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bloodsheen
ChemChaplin



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Forums are dying
#26425450 - 01/09/20 09:12 PM (4 years, 19 days ago) |
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Maybe this is just my own experience and not reflective of anything. But I feel like it's not just the shroomery that is tanking. I remember a time where Reddit and 4chan were on the bleeding edge of both popular and internet culture. While they are both still used, I don't think the youngest people are involved anymore. It seems like Twitter and Instagram have almost entirely replaced that role in our society. You cant go a week without hearing about a racist tweet or some shit, but forums can't even get blamed for drug trafficking anymore.
What gives? Or am I just wrong and its as strong as ever and only this site has lost popularity?
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magicschoolbus



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Forums are more of a "on the internet" type thing. Being "on the internet" is a sitting in front of a PC/Laptop thing. Yes, most people with phones don't open up a web browser and start going to all their sites. If there's a site they were gonna use it, it's probably already an app. Forums are such a niche thing that if you're a part of the niche, you're also a person that uses a PC/Laptop to be "on the internet".
If you're following a link somewhere on your phone, it was probably found on a website like Facebook.. Instagram, etc. That's like the jumping off point for phone users.
Hopefully what I'm saying makes sense. It's just that there aren't as many Desktop/laptop internet surfers these days in comparison to the amount of "cellphone surfers". I'm glued to my PC 12+ hours a day, and will go several days without even touching my phone so I don't really fit into that niche. ".com" anything is dying, because everyone is using apps now.
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LogicaL Chaos
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Forums are sadly a dying artform of communication. Perhaps its too outdated for the young people out there.
HOWEVER, Mushroom Cultivation is a very active forum, so for information/learning/teaching situations, its still very much relevant!
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PumpJackTeX
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Reddit is thriving.
Shroomery failed.
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deadwk
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Registered: 06/17/09
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Loc: Canada, eh?
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Quote:
PumpJackTeX said: Reddit is thriving.
Shroomery failed.
I strongly disagree. Reddit is very different, since it's essentially a generalized discussion board for any topic out there, whereas Shroomery is a much more focused forum, that is unlikely to attract the general population, which is what reddit does.
Additionally with the explosion of social media[ most people are on facebook, instagram, or twitter for the online social interaction, and forums as a whole are a dying form of communication. I think there will always be forums, but going forward many forums I think will have a decrease in traffic.
So I don't think its accurate to say that the Shroomery failed, just that as with any forum, the internet has changed, and so have the websites and applications that people use.
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nooneman


Registered: 04/24/09
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Loc: Utah
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I think it's probably a result of falling computer ownership combined with lack of computer skills as a result of falling ownership. To be honest I really don't mind it, things were crazy and not good there for a while.
I remember when the internet was tiny back in the mid 90s, and I wouldn't be sad to go back to that era. It was probably the best time the internet ever had.
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psi
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Quote:
PumpJackTeX said: Shroomery failed.
And yet we are still here to have this discussion.
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D3_Myc
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Re: Forums are dying [Re: psi]
#26425604 - 01/09/20 11:01 PM (4 years, 19 days ago) |
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Depends on the forum, those that are updated and have apps are thriving. Reddit for example, I don’t use it much but it has a app and gets a ton of traffic. This forum is pretty out of date, posting pics from a phone or a tablet is a pain. I get the appeal of using social media. I’ve been posting my hot peppers and other hobbies on insta and facetube more than forums myself.
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Big Worm
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Re: Forums are dying [Re: psi] 2
#26425607 - 01/09/20 11:05 PM (4 years, 19 days ago) |
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I like it the way it is.
I used to be on Totse back in the day and just prefer this type of style.
I don’t fuck with reddit or Facebook. Hardly even IG.
Edit:
I do wish it was easier to share videos on here directly. And not have to upload them on YouTube or whatever and link from there.
Edited by Big Worm (01/09/20 11:09 PM)
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Tempalonomous
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Yep. It's all due to the way they design their apps and websites. They design them to be addictive
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Re: Forums are dying [Re: psi] 3
#26425634 - 01/09/20 11:23 PM (4 years, 19 days ago) |
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I realize reddit is huge and therefore generalizations are silly, but I have been on a few drug subs that seem populated by teenagers who know very little about drugs. I would be cautious about which information you listen to there.
Also I can't name a single user there, the shroomery you actually meet people and and recognize names and sort of have a better idea of who is who. For instance i check the RC vendor reviews an have no idea who is a legit consumer and who is a fake account to promote their own operation. I read a review and have to research someone's posting history to try and guess if they are legit. I trust people here way more.
I don't know if forums are dead, like every niche subject has a forum. No matte how small or specific. Its actually a great way to get information from people who experts on the most specific shit you had no idea there was a community for. Its easier to find info on a board than a facebook group too
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Northerner
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Shroomery is chronically addictive. People come here for the mushrooms and end up spending a decade on here talking shite to all the other druggies.
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Nymphaea
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Forums for life. Bump to keep Shroomery alive.
Edit: in all seriousness though, the internet is just getting dumbed own. It gets less useful every day as resources get buried at the bottom of search engine algorithms or get taken down by governments/corporations/interests/lack of funds and communities die and devolve.
That's why we got to hold on to the light that we have here I guess...but in all honesty the internet is now much less a thinking man's tool and more of an immediate gratification machine. I guess it's time to gather up, organize, and print all the resources you can muster from it and keep them safe and go back to finding truth in the woods...
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Edited by Nymphaea (01/09/20 11:32 PM)
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LogicaL Chaos
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Re: Forums are dying [Re: Nymphaea] 4
#26425647 - 01/09/20 11:31 PM (4 years, 19 days ago) |
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Long live the Forums!

As viraldome said, forums are a niche and theres plently of niche forums out there for every subject u can imagine. Im on two other forums, one for UFOs and one for Jetskis. They aint going anywhere.
And neither is the Shroomery
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D3_Myc
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I have a forum for just about anything that interests me. Sometimes multiple.
Hot peppers? Hotpepper.com Ganja? Rollitup.org Fish? Plantedtank.net, nanoreef, reefcentral and a few others Dart frogs: dendroboard and dartden
Sure there’s hosts of other forums I participated in that I barely remember like gaming clans ect
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Big Worm
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Northerner said: Shroomery is chronically addictive. People come here for the mushrooms and end up spending a decade on here talking shite to all the other druggies.
Ya I’m addicted. I legit don’t go anywhere else online lol. Ive met quite a few people from here IRL and they became some of my closest friends.
10+ years and running.
Interaction is just realer here and with people I can relate to more.
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Northerner
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Re: Forums are dying [Re: Big Worm] 1
#26425667 - 01/09/20 11:49 PM (4 years, 19 days ago) |
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I hear ya man.
Nexus is pretty cool, especially the live chat, I've been over there for years too. But it can get heavy technical/scientific and they have to fight off the crazies all the time.
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Jokeshopbeard
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Forums all the way for me. It'll be a cold day in hell before I do the typical social media shit.
Oh and WhatsApp. I'm on that all the time.
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sideroxylon
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Forums have always been a safe haven for me. I was not active on any for a long time. Getting back to participation.
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venetianblinds
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Forums are dying
yea i get this feeling every time i see a thread that's just an awful poem
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