to encourage. This, along with other fallacies - Facebook as "safe" or "acceptable," etc.

Losing users isn't unlikely, but the forum medium isn't actually dying. There are still mainframes being used, ffs.
Unless Facebook adopts a similar forum format (it's actually gotten further from this, not closer) then they don't have a communicable practical edge - the only thing they have is people buying into their fallacies, and the typical government support that monopolies tend to get. Oh, and a very poor, boring setup for coherent discussion. Pssh.

The internet is out here to be explored. If somebody doesn't want it to be, that's all the more reason to keep exploring.

I don't have peer pressure. I don't have any "peers". I'm an old man living with his sweetie and I never go out. Except to buy booze and smokes and food.
I'm sure that has a lot to do with it.

I NEVER post on facebook. My facebook only reblogs my Tumblr blog-and that's all vintage horror movie photos.
And yeah-even with all my whiney "I quit!" p***y s**t I did-I'll stick here till the end.

I don't get the "peer pressure" thing.
I been watching old horror movies since  I was old enough to watch TV. I bought my first Famous Monsters magazine in 1970.
I Don't follow nobody. Oh-I followed Forry Ackerman because of Famous Monsters and I followed Calvin T. Beck because of Castle of Frankenstein.
So yeah-I follow me.
Zap-I ain't saying what you said was wrong-you hit the nail on the head-were all dying!  :thumbup: Folks who have a lifelong passion for this-Monster Kids like us-we will never die-and I will stick with the Good Rev-We gotta reboot this place. We need to reboot the site! I am willing and able to write new reviews for BAD MOVIES.ORG to keep bring it back alive!

-and Andrew-our fearless leader-won't talk to nobody.
f**k him. I can understand him leaving-but not even without a f**k you very much. Dont let the door hit yer ass on the way out-goodbye.
f**k Andrew-our "Fearless Leader"-thanx a***ole-leave yer friends hanging,dickhead.
What really p**ses me off-the Rev can reboot this site-he's the man-but Andrew won't answer the phone. ARRRH.

f**k you,Andrew.

It's almost like something scared him off.

I don't know wtf Andrew's deal is-I had this problem with Micheal Weldon of Psychotronic magazine. I was contributing-and the f**ker ripped me off and cut off conatact after I had donated some rare material (AFTER HOURS mag-Forry Ackerman issue-worth over a thousand bucks). He used the stuff-I never got my s**t back and he jumped the boat. Same s**t happened with Micheal Copner of Cult Magazine-he f**ked me too.

It's sad but forums in general do seem to be dying off - not just this one. I'm a member of several others (metal music related) and in each of them, aside from a "core group" of regulars who've been posting for years 'n' years traffic has slowed down noticeably over the past few years.

As a matter of fact, one of the metal forums I'm in needs to have its domain name renewed at the moment, and the guy who's supposed to be the "owner" of the board has seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth. I'm an Admin on that forum and I'd gladly take care of it myself but I don't have the access level mojo to do so. I hit the "owner" up on Facebook and asked nicely if he could take five minutes to drop by and fix it, but so far nothing has happened. I'm like "Geez, dude, if you're not into this anymore, that's OK, then gimme the damn keys, I'll run the board."

(shrugs) However long this place (and the others I belong to) hang in there, I'll still be around.  

Something similar happened to StompTokyo and Digital Press awhile back; eventually the mods were able to get a hold of the guys who owned the domain, who fixed things. Still worrisome to the folks who still frequent those sites.

Technically, Andrew did show up a few months ago, but he didn't post anything. I think he was just fixing things to keep the site from crashing, and he didn't have to. He also renewed the domain name in April. Be careful about antagonizing the person who pays the bills.

I wonder what that might 've been?  "Penny!  Where have you BEAN?"  BEEN?! :lookingup: :teddyr: :drink: 
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Well.  Well well well.  We have all made mistakes, and taken risks.  Sometimes they work out.  Many times not.  I "rented" some RICKY NELSON material to the producers of a TV show ("Biography" ?) I TAPE RECORDED (it's that long ago) they paid me AND gave me a credit ABOVE RICKY NELSON's widow...  !  One of my proudest moments!   

Strangely I had never considered joining a message board until I stopped and realized that I didnt know anyone in the real world who really appreciated the level of effort and commitment it takes to fail at film making properly...that got me looking up groups on Facebook...which in turn got me looking at posts on reddit, which in turn led me to looking into message boards and this lovely little corner of the internet :) though I do agree I remember message boards in the mid 2000's being an absolute hotbed of people...these days any of the boards im on you'd be lucky to see a handful of threads update a day...

I realized that on my first day at film school  :wink: :wink:

xD! its very bizarre! at the film school I went to they showed people how to do things properly but never bothered to tell people how to fail spectacularly which I would argue was more important to know xD after all you can teach someone how to fly a plane...but I'd argue its more important to teach them how not to spectacularly crash one...I always got ridiculed for watching terrible, terrible films. But if it wasn't for the likes of Francis Coleman or Tom Rubnitz I very much doubt I would have graduated xD

I try to pop in occasionally.  If anything just to check out the Listening thread as most folks here have some good taste in music and I hear something new that piques my interest from time to time.

In general, they seem to be falling off.  Most of the ones I was a part of are gone.  There's 2 others I pop in on besides here.  One's dedicated to Weird Al and his band and 'friends' in the comedy world and another is for Power Rangers and related Japanese Tokusatsu like Godzilla, Sentai, etc.

lol@ tytd, i think  you mean coleman francis? we are fans too!

There are some that die because nobody has updated them. They have also chosen to use a Facebook group instead, as it is free. No domain fee and no update is needed.

I love me some Rebecca Black  :wink:

Andrew-I'm sorry I was talking s**t.  :bluesad: I'm an a***ole. I was a drunken a***ole!
I guess I'm just bummed out.